The Bushes: One family, multiple scandals, one phrase

[kpete]

In 1986, then-Vice President George H.W. Bush offered an unsatisfying, passive-voice explanation for the Iran-Contra scandal in which the Reagan administration sold weapons to Iran in order to finance an illegal war on Nicaragua.

“Clearly, mistakes were made,” Bush said.

In 2004, then-President George W. Bush offered an eerily similar unsatisfying, passive-voice explanation for the Abu Ghraib scandal, in which U.S. officials tortured detainees at an Iraqi prison:

“It’s also important for the people of Iraq to know that in a democracy, everything is not perfect, that

mistakes are made,”

Bush said.


In 2015, former Gov. Jeb Bush offered a practically identical, unsatisfying, passive-voice explanation for his brother’s catastrophic war in Iraq, launched under false pretenses, and bungled every step of the way.

“Let’s go to Iraq,” Bush said during the Q&A at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

“There were mistakes made

in Iraq, for sure.”




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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/passive-voice-bush-family-tradition

[Dont call me Shirley]

1. The biggest mistake was...

Not putting Prescott and Co in prison for a long time.

[madamesilverspurs]

2. Nope.

[louis-t]

5. Saving the photo.

I know I will get LOTS of use emailing it to my crazy relatives.

[Newest Reality]

3. Well in my understanding

the one phrase would be: "The Bush crime family."

That is not going to get talked about or reported and that family does a great job on PR and keeping their criminal nature covered-up and sanitized.

No, they are fine, upstanding citizens with deep political values and roots!

[SoCalMusicLover]

4. Speaking Of The * Crime Family...

Although we'll never know, I imagine Sr. knows a whole lot more about the Kennedy Assassination than he's ever going to admit.

John's death followed by Bobby's, changed the direction of this country, and eventually enabled this family of criminals to make it to the highest offices in the U.S.

[madokie]

6. of the millions of people in this country

poppy bush is probably the only one who can't remember what he was doing that day in Dallas.

[Vincardog]

11. He remembers he was in Plano. Overseeing the operations down town.

[NYC_SKP]

7. I immediately leapt to this "other" phrase...

[Gothmog]

8. The bushes are a family of wimps

They have passed down this one phrase to deal with all mistakes

[2naSalit]

10. Just like

a genetic defect.

[hifiguy]

9. The BFEE = America's Borgias.

[napkinz]

12. kick!

nt

[Enthusiast]

13. Yeah, mistakes.

That's a fucking joke. The nation was operated by mistakes under these miscreants. They weren't mistakes, they were deeply flawed illegal policy that they never answered for. G H W Bush was the author of Iran—Contra.

[Takket]

14. The biggest mistake ever made...

Was this country accepting the none members of the Supreme Court being the only ones allowed to vote.