# Bush's Next War Thread: Ten Years Later **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 19, 2011, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-next-war-thread-ten-years-later/596784 "2011-09-19T03:12:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-next-war-thread-ten-years-later/596784/1 "2011-09-19T03:12:49Z")
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=56005&highlight=Laden](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=56005&highlight=Laden) I’ve discovered this thread and in accordance with the rule banning bumps I will use this thread to make a few comments. First of all I find a lot of the blatant liberal bias annoying-it was even worse than from that thread. That said quite a few people did predict Iraq War to be next, although obviously the reason wasn’t so much because “Bush Sr. was humiliated”. I find those predicting the US would be isolationist to be quite ironic. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-next-war-thread-ten-years-later/596784/2 "2011-09-19T03:41:07Z")
I found it mildly amusing that some people predicted he’d attack a university in New York, presumably as a Yalie prank. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-next-war-thread-ten-years-later/596784/3 "2011-09-19T03:52:06Z")
Better their Columbia than ours. The smoke from the fires would obstruct my view of Venus. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-next-war-thread-ten-years-later/596784/4 "2011-09-19T04:40:21Z")
Early in the decade-ago thread is a link to a prescient article in _The Onion_. A [new URL](http://www.theonion.com/articles/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-pros,464/) is needed to read that article. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-next-war-thread-ten-years-later/596784/5 "2011-09-19T06:40:28Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Better their Columbia than ours. The smoke from the fires would obstruct my view of Venus. I can see Venus from my porch! ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-next-war-thread-ten-years-later/596784/6 "2011-09-28T11:42:29Z")
Bush’s Next War Thread: Ten Years Later [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...ighlight=Laden](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...ighlight=Laden) > [@](#): > > I’ve discovered this thread and in accordance with the rule banning bumps I will use this thread to make a few comments. > > First of all I find a lot of the blatant liberal bias annoying-it was even worse than from that thread. That said quite a few people did predict Iraq War to be next, although obviously the reason wasn’t so much because “Bush Sr. was humiliated”. I find those predicting the US would be isolationist to be quite ironic. Who cares? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-next-war-thread-ten-years-later/596784/7 "2011-09-28T12:43:34Z")
What’s the debate? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-next-war-thread-ten-years-later/596784/8 "2011-09-28T12:56:19Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > What’s the debate? In 2001, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-next-war-thread-ten-years-later/596784/9 "2011-09-28T14:12:13Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Early in the decade-ago thread is a link to a prescient article in _The Onion_. A [new URL](http://www.theonion.com/articles/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-pros,464/) is needed to read that article. I can’t believe it… that onion article is the most factually correct one since that guy decided it was too soon to masturbate again. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-next-war-thread-ten-years-later/596784/10 "2011-09-28T14:36:01Z")
The Dems will be regulating that pretty soon, too. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-next-war-thread-ten-years-later/596784/11 "2011-09-28T14:44:22Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > First of all I find a lot of the blatant liberal bias annoying-it was even worse than from that thread. Did you find it especially annoying because it was true? ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-next-war-thread-ten-years-later/596784/12 "2011-09-28T17:20:24Z")
Never mind; one shouldn’t flog a dead horse. Or at least i shouldn’t. But everyone else may flog all the dead horses they wish. I try to be fair minded, even when I feel as rotten as I do today. I think I have the flu or maybe a bunch of dead horses are flogging me. I do wish they would stop, if that’s the case.