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"... a butterfly ballot from Palm Beach County, Fla., a replica of Mr. Bush’s Oval Office, the bullhorn he used at ground zero and a gnarled steel girder from the World Trade Center demolished on Sept. 11, 2001...."
Mr. Bush’s museum does not ignore controversies like the weapons of mass destruction that were never found in Iraq, but it does not dwell on them either. In the Iraq display, it says flatly, “No stockpiles of W.M.D. were found.” But then it adds, “Post-invasion inspections confirmed that Saddam Hussein had the capacity to resume production of W.M.D.”...
“The museum itself is the Bushes’ personal statement about what they think was important,” said Mark Langdale, president of the George W. Bush Foundation, who oversaw the construction. “We fully anticipate that some people will try to poke holes or some people will debate. That’s fine. That’s part of history.”
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George and Laura Bush are a lot like bloggers, apparently.
All the Kennedy library has about the Bay of Pigs invasion is a little plaque, and there's no mention of the voting irregularities in his election against Nixon. (I looked when I went!)
We can criticize GWB for what he did but the fact remains, better to be proactive and preemptive in dealing with the Saddam Hussein's human rights abuses, violations of sanctions, and threats to use WMD. That is how terrorist regimes and terrorists must be dealt with. We should have gone to Baghdad beyond the Highway of Death when we had the chance. The progressives seized on the carnage to weaken the U.S. as a superpower and not complete the mission with predictable (Viet Nam) consequences to the population that needed protection. Their blood is on the hands of the progressives who sacrificed countless lives on the altar of their ideology. The means justifying the end and all that...
I wonder if the Bill Clinton Presidential library mentions weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Maybe they can have some shelves dedicated to the new genre of high-end climate literature.
Wouldn't that be nice?
Her's another example:
A small bird will drop
Frozen dead from a bough
Without ever having felt guilty
About its carbon footprint
I wonder if the Bill Clinton Presidential library has that famous cigar?
Small wonder that the NYTimes prefers to say the the Twin Towers were 'demolished' and not 'destroyed'.
A bit of troofer showing through.
Brew Master: Small wonder that the NYTimes prefers to say the the Twin Towers were 'demolished' and not 'destroyed'.
They weren't terrorists, just a very aggressive demolition crew, working without permits.
Gotta have a W painting of Scotty the terrier.
At the time "WMD" included chemical and biological weapons, and certainly stockpiles of chemical weapons were found a published with photos. The story on biological weapons are a bit more murky, but certainly "Dr. Death" existed and was working on such things.
The 500 tons of yellowcake were real enough, and there still are rumors of more nuclear components being evacuated into Syria just ahead of the US forces arrival.
I'll bet the most popular exhibit is Bush's paintings... in part because paintings are the actual thing... unlike all the other artifacts that represent events that you can't currently experience. The painting is the "event."
It is kind of odd that in the Democrats' minds that for Saddam Hussein's Iraq nothing less than fully operational fusion warheads on ICBM's will qualify as "WMD," while their daily news columns report on US citizens being charged with assault with weapons of mass destruction, for losing control of their cars, intentionally or not.
Love the dangling chad. Nice touch. Very nice touch. Humor mingled with face rubbing.
Artifacts are actual things, as are paintings. While an artist paints a picture, some other craftsman has made the artifact. One can look at, say, a 17C. chinese export bowl or cup and appreciate the skill to create it, the skill of the ships crew to haul it, the skill of the merchant to import it, and the taste of the buyer to acquire it. I think I would get more out of an artifact than a GWB painting of his dog, although I would probably like both quite fine.
Just imagine for a second the Obama Presidential library having any sort of reference Benghazi.
Obama is too much of an intellectual coward, and so are his enablers.
George W Bush looks better with time.
Love the dangling chad. Nice touch. Very nice touch. Humor mingled with face rubbing.
Last week's NYT crossword had a series of anagram answers. The anagram of George Bush (spoiler alert Chip Ahoy) was "he bugs Gore"
Love the ballot and the bullhorn (hey, it sings).
AllenS said...
I wonder if the Bill Clinton Presidential library has that famous cigar?
Or the dress?
Maybe just the stain.
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