Comments on: BREAKING: Full Text of Bush Iraq Speech

By: Interesting and Amusing « Professor Zero

Interesting and Amusing « Professor Zero — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:57:07 +0000

[...] Another worthy fragment of the current electronic world is Barbie’s characterization of a whiteman’s speech last night as “the surrealistic apocalyptic nightmare brought to the planet during primetime via CNN.” [...]

By: Captain Al

Captain Al — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:58:59 +0000

“We also need to examine ways to mobilize talented American civilians to deploy overseas â€“ where they can help build democratic institutions in communities and nations recovering from war and tyranny.”

Anyone have any idea who or what this is all about?

By: a liberal

a liberal — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:11:17 +0000

Every time you conservatives call us liberal, as if it were a term of abuse, as if it were some kind of an insult, I take it as a compliment. I am proud to be liberal, to be progressive and forward-thinking, to be skeptical and rational, to be sensible and compassionate. So keep those “insults” coming; they’re like music to the ears of this liberal!

By: Don Bain

Don Bain — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:36:05 +0000

That was a great speech!

Way to go Mr. President.

I hope the message sinks in for idiots such as Kennedy, Palosi, etc. who are clueless and drunk most the time!

Don Bain

By: TrueBlue

TrueBlue — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:27:01 +0000

Wait did I read that correct , did some one seriously call for the draft too be reinstated ?!??! Damn i’m glad i’m Australian.

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:55:08 +0000

Personal insults (i.e., Bush is stupid, Bush is evil, etc.) is ignorance at its best. What are you accomplishing by calling our president (or anyone else for that matter) names? Do you feel better about yourselves? Instead of spending all your time on the internet posting blogs (which seem to be nothing more than whining complaints and name-calling fests), why don’t you actually go out and make something happen? Help our country with the same problems that you continue to call us out on! People are more concerned with the division between the two political parties than the real issues at hand. Some of us are Republicans (Conservative) and some of us are Democrats (Liberals). But at the end of the day we are all Americans and we have to work together for all of ours benefit. Stop focusing on the past – we can’t go back and change how we went about things (i.e., the Iraq war) – and focus on what we can do in the future.

By: Fred Flintstone

Fred Flintstone — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 09:46:15 +0000

Patriot.

It is pointless to lecture the anti-war ideologues on patriotism as a great many Americans today are Americans by virtue only of their birth within its geographic and ideological boundaries.

The word “patriot” itself is in many ways self-defeating in the present context as it means “of one’s fathers”. If I were to say that I am of my fathers would be to say that I owe my allegiance to many nations besides America, and, in particular, many nations that were illegally annexed by the U.S.A. through military coups-d’etat.

The word “patriot” is synonymous with the word “nationalist” and is a favorite word for use by some of the world’s most atrocious tyrannies spawned by zealous patriots who fall in behind a flag.

Speaking of which, nationalism is a secular belief for those of you who profess to be patriots and devout members of any religion. Too many confuse nationalism with religious obligation and too many more place nationalism or patriotism before their duties to their faiths. For example, to salute the flag is a paganistic ritual holdover from ancient Rome, just as our American form of government and secular philosophies are holdovers from ancient Rome.

One of the greatest weaknesses of democratic and republican governmental systems is their tendency to slip into tyrannical dictatorships as the natural human tendency is to rally behind a strong, charismatic leader during times of crisis when democratic councils are too unwieldy to commit resources and take action in response to national crisis. At times like these leaders will seek to expand their powers and focus outwards militarily, combatting barbarianism abroad universally. Any student of history can tell you this is true. The problem with this model is that the expansion of powers seldom are relinquished and nationalism is replaced by emperor worship and the founding of lasting imperial dynasties.

And this is ungodly for those of you who profess a mixture of religious ideology and patriotism. The two are not compatible.

Don’t think imperialism can happen here in America? You’re grossly misguided. It already has (with native americans, hawaiians, samoans, filipinos, need i go on?) and now we’re already headed in that direction with even greater rapidity. You just can’t see past the words you’ve been brainwashed to recite: “patriot”, “allegiance”, “duty”, “honor”…

Be on the lookout though. We’re about to butt heads with the rising economic and political force of the European Union that is strongly anti-NATO and pro-Arab and seeks military independence from NATO with its Rapid Response Task Force. Nations from the former Soviet bloc are seeking inclusion in the Union.

Open your eyes. America isn’t the biggest kid on the block anymore. Our civilization is in decline from without and within. Go to war with Europe again if you really want to stay on top.

Dummies.

By: Real America RB

Real America RB — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 05:17:01 +0000

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Every spinless Democrat that voted for the war should be run out of office.
They all jumped on the patriotic bandwagon when it suited THEIR needs and now change their tune when it does not. COWARDS!

I do think there are terrorists in the world that want to harm us, and I would much rather they be fighting over there than here.

By: Meg

Meg — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 18:01:23 +0000

I’d just like to say that I find it very sad that everyone has to resort to calling each other names. Maybe it’s the binary setup of your electoral system that causes this rift between Democrats and Republicans, but surely you all realize that it accomplishes nothing? Calling people ‘mentally retarded’, ‘moonbats’, ‘followers’, ‘Nazis’, or ‘Anti-American’ gets everyone nowhere… Just because someone is a member of an opposing political party doesn’t mean you should dehumanize them. In general, I’m probably more of a leftist- yet IMO, most of the work my current PM (a Conservative) is doing is fantastic. Don’t you think it would be a lot more productive if you worried more about debating policies, rather than slinging insults at each other?

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:39:22 +0000

Is there a complete lack of intelligence on the internet forums now? I feel that every single one of you could be classified as mentally retarded due to your choice to be stupid on the subject of freedom. In order to be free, one must “actually” make the effort to do something about tyranny. It seems the only thing you Liberal fanatics can do is stick your head in the sand and wish that the true evil that remains abroad doesn’t come along and give you what you deserve. How pathetic it is to see your complaints of a president who actually cares about America, and the well being of other nations too. It seems that all you can accomplish is spouting out useless rhetoric on such a distorted level that you just can’t use your brain anymore. If you’d quit choking on the crap that comes out of your mouth you might be able to take in the facts of reality, and I don’t mean your artificial version of it either, I mean the actual reality around us. I hope that you will come around some year before you totally destroy America’s freedom and existance. Good luck to all you AntiPatriotic Liberal Nazis

By: denver

denver — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:02:24 +0000

its funny to see every one including me think bush is wrong. not including errigant, or a lier. in one of his speaches he stated that violance is the answer. and its not. why does he have to fight his daddys war? that he also lost. if the people are happy with not being free let them be. they can come here if they wish, right? so if he wants america to be free why does he need to push freedom on iraq? if he doesnt want communism then why is he one of the communist he is hitler rencarnated…WHAT DO YOU THINK? DEAMBV@YAHOO.COM

By: Kamichal

Kamichal — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:01:02 +0000

Libs tell us we are brainwashed by the Bush Admin.
So, why do they repeat whatever Dick Durbin, Nancy Pelosi, ect. say? Just read these posts. You can see where they get their marching orders from.

Libs tell us we are followers, not leaders. Then why haven’t the Dems come up with one single alternative to our current strategy, other than just to pull out? Lead us out of the darness if you have the winning ideology!

Libs say that Bush is in bed with Big Oil. I don’t think that is true, but what is the diffrence between the corrupting influence of a corperation and outfits like Moveon.org? Is not the Democrative Party beholden to these special interests? The extreme left wing has taken over, and the nutjobs who run sites like this are in the minority in the US. Deal with it.

By: G Money

G Money — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:37:13 +0000

I love all you liberal moonbats. Then again, I’m just a red state moron with an IQ of 21. Please continue your pathetic ways, if possible, wear lots of T-shirts with Bush with a Hitler mustache, maybe get some money together and get a TV campaign saying Bush is the biggest terrorist yada yada yada, or maybe the whole 9/11 didn’t happen theory, that one makes you stand-up citizens look especially brilliant. The more Sheehans you can come up with the better, maybe throw in an extra Penn or Moore type for good measure. Thanks for everything you do, it would be really boring without your super intelligent input.

By: Patti

Patti — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 00:09:41 +0000

Justin, finally, a voice of sensibility and reason. All you libs do is whine and complain and come up with one baseless charge or conspiracy theory after another. It’s so much easier than researching, learning the facts or owning up to your own political party’s loss of touch with reality. I’ve never seen such malcontents. In fact, we happen to love America NOW and think what we are doing is RIGHT, which is to prevent catastrophe from happening before the fact. So really then, if you all are so anti-American, why don’t YOU go start your OWN country — I’d love to watch that experiment unfold. Don’t take the rest of us down with you. I suppose if we did what you all want, bring everyone home and sing songs of love and peace, and then the terrorists capture one of our elementary schools and shoot dozens of children in the back, you’d be the first to be screaming, WHY DIDN’T GEORGE BUSH DO ANYTHING TO PREVENT THIS! “All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing” — I didn’t make that up. You all just want everyone to come home because you don’t have the courage and fortitude it takes to do the hard and couragous thing. Oh, first post, “federoil,” mentioning the hard on, real classy and intelligent, typical of your ilk. I hope you all enjoy listening to each other whine on, never coming up with any viable alternatives perhaps because that would take brain-power and bravery. It’s sooo easy to criticize him — “turn off the sound and watch his eyes laughing” — what lunacy is that??? And I suppose you could do the job much, much better. What hubris and arrogance. You’re going to undermine everything this country stands for if you don’t SHUT UP.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:52:33 +0000

You are funny. Bush is just doing what Clinton and a whole bunch of Democrats suggested back in 1998. Go ahead…look it up if you dare. They all wanted to remove Saddam from power, Bush just had the balls to actually do it. You are naive if you think Iraq was no threat to the US. We are not invincible. 9/11 proved that…that is why you morons get so upset when Bush mentions 9/11, because you know deep down inside that 9/11 was proof to the world that the US is not indestructable. Of course, there was proof of that all along..for example, the WTC attack in ‘93, but you liberals would rather forget about that, eh? All you can do is complain about how corrupt Bush is, yet you offer no solutions or rational alternatives of your own. Keep in mind…Democrats had an easier time convincing Democrats that Bush caused a hurricane than John Kerry would make a decent Commander in Chief…oh wait, that’s right…the elections were rigged…LMAO, What a bunch of losers you libs are!

By: cherie

cherie — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 23:44:46 +0000

Where is everyone? Why are we not demanding criminal negiligence charges for Bush’s role in Mike Brown as head of FEMA? His cronyism has not only become despicable, it has become murderous! Innocent lives have been lost because there was another deceitful incompetent, at the helm! God, isn’t one enough!

And to the religious right who support Bush: “ye shall know them by their fruits.”

By: deepseas

deepseas — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:44:38 +0000

“Skewed” Majority,

Please show us some facts. You continue to say they “know what they know” but you folks hardly ever present any evidence to prove this is a a legal war given by a legal president. Yes, please go to work. For those of us who served in the military, in a war or who have family in the war, or who were killed in war, you will rarely hear support for this fiasco.

BTW, as a retired vet and teacher, I now have the time to reply to forums and blogs. When I worked as a soldier and teacher, I wouldn’t be caught dead on the Internet during work hours. Are you working on government or civilian time? If so, it speaks to your ethics and why you support this war…

Sheople, shame on you for following your leader blindly over the cliff!

Some facts:

Tony Blair Confirms Authenticity of Downing Street – The Prime Minister has confirmed the authenticity of a Downing Street memo in which Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, tells Mr Blair that the Bush administration was “fixing” the intelligence and facts about Saddam HusseinÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s regime to back up a decision that had been taken to invade Iraq as early as July 2002.
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=6736

52 House members file FOIA request seeking documents related to Downing Street minutes – In addition, the Members also formally requested that the House Committees on Judiciary, Armed Services, International Relations, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence commence hearings on the Downing Street Minutes.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/52_House_members_file_FOIA_request_seeking_documents_related_to_Downing_Street_minut_0630.html

9/11 Ã¢â‚¬â€œ US Complicity: Implausible, or Very Probable? – Questions for the People Who Believe the Official Conspiracy Theory
http://tvnewslies.org/html/9_11_-_us_complicity__implausi.html

Nearly 9,000 U.S. troops dead? A NATIONWIDE CALL FOR INFO FROM SURVIVORS. – Has the Bush administration drastically understated the U.S. military death count by redefining “death”? The following article suggests that it has, and it calls for a nationwide campaign to honor deceased service members by naming and counting them.
http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/10554

The United States changed its Iraq policy to begin airstrikes months before the official war.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/595

A Zogby poll has found that 42 percent of Americans would favor impeachment proceedings if President Bush misled the nation about his reasons for going to war with Iraq. Imagine where that figure will be after the public learns about the Downing Street Minutes!
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/592

The war against veterans – For several years now, the Bush bean counters have been slashing funds for veteransÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ medical care. [Where's the love and support???]
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050630/OPINION02/50630004

By: themajority

themajority — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:15:50 +0000

We all went to the polls, heard news organizations tell us that exit polls showed Kerry ahead, and they were all wrong. The silent majority does not need to get on silly posts to share their opinion, they know what they know and they speak where it matters, at the polls. The majority of American’s are behind Bush and understand why we’re in Iraq; they don’t complain loudly and they don’t sit around at home completing phone surveys about how they feel about the president. Sorry to break it to you folks, but that’s the truth…So while you are sitting wondering how could Pres. Bush have gotten elected when it seems the whole world hates his guts (via this post here), there’s your answer…We are here, quiet yes, but we vote, we work hard, and we don’t have time to go tit-for-tat with every liberal who thinks he’s nailed the truth! (wish I could stick around and see the response this will generate, but I actually have work to do…).

By: deepseas

deepseas — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 06:58:42 +0000

#119 Donna,

Maybe I’m wrong, but you write like a 20-year-old, angry, uneducated woman who leads a sheltered life from reality. If you’re a blue collar worker with a fundamentalist Christian background, you’re the perfect target for Bush. He prefers his supporters dumb and loyal without them knowing why.

After serving 20 years in the military (and currently on standby), raising 3 daughters as a single parent on a limited income as a minority on the rough side of town, all the while going to school at night to get my degree, hardly suggests a coward, wouldn’t you say?

I have a loyalty and pride for our country that someone like you can only imagine. For the right war, for the right reasons, I support defending America. And I’m not alone. Most people who are against this war know the seriousness of it, the risks and ramifications of putting our soldiers on the line, the reputation of America, the terrorism we face on our homeland and, not least, the responsibility of killing over 100,000 innocent Iraqi victims.

Those who shout, “War, War, War!” without understanding previous wars, without having lost a loved one in a war, without having even been to war, without having a conscience or soul to stifle a trigger-happy, bloodthirsty desire to kill an imaginary enemy, deserve the grand experience of grabbing a gun and going on the front lines to defend Bush’s War.

You’re a loose cannon and it’s almost as frightening to think there are many organisms like you who support this illegal war, as knowing we have idiots who run this country.

Shame on you!!! Get an education and then come talk with us. Viet Nam would be a good place to start…

By: Fingal

Fingal — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 04:32:17 +0000

Re: Comment 34:

If there is no higher calling than service in our
Armed Forces why didn’t you enlist?

Um, he never got high enough?

This empty hypocritical rhetoric has become common for this
administration but not any less nauseating.

One of my sub-personalities has been projectile-vomiting ever since
Chimpy took the throne.

-F.