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🔴 🇺🇸 **George W. Bush: The Best Bushisms**

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#Video length: seven minutes and forty-one seconds.

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bs2 Mar 21, 2023

"We don't think of Japan as an ATM", "Japan is not just some ATM." are not direct #Bushism

> ..the denial by a "Senior White House official" that the US president would ever think of Japan as "just some ATM machine" was so bizarre as to suggest that perhaps that might be precisely how he saw it.

https://apjjf.org/-Gavan-McCormack/2111/article.html
#GavanMcCormack #Japan #ATM #JapanAsATM for #USAMilitary
> #TakaoHishinuma, #EijiHirose, "US official says Japan 'not just some ATM'," #DailyYomiuri Online, 10 October 2003.

Koizumi's Japan in Bush's World: After 9/11

Koizumi's Japan in Bush's World: After 9/11 by Gavan McCormack 1. The "Trustworthy Ally" Half a century ago, General Douglas MacArthur, proconsul in the US occupation, was acclaimed as

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus

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bs2 Mar 21, 2023

> Bush was doing his best to condemn #Putin. Instead, he scored a memorable own goal when he denounced “the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq.” Reportedly, the audience chuckled. Oh #Dubya, always the fun side of armed aggression.
#Bushism #FunArmedAgression
Maybe #TheSpoo was suffering from too much #IllegitimateAuthority and felt bad about it, but Bush just seems to revel in it. Joking about looking for #WMD under his podium comes to mind.

bs2 Mar 21, 2023

> "You have hissed all my mystery lectures," he reportedly said. "In fact, you have tasted two whole worms and you must leave Oxford this afternoon by the next town drain." A spoonerism can also involve the reversal of two words, as in "Courage to blow the bears of life," or, when saying good-bye to someone, "Must you stay, can't you go?"
https://www.npr.org/2007/09/01/14036334/breaking-down-the-uh-blunders-of-speech
#MetaPhasia #Spoonerism from #TheSpoo #MichaelErard #Humor from #Bushism #Bushist #FunArmedAgression
/HT @strypey