George W. Bush Live From Facebook

tekgoblin writes "Facebook has just announced that George W. Bush is going to be present November 29th to answer questions about his new book, Decision Points. The discussion will happen on Facebook Live at 2PM PST."

whatcouldpossiblygowrong

[Darth_brooks]

I'm sure this will be a quiet affair. Well balanced, with well thought out talking points and few interruptions.

Also, could someone ring the nurse for me? The pink elephants have begun playing the banjo again...

The Question I'd Put to Him

[Greyfox]

"Was your invasion of Iraq entirely to prove that you could do something your father couldn't, to depose Saddam Hussein?" If the answer to that was in any form affirmative, my follow up would be "At any point after you did so, did you realize that he didn't go that extra 20 miles back in the 90's because he realized what would happen if he did?" That's the one question I'd love to have answered from his administration. I can't imagine that the rest of his administration would put on such a dog and pony show and ruin their own careers to advance such a simplistic goal, but "We need a distraction from the fact that we haven't caught Bin Laden yet," really isn't that much better.

Re:Cue Bush Derangement Syndrome

[shutdown -p now]

Your problem is that you throw the word "liberal" around way too much as if it was some kind of insult. To begin with, there's nothing in GP's post that even indicates him as a liberal. He could just as well be a libertarian, for example.

not everyone who disagrees with you is either nuts or evil.

An advice you should consider applying to yourself.

Re:Cue Bush Derangement Syndrome

[teamhasnoi]

Maybe because they are using those tax dollars to do pointless things that waste the money and fail to do any good. If the U.S. government and the States can't keep things going with close to half the GDP of the richest nation in the world, isn't it time to think the people in charge are incompetent?

Like the TSA, DHS, Border Patrol, and the astronomical amount of defense spending? I look forward to the link to your comment pointing out these failures when Bush was the head cheese.

Blind faith in government is what's nuts.

We agree on something! We probably both like ice cream too!

Re:Cue Bush Derangement Syndrome

[ConceptJunkie]

No, I say she's a dingbat because she says things that are stupid. There's a difference. If you like, I can make citations, but I doubt it will matter.

There are plenty of people with whom I disagree that aren't dingbats. Please don't project on me.

Your circular argument goes in circles.

Re:Can we give Wedgies?

[PolygamousRanchKid]

I know you're being facetious to underline your point

Well, it's nice to see that someone noticed that.

but the best intel we've ever gotten has been from when we treated prisoners and 'persons of interest' professionally and did nothing more than talk with them. [Citation needed] but it's not that hard to find. Look up how we got information from German officers during the Second World War.

There is a documentary about The Ritchie Boys ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritchie_Boys [wikipedia.org] ). They were Jewish Germans who were in the intelligence branch of the US army, who served as translators and interrogators. One of their "shticks" was to dress one up as an American officer, and the other as a Russian Officer. The American one would start the interrogation with the German officer. Then when the German officer refused to answer questions, the "Russian" one would burst into the room, and demand to have the prisoner. The American would chase the Russian out, and told the prisoner, "look, if you don't cooperate, I will have to give you over to the Russian.

It's the classic good cop / bad cop routine, but was highly effective. And it used no physical force.

My doctor has a friend who is a psychiatrist, and discussed with me once the effectiveness of "Sleep Deprivation." The psychiatrist said that when you deprive people of sleep, their mind starts going crazy: the person is awake, but is actually dreaming. They'll tell you all kinds of nonsense, and start telling the interrogator anything he wants to hear.

A lot of intelligence in World War II was gathered by simply bugging the prisoners' quarters. When they thought that nobody was listening, they divulged vital information. One specific case was the German navigation beam "Knickebein" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knickebein [wikipedia.org] ). Secret recordings of German POW pilots led the British intelligence to discover that their bombing aid was hidden in a radio in the bombers, which was much more sensitive than it had to be.

Conclusion? Try to use your brain, instead of brute force.

Re:Cue Bush Derangement Syndrome

[Yvanhoe]

As a European, I saw the Tea Party from only two points of views :
- Complete whackos like Sarah Palin, and the other woman, what was her name ? Said it was important to spend government money to fight agaisnt masturbation or something like that... Oh, also Glenn Beck. In short, people that are spokepersons of the tea party.
- Lawrence Lessig, admittedly a liberal, that said the tea party was a great political initiative. Despite disagreement on almost every point, he agreed on the two most central points in his view : the fight against corruption and lobbying and the need for grassroots politics.

I mean, there may be something, but why, oh why in heaven's sake do you let people like Palin speak out for you ? Why don't you criticize the complete nutjobs that speak in your name ? Do you realize that it takes a person you probably consider like an enemy to explain the good things that are in this party ?