{"id":8608,"date":"2023-04-05T16:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8608"},"modified":"2023-04-05T16:01:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T23:01:51","slug":"rewind-dubyas-office-of-lessons-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8608","title":{"rendered":"Rewind: Dubya’s Office Of Lessons Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the BilgeBucket Gazette. Our first issue was on May 19, 2003 and we\u2019ve been shoveling it to the public, just like the corporate media, ever since. We changed our format to a WordPress blog in 2011 so all of our earlier material was archived. We\u2019ve been reposting many of those archived articles, headlines, photo-toons, BilgeBucket Lists and other content over the past twelve years. In honor of our 20th, and because we\u2019re sick of the current state of affairs in the world, we\u2019ll be reposting more items from 2003 through 2009 throughout this year.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to our 20th anniversary retrospective . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s return to those halcyon days of 2006, not long after the Hurricane Katrina fiasco, when good ol’ Dubya gave a press conference. When asked about what lessons he’s learned in his five years in office, the eternal bumbler couldn’t even answer the question correctly because he learned absolutely nothing<\/a>. Here’s an article from our August 11, 2006<\/strong> edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bush Office of Lessons Learned Small, Empty <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Last week, a group of tourists was shocked to find that the Bush Administration\u2019s Office of Lessons Learned, was not only empty but just a closet in the basement of an office building across from the White House. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWow what a shocker!\u201d said tourist John Melbourne from Little Rock, Arkansas. \u201cI was completely surprised. I came to Washington D.C. to see three things; the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and this office and it\u2019s just a dark, dank, closet full of brooms, mops and roach traps. What a gyp!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOh, I was sure upset,\u201d said Gloria Hale from Berryville, Illinois. \u201cI figured with all the mistakes Bush has made these past five years; you know, Iraq, Afghanistan, allowing torture, illegal wiretapping, secrecy in government, the gargantuan deficit, no affordable healthcare, the Medicare drug program, high gas prices, the Hurricane Katrina fiasco, the Middle East crisis, ignoring global warming, dismantling environmental regulation, tax cuts to the rich, stacking the courts with conservative ideologues, ruining America\u2019s standing with the rest of the world. I thought there would be a building the size of the Pentagon filled to the rafters with documents. Instead we get this little closet. There wasn\u2019t even a waste basket in it. What a gyp!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave Rogers from St. Louis, Missouri said, \u201cI wasn\u2019t completely disappointed. We did manage to see the director of the Office of Lessons Learned Stuart Baker get into his BMW and drive away, though. Did you know he makes over $100k a year? Who did he blow to get that job, eh? Ah, who am I kidding? What a gyp!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked about the Office of Lessons Learned, President Bush said, \u201cOh that\u2019s old screwy Stuey\u2019s office. Fortunately, we haven\u2019t had to use that office very much during my time as President, since I don\u2019t make mistakes. But I will say old Stuey\u2019s doing a heckuva job!\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the BilgeBucket Gazette. Our first issue was on May 19, 2003 and we\u2019ve been shoveling it to the public, just like the corporate media, ever since. We changed our format to a WordPress blog in 2011 so all of our earlier material was archived. We\u2019ve been reposting many of … Continue reading “Rewind: Dubya’s Office Of Lessons Learned”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,49],"tags":[130,2107,50,252,835,22,1368,264,52,834,787,781,767,115,458,2436,2435,93,1460,976,2045,737],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8608"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8608"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8614,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8608\/revisions\/8614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}