Bush: ‘Outside forces tend to divide people up.’

mimo2005 · 02-20-2008, 06:12 PM

Yesterday, President Bush defended his decision not to send U.S. troops into the Darfur genocide, saying he learned lessons from the genocide in Rwanda. Ignorant of the comparison to Iraq, Bush said foreign troops would only be divisive and “unbelievably counterproductive”:

Quote:

BUSH: A clear lesson I learned in the museum was that outside forces that tend to divide people up inside their country are unbelievably counterproductive. In other words, people came from other countries — I guess you’d call them colonialists — and they pitted one group of people against another.

Video:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/20/...vide-people-up

Un.....be ...lie.....vable!!!!

RedScott · 02-20-2008, 06:18 PM

Yeah, but Iraq is just different, see? I mean... cause....

IT'S JUST DIFFERENT ALRIGHT?!?!?

**sobeit** · 02-20-2008, 06:19 PM

in other words, since they do not have anything of interest to the US, who cares what happened to them.

I wonder why Bush did not say anything about iraq since it would have been a perfect example. One thing that Saddam did was have complete control over the different factions within Iraq, He ruled them with an iron fist and did whatever he wanted to to keep peace. Once the US went in there was nothing to hold back the different factions and they are now killing each other. Theres major divisions within the country.

**EnglishPaul** · 02-22-2008, 04:23 AM

Well its good to see that only the greatest minds get to hold the highest office.
(Or is there a dynasty thing going on? Perhaps Hillary does stand a chance after all!)

**Drew1369** · 02-22-2008, 12:26 PM

Lessons learned from Iraq maybe?

He saw how foriegn forces divided up the country which was definatly not what was wanted...

02-20-2008, 06:18 PM	#2 (permalink)
RedScott Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 310 OS: Windows XP	Re: Bush: ‘Outside forces tend to divide people up.’ Yeah, but Iraq is just different, see? I mean... cause.... IT'S JUST DIFFERENT ALRIGHT?!?!?

02-20-2008, 06:19 PM	#3 (permalink)
sobeit TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NEAR Posts: 5,361 OS: windows/linux	Re: Bush: ‘Outside forces tend to divide people up.’ in other words, since they do not have anything of interest to the US, who cares what happened to them. I wonder why Bush did not say anything about iraq since it would have been a perfect example. One thing that Saddam did was have complete control over the different factions within Iraq, He ruled them with an iron fist and did whatever he wanted to to keep peace. Once the US went in there was nothing to hold back the different factions and they are now killing each other. Theres major divisions within the country. __________________ Do not feed the trolls.

02-22-2008, 04:23 AM	#4 (permalink)
EnglishPaul Still no avatar Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Sheffield Posts: 1,001 OS: XP SP2	Re: Bush: ‘Outside forces tend to divide people up.’ Well its good to see that only the greatest minds get to hold the highest office. (Or is there a dynasty thing going on? Perhaps Hillary does stand a chance after all!)

02-22-2008, 12:26 PM	#5 (permalink)
Drew1369 TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Seattle, WA, USA Posts: 2,305 OS: Vista Business	Re: Bush: ‘Outside forces tend to divide people up.’ Lessons learned from Iraq maybe? He saw how foriegn forces divided up the country which was definatly not what was wanted... __________________ Marge: We wouldn't be in this trouble if you'd just paid the heating bill! Homer: I thought global warming would take care of it! Al Gore can't do anything right!