George W Bush Won’t Share Stage with Someone Who Has Harmed US Interests

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Mark Knoller tweets:

A spokesman says former Pres George W Bush cancelled a speaking appearance tomorrow to avoid sharing stage with Wikileaks’ Julian Assange.

Bush/43 was invited to address the YPO Global Leadership Summit in Denver tomorrow, but cancelled when he learned Assange was too.

A spksmn says Bush/43 won’t share a stage “with a man who has willfully & repeatedly done great harm to the interests of the United States.”

Jeebus.

The Iraq War, by itself, has done far graver harm to the interests of the United States than all of the cables Julian Assange has leaked. And that’s before you consider allowing banksters to ruin our economy. And a whole slew of other things W did, like torture, that willfully hurt US interests.

It’s a wonder W can even share a stage with himself, if that’s his criteria.

  2. Styve says:

    Something very strange here, because I cannot imagine that Assange would be allowed a “furlough” from his current “imprisonment” in a British mansion, to do a speaking engagement in Denver. But I guess this could refer to a video-appearance.

    Either way, Bush is an idiot who probably didn’t want to get all confused listening to Assange be interviewed…

  6. earlofhuntingdon says:

    It helps to have a mind, a conscience rather, like a vacant parking lot. Mr. Bush’s intelligence, if that’s not an oxymoron, is limited to pursuing policies that promote his family’s wealth, an objective of the Bush and Walker families since the first Bush graduated from Yale in the 1850’s. The only other thing he seems capable of is saying “Yes” when Dick Cheney opens his mouth. If that harms someone or everyone else, to use one of George and Dick’s favorite Christian sayings, fuck ’em.

  8. manys says:

    The only other thing he seems capable of is saying “Yes” when Dick Cheney opens his mouth

    …or “no” when his dad does. ;)

  11. reader says:

    Perhaps the story here is that Bush has been punked.

    There is/was no way Assange would be showing up in Denver tomorrow!!!!!

    Anyone with a brain can figure that out.

  12. perris says:

    George W Bush Won’t Share Stage with Someone Who Has Harmed US Interests

    man o man, just give me the opportunity to be on stage with bush and I will be happy to say the very same thing

  15. fatster says:

    O/T They’re getting uppity.

    Pakistani Agency Demands Data on C.I.A. Contractors

    ” . . . and that Pakistan was prepared to put the episode in the past if the C.I.A. stopped treating its Pakistani counterparts as inferior.”

    LINK.

    • willf says:

      Even though he did grave harm to the country, let’s keep away from violent rhetoric, please.

      That sort of thing should only come from the rightwingers.

      Thanks

  21. Winski says:

    “The former president has no desire to share a forum with a man who has willfully and repeatedly done great harm to the interests of the United States,”

    So…that clearly doesn’t describe PUBLICLY ADMITTED GUILT OF WAR CRIMES FOR TORTURE by Chimpy himself – on multiple occasions…….

    The stupidity and arrogance are breathtaking…

  22. BillyP says:

    From the YPO Global Leadership Summit agenda.

    ◦10:50 a.m.-12 p.m. Closing Keynote with U.S. President George W. Bush

    but no mention anywhere of Julian Assange. Reading about YPO, it makes no sense that the group would even consider inviting someone like Assange.

  25. carrion says:

    I doubt that Julian A. would want to share the stage with a “war criminal” anyway. America needs to clean up its mess and bring these war criminals to justice for the pain /murders that they commited… Dubya /Dick/Condi/Rummy and all the rest.

  26. msobel says:

    I think it would be a wonderful session. Assange could do a reading of some of W’s finest moments, like the advance team cables for the Mission Accomplished trip

  28. TheOracle says:

    The question is, how can George W. Bush stand being on any stage with himself or anyone from his own administration?

    Top-level Bush/Cheney administration officials outed a covert CIA agent, Valerie Plame Wilson, harming “U.S. interests” enormously in the process. An act of treason? Yes. Anybody in the Bush/Cheney administration punished for committing treason against our “U.S. interest” and jeopardizing national security during a time of war? No.

    And we’ve still never seen the after-incident CIA damage-assessment report, which resulted from the CIA checking on exactly how much damage occurred to our national security (and their covert operations) after Republicans outed covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson in 2003, along with probably how many of her contacts overseas were killed or jailed or tortured.

    The Republicans declared war on America decades ago, on Democrats, on unions, on women, with the goal of culture of corruption Republicans being the destruction of anyone getting in their way, in their quest for a right-wing-controlled corporation-owned totalitarian police state. The Republicans are a “clear and present danger” to our democracy, as we saw in the infamous Bush/Cheney administration and are seeing unfold in the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives and in one Republican-controlled state after another, with the clear goal of Republicans the destruction of America and the American dream.

    • PJEvans says:

      The question is, how can George W. Bush stand being on any stage with himself or anyone from his own administration?

      He’s said the magic words that mean he’s been forgiven by G-d, therefore whatever he did is all right – in his own mind, he hasn’t done anything wrong.

      Of course, the rest of the world may not see it that way.

  29. Mary says:

    I guess when they told him it was share or not go – and that using the blood and treasure of a nation to invade and occupy was no longer an option – he got a bit miffed.

  32. VCarlson says:

    It’s US *actions* that have harmed US interests.

    For those without a true moral compass, which seems to include most of the powerful people in the US, isn’t there a handy guideline along the lines of “don’t do or say anything you wouldn’t want others to know about”? Notice this says nothing about shame, as they obviously have none. I think they’ve gotten complacent with the ability to hide everything behind “National Security.”

  33. rusty houndog says:

    “with a man who has willfully & repeatedly done great harm to the interests of the United States.”

    If that is the criterion Bush should never appear on any stage; ipso facto.

  34. Palli says:

    Until Bush stands before a court indicted for large and small crimes against humanity he should be publicly shunned like Gov. Walker in Madison.

  37. Adam503 says:

    I think the “powers-that-be” think wikileaks may have been leaked info regarding what really happened on September 11, 2001.

    Only thing that could explain the crazy public over-the-top assault on wikileaks.

  38. Legion303 says:

    “[…] than all of the cables Julian Assange has leaked.”

    You mean all the cables Assange has *published*. Someone else leaks the information, and wikileaks publishes it. It might seem like a minor distinction, but the idea is that the low-information people with brain cells left will equate wikileaks with any news publisher, like they should.

  39. bobschacht says:

    EW,
    Your diary is short and to the point. If you hadn’t said it, I was going to write the same conclusion. If this is the position GWB is taking, then obviously he can’t even share the stage with himself, even if there is no one else on the stage.

    Bob in AZ