Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths...I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
~Barbara Bush
2007-09-05 06:36:08 · 11 answers · asked by Mr. Beef Stroganoff 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Mrs. Bush spoke these words on ABC's "Good Morning America," March 18, 2003.
2007-09-05 06:52:35 · update #1
Mrs. Bush said that prior to her son attacking Iraq. Maybe she ought to be made to sit down and watch each and every body bag as it comes off the airplane from Iraq. No one wants to see the unpleasantness of war. She doesn't and neither does anyone else but hiding it or sugar coating it merely adds to the horror of it all once the veil is removed and people can see the reality of it all. So she thinks she has a beautiful mind. Hardly so, she reared Dubya didn't she?
2007-09-05 06:55:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would like to hear what the context was first (and a confirmation she actually said this).
However, I have heard her say similarly thoughtless things before. For example, when she said that the Katrina victims living in the Astrodome in Houston were in better shape than they were before the hurricane hit.
One note, there is a common feeling that GW Bush is HER son, more than Papa Bush's. This is the attitude that fosters our president.
2007-09-05 13:43:15 · answer #2 · answered by Wundt 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Can you tell she's the shrub's mom? As long as they remain 101% convinced of the correctness of their family's actions; They can just shut their eyes and ears and be content to ignore the price so many people pay for their decisions...
2007-09-05 14:18:25 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I don't want to hear about body bags and death either. It doesn't bring them back and " I would rather eat some cheese, drink some wine and catch some rays." You can quote me, just don't tell anyone that it was actually Donald Sutherland, in the Movie, Kelly's Hero's, unless of course, I am Donald Sutherland then you can quote me on it.
2007-09-05 13:45:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
So what, does Barbara Bush run something?
2007-09-05 13:49:18 · answer #5 · answered by espreses@sbcglobal.net 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
My first thought was, "there is no way she would have said something like that", and then I looked it up.
Yep.
She said it.
Wow.
2007-09-05 13:54:42 · answer #6 · answered by halfshaft 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think that it makes me want to shelve my pacifism for just a couple of minutes....
2007-09-05 13:52:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was taken out of context. It goes into more depth here.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/barbara.asp
2007-09-05 13:45:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
It's Kafkaesque. We put people in power who are so ignorant and utterly stupid, and it's seriously depressing that they literally have people's lives in their hands, and their souls are utterly black.
2007-09-05 13:45:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
the mind is a terrible thing to waste
2007-09-05 13:40:44 · answer #10 · answered by bubba 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋