American Aristocrats

If the people knew what we had done, they would chase us down the street and lynch us

• George H.W. Bush to journalist Sarah McClendon, December 1992, in response to the question, "What will the people do if they ever find out the truth about Iraq-gate and Iran contra

• Whose life would be on my hands as the commander-in-chief because I, unilaterally, went beyond the international law, went beyond the stated mission, and said we're going to show our macho? We're going into Baghdad. We're going to be an occupying power — America in an Arab land — with no allies at our side. It would have been disastrous. We don't gain the size of our victory by how many innocent kids running away — even though they're bad guys — that we can slaughter. ... We're American soldiers; we don't do business that way
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  • G.H.W Bush
    
  • A statement to a reunion of Gulf War veterans (February 28, 1999) as quoted in "Bush tells Gulf vets why Hussein left in Baghdad" by S.H. Kelly, Pentagram March 3, 1999

Ever since i was 6 years old, the Bush and Clinton families have fought each other for the rule of the free world


This age was ushered in by Bush I, a former CIA Director, who was elected Vice President to a cowboy actor President with a degenerating brain and severe memory loss


"You cannot be president of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial and the Civil War and all that stuff. You can't be. And we are blessed. So don't feel sorry for — don't cry for me, Argentina. Message: I care." — G.H.W. Bush ... speaking to employees of an insurance company during the 1992 New Hampshire primary

"I'm for Mr. Reagan, blindly." – G.H.W. Bush in 1984

There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another

GEORGE H.W. BUSH, RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988

I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God

GEORGE H.W. BUSH, news conference, Aug. 27, 1987

Boy, they were big on crematoriums, weren't they

George H.W. Bush, Comment made on tour of Auschwitz

2,008

This being a Christian Nation,
it has been 2,008 years since Our Lord was found guilty by a trial of his peers... who chose to let a warrior live instead

A subtle chain of countless rings
The next unto the farthest brings;
The eye reads omens where it goes,
And speaks all languages the rose;
And, striving to be man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form


Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature ... 1836

author of
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LETTER

TO MARTIN VAN BUREN, PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES

A PROTEST AGAINST THE REMOVAL OF THE
CHEROKEE INDIANS FROM THE
STATE OF GEORGIA


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``My resolution for the new year is this: to work with Congress to keep the economy growing, to keep your tax burden low, and to ensure that the money you send to Washington is spent wisely -- or not at all,'' Bush said today in his final weekly radio address of the year, according to a copy of his remarks

Bush II the Lesser, self appointed Ruler of the Free World and War President Extraordinaire, is quite the businessman in 2008 apparently... if money is what supports the troops we could save Alot by bringing them home and giving them raises