Bush joke

George W. Bush is visiting a primary school and he visits one of the classes. They are in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings. The teacher asks the President if he would like to lead the discussion of the word tragedy. So the illustrious leader asks the class for an example of a tragedy.

One little boy stands up and offers: "If my best friend who lives on a farm, is playing in the field and a runaway tractor comes along and knocks him dead, that would be a tragedy."

"No," says President Bush, "that would be an accident."

A little girl raises her hand: "If a school bus carrying 50 children drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy."

"I'm afraid not," explains the exalted leader. "That's what we would call a great loss."

The room goes silent. No other children volunteer. President Bush searches the room. "Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?" Finally at the back of the room, little Johnny raises his hand. In a quiet voice he says:

"If Air Force One carrying you was struck by a missile and blown to smithereens, that would be a tragedy." "Fantastic!" exclaims President Bush, "That's right. And can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?"

"Well," says the boy, "because it sure as hell wouldn't be a great loss and it probably wouldn't be an accident either."

 

:lol:

 

:ffrc:
About time that happened before millions more are killed and maimed by that God damn son of a Bush

 

You've implied that millions have been killed and maimed by G W Bush already. Was that your intention?

 

He won't be able to reply to that.

 

gawd, it was only an email joke

Mark67 seems to think i should be sent to hell for it (poor misguided boy)
now it looks like an argument.

 

it was funny, really good and my office enjoyed it, thanks!

 

Have to disagree there, Steve. There's no problem with saying, for example, "Thousands have been killed, millions more have been injured." A slight exaggeration on the part of Max perhaps, but I agree with the basic sentiment that, of the many pollutants from which this poor planet suffers, the Bush Administration is one of which we should most urgently be rid.

 

I thought it was funny :lol:

Edited to add: totally agree with tones.

Michael.

 

I don't agree with tones. I don't like gross exaggeration as it distorts people's views.

I don't like Bush at all but think that other totalitarian regimes, defunct and present, are far worse than his.

I did think the joke was funny though.

 

US foreign policy, including that of Bush support many such regimes. All this rhetoric about invading Iraq to establish freedom and democracy is rooted in hypocrisy. Bush and Blair want a puppet regime in Iraq like they have in Kuwait. Nothing more nothing less.

Policies supported or created by Bush and the corporates that put him in power, undermine United Nations, manipulate of World Bank and IMF. It has created a world economic system based on unfair trade practices and exploitation of labour, akin to slavery.

Patent system that they ruthlessly enforce is resulting in the deaths of thosands of AID victims in Africa.

The USA is the world's biggest exporter of arms. These combined with indiscriminate military activity, such as use of nuclear waste has resulted in millions of people being killed and maimed; directly and indirectly.

The US contains 4% of the world's population but produces 24% of all man-made CO2 emissions. As soon as he was placed in power Bush walked away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties like the Kyoto Protocol. It is not millions but billions that are affected by it.

The pattern is set to get worse as their demands on worlds dwindling resources increase.

 

Max, you left out the massive tax cuts that benefit only the wealthy, while a staggering number of Americans can't afford health insurance, the ignoring of the Kyoto Accord, so that they can build bigger SUVs [you said that already - sorry, didn't notice], and the virtual tearing-up of the Nuclear test Ban Treaty, so that they can build new "bunker buster" nuclear weapons - but nobody else should have them!

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_security/nuclear_weapons/page.cfm?pageID=1170

As Tom Lehrer memorably sang 40 years ago

First we got the bomb, but that was good
'Cos we love peace and motherhood

The Americans see themselves as a good people, therefore everything they do must, by definition, be right. They are, again to quote Mr. Lehrer, blind to their obvious faults. And as we've seen, they torture people in jail, just like any dictatorship.

I'm not anti-American - I like the place and its people but I find this blindness very distressing, especially as the blindness is so often the blindness of one who won't, rather than can't, see.

 

No Blue - you're wrong. They only want one thing from Iraq and Kuwait:
OIL

It's so they can keep running their ridiculous SUVs and 1000 litre cars. The only reason Blair follows Bush is because his tongue's stuck up Bush's arse.

Ice-T couldn't put Bush better himself (ironic this is off an album that was out during the last Bush of the late 80s!):
My freind got busted for an ounce of weed
while Bush sells weapons to the enemy

 

At least we agree that Bush is a totalitarian regime . I continue to agree with tones and BlueMax.

Michael.

 

As do I, with all my multiple personalities

 

I believe that there's a high level of naivety on display here. The US are currently the most powerful nation in the world. They are the 'Emperors' and act in their own self interest exactly like all previous emperors before them throughout human history.

Of course it's about the f**king oil.

In 1973, there was an Arab oil embargo. The US was still involved in Vietnam at the time and their fleet, which was supporting their war effort, was dependent on Saudi oil. As the Saudi oil wasn't forthcoming, the fleet couldn't operate and the US would have lost the war - and I don't mean lose in the sense that they did lose, I mean complete, disastrous failure.

So the US talked to the Saudi royal family and told them that either they would break the embargo and supply the US fleet or the US would 'secure the supply of oil by other means'. The Saudis backed down, and broke the embargo (while concealing this from their Arab neighbours) and supplied the fleet.

I mention this to demonstrate how totally reliant the most powerful country in the world is on Middle Eastern oil. If they want to maintain their position - and ALL emperors want to maintain their position - the supply must be safeguarded.

Now Bin Laden is a pretty shrewd operator and he arranged that, apart from the pilots of the aeroplanes, all the terrorists involved in the 9/11 attrocities were Saudi nationals. Thus, feeling unable to rely on their Saudi allies, the US went for Iraq, Britain alongside them.

That's how Super Powers act. That's how they've always acted. Why the surprise? To my mind, the surprising issue, given the roll of today's media, is that the US and UK governments made such a hash of selling the thing to their people.

Naturally, other countries don't act primarily in their own self-interest but do what they feel is right for moral and ethical reasons - like France for example.

Dream on. But just before you fall back to sleep, check out how many billions of dollars the French had invested in the bed they lay in with Saddam Hussein. Nice country France.

Still, don't worry. Events move so quickly these days that the American Empire will have come and gone almost before we know it. It will probably be the Chinese next. They'll be much better won't they?

 

O FFS, Steve, lets just enjoy a joke without analising it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edit: Oops sorry Steve, don't know what happenned there.

 

Steve,

There was a tv prog a while back that explained about the American empire, and how it is an empire.
Also about how it is an empire in decline.
Interestingly they concluded that the largest threat to the empire is the upcoming retirement of the baby boom generation. Apparently such a large amount of retirees that it will put severe strain on financial resources.
Food for thought.

 

Would you like to explain that part of your explanation, Steve - I can't get my head around it at all.

 

I believe that I'm right in saying that 15 of the 16 non-pilot terrorists involved in 9/11 were Saudi nationals and this was by design, not by accident.

Thus the Americans became queasy about the stability and 'reliability' of Saudi Arabia as a future supplier of oil, fearing the possibility that Saudi might go the way of Iran. Bin Laden's plan was to drive a wedge between Saudi Arabia and the USA. It worked.

Does that clarify?