George W Bush involves himself in Haiti...

[max_tranmere]

I was actually quite embarassed, for myself, the Americans in particular, and everyone else, when this bufoon George W Bush appeared on TV and announced on Saturday that he will be getting involved in helping the people of Haiti following the earthquake. He was never really regarded as a serious President in my opinion, more as an unemployed former cocaine-snorting moron who would have had difficulty getting a job in McDonalds had it not have been for his father's money and contacts. He remains to this day the only President to have had a criminal record, he also dodged the Draft for Vietnam in the 1970's, was arrested for burglary three times, was done for Insider Trading Fraud, and most people regarded him as a complete joke.

His lying over the reasons for the Iraq war, which has cost hundreds of billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of lives, as really being about ousting Saddam, when it was really about oil and making fortunes for his and his fathers oil tycoon friends back in America - his claim now that he cares about the common man and woman in a poorer faraway country is in very bad taste indeed. Having de-stabilised the middle east, made America and Europe more of a terrorist target, and having caused problems for the world for decades to come, I could not believe it when I saw him and his smug smile on TV saying he is getting involved in trying to help the people of Haita.

He is also arrogant and ignorant enough to believe he is a prominent, important person, who people would want involved in such things - like "I'm an ex President of stature and this is what ex Presidents of stature do", when really most people would like this arsehole to just disappear and never be heard from again. What are other people's views?

[countb]

well said,max.

[one eyed jack]

Im no fan of Dubya but in this case, good for him.

I love it when people win brownie points. it tells me that people are far too complex to be pigeon holed into one category.

I like to be proved wrong and in this case, even if its showboating on his part, him mucking in and helping puts him up in my estimation.

There is nothing like a disaster to bring the human out in humans. This Haiti disaster has been distressing seeing so many peopel suffering.

I for one will be cheering the americans and all else for their efforts.

Way to go dudes! !thumbsup!

[Sam Slater]

I don't think it matters to the Haitians what his record is. If he can help then that's good, surely?

Some people will moan about anything.

[welkram]

I have not the slightest interest in this man apart from watching clips on YouTube of him making a total ass of himself.

However, I'm sure I read a report last week where Barack Obama had asked GWB to become involved with or to head up the US aid programme to Haiti. The report gave no reason or details of why BO wanted GWB involved, but after his Administrations total fuck up of aid to, and reconstruction of New Orleans I think the UN and the world in general would not want him anywhere near Haiti - would he even know where it was?

[max_tranmere]

I agree that after New Orleans most people would think that having this twat involved in trying to help Haiti is ridiculous. I agree that any help at all is a good thing, but I wonder what this dickhead could really achieve by being involved. Does Obama not have enough people to assist him in organising the help to Haiti? Bush being involved is really, as I said above, about him thinking he is someone important and of stature. Note: 'The George W Bush Memorial Library', the 'George W Bush Foundation', now George W Bush is involved in helping the present American government assist Haita. It seems to me to be all ego driven. Rather like how you still hear about Iain Duncan Smith here in the UK, someone who everyone would like to just forget about, but because he wanted high office his ego can't cope with being a nobody so we still see him interviewed on TV, we hear about Parliamentary committee's and so on that he heads up and he is arrogant enough to think everyone still wants him around.

[David Johnson]

What you think of Bush is, I suspect, irrelevant in this scenario.

What Bush and Clinton as well, have been asked to do is to help get money from private companies as part of the fund raising.

Whether you like Bush or not, he does have considerable support amongst the right wing citizens and businesses in the US.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/ ... 6913.shtml

Do you seriously think a starving Haitian or a Haitian badly in need of medical help would give a flying fuck as to where the money was coming from?

He is not being asked to take control of the relief infrastructure as far as I am aware, if you know different provide a link. So his failure re Katrina is irrelevant as is whether you like the guy or not.

I hope his fund raising will be extremely successful. And good for him for getting involved.

D

[one eyed jack]

Max wrote: I agree that after New Orleans most people would think that having this twat involved in trying to help Haiti is ridiculous.

Others might use the word "redeeming" instead of ridiculous. Does a mans past so affect his future that he cant do some good?

[max_tranmere]

It might, but 'redeeming' is a bit too extreme a term because it won't counter-balance all the bad he has done. It's like owing ?100.00 and giving 50 pence and saying 'the debt is cleared'. Perhaps Bush could devote his whole life to helping poor, maimed, ex-servicemen, and doing it for free. Think a kind of John Profumo type redemption: after falling from grace in the 1960's he spent all his life working for very little money trying to help people in poverty in east London. Maybe Bush could work on hospital wards where maimed servicemen are living, mop the floors there, and live in a small property on the site. His pay will be the equivilant of about ?250.00 per week and he will work there till he is too old and inferm and can not work anymore. That would be full redemption. But no, Bush is earning $100,000 a hour on the lecture circuit and has become a director of numerous large corporations run by former golfing partners of his dad, where he is paid millions annually by each for just showing up for half a day a month. He doesnt even really work for them, just does in name, and money is just given to him. George Bush is a c**t.