Former president Bush battles Arab critics of his son

Former U.S. president George H.W. Bush was forced here Tuesday into a defense of his son, current U.S. President George W. Bush, whose Mideast policies were derided by a hostile audience.

"My son is an honest man," Bush told Gulf Arabs attending a leadership conference here. "He is working hard for peace. It takes a lot of guts to get up and tell a father about his son in those terms when I just told you the thing that matters in my heart is my family."

Bush added: "How come everybody wants to come to the United States if the United States is so bad?"

Why would you want to be on the side of the school bully? Surely you'd rather be the little guy in the playground getting kicked around?

Here Bush gives yet another example of the dreadful glibness that constitutes so much right wing "logic".

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