'Bush says he did not sell his soul...

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...for politics - Says he hopes history sees him as liberator of millions.'

Bush says he did not sell his soul for politics
Says he hopes history sees him as liberator of millions


Bush said that every day during his eight-year presidency he had consulted the Bible.

After two wars, millions dead and the worst financial crisis in a decade, George W. Bush hopes history will see him as a president who liberated millions of people, who worked towards peace and who never sold his soul for political ends.

"I'd like to be a president (known) as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace," Bush said in excerpts of a recent interview released by the White House Friday.

"I would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process. I came to Washington with a set of values, and I'm leaving with the same set of values," he added.

He also said he wanted to be seen as a president who helped individuals, "that rallied people to serve their neighbor; that led an effort to help relieve HIV/AIDS and malaria on places like the continent of Africa; that helped elderly people get prescription drugs and Medicare as a part of the basic package."

Bush added that every day during his eight-year presidency he had consulted the Bible and drawn comfort from his faith.

"I would advise politicians, however, to be careful about faith in the public arena," the U.S. leader said in the interview with his sister Doro Bush Koch recorded as part of an oral history program known as Storycorps.

As his second term in office draws to an end, Bush joked he would miss some of the trappings that come with the presidency such as trips on Air Force One, never being stuck in a traffic jam, and the president's residence at Camp David.

But he said he was glad to be stepping back into the shadows.

"Frankly, I'm not going to miss the limelight all that much. It's been a fabulous experience to be the president ... But it will be nice to see the Klieg lights shift somewhere else."

The interview, which Bush recorded with First Lady Laura Bush, will be stored in the Library of Congress and a museum devoted to the Bush presidency.


No war crimes

In contrast to the president's view that Iraq was liberated, a U.S. soldier who deserted Iraq because he did not want to serve and commit "war crimes" has applied for asylum in Germany.

Andre Shepherd, who served in Iraq between September 2004 and February 2005 where his job was maintaining Apache military helicopters, refused to return there last year from his base in Germany.

The 31-year-old deserted because "he does not want to take part in the American war in Iraq, a war that does not conform with international law and because he does not want to be implicated in war crimes," his lawyer Reinhard Marx said.

The lawyer wants to apply for asylum under a European Union directive from April 2004 stipulating that asylum can be granted if the applicant has to take part in a conflict and commit a "crime against peace, a war crime or a crime against humanity," Marx said.

If the application is unsuccessful Shepherd faces extradition and imprisonment in the United States, the lawyer added.


Bush denies he is an "enemy of Islam"
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From _http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/11/29/61028.hmtl

Honestly didn't know whether to post this here in the Psychopathy/Ponerology threads or in 'Tickle Me' or even possibly 'Baked Noodles'! I certainly had a good laugh (of the hollow cynical kind) when I read it!
 
Being the Psychopath that Bush is, I am not at all surprised by his pathological statements. He can't see himself for who or what he really is, as he believes he is Right, no matter what data one could present to him. While it is sickening to me, to see the results of the actions of such a psychopath in real time on people; it has been very beneficial to observe and learn so much about dealing with a psychopath, and what they are capable of doing. Very hard lessons to observe and learn from and much harder to stomach.

All I can say at this moment; he is still in power and I wonder if he is going to go away or not. He still can impose martial law without any law to stop him. Really makes me nervous to think about the possibilities.

gwb
 
Amen!! Typical psychopath. Clueless as to reality.

gwb1995 said:
Being the Psychopath that Bush is, I am not at all surprised by his pathological statements. He can't see himself for who or what he really is, as he believes he is Right, no matter what data one could present to him.
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it has been very beneficial to observe and learn so much about dealing with a psychopath, and what they are capable of doing.
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I have to go with this. Having W. Bush sicked onto the world has had the same effect as a bucket of ice-cold water tipped down the neck when one least expects it, and has woken millions of people up from their 'We can trust our leader' mentality.! I'm sure his excesses have made the eyes of even the most power hungry political whore of your choice blink on occasion.

Not to mention the fact that all his excesses have been exposed on the crest the the Internet wave.

Yes, I think that the world needed Bush, in the grisliest bloodiest most unhappy way, and this is not to denigrate the millions of deaths or the untold suffering he and his ilk have caused. Otherwise many of the rest of us would still be deep in slumberland as we trundle along to the slaughterhouse.

Some of us, at least, now have the chance not to go gently into the good night.
 
If only "The New York Times" had published an editorial like this in the early days leading up to the Iraq War instead of now in the final days before Bush leaves office.


December 7, 2008
Editorial
The Deluder in Chief
We long ago gave up hope that President Bush would acknowledge his many mistakes, or show he had learned anything from them. Even then we were unprepared for the epic denial that Mr. Bush displayed in his interview with ABC News’s Charles Gibson the other day, which he presumably considered an important valedictory chat with the American public as well.

It was bad enough when Mr. Bush piously declared that he hopes Americans believe he is a guy who “didn’t sell his soul for politics.” (We suppose we should not bother remembering how his team drove Senator John McCain out of the 2000 primaries with racist attacks or falsified Senator John Kerry’s war record in 2004.)

It was skin crawling to hear him tell Mr. Gibson that the thing he will really miss when he leaves office is no longer going to see the families of slain soldiers, because they make him feel better about the war. But Mr. Bush’s comments about his decision to invade Iraq were a “mistakes were made” rewriting of history and a refusal to accept responsibility to rival that of Richard Nixon.

At one point, Mr. Bush was asked if he wanted any do-overs. “The biggest regret of the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq,” he said. “A lot of people put their reputations on the line and said the weapons of mass destruction” were cause for war.

After everything the American public and the world have learned about how Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney manipulated Congress, public opinion and anyone else they could bully or lie to, Mr. Bush is still acting as though he decided to invade Iraq after suddenly being handed life and death information on Saddam Hussein’s arsenal.

The truth is that Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had been chafing to attack Iraq before Sept. 11, 2001. They justified that unnecessary war using intelligence reports that they knew or should have known to be faulty. And it was pressure from the White House and a highly politicized Pentagon that compelled people like Secretary of State Colin Powell and George Tenet, the Central Intelligence director, to ignore the counter-evidence and squander their good names on hyped claims of weapons of mass destruction.

Despite it all, Mr. Bush said he will “leave the presidency with my head held high.” And, presumably, with his eyes closed to all the disasters he is dumping on the American people and his successor.
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Mr. Bush is a living example of the phenomenon that "You can fool the people some of the time", but you can fool yourself forever.
 
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