# Where Bush Is Beloved **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 20, 2008, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-bush-is-beloved/442032 "2008-03-20T02:41:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-bush-is-beloved/442032/1 "2008-03-20T02:41:36Z")
Story [here](http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_8599810?source=rss_viewed). Burma, as it turns out. 😃😛 But really, many Burmese look at Iraq and hold out hope that the US will invade Burma, too. They simply do not understand the particulars of Iraq. But the government is deathly afraid of this happening. An Aussie reporter I know was was talking to an intelligence official – forget if it was an American or Aussie official – who said he had personally seen the Burmese government’s detailed battle plans for when – NOT if – the US invaded. Seems the government is absolutely terrified of the possibility, no matter how ridiculous it may seem to you and me. That’s third-hand information, but it agrees with other info I’ve come across. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-bush-is-beloved/442032/2 "2008-03-20T02:54:41Z")
When I look at a map, it does look like a good segue for taking over both India and China. Thailand has good beaches and hot girls as well. It doesn’t sound like a bad solution to me. If we took over both India and China, we could just outsource to ourselves greatly reducing the trade deficit and maybe putting it into the positive. I am not sure what we should do with Thailand but it could be like Mexico with better nude entertainment (no donkeys and hotter women). ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-bush-is-beloved/442032/3 "2008-03-20T07:00:25Z")
Instead of a donkey show, we could put on an elephant show. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-bush-is-beloved/442032/4 "2008-03-20T12:40:02Z")
To be fair, most of the people who support Bush will tell you we invaded Iraq because Bush was mistreating his people. By that logic, Burma and Tibet should be atop the list of places to go next. Only after we liberate most of Africa, of course. Hmm, checking the CIA Factbook: > [@](#): > > Burma, a resource-rich country, suffers from pervasive government controls, inefficient economic policies, and rural poverty. The junta took steps in the early 1990s to liberalize the economy after decades of failure under the “Burmese Way to Socialism,” but those efforts stalled, and some of the liberalization measures were rescinded. Despite Burma’s increasing oil and gas revenue, socio-economic conditions have deteriorated due to the regime’s mismanagement of the economy. Lacking monetary or fiscal stability, the economy suffers from serious macroeconomic imbalances - including rising inflation, fiscal deficits, multiple official exchange rates that overvalue the Burmese kyat, a distorted interest rate regime, unreliable statistics, and an inability to reconcile national accounts to determine a realistic GDP figure. 
 > > The most productive sectors will continue to be in extractive industries, especially oil and gas, mining, and timber with the latter especially causing environmental degradation. Maybe they do have a point. There’s stuff we want, and it sounds like their economic situation is similar to ours. They could be the fifty-first state. [QUOTE=Siam Sam] Instead of a donkey show, we could put on an elephant show. 😃 [/QUOTE] I think that the goldfish, darts and balloons, etc. are enough. ---
**Author:** ![Dottygumdrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Dottygumdrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dottygumdrop)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-bush-is-beloved/442032/5 "2008-03-20T12:45:51Z")
Don’t forget the razor blades! ouch! ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-bush-is-beloved/442032/6 "2008-03-20T13:07:59Z")
[QUOTE=ShibbOleth] To be fair, most of the people who support Bush will tell you we invaded Iraq because Bush was mistreating his people. [/QUOTE] Um 
 d’you mean Saddam was mistreating his people? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-bush-is-beloved/442032/7 "2008-03-20T13:26:02Z")
When I read the thread title, I thought this should be in Café Society - a review of a Turtledove alternate history
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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-bush-is-beloved/442032/8 "2008-03-20T16:30:39Z")
[QUOTE=Sunrazor] Um 
 d’you mean Saddam was mistreating his people? [/QUOTE] Freudian slop (sic) ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-bush-is-beloved/442032/9 "2008-03-21T15:14:32Z")
[QUOTE=ShibbOleth] Freudian slop (sic) [/QUOTE] No. You were right the first time. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-bush-is-beloved/442032/10 "2008-03-21T15:20:37Z")
[QUOTE=Dottygumdrop] Don’t forget the razor blades! [/QUOTE] They take a weird stance Our freedom they covet They hope we invade Where Bush is Beloved They don’t shave. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2008, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-bush-is-beloved/442032/11 "2008-03-21T18:06:26Z")
All I can say is
 if you have lots of oil, be afraid, be very afraid. If you don’t, let the bloodshed continue! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-bush-is-beloved/442032/12 "2008-03-22T01:21:21Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] All I can say is
 if you have lots of oil, be afraid, be very afraid. [/QUOTE] HAVE we been making off with the oil? It’s a favorite old saw that’s always trotted out faithfully, but is that what’s happened? ---
**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:** [March 22, 2008, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-bush-is-beloved/442032/13 "2008-03-22T01:57:36Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] HAVE we been making off with the oil? It’s a favorite old saw that’s always trotted out faithfully, but is that what’s happened? [/QUOTE] I can’t say whatactually happens to the oil, but it’s presence seem to vastly increase the odds of US military intervention. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-bush-is-beloved/442032/14 "2008-03-22T02:14:56Z")
If we ARE making off with the oil, then Thank Buddha! If gas is so high at the pump now, imagine what it would be if we weren’t. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-bush-is-beloved/442032/15 "2008-03-22T12:17:46Z")
> [@](#): > > To be fair, most of the people who support Bush will tell you we invaded Iraq because Bush was mistreating his people. I finally understand the Iraq war; we invaded Iraq to take our minds off of the way Bush was mistreating us. That makes a hell of a lot more sense than any of the garbage this administration has pumped out. ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-bush-is-beloved/442032/16 "2008-03-22T13:48:08Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] HAVE we been making off with the oil? It’s a favorite old saw that’s always trotted out faithfully, but is that what’s happened? [/QUOTE] Who cares? It _sounds_ nice and cynical and worldly-wise.