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I live in western Massachusetts, just outside the city of north Hampton. Among the charms, north Hampton, Massachusetts, has an elegant public library, called the Forbes library. Not just a centerpiece of downtown, it turns out it has national significance.
Forbes library isn't named for a U.S. President. There’s never been a president Forbes, it's actually named after some rich guy judge that donated the library, but it contains the Presidential library and museum of former President Calvin Coolidge. That's tucked away somewhere inside the place I used to check out DVDs when I couldn't afford rental fees at block buster.
The papers memorabilia is tucked away inside that building. It’s a public library in north Hampton. Calvin Coolidge is the last U.S. president not to have a free standing named after him presidential library. Since Coolidge, all other American presidents we've had, even Nixon, they have an edifice built somewhere in their honor. The tourist brochure from the national archives about all the presidential libraries includes this kind of creepy map that seems like the disembodied heads loom over regions of the country. Look at poor Arizona.
They have nothing to do with Nixon, but he looms over the state like a death's head. this map showed all the different places you could go in the country as a member of the public to explore the modern presidents and the things they have preserve and this is what's happening there today, when people from here on out go to the George W. Bush Presidential library to play the decision points game. This is what happens. Watch.
George W. Bush made many tough decisions as president. Now you'll get a flavor for what that's like. Take a look at the list of scenarios in front of you. First, you will select which one you want to tackle. The majority of the theater chose the threat of Saddam Hussein. President Bush had to make a choice, one, seek another U.N. resolution, two, lead an international coalition to remove Saddam, three, accept Saddam Hussein will remain in power. You are about to get expert advice. You’ll have to weigh conflicting points of view. Okay, we're ready to start. Work fast, the clock is ticking.
With a literal drum beat, actual drum beat to war coming out of the speakers in the theater, you get advice from members of the intelligent community, while and this is what's happening there today, when people from here on out go to the George W. Bush presidential library to play the decision points game. This is what happens. Watch.
With a literal drum beat, actual drum beat to war coming out of the speakers in the theater, you get advice from members of the intelligent community, while you're getting those briefings, and you get interrupted by ominous breaking news developments.
If we act to depose him, other countries could use our actions to wage unjustified wars in the future.
Chemical warheads.
This is the first really solid evidence.
After you deal with all the breaking news interruptions about new weapons that weren't disclosed before being discovered and get advice from your fake actor experts, it's finally time to make this decision. They do set up three options to choose from, right? You can seek a new U.N. resolution that makes sense. You can invade, of course, they don't say invade, they say, lead an international coalition, which means invade. If you want to not invade, what's the label for not invading? That choice is labeled take no action. That’s the neutral presentation of options here. You can lead, or you can do nothing. If you choose to do nothing, well, president bush's former white house chief of staff then appears on screen and obviously expresses his disappointment in you.
Times up. It’s time to make a decision. You were asked how to address the threat of Saddam Hussein. You had three options. The people in the theater today decided to take no action and accept that Saddam Hussein will remain in power.
Accept, way to go, wusses. He doesn't stop there, though, with his disapproving, almost disbelieving lack, he then has president bush to come on screen and say the correct answer is you should have invaded. when I first read descriptions of this, I thought they'd meant you'd get historical footage of George W. Bush from his presidency, documenting the history how the bush presidency handled the issue at the time, but as you can see, this is president bush now, this is contemporary George w. Bush taped recently still making the case today that invading Iraq is the right answer.
My first choice was to use diplomacy rather than putting American troops into harm's way.
First choice, diplomacy. he goes on to explain the U.N. resolutions passed. then he launches right into this explanation for why invading Iraq was the right thing to do, because smoking gun was going to be a mushroom cloud, because Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, Saddam being linked to terrorist groups. Seriously.
The stakes were too high to trust the dictator's word against the weight of evidence and the consensus of the world. Saddam posed too big a risk to ignore he had used weapons of mass destruction in the past, showed every sign of continuing to pursue such weapons, and supported international terrorist organizations. The world was made safer by his removal. With his departure, 25 million Iraqis have the chance to live in freedom and build a free society. The new democracy in Iraq can be a valuable ally in the heart of the Middle East and a beacon of hope to reformers around the world.
Imagine at the bill Clinton presidential library, an interactive exhibit designed to prove that he did not have actual relations with that woman. Imagine an interactive meet tricky dick hologram at the Nixon library, showing ways he really isn't a crook. You know, the weight of evidence did not show that we had to invade Iraq. There was no consensus of the world that we had to invade Iraq. When we invaded Iraq, look at this, every country in the map that is shaded blue here, every country here on this map shaded in blue was against us invading Iraq.
Does it seem like there was a world consensus we should invade Iraq? The head of the U.N. at the time said he considered that invasion to be illegal. The consensus of the world was George w. Bush had to lead an international coalition to invade Iraq?
Are you serious? These little kids, who as of today are going to our nation's newest presidential library to learn the unvarnished history about this presidency, are being told Saddam Hussein showed every sign of continuing to pursue weapons of mass destruction. The case to invade Iraq was not mistaken. The case to invade Iraq was cooked up. It was a hoax perpetrated on the American people, and they are still cooking it up right now, ten years to the day after the mission accomplished speech, as if the last ten years has never happened. This is what kids are being taught that part of our nation's history. I kind of think this is a national scandal.
Transcript:
I live in western Massachusetts, just outside the city of north Hampton. Among the charms, north Hampton, Massachusetts, has an elegant public library, called the Forbes library. Not just a centerpiece of downtown, it turns out it has national significance.
Forbes library isn't named for a U.S. President. There’s never been a president Forbes, it's actually named after some rich guy judge that donated the library, but it contains the Presidential library and museum of former President Calvin Coolidge. That's tucked away somewhere inside the place I used to check out DVDs when I couldn't afford rental fees at block buster.
The papers memorabilia is tucked away inside that building. It’s a public library in north Hampton. Calvin Coolidge is the last U.S. president not to have a free standing named after him presidential library. Since Coolidge, all other American presidents we've had, even Nixon, they have an edifice built somewhere in their honor. The tourist brochure from the national archives about all the presidential libraries includes this kind of creepy map that seems like the disembodied heads loom over regions of the country. Look at poor Arizona.
They have nothing to do with Nixon, but he looms over the state like a death's head. this map showed all the different places you could go in the country as a member of the public to explore the modern presidents and the things they have preserve and this is what's happening there today, when people from here on out go to the George W. Bush Presidential library to play the decision points game. This is what happens. Watch.
George W. Bush made many tough decisions as president. Now you'll get a flavor for what that's like. Take a look at the list of scenarios in front of you. First, you will select which one you want to tackle. The majority of the theater chose the threat of Saddam Hussein. President Bush had to make a choice, one, seek another U.N. resolution, two, lead an international coalition to remove Saddam, three, accept Saddam Hussein will remain in power. You are about to get expert advice. You’ll have to weigh conflicting points of view. Okay, we're ready to start. Work fast, the clock is ticking.
With a literal drum beat, actual drum beat to war coming out of the speakers in the theater, you get advice from members of the intelligent community, while and this is what's happening there today, when people from here on out go to the George W. Bush presidential library to play the decision points game. This is what happens. Watch.
With a literal drum beat, actual drum beat to war coming out of the speakers in the theater, you get advice from members of the intelligent community, while you're getting those briefings, and you get interrupted by ominous breaking news developments.
If we act to depose him, other countries could use our actions to wage unjustified wars in the future.
Chemical warheads.
This is the first really solid evidence.
After you deal with all the breaking news interruptions about new weapons that weren't disclosed before being discovered and get advice from your fake actor experts, it's finally time to make this decision. They do set up three options to choose from, right? You can seek a new U.N. resolution that makes sense. You can invade, of course, they don't say invade, they say, lead an international coalition, which means invade. If you want to not invade, what's the label for not invading? That choice is labeled take no action. That’s the neutral presentation of options here. You can lead, or you can do nothing. If you choose to do nothing, well, president bush's former white house chief of staff then appears on screen and obviously expresses his disappointment in you.
Times up. It’s time to make a decision. You were asked how to address the threat of Saddam Hussein. You had three options. The people in the theater today decided to take no action and accept that Saddam Hussein will remain in power.
Accept, way to go, wusses. He doesn't stop there, though, with his disapproving, almost disbelieving lack, he then has president bush to come on screen and say the correct answer is you should have invaded. when I first read descriptions of this, I thought they'd meant you'd get historical footage of George W. Bush from his presidency, documenting the history how the bush presidency handled the issue at the time, but as you can see, this is president bush now, this is contemporary George w. Bush taped recently still making the case today that invading Iraq is the right answer.
My first choice was to use diplomacy rather than putting American troops into harm's way.
First choice, diplomacy. he goes on to explain the U.N. resolutions passed. then he launches right into this explanation for why invading Iraq was the right thing to do, because smoking gun was going to be a mushroom cloud, because Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, Saddam being linked to terrorist groups. Seriously.
The stakes were too high to trust the dictator's word against the weight of evidence and the consensus of the world. Saddam posed too big a risk to ignore he had used weapons of mass destruction in the past, showed every sign of continuing to pursue such weapons, and supported international terrorist organizations. The world was made safer by his removal. With his departure, 25 million Iraqis have the chance to live in freedom and build a free society. The new democracy in Iraq can be a valuable ally in the heart of the Middle East and a beacon of hope to reformers around the world.
Imagine at the bill Clinton presidential library, an interactive exhibit designed to prove that he did not have actual relations with that woman. Imagine an interactive meet tricky dick hologram at the Nixon library, showing ways he really isn't a crook. You know, the weight of evidence did not show that we had to invade Iraq. There was no consensus of the world that we had to invade Iraq. When we invaded Iraq, look at this, every country in the map that is shaded blue here, every country here on this map shaded in blue was against us invading Iraq.
Does it seem like there was a world consensus we should invade Iraq? The head of the U.N. at the time said he considered that invasion to be illegal. The consensus of the world was George w. Bush had to lead an international coalition to invade Iraq?
Are you serious? These little kids, who as of today are going to our nation's newest presidential library to learn the unvarnished history about this presidency, are being told Saddam Hussein showed every sign of continuing to pursue weapons of mass destruction. The case to invade Iraq was not mistaken. The case to invade Iraq was cooked up. It was a hoax perpetrated on the American people, and they are still cooking it up right now, ten years to the day after the mission accomplished speech, as if the last ten years has never happened. This is what kids are being taught that part of our nation's history. I kind of think this is a national scandal.
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