[Peace-discuss] George Bush: Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters in San Antonio, Texas, on United States Military Action in Panama

[C G Estabrook]

<http://truth-out.org/archive/component/k2/item/92859:alexander-cockburn--a-bitter-woman>


> On Apr 18, 2018, at 7:53 AM, bjornsona--- via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> I prefer your remembrance below of Barbara Bush to many of the others we will endure in the coming days.
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> * On her decision not to watch much TV during the run-up to the Iraq war being led by her son, George W. Bush: "But why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it's going to happen, and how many this and what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that? And watch him suffer." (March 18, 2003)
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: FW: George Bush: Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters in San Antonio, Texas, on United States Military Action in Panama
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> Francis A. Boyle
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> Subject: George Bush: Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters in San Antonio, Texas, on United States Military Action in Panama
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> http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=17988
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> Mrs. Bush. Let me just tell you. He thanked George and gave him a little American flag. And he said, "This is from all the men in Panama, and I want you to have this from them. And we thank you for sending us." He's a paraplegic. 
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> Q. From this incident? 
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> Mrs. Bush. Right there. He's so sweet. But I mean, he met him. He wasn't -- you can't fake that. 
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> Q. Thank you, Mrs. Bush. 
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> The President. You have a Happy New Year!
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