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NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
INTERNATIONAL
#HONG KONG: Thousands gathered in Hong Kong for a defiant peace rally.
#KOREA: Renewed talks were announced between North and South.
#MH370: The search for the Malaysia Airlines flight is set to resume.
#SYRIA: Following the murder of a British aid worker by Islamic State, the family of another hostage have appealed for him to be released. [BBC News]
#UNITED KINGDOM: A body was found in the search for the suspected killer of Alice Gross.
INNOVATION
PARTING SHOT
Never mind all those headlines, this is probably the only one you need to see today.
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He’ll go down a tyrant to a lot of people.
Yessssss ! Very powerful you did become Jedi master George !
Isn’t this the guy who said the French don’t have a word for entrepreneurism?
Ye he made a mess off Iraq all right
Possibly the worst president in US history…
nixon maybe?
Obama running close
(Apologies in advance, I’m a history nerd)…
Bush was an imbecile, but he’s by no means the worst. America has elected some total fudds through the years. The best thing about Bush is that history will forget him. He’ll be ranked in the lower third of all presidents. In years to come, he’ll simply be overlooked. He’ll be as famous as Millard Filmore or Chester A Aurthur.
Nixon was good at the job – some would argue he was the best president ever for foreign affairs – but he was paranoid and what ultimately brought him down was lying about covering up for something someone else did. It’s a pretty ‘blah’ way to go.
I have a soft spot for Obama, but it’s too early to tell where to place him. I don’t think he’s lived up to people’s expectations, but he never could have. He inherited a mess, but he also let his opponents run wild around him while he should have put some manner on them.
I personally think that James Buchanan was the worst. Amongst other things, he had the opportunity to stop the spread of slavery and he just stood back and let it happen.
Guy was a joke….glad to see the back of him!
Some people aspire to power, some people attain power, others receive it as a graduation gift from daddy besides being a C average student who hid in the Taxas national air guard while poor peoples kids got sent to die for their country.
no more evil than obama or clinton,just know where near as slick or suave..
.. and less intelligent.
you serious!! GWB is the ultimate example of somebody being elevated way way way above their level of competence all because of his family name, his religious beliefs and his neo-con connections. He was pitiful. Grossly unfair to compare him to Clinton or Obama.
Is grossly unfair on Clinton who probably had the most effective presidency in the last 30 years
Goodbye to that snicker
And the empty, dumb stare
Adios to the “leader”
Who never did care
I speak of Katrina
As he flew overhead
We can talk of our soldiers
Four thousand-plus dead
Or maybe the workers
Who Enron sold out
Perhaps deregulation
And the greed it would flout
Might mention the warnings
In the NSA brief
With a vacant expression
Our Commander in Chief
While Towers were falling
He read “My Pet Goat”
A half-hearted mission (Afghanistan)
Then a too early gloat (“Mission Accomplished”)
Tax cuts for rich folks
The planet a foe
Faith as a weapon
Divisions would grow
Never held interest
In the interests of all
Exclusive for zealots
With a self-righteous call
Gitmo and “Brownie”
Abu Ghraib, Karl Rove
Wherever the story
The low road he strove
Torture made “legal”
A Veep of no bounds
In every step taken
Corruption resounds
So goodbye George Dubya
Farewell Cheney, Dick
The people have spoken
As grown cold to your schtick
would ya get away with your feckin poetry!
I’ll give you that one. Actual found it worth the read.
I won’t be happy till I see him and Blair in the Dock in the Hague accused of War Crimes
They should be hanged for the deaths of thousands of innocent men, women and children and their own troops. All just to make rich men richer.
It’s so cool to hate Bush and love Obama. I reckon if you questioned most of these sheep, they couldn’t tell you much about either mans policies.
I hate them both …. I’d vote Nader or Paul any day
Darth Nader?
Carole Coleman put the rule to him.
your a modern american president,your evil-fact..its an evil global imperialistic empire run by evil people
He should be sharing a cell with Radovan Karadic in the Hague. A war criminal, nothing more, nothing less..
He could have just come out and say it: “I just want a life without consequences”
Yeah I think I would want out of the limelight too,if I were a war criminal,although hasn’t done much damage to Henry Kissenger!!!
I’m actually beginning to enjoy the poems, now that I’ve stopped scrolling past em.
Yeah, they’re better that most of the drivel written on here, including my own. Keep it up, even if it is just to piss the people off that hate poetry.
The man is very much misunderstood in Ireland unfortunately. His legacy on education, freedom and health (especially AIDS in Africa) will have long term benefits and will be looked upon positively in the future. It’s a shame the Irish media is so biased that most you Iraq is, despite the naysayers, is a much better place than under Saddam’s evil regime. It ain’t perfect but the candle of freedom still flickers and will become a beacon in the future. Another ignored aspect of the Iraqi success story from a geo-political aspect is that Iraq is no firmly back in the Shiite camp in the Islamic world. This is causing overdue headaches to Saudi Arabia (just look at Bahrain and the growing Iraqi / Iranian nexus) and is a warning shot to the Saudis to rein in their sponsorship of violent terrorism – and it looks like they listened. It was a smart move as invading Saudi Arabia would have had a lot more downside than Iraq. God bless him.
Keep living in that bubble mate.
Some seriously powerful hallucinogens you’re on there Patrick.
Did you cut and paste that from his bio? Are you currently in drug rehab? Are you tweeting from Guantanamo hoping to get out? You’re nucking futs.
Are you an American Republican by any chance???!!
You haven’t a clue lad, The US and Saudi have been knee deep in it together, always have been, there was never a question of attacking them. Their sponsor of terrorism ensures the States always haev a war to fight and oil rich land to secure after they get in and restructure power. Also the Shiite/Sunni camp are the ones making live difficult for the Shia, they are the trouble makers in northern Iran and the ones happily attacking Syria now for western and their own interests.
They want Syria and Iran destabilised and Sunni controlled as they are both Shia, Iran being friendly with Bassad an Alawi part of Shia and Iran the largest Shia country in the region with approx 85-90% Shia. So Saudi want Syria gone as much as the Israeli and US. With Bassad being Alawi or Shia along with others hold the majority power in a predominantly Sunni country.
I loved that poem!
Great comedian, he will be missed..
Biggest socialist ever … No child left behind +2 the size of Medicare… Bankrupted the country … Now Obama is doing the same butter and bullets economic policy of failed kensianism
You could at least learn to spell “Keynesian”?
“rarely is the question asked, is our children learning” “I know that human beings and fish can coexist peacefully” what a man lol
Mat will you please please shut the f..k up and naff off
He can never disappear from public life. His dumb ass is just too entertaining.
We always have Will Farrell as a fall back.
Frankly it is a little short sighted to say GWB was all bad. I am not a fan of him or his party but his actions as President have helped ease the crisis which currently faces Africa. Yes he made serious mistakes but he also has been an agent of positive change. Like him or loathe him, he does deserve some respect.
You should read “The American Wife”.. A very thinly veiled account of his presidency and marriage to Laura Bush. A wry observation and a great read.
Step in front of a lorry
If he does, it pales in comparison to the disrespect that he justly deserves.
Awful policies particularly on the financial sector but the Democrats have a lot to answer for there, and the farce in Iraq and Afghanistan was his own creation but I have a sneaking regard for him. Needless to say I’d rather meet him then Obama. Obama is not the god the media make him out be whereas with Bush you get what you see. I also liked his book, well written and an interesting read.
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee…..that says, fool me once, shame on…..[awkward pause]….shame on you. Fool me….[worse awkward pause]…..You can’t get fooled again”
@Andy Murray , to be fair Chester A. Arthur did get his 5 mins of fame in “die hard with a vengeance” with Bruce Willis and Laurence Fishbourne !
Nice one. Thumbs up.
A war monger blood of the innocent on his hands wmds my ass
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