Victor Davis Hanson: Bush Did It! And, Really, Bush Did It! And Bush Really Did It!

Pajamas Media ^ | January 6th, 2010 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 12:42:59 PM by neverdem

That Damn Guantanamo!

Obama gave a rather incredible press conference about his review of security lapses. When he evoked Guantanamo, the president all at once (“make no mistake about it”) (a) promised to close it, (b) promised not to send any more detainees home to Yemen, and (c) claimed it was a recruiting tool for al-Qaeda (i.e., apparently Bush’s Gulag had prompted the likes of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab to try to blow up an airliner).

This is nearly unhinged.

Mr. President consider:

1) Quit whining about closing Guantanamo, and close the damn thing. It either is useful or not. The American people are getting sick and tired of this sort of “Bush made me keep it open even though it is counter-productive” whining. If Guantanamo is a recruiting tool, then by all means stop the recruiting tool. Instead, we get the impression that these incredibly directionless people have discovered that Guantanamo has both utility and yet is a political liability among their more fervent supporters, and therefore they wish to continue its usefulness while blaming Bush for its unpopularity.

2) If you are not going to send back any more “alleged” terrorists to Yemen, then simply start trying them in your much preferred civilian courts. Why hold them any longer in the Gulag?

3) Let us get this straight: for a decade in the 1990s an ascendant al-Qaeda committed serial attacks against the U.S. and its interests. All that culminated in 9/11. In reaction to the mass murder, and as part of efforts to go after al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, Bush opened Guantanamo Bay — after which we have seen no successful major attacks on U.S. soil comparable to 9/11.

So consider the logic: before Guantanamo, al-Qaeda achieved its greatest success in damaging America; after it, it...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bush; bushsfault; gwb; obama; vdh

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1 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 12:43:00 PM by neverdem
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To: Tolik

ping

2 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 12:45:51 PM by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: neverdem

I’d hate to be on the receiving end of a VDH tub-thumpin’.

3 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 12:48:00 PM by Uncle Miltie ("Free" Healthcare + Citizenship for Lawbreakers = Democrats Forever! Buenos Dias!)
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To: neverdem
Maybe obamallamadingdong is a reincarnation of "Flip Wilson"...when he did his "Geraldine" character, his/her favorite phrase was, "The Devil Made Me Do It".

The kenyan kinda "prisses" like Geraldine, and his favorite phrase is, "The Bush Made Me Do It".

Watchit sucka!
4 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 12:50:33 PM by FrankR (Unions promote socialism and mass mediocrity amongst human beings, at their own expense.)
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To: neverdem

He might have said the bucks stops with him but he sure keeps trying to pass it.

5 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 12:53:07 PM by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards,com)
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To: neverdem

Obama’s mind is infected with guilt, weakness, ignorance, selfishness, and Islam. This makes him a threat to our existence as a country. Lies and distortions are his means to survival.

His presidency is a failure and cannot be reversed with repeated trips to the teleprompter. This Voodoo Magic Man needs to resign and go back to Kenya where roots his are.

6 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 12:53:43 PM by bushpilot1
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To: neverdem

Boy! Dr. H sure is good when he’s pissed!

7 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 12:58:49 PM by ProfoundMan (Time to finish the Reagan Revolution! - RightyPics.com)
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To: GeronL

True enough. Whenever things aren’t going well, Obama just says the buck stops with the guy who came before him.

8 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 1:05:33 PM by bigbob
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To: neverdem

9 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 1:13:31 PM by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

You have gotten quite good at these graphics, smooth. ;*)

10 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 1:26:09 PM by Just A Nobody ( (Better Dead than RED! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA))
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To: neverdem

I predict that by the time he runs for re-election, Guantanamo will still be open and he’ll still be blaming Bush for it.

11 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 1:35:33 PM by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: smoothsailing

I don’t know...the opposite of “The Buck Stops Here” isn’t really “The Buck Starts Here”. It’s something more along the lines of “The Buck Goes Sailing Right By Here”.

12 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 1:36:07 PM by GATOR NAVY
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To: GATOR NAVY

“I don’t know...the opposite of “The Buck Stops Here” isn’t really “The Buck Starts Here”. It’s something more along the lines of “The Buck Goes Sailing Right By Here”.”

Actually, in this administration, it is: “What is this ‘buck’ you speak of . . . Oh, that. Well, I never saw the buck—noone ever gave it to me. Wait a minute, I know I know: George Bush has it and is beating children with it at this very moment. And, let me be perfectly clear, Bush is also using this buck to make me add a trillion dollars a year to the deficit. So you see, the system works in all 57 states.”

13 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 1:46:04 PM by ModelBreaker
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To: neverdem
"After it"---stay tuned.

vaudine
14 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 1:46:42 PM by vaudine
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To: smoothsailing

More like “The balk starts here.”

15 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 1:47:32 PM by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
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To: bigbob

Apparently, he thinks Bush is still in office. I wish he was.

16 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 1:48:39 PM by Catsrus
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To: Just A Nobody

:o)
17 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 1:51:03 PM by smoothsailing
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To: neverdem
Question about President Obama: 1) Is he an ideologue bent on wrecking America, or 2) a naive and inexperienced incompetent?

Answer: After a year of observing, it is clear, he is both at the same time.
18 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 1:56:47 PM by cookcounty (Let us not speak of the honor of men. Rather, let us bind them with the Constitution. --Jefferson)
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To: neverdem

Great article....I heard a dem on Hannity’s show tonight saying if the dems pass health care...it will destroy the dem party...

19 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 2:08:10 PM by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: shield
Great article....I heard a dem on Hannity’s show tonight saying if the dems pass health care...it will destroy the dem party...

No way but it will destroy America & what it has stood for for centuries. I've got to give it to TRUE ideologues (Dems). They will die on a sword for their beliefs - as opposed to most so-called conservatives that talk a screwed up story but can't wait to get to the watering hole.
20 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 2:52:24 PM by Digger (If RINO is your selection, then failure is your election)
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To: smoothsailing

Buck Zer0.

21 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 3:18:18 PM by Paladin2
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To: neverdem
Only a proctologist can divine what's in our Feckless Leader's mind.
22 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 3:31:21 PM by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress!)
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To: smoothsailing

Now THAT actually made me laugh.

Good job, FRiend, and thank you.

23 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 3:35:57 PM by Don W (I only keep certain folks' numbers in my 'phone so I know NOT to answer when they call)
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To: GATOR NAVY

The Buck Holder goes under the bus here.

24 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 3:38:49 PM by Paladin2
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To: neverdem

25 posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 3:41:36 PM by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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