George W. Bush Quotes
Shake me and wake me.
Instructions to his national security advisor, Brent Scowcroft, should there be any nighttime emergencies:
George W. Bush, 41st President of the United States (Republican, TX), Press Conference, Washington DC, November 23, 1988
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Compare to a related sentiment by a former National Security Advisor, Colin Powell.
He was discussing the genetic atrocities, genocide and ethnic cleansing, and the murdering of scientists that had been justified by governments for national security reasons especially the murder of Russian geneticists by Stalin in Russia.
Mills was referring to the Cold War and the Red Scare. At the time the leaders of government stated that the country was facing an emergency and McCarthyism had infected the nation. But no one knew what would constitute and end to the emergency and how we would know if we won. A similar criticism was made in the beginning of the 21st century with the War on Terror. International Communism and the Islamic Terrorist movement represented new kinds of international threats the likes of which had been unknown before. Critics like Mills focused on serious weaknesses in how such situations have to be politically defined to maintain public support but they were not able to come up with a construct to allow such threats to be defined and society mobilized to deal with them.
George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. He was born into the Bush family; his father, George H. W. Bush, was the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993.
