27 seconds:
By on Nov 30th, 2005 at 10:04 am
27 seconds:
The time it took President Bush to reference September 11 in this morning’s Iraq speech.
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Wonder what took him so long?
November 30th, 2005 at 10:05 amHell, what's the record on that, anyway?
November 30th, 2005 at 10:11 amFreedom!
Start tracking the use of that word. Freedom is what ties all of Bush's speeches together.
November 30th, 2005 at 10:11 amHe sure looks confident today with the swivel-jaw action. Is he saying tourists or terrorists?
November 30th, 2005 at 10:15 amReally a commanding presence. I still don't believe anyone voted for this dimwit.
I guess that means he doesn't have enough time to talk about 911 during sex. Bada Boom.
November 30th, 2005 at 10:16 amRobert, you mean "wife-love"
November 30th, 2005 at 10:18 amDumbya missed his calling. He should've been a magician. This smoke and mirrors BS is getting old. Why must we mention 9/11 in speeches about Iraq? Iraq didn't attack us on 9/11 Bin Ladin and his cohorts did. When are we going to have a Bin Ladin press conference? Can we talk about him and how we have allowed him to continue to live, breathe and finance terrorist activities? When Dumbya decides to deal with Osama he'll have my full support, until then I'll continue to be insulted every time he mentions 9/11 and Iraq in the same sentence.
November 30th, 2005 at 10:19 amNow watch this drive
November 30th, 2005 at 10:23 amHey Prez, Let's talk about 9/11 and what part you and your cohorts played!
November 30th, 2005 at 10:33 am#3. Easyrider is 100000% RIGHT!
Track the connections of FREE? Speech!
They all go back to Bush.
What a Greedy miserable Child Bush Jr must have Had!
November 30th, 2005 at 10:42 amSpoiled rotten Brat.
Meanwhile the Homeless are still just that.HomeLESS.
I SOOO Hate Repukes!
November 30th, 2005 at 10:42 amYou know, I am beginning to Like Communists as long as it pisses people like BOR Off!
November 30th, 2005 at 10:48 amBesides, Chinese have a Cute innocent look on thier faces. they are sorta charming
I noticed also that it took his 27 secs to say --9-11
It was so much puke spewing out of ass oops I mean mouth that I turned off the sucker. Rumsfeld setting there like a prize frog just gloating with his eyes glazed over........
Someone needs to tell America that M Atta was known by these neo cons and that is why he was never touched .Wonder how much of our tax payers monies went into 9-11 from these Saudi Friends of bushco??
The biggest heist in the History of the World took place between 2000 and 2005 and it will move beyond unless the World wakes up and bring charges against bushco for war crimes and war profiteering....
The Iraqi's are now the enemy according to bush just because they are Sunni's is he gonna kill all Sunni's because they are setting fire to the Natural Resources?
Bush is a murder a mass murder......
November 30th, 2005 at 10:51 amThe advance copy of the speech i got started
"September 11 is the reason we are in Vietraq" I wonder why they changed?
BSEG
November 30th, 2005 at 10:59 amThis imbecile still linking 9/11 with Iraq. I guess if you say something enough times, stupid people will believe it. 2008 cannot come fast enough!
November 30th, 2005 at 11:01 amToday's Bush Irony Watch:
- "In Iraq, there will not be a signing ceremony on the deck of a battleship." President Bush, November 30, 2005.
- "In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed." President Bush, aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, May 1, 2003.
November 30th, 2005 at 11:17 am#5 - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
November 30th, 2005 at 11:20 amWow, that long? He must really be off his game.
-GSD
November 30th, 2005 at 11:25 am"I never said there won't be a "sign"(Mission Accomplished) on a battleship."
-George W.(My jaw is a twitchin and a itchin')Bush
November 30th, 2005 at 11:27 am"Good morning ladies and gentlemen, when Saddam attacked us on 9/11...."
would have been too obvious.
November 30th, 2005 at 11:39 amSept 11th happened - please accept that. If we lose in Iraq, we will embolden terrorists who would 10 Sept 11ths to happen in America.
The left's inability to connect the dots between the first Iraq war - where we left a mad man in power to gas his own people - to hatred against America that allowed 9/11 to happen is sad. Liberals are truly ignorant people who are in denial.
November 30th, 2005 at 11:44 amWith so much talk about 9/11 it's strange that he tried to hinder investigations and didn't even dare to testify under oath.
All these nonsense that they never though something like 9/11 would happen is...well, nonsense:
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&before_9/11=militaryExercises
See Rumsfeld's and Myers response when they get asked about war games during 9/11:
November 30th, 2005 at 11:45 amhttp://www.fromthewilderness.com/mp3/McKinney.rm
http://prisonplanet.com/video/McKinney2.rm
(Very short small clips)
For comment #7: Exactly. I remember every detail about that day, my wife calling me on the phone throughout the day in tears, and I am still, to this day, so angry Bush has given up fighting the real terrorists just so he can go after Iraq (I almost typed the words "criminal bastard" instead of "Bush", but decided that was too controversial).
I can't help but feel that if Al Gore were President, and if the attacks somehow still happened (as far-fetched as that may seem), bin Laden would this day be strung up by his balls in a federal pen becoming intimately familiar with some guy named "Bubba".
And somehow, Rove and company was able to convince a simple majority of the most gullible of Americans that Bush is tough on terrorism...
November 30th, 2005 at 11:50 amSay what you want about George and his speech. I thought it was delivered rather well, once again in front of a captive audience who would never, ever dare to show the least disrespect or difference. He didn't stutter and stumble over as many words as he usually does since the speach writers are keeping the words under three syllables now days.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Bush's college experience as a male cheerleader for the Yale football team wasn't helping very much today. I mean, same old George: still cheering on the team from the safety of the sidelines.
November 30th, 2005 at 11:55 am#21 -- September 11th happened, and Iraq had nothing to do with it - please accept that. By invading Iraq, Bush has created a breeding and training ground for terrorists who will want to cause many more September 11ths in America.
The right's inability to connect the dots between the Soviet's invasion of Afghanistan, where Reagan and company left bin Laden and other muhajedeen to their own devices after supplying them with vast amounts of money and weapons - to hatred against America that allowed 9/11 to happen is sad. Neo-cons are truly ignorant people who are in denial.
November 30th, 2005 at 12:00 pmdanny,
you talkin about when he gassed them with the weapons we were providing to him? and 9/11 being done by alqueda who we funded and trained through 1998?
you would've made a great hitler supporter.. no need to question our government, everyone is out to get us! same crap that hitler told his people..
convince the people they are under attack and it justifies anything.. do some research into nazi germany asshat.
November 30th, 2005 at 12:00 pmDanny k
Why do you think Sept 11 had anything to do with the Gulf War? The attackers were Saudis - who were quite happy we were fighting Irag at the time as they could have been next on the menu after Kuwait.
November 30th, 2005 at 12:01 pmmeanwhile.......
Under the Radar
IRAQ -- PENTAGON PUTS OUT 'COVERT PROPAGANDA' IN IRAQ: Following the Education Department's "covert propaganda" campaign in the United States, the Pentagon is now secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories -- favorable to the United States -- written by the U.S. military. But when published, these stories often are presented as "unbiased news accounts written and reported by independent journalists." The stories contain quotes from anonymous military officials, and it is "unclear whether the quotes are authentic." "Absolute truth was not an essential element of these stories," said a senior military official. One newspaper that readily accepted the Pentagon's newspapers was Al Mutamar, the newspaper run by associates of Ahmad Chalabi.
MILITARY -- ARMY TRIES TO REENLIST FORMER SOLDIERS: In an effort to meet their goal to enlist 80,000 soldiers this year, "the Army has a new offer: Join us and regain your old rank without repeating basic training." The Army hopes to plug last year's 7,000 soldier recruitment gap. "The Army previously had welcomed back former service members, but only under conditions that made it unattractive to most, namely that they would lose their prior rank and were required to take basic training again." The new offer applies to all former soldiers who return to the Army after being out of uniform for fewer than five years.
KATRINA -- REBUILDING PLAN ENRAGES NEW ORLEANS RESIDENTS: "Elected officials and residents from New Orleans's hardest-hit areas on Monday responded with skepticism and, at times, outright hostility to a controversial proposal to eliminate their neighborhoods from post-Katrina rebuilding efforts," the Times-Picayune reported. The Urban Land Institute presented its plan to rebuild New Orleans, which suggested residents "abandon, at least for the near term, some of the city's lowest-lying ground." Residents showed distaste for the ULI "color-coded maps" which divided the city into three zones, including those of lowest level priority: "areas to be re-evaluated as potential sites for mass buyouts and future green space." City Council member Cynthia Willard Lewis said the maps were "causing people to lose hope."
November 30th, 2005 at 12:06 pmThe Worse thing possible in the world is to attack your military Veterans and then turn around and try to call them back without apologizing!
MILITARY — ARMY TRIES TO REENLIST FORMER SOLDIERS: In an effort to meet their goal to enlist 80,000 soldiers this year, “the Army has a new offer: Join us and regain your old rank without repeating basic training.†The Army hopes to plug last year’s 7,000 soldier recruitment gap. “The Army previously had welcomed back former service members, but only under conditions that made it unattractive to most, namely that they would lose their prior rank and were required to take basic training again.†The new offer applies to all former soldiers who return to the Army after being out of uniform for fewer than five years.
November 30th, 2005 at 12:12 pmDear MoveOn member,
In a speech today, President Bush tried to answer the majority of Americans who believe we need to change course in Iraq. But he offered no plans to bring troops home—just flashy public relations.
Bush's public relations push comes at a tipping point in the Iraq debate. A majority of Americans want troops home in 2006 and former supporters of the war in Congress like Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA) agree.
Members of Congress are changing and examining their position on Iraq right now. It is critical that they hear from all of us. For the next two weeks we're circulating a petition calling on Congress to insist on an exit strategy to bring the troops home in 2006. Will you sign? Click below.
http://political.moveon.org/iraq/
November 30th, 2005 at 3:59 pmSome things just don't change. He has conflated 9/11 and Iraq in the past, and he isn't changing his mind now - or ever. His speech was nothing more than a rehash of the same trite phrases from the past three years, including reading a final Email from a Marine who died in Iraq and bringing tears to the blinking eyes of the coward-in-chief -- to show his self-proclaimed compassion, I suppose.
November 30th, 2005 at 9:09 pm# 13
the world IS awake *g* - it's part of America that needs to wake up!
Thank God meanwhile a huge part of America has already awoken and is on alert.
On another blog I tried to put together what it looks like
from outside the USA (at least to me) - here's what it came down to:
If you're not American and you don't live in the US and you sort of look in from the outside and keep following what is going on in the US, you are prone to get a nervous tick: you can't stop shaking your head!
This is how it looks to me (and I try to keep some humour in it because without it I'll get so mad, I'll start screaming and won't be able to stop anymore)
*The President (the person who represents my country, i.e. me) and his relationship with language:
If my president is not capable of speaking his mother-tongue at least twice as well as I am, he will NOT be my president! He'll be back in school!
*The president is about to invade a muslim country and uses the word "Crusade" in this context:
Ummm.... our president is required to know enough about history to be aware that the word crusade has a very bad ring to most muslims up to this day. Get your president a history book along with an English diccionary.
*The president claims that God speaks to him:
If our president admitted to hearing voices he'd be in a "round room with padded walls", NOT in the "oval office".
*Townhall Meetings: people are being pre-screened, questions are being pre-discussed and agreed on, people who disagree with the president are being arrested, Free-Speech-Zones are being set up four blocks away:
"Free-Speech-Zones"??????????????? Headshaking is getting worse!
*Hurricane Katrina: It takes the president what ... three days ... to finally cut his vacation short and show some interest and compassion - all that while people are STARVING in NOLA:
I am speechless - and believe me, that happens VERY RARELY (I have a reputation of always having the last word.)
*Clinton gets a BJ and lies about it under oath - Result: impeachment. Bush lies about WMD and leads you into an illegal and immoral war - result: he's still in the White House:
Oooooh - headshaking's getting really bad now. Can't control it anymore.
*The American voting system is rigged (Diebold); Patriot Act; people are being arrested and held in custody indefinitely without access to an attorney and without even knowing what the charges are and your president travels to other countries preaching about democracy and human rights:
Do you have any idea how ridiculous this really sounds to - I dare say - MOST people in the world. I'm sure the Chinese are shaking in their boots (from laughter, not fear).
I could go on and on but I will only mention one more thing:
*Torture: Abu Graib, Gitmo, prisoners being smuggled into countries that still allow torture, secret torture prisons in Europe:
I am a very sarcastic person and I love "black humor" but it ends RIGHT HERE! No sarcastic comment here! TORTURE - what the f**k!
People are right to compare Bush and this admin with the Nazis. They (the Nazis) didn't start with gasing millions of people on the first day - they started with rigging election, getting the mass media under their control, staging town hall meetings, spewing talking points, calling everyone who disagreed with them unpatriotic, tortured and started wars. (Now I don't think that their - i.e. repugs - goal is to gas millions of people but if left alone to do as they please they sure are capable of starting world war III !)
A note to those who say it is non of our (Non-American's) business who your president is: I dare say the majority of us would love to just sit back, bring the popcorn out, enjoy the circus that has currently occupied the White House and laugh our a**es off. Unfortunately, whatever the president of the United States does and decides in respect to foreign policy does effect the rest of the world and what the current president and admin. is doing is way to scary to laugh about.
To those who blog here and understand things: it is refreshing and encouraging to see how many Americans are not blinded and see the sham that this admin. is.
Rgds
December 1st, 2005 at 7:24 amSylvia
I'm just as angry as anyone can be. I moved here from New York over 20 years ago, but when 9/11 happened I felt as if I was right there. But honestly, my anger goes most towards the Democrats. The GOP is just taking all this as far as we allow them. A more incompetent opposition party could not be found any where else on this sad earth but in the Democratic Party of this country. Thank you, DNC, for the love of all that's decent, please get your act together.
December 1st, 2005 at 2:51 pmcomment by Tony:
"a more incompetent opposition party could not be found any where else on this sad earth.........."
December 2nd, 2005 at 12:55 pm
Don't lose hope. I was the campaign manager for the first time that two Dems were elected to our town's board of supervisors in longer than anyone can remember. The last time there was one dem on the five person board with at the end of the 1980s.
But it gets better. Two more dems were elected to the board of the neighboring township. They now have three out of five and a simple majority. These towns are Newtown and Lower Makefield Townships in Bucks County, PA.
But it still gets better; Yardley boro which is next to Lower Makefield, just elected their first Democratic mayor and council in a zillion years.
These are Republican strongholds folks. In all cases our people couldn't have been elected unless Republicans crossed over and voted for them. They are finally getting pissed off at the losers in Washington. Maybe the national repubs aren't worried about losing the congress in 2006, but I've got another opinion. From the looks of our bellweather community, it is very possible.
We're getting out act together at the local level. That's where all of this starts. We're beginning to win local elections. Next comes the rousing defeat of Rick Santorum (that lunatic) and then we'll be ready for 2008. All politics are local. Stop blogging and complaining. Get oof your ass and do something on the local level. Take over councils and committees. Get your volunteer networks geared up for the big one in 2008. Run elections, knock on doors and win.
After Kerry winning in Bucks County and in PA, we had more people fired up and working than ever before. We've tapped into that energy and are using it to win local elections.
Just do it and stop talking about it!
December 2nd, 2005 at 1:26 pmMyles
Thanks Myles, yes, even here in conservative thinking Montana we elected a Dem to back to governor (of course the previous Rep governor Judy Martz soured us all with her unscrupulous business dealings and Bush-like intellect). It does leave hope that people can even see beyond party lines and just use their heads when it comes to common sense political action.
December 2nd, 2005 at 3:24 pmSept 11th happened - please accept that.
Comment by danny k — November 30, 2005 @ 11:44 am
I watched on the news. Accepted.
If we lose in Iraq, we will embolden terrorists who would 10 Sept 11ths to happen in America.
Comment by danny k — November 30, 2005 @ 11:44 am
Who is "we'? How do you measure success? How do you know failure will embolden anyone? Have you talked to them? Do you have information the rest of us don't?
The left’s inability to connect the dots between the first Iraq war - where we left a mad man in power to gas his own people - to hatred against America that allowed 9/11 to happen is sad.
Comment by danny k — November 30, 2005 @ 11:44 am
You do know Hussein's regime had nothing to do with 9/11, yes? What do you think fuels the hatred against the US? How do you connect the dots between the first Iraq war and 9/11?
Liberals are truly ignorant people who are in denial.
Comment by danny k — November 30, 2005 @ 11:44 am
Please start enlightening us by answering my questions.
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