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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 06:59 PM
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Chris Matthews: Bush was ‘wise ass rich kid’ about bin Laden

MSNBC host Chris Matthews said Tuesday that former President George W. Bush had a “wise ass” attitude about terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.

“I’m not a Bush hater, but that was wise-ass behavior there,” he said. “Just wise-ass. I mean this is the rich kid acting like I don’t care about that old girlfriend that dumped me. That was behavioral weirdness right there.”

Matthews’ guest Joan Walsh suggested Bush tried to downplay the importance of capturing or killing Osama bin Laden so that Americans would focus on Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

IDEO: http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/05/chris-matthews-bush-was-wise-ass-rich-kid-about-bin-laden/
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ErikJ Donating Member (480 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 07:02 PM
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1. Werent the Bin Ladens and Bush's friends?
Edited on Tue May-10-11 07:02 PM by ErikJ
And Bush was also chummy with -------------cant remember now.
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Stevenmarc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 07:06 PM
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4. Why yes they were that's why he let them skedaddle out of the USA a day after 9/11
when no American was allowed to fly
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 07:02 PM
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2. Uh, Tweets? His whole presidency was one "wise ass" move after another.
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nonperson Donating Member (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 07:10 PM
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6. Matthews likes to say this kind of shit from time to time
I think he believes it lends him some sort of credibility.
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virgogal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 07:38 PM
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10. + 1
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monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 11:03 AM
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16. Matthews also likes being on the side of and associated with "winners."
He honestly thought McCain was going to win I think until about the last two weeks or so. He then started to waffle on his JMC rhetoric. He knows President Obama is a winner in all respects, the OBL takedown was the icing on that cake.
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Martin Eden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 12:18 PM
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18. Matthews says a lot of stupid shit
Little Georgie was indeed a wise-ass rich kid -- and much worse -- but there is no significance when Tweety says it.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 07:03 PM
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3. Happy to see Chris has finally extracted his
head out of Bush's ass.
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Terra Alta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 07:06 PM
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5. without bin Laden attacking us on 9/11
Dumbya wouldn't have had an excuse to invade Iraq -- which was his plan all along. He just had to get back at Saddam for trying to kill his daddy! :eyes: It was never Dumbya's intention to capture bin Laden, why do you think he said just six months after 9/11 that Osama was not a concern? Dumbya probably sent bin Laden a thank you card for perpetrating 9/11 and giving him an excuse to take out Saddam.
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daggahead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 07:10 PM
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7. If memory serves ...
... Didn't the Bin Laden's help fund one of Junior's failed businesses (Harken?)?

I think some of the Bin Laden family were having breakfast with the Bushies in Kennebunkport the morning of 9/11/2001, too.

Yeah, the Bush & Bin Laden families are tight.
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 07:17 PM
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8. both families had mass murdering asshole sons too!
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 07:37 PM
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9. Yes, the bin Ladens had an agent that handled their business with Bush.
James Bath admitted to being an agent for Saudi financial interests. He invested $50K in Arbusto. Had ties to Saleem bin Laden and was a director in BCCI. He was a TANG buddy of Junior's and they both got kicked out of the wing at about the same time (unfit for duty).

Bush Sr was in Washington, DC on 9/10 (overnighted at the WH) and was meeting with the Board of Directors of the Carlyle group on the morning of 9/11. The bin Laden family were also directors of Carlyle. Bush Sr. quietly left for Milwaukee that day, I believe. Maybe he went looking for Junior who was busy staying out of sight until the coast was clear.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 07:38 PM
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11. CLose on two counts - Bush was given control of an airline supply company (sodas and pretzels)
Edited on Tue May-10-11 07:44 PM by underpants
and left with it heavily in debt. I can't find the name of the company. It was the Bin Laden family's ( who disowned Osama) buy-in into the Carlyle Group.

Poppa was meeting with some Saudis in DC on 9/11.

This is from memory.
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Cali_Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 07:40 PM
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12. Matthews nailed it
Edited on Tue May-10-11 07:41 PM by Cali_Democrat
Bush tried to take the focus off Bin Laden in Afghanistan and put the focus on Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 07:46 PM
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13. Not a big fan of the "go with the wind" Mathews but if he says it that means DC is saying it
he follows the trends that keep people on his show and him in work.

He doesn't offer opinion he tells you what the general consensus is - slightly differently than Scarborough and his guests do.
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 07:55 PM
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14. Behavioral weirdness = the whole Republicon cabal
fer sure...
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 08:50 PM
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15. (somewhat better) Late than never, Tweety!1 n/t
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 11:05 AM
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17. Didn't Tweety get a boner from Flightsuit Shrub?
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