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Anyone else feel sorry for George Bush?

I don't know why, but lately I've been feeling sorry for the...
Carnelian ratface
  01/15/09
Ths guy was a nut job even before 9/11. One of his first act...
hairless 180 step-uncle's house
  01/15/09
Not funding abortions doesn't make him a nut job
Carnelian ratface
  01/15/09
supporting abstinence only programs in schools does.
Trip crystalline locale
  01/15/09
misguided by religion, yes, but i guess we have different de...
Carnelian ratface
  01/15/09
You are an idiot if you think family planning = just abortio...
hairless 180 step-uncle's house
  01/15/09
sorry for what? He doesn't feel sorry for himself at all. He...
amethyst lay roommate
  01/15/09
You want him to come out and say Iraq was a mistake when we ...
Carnelian ratface
  01/15/09
"he just seems like a good guy who was clearly not read...
balding antidepressant drug
  01/15/09
still waiting
Jet-lagged light parlor people who are hurt
  01/15/09
He's like the Michael Scott of Presidents.
geriatric cheese-eating stain native
  01/15/09
wow, actually you summed up the intent of my post perfectly ...
Carnelian ratface
  01/15/09
One thing to say in his defense- that dude never flipped on ...
unhinged opaque factory reset button coffee pot
  01/15/09
Depends on the context too, though, because he clearly waite...
Carnelian ratface
  01/15/09
Right, that is the obvious price of sticking to your guns. ...
unhinged opaque factory reset button coffee pot
  01/15/09
shrewd xoxo political analysis.
curious field
  01/15/09
no one really gives a shit about consistency in politics
vibrant chad
  01/15/09
Sure they do -- to a certain point
Carnelian ratface
  01/15/09
it's inconsequential
vibrant chad
  01/15/09
I wouldn't vote for a President like Romney who changes his ...
Carnelian ratface
  01/15/09
like that stopped obama from getting elected. or proved a d...
vibrant chad
  01/15/09
I would say Kerry's defeat was decisive. I would also argue...
unhinged opaque factory reset button coffee pot
  01/15/09
you remember when the most controversial thing about GWB was...
vibrant chad
  01/15/09
The only thing that makes me feel really badly for him are t...
balding antidepressant drug
  01/15/09
drop ss privatization (for the most part) and i agree with y...
curious field
  01/15/09
Yes, because obviously, leaving the Ponzi scheme in place un...
balding antidepressant drug
  01/15/09
no, you're right! the best way forward would be to free thos...
curious field
  01/15/09
hi bernie madoff!
vibrant chad
  01/15/09
Agree. He opened up his second term by trying to tackle ver...
Carnelian ratface
  01/15/09
Ed Gein thought making lampshades out of corpse skin was a g...
amethyst lay roommate
  01/15/09
yeah not caring about what people think is usually a winning...
vibrant chad
  01/15/09
He thinks his biggest mistake in his 2 terms was putting up ...
Cracking incel
  01/15/09
yeah, his son turned out to be a real douchebag
Fluffy range
  01/15/09
177
Cracking incel
  01/15/09
LOOL
Histrionic meetinghouse
  01/15/09
As someone else mentioned in the other thread, he also shoul...
Carnelian ratface
  01/15/09
debateable
vibrant chad
  01/15/09
understatement of the day
Cracking incel
  01/15/09
how so?
Carnelian ratface
  01/15/09
flame.
Fluffy range
  01/15/09
You think Roberts was a poor choice?
Carnelian ratface
  01/15/09
Were it not for his connections he would be working some low...
odious sweet tailpipe volcanic crater
  01/15/09
Yeah but no.
Histrionic meetinghouse
  01/15/09
No, not at all. He doesn't regret a thing he did and admits...
Supple talking really tough guy
  01/15/09
TITCR
Cracking incel
  01/15/09
"Bush acknowledged “disappointments,” citing the mistre...
Carnelian ratface
  01/15/09
LEAVE HIM ALONE!!
Cracking incel
  01/15/09
"Yeah I brutally raped your mother, made your sister wa...
Histrionic meetinghouse
  01/15/09
poor metaphor
Carnelian ratface
  01/15/09
Not at all.
Histrionic meetinghouse
  01/15/09
He regrets his reason, and, therefore, his decision to go in...
Carnelian ratface
  01/15/09
You didn't listen to the speech did you?
Histrionic meetinghouse
  01/15/09
no, enlighten me
Carnelian ratface
  01/15/09
Youtube.
Histrionic meetinghouse
  01/15/09
Yes, I'm sure he is very disappointed that his flimsy ration...
Supple talking really tough guy
  01/15/09
What would you like him to say?
Carnelian ratface
  01/15/09
Honestly, there's not much he could say. He's had years and...
Supple talking really tough guy
  01/15/09
I don't think he (or any President) would say the war was a ...
Carnelian ratface
  01/15/09
Then he'll have to do without my pity. I'm sure he doesn't ...
Supple talking really tough guy
  01/15/09
fair enough
Carnelian ratface
  01/15/09
His language was interesting on the Iraq point. His demeano...
Histrionic meetinghouse
  01/15/09
I think there's a difference between how he actually feels (...
Carnelian ratface
  01/15/09
He didn't even admit he regreted it, though. It was a "...
out-of-control parlour
  01/15/09
Yeah, sort of the same type of sorry I feel for Hitler durin...
Lascivious azn lettuce
  01/15/09
yeah, no difference at all
Carnelian ratface
  01/15/09
Hitler was more evil, but much smarter?
Lascivious azn lettuce
  01/15/09
fair assessment
Carnelian ratface
  01/15/09
But Hitler had his heart in the right place
Cracking incel
  01/15/09
...
MASE
  11/03/26


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Date: January 15th, 2009 12:30 PM
Author: Carnelian ratface

I don't know why, but lately I've been feeling sorry for the guy. Sure I disagree with most of his policies, and his two terms have been pretty terrible, but he just seems like a good guy who was clearly not ready to be POTUS. It seems like he was led astray early on by shitty advisers who were actually pretty awful people (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove), and yes it is fault for appointing these guys, but when 9/11 hit he looked to them and they pointed him in the wrong direction. For some reason this makes me feel bad for him. The allegations of him being an evil person seem extreme.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724325)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 12:32 PM
Author: hairless 180 step-uncle's house

Ths guy was a nut job even before 9/11. One of his first acts in office was to stop funding international family planning initiatives.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724336)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 12:36 PM
Author: Carnelian ratface

Not funding abortions doesn't make him a nut job

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724355)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 12:41 PM
Author: Trip crystalline locale

supporting abstinence only programs in schools does.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724385)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 12:43 PM
Author: Carnelian ratface

misguided by religion, yes, but i guess we have different definitions of "nut job"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724398)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:15 PM
Author: hairless 180 step-uncle's house

You are an idiot if you think family planning = just abortion and nothing else

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724553)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 12:33 PM
Author: amethyst lay roommate

sorry for what? He doesn't feel sorry for himself at all. He's blissfilly indifferent in regards to the chaos he unleashed on the world. Fuck him.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724340)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 12:35 PM
Author: Carnelian ratface

You want him to come out and say Iraq was a mistake when we still have troops there? I'm opposed to the war, but that seems a bit much

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724351)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 12:33 PM
Author: balding antidepressant drug

"he just seems like a good guy who was clearly not ready to be POTUS"

*waits for it...*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724342)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 12:42 PM
Author: Jet-lagged light parlor people who are hurt

still waiting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724392)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 12:36 PM
Author: geriatric cheese-eating stain native

He's like the Michael Scott of Presidents.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724357)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 12:37 PM
Author: Carnelian ratface

wow, actually you summed up the intent of my post perfectly in one sentence, thank you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724364)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 12:36 PM
Author: unhinged opaque factory reset button coffee pot

One thing to say in his defense- that dude never flipped on anything and didnt give a flying fuck about polls or politicking. I respect that. I honestly believe he did what he thought was right and never did anything for the sake of public approval (which PWN3D the shit out of his own party over time).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724358)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 12:38 PM
Author: Carnelian ratface

Depends on the context too, though, because he clearly waited too long to change strategy in Iraq, and it wasn't even debatable like some of his positions (abortion, etc)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724369)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 12:54 PM
Author: unhinged opaque factory reset button coffee pot

Right, that is the obvious price of sticking to your guns. However, BHO has already flip flopped on twice as much stuff over the course of his campaign and transition than Bush did in 8 yrs.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724470)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 12:58 PM
Author: curious field

shrewd xoxo political analysis.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724490)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:03 PM
Author: vibrant chad

no one really gives a shit about consistency in politics

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724512)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:04 PM
Author: Carnelian ratface

Sure they do -- to a certain point

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724515)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:05 PM
Author: vibrant chad

it's inconsequential

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724521)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:06 PM
Author: Carnelian ratface

I wouldn't vote for a President like Romney who changes his position on many issues depending on which election he's running in. I wouldn't have any idea what I was voting for, and once in office, I should (ideally) pretty much get what I expected

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724526)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:07 PM
Author: vibrant chad

like that stopped obama from getting elected. or proved a decisive defeat for kerry.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724527)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:16 PM
Author: unhinged opaque factory reset button coffee pot

I would say Kerry's defeat was decisive. I would also argue that Obama might have had trouble if the GOP ran a team that had half a shot of winning. McCain/Palin would have been a better double play combination that Pres/VP.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724559)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 12:57 PM
Author: vibrant chad

you remember when the most controversial thing about GWB was his position on funding stem cell research?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724484)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 12:59 PM
Author: balding antidepressant drug

The only thing that makes me feel really badly for him are the positions where he was dead right but everyone opposed him just because they wanted to: Dubai ports deal, Social Security privatization, immigration reform. He pleased nobody when trying to broker a third way. And it failed miserably. And it was sad.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724496)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:00 PM
Author: curious field

drop ss privatization (for the most part) and i agree with you. dubai ports/immigration reform were lolwut? ARE COUNTRY moments.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724501)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:05 PM
Author: balding antidepressant drug

Yes, because obviously, leaving the Ponzi scheme in place until it dries up in 40 years is the best solution.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724520)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:07 PM
Author: curious field

no, you're right! the best way forward would be to free those assets, let the people invest in other ponzi schemes and let them dry up in 4 months...

edit: i'm not for full privatization, nor the status quo in its whole. my original response should have indicated this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724528)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:08 PM
Author: vibrant chad

hi bernie madoff!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724530)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:01 PM
Author: Carnelian ratface

Agree. He opened up his second term by trying to tackle very difficult issues that nobody else wants to touch (immigration and SS), and he ruined almost his whole second term because of it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724503)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 12:40 PM
Author: amethyst lay roommate

Ed Gein thought making lampshades out of corpse skin was a good idea. He didn't give a flying fuck about the "law" or public opinion of him (which PWND him over time).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724377)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 12:54 PM
Author: vibrant chad

yeah not caring about what people think is usually a winning move in politics

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724468)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 12:57 PM
Author: Cracking incel

He thinks his biggest mistake in his 2 terms was putting up a "mission accomplished" too early. i don't think he's evil, but he doesn't deserve our pity or empathy. he's an idiot; he knows he's an idiot; and he doesn't even care.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724482)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 12:57 PM
Author: Fluffy range

yeah, his son turned out to be a real douchebag

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724487)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:05 PM
Author: Cracking incel

177

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724519)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:15 PM
Author: Histrionic meetinghouse

LOOL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724550)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:02 PM
Author: Carnelian ratface

As someone else mentioned in the other thread, he also should get credit for making 2 pretty good appointments to SCOTUS (minus the harriet miers fiasco)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724510)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:10 PM
Author: vibrant chad

debateable

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724536)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:11 PM
Author: Cracking incel

understatement of the day

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724537)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:12 PM
Author: Carnelian ratface

how so?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724538)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:13 PM
Author: Fluffy range

flame.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724545)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:14 PM
Author: Carnelian ratface

You think Roberts was a poor choice?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724546)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:12 PM
Author: odious sweet tailpipe volcanic crater

Were it not for his connections he would be working some low level administrative job. So no, I don't feel sorry for him.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724541)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:16 PM
Author: Histrionic meetinghouse

Yeah but no.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724560)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:44 PM
Author: Supple talking really tough guy

No, not at all. He doesn't regret a thing he did and admits no blame, so he doesn't deserve sympathy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724675)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:45 PM
Author: Cracking incel

TITCR

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724684)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:47 PM
Author: Carnelian ratface

"Bush acknowledged “disappointments,” citing the mistreatment of prisoners at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, and the discovery that Iraq didn’t have the weapons of mass destruction that provided a rationale for the Iraq war."

He essentially admits he was wrong on Iraq

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724699)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:48 PM
Author: Cracking incel

LEAVE HIM ALONE!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724702)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:49 PM
Author: Histrionic meetinghouse

"Yeah I brutally raped your mother, made your sister watch, then carved my name in her forehead; but what I really regret is not wiping my feet before entering the house."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724709)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:50 PM
Author: Carnelian ratface

poor metaphor

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724716)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:51 PM
Author: Histrionic meetinghouse

Not at all.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724720)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:52 PM
Author: Carnelian ratface

He regrets his reason, and, therefore, his decision to go into the country (raping the mother)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724723)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:52 PM
Author: Histrionic meetinghouse

You didn't listen to the speech did you?



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724727)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:53 PM
Author: Carnelian ratface

no, enlighten me

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724733)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:56 PM
Author: Histrionic meetinghouse

Youtube.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724741)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:53 PM
Author: Supple talking really tough guy

Yes, I'm sure he is very disappointed that his flimsy rationale for the war was discovered to be incorrect.

Regretting Abu Gharib isn't nearly enough to inspire sympathy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724729)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:54 PM
Author: Carnelian ratface

What would you like him to say?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724734)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:56 PM
Author: Supple talking really tough guy

Honestly, there's not much he could say. He's had years and hasn't changed a thing, including his policies on torture.

But I'd want him to start by admitting flat out that the war was a mistake and that he was aware there was little evidence of weapons of mass destruction when he made the decision to invade.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724742)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:57 PM
Author: Carnelian ratface

I don't think he (or any President) would say the war was a mistake while we still have troops in the country.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724746)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:58 PM
Author: Supple talking really tough guy

Then he'll have to do without my pity. I'm sure he doesn't mind much.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724750)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:59 PM
Author: Carnelian ratface

fair enough

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724755)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:55 PM
Author: Histrionic meetinghouse

His language was interesting on the Iraq point.

His demeanour suggested that he was upset about the entire thing, but his exact language was essentially "disappointed we didn't find nukes". Two entirely different things. The second isn't a regret at all.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724736)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:56 PM
Author: Carnelian ratface

I think there's a difference between how he actually feels (see his demeanor) and what he can actually say from a strategic standpoint at this point

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724740)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:57 PM
Author: out-of-control parlour

He didn't even admit he regreted it, though. It was a "disappointment." To regret something at least acknowledges ownership of what happened.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724744)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 1:58 PM
Author: Lascivious azn lettuce

Yeah, sort of the same type of sorry I feel for Hitler during his last few weeks in the bunker.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724751)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 2:05 PM
Author: Carnelian ratface

yeah, no difference at all

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724779)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 2:32 PM
Author: Lascivious azn lettuce

Hitler was more evil, but much smarter?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724910)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 2:35 PM
Author: Carnelian ratface

fair assessment

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724920)



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Date: January 15th, 2009 2:10 PM
Author: Cracking incel

But Hitler had his heart in the right place

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=916377&forum_id=2#10724792)



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