Bolten Says Iraqi Speaker, Who Called U.S. ‘Butchers,’ Appreciates ‘the Sacrifice Americans Have Made’
Bolten Says Iraqi Speaker, Who Called U.S. ‘Butchers,’ Appreciates ‘the Sacrifice Americans Have Made’
Yesterday, the speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, said “We know there was a corrupt regime in Saddam, but a regime should be removed by surgery, not by butchering. The U.S. occupation is butcher’s work under the slogan of democracy and human rights and justice.â€
Today on Meet the Press, White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten said he has been in meetings with al-Mashhadani and the speaker has an “appreciation for the sacrifice so many Americans have made.” Watch it:
Transcript:
RUSSERT: But it must be hard for people all across this country who have given almost 2600 American men and women their lives on the ground in Iraq and for the leader of the parliament to call us butchers.
BOLTEN: Yeah, I think that is hard. That’s not the rhetoric I think you will hear from Prime Minister Malaki when he comes to visit the President in a couple of days. I was with the President when he went to Baghdad last month and the meetings he had especially in private with Prime Minister Malaki were very encouraging. There was a strong sense throughout all of the people we met with, including, candidly, the Speaker, of appreciation for the sacrifice that so many Americans have made. And I think you will find Prime Minister Malaki expressing that sentiment very strongly when he is here in the United States.
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Judd, my deepest appreciation to you for your ability to watch these Reichwing shows. Your gag reflex is commendable…keep on keepin’ on.
July 23rd, 2006 at 12:01 pmBushist Bullschist
July 23rd, 2006 at 12:05 pmBolten showed today why we’re in this mess he couldn’t even answer Tim’s questions.
July 23rd, 2006 at 12:08 pmYes Iraq supports Lebanon but as Bolten puts it the will have a talking to my Bush.
The plan to invade Iran/Syria has failed. I like how Bolten said the US invaded Iraq well that’s a big change from the other so called reasons WMD or Freedom. Bolten let the public know that the Bush Administration is clue less and has created a mess around the world. As not country trust the US anymore we go it alone. With over 2500 dead soldiers the so called Allies and Bush appointed Iraq government now say the United States are butchers. Tony Snow is off his meds as he calls embryo testing murder while thousands of embryos are destroyed/killed by the US. Snow is so stupid only Fox news or Bush would hire him.
The DEA needs to raid the White House, evidently they’ve got some great stuff! “You’re a butcher” “He said he really appreciates us”, how high do you have to be to mix these two statements up?
July 23rd, 2006 at 12:09 pmDo you think Bush’s lips will move when he plays ventriloquist with his new hand puppet Malaki? How else does Bolten know what the man is going to say?
July 23rd, 2006 at 12:10 pmwell, josh is correct, if you use a standard definition of the word:
the gentleman from iraq seems to have a keen ‘recognition of the quality, value, significance, or magnitude of’ the bush crime family in iraq! they only know how to be butchers, and blood-thirsty murderers.
July 23rd, 2006 at 12:13 pmBolten got destroyed on MTP today, especially about the embryonic stem sell research veto
Nice change of pace for Timmeh, showing a spine and twisting that long knife in Bolten’s yellow-streaked back
July 23rd, 2006 at 12:18 pmSpin, BS.
July 23rd, 2006 at 12:19 pmwhat he said
US forces have committed butchery in Iraq and should leave, the speaker of the country’s parliament has said.
“Just get your hands off Iraq and the Iraqi people and Muslim countries, and everything will be all right,” he said in a speech as the conference opened.
July 23rd, 2006 at 12:20 pmIt will indeed be interesting to see what Maliki says. Since Bush visited Iraq, the “situation on the ground” has gone to complete shit. So much for securing Baghdad.
July 23rd, 2006 at 12:24 pmWorld protests against Israeli raids
Thousands of people around the world gathered in street protests on Saturday to demand an end to Israel’s offensive in Lebanon and Gaza.
The biggest rally took place in London where thousands of demonstrators urged Tony Blair, the British prime minister, to stop what they described as his refusal to condemn Israel’s actions and join international calls for an immediate ceasefire.
July 23rd, 2006 at 12:30 pm———————–
As for the 2564 Marine Martyrs ( stupid fools to loose their life over absolutely nothing)
the madness of king George the Butcher
July 23rd, 2006 at 12:40 pmnice legacy, Doofus
just another failed business venture to add to the list
oh well, you can always go clear brush in Crawlhole….
Deadeye ain’t gonna give a hoot about you anymore but you’ve got your prize spoil of war, Husseins pistol, to shoot into the dark at all the scary noises.
Rummy will probably keep you well stocked with pharmaceuticals, pusher that he is.
Condi might come to call, if you could somehow guarantee her safety there in the neighborhood……..
the Israelis have not complied with any of the UN resolutions since 1949. FACT
July 23rd, 2006 at 12:49 pmWhat is this, the new good news on Iraq?
Are these neo-cons so desperate that they will invent such idiotic “good” facts?
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July 23rd, 2006 at 12:50 pmAl Maliki is no puppet.
Al Maliki is no true friend to the USA.
Al Maliki belongs to fundamentalist Islam.
Al-Maliki, like all those in the Al Dawa party and the Supreme Council for the Islamic revolution of Iraq, has been trying to make Iraq a fundamentalist Shia Islamic republic for over twenty years, i.e. during the twenty plus years prior to the deposing of Saddam Hussein.
July 23rd, 2006 at 12:54 pmAre these neo-cons so desperate that they will invent such idiotic “good†facts?
Comment by Cheney/Voldemort 2008 Campaign HQ — July 23, 2006 @ 12:50 pm
I am now convinced that making them up is the only way they will ever have any… Or on accident.
Bush couldn’t find oil in Texas. Like anyone actually believed he could bring peace to the Middle East? He’s using violence… Would be the equivalent of trying to clean your house with dirt…
July 23rd, 2006 at 12:57 pmAny time the ingrate Mahmoud al-Mashhadani and the rest of the iraqi gov want us to leave they can simply ask. But they dont because they and their fellow countrymen are not man enough to do the job themselves. They would rather let the Americans die doing their dirty work then demagogue the issue.
July 23rd, 2006 at 12:58 pmAl Maliki is no puppet.
Comment by God of God — July 23, 2006 @ 12:54 pm
I’ll believe that if he criticizes the Bush Regime on his visit, otherwise, much like my take on you (god), I don’t believe.
July 23rd, 2006 at 12:59 pmAny time the ingrate Mahmoud al-Mashhadani and the rest of the iraqi gov want us to leave they can simply ask.
Comment by troll — July 23, 2006 @ 12:58 pm
What exactly are they supposed to be thankful for? Blowing them up? Killing over 50,000 of them? Making their country a haven for Al Qaeda?
July 23rd, 2006 at 1:02 pmHow about unleashing them from the yoke of tyrannical opression which was the Hussain regime then fighting their civil war for them for starters.
July 23rd, 2006 at 1:07 pmHow about unleashing them from the yoke of tyrannical opression which was the Hussain regime then fighting their civil war for them for starters.
Comment by troll — July 23, 2006 @ 1:07 pm
You mean the one they weren’t complaining about? I can think of better candidates for ‘rescuing’ than Iraq. North Korea comes to mind, as does the Sudan…
Many of them would now rather have Saddam than this chaotic mess.
There would have been no Civil War had we not attacked them and removed the person who might have been the reason there was no civil war. I mean we haven’t improved on the job Saddam was doing, only replaced him as the person using violence to keep the peace.
July 23rd, 2006 at 1:12 pmThey were not allowed to complain. They’d be dead. We had an in in Iraq through the violation of the terms of surrender from the first war. And as a humanitarian I would support the same action in north korea or Sudan if we could pull it off.
July 23rd, 2006 at 1:20 pmBolton has been sniffing glue again.
July 23rd, 2006 at 1:22 pmThey were not allowed to complain.
Neither were we pre-1776. It didn’t stop us.
We had an in in Iraq through the violation of the terms of surrender from the first war.
Nonsense. We had zero reason to invade Iraq. I have friends from Iraq. The people Saddam was murdering were the equivalent of the people you are gleeful to lethally inject, electrocute or shoot each year for their crimes against humanity and the government.
And as a humanitarian I would support the same action in north korea or Sudan if we could pull it off.
Comment by troll — July 23, 2006 @ 1:20 pm
So you believe in using violence to get your point across… Jesus must be very proud. But that does not make you a humanitarian on any level. It makes you the antithesis of one. A true Humanitarian believes in resolutions without killing tens of thousands of the very innocent people you are claiming to be ‘liberating’ in the first place.
July 23rd, 2006 at 1:29 pmI like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
July 23rd, 2006 at 1:31 pm—Mohandas Gandhi
This Bolten is the guy who collects photos of George Bush’s hands and has them framed and mounted on the walls of his office in the White House, need we say more? Euwwwww….
July 23rd, 2006 at 1:31 pmBolten = Clueless stupidiot.
#25 - Once again, so appropriate.
#26 - Whaaaat? Tell us more about this creepiness…
July 23rd, 2006 at 1:35 pmAnd as a humanitarian I would support the same action in north korea or Sudan if we could pull it off.
Comment by troll
If you were a “humanitarian”, you couldn’t simply blow off the death of 50,000 Iraqis at the hands of the US, nor could you sit there and say with a straight face that we are fighting their Civil War with them - a war the US has caused. You right-wing fanatics love to throw around the “we saved Iraq from the murderer Hussein” line any chance you get. Well, you’re right: Hussein was a murderer and so is this US dictatatorship you so love to worship. Murder is murder, pal. And no matter how you pretty it up (why, we’ve brought those poor, poor Iraqis Democracy!), when we kill a family, it’s still murder, and 50,000 humans is a lot of families. Your humanitarian hands are covered in blood, just as are Hussein’s, Bush’s, Cheney’s and Rumsfeld’s.
July 23rd, 2006 at 1:36 pm#26; Does Bolton REALLY do that? If so, theat really weirds me out.
July 23rd, 2006 at 1:41 pmUnbelievable:
I don’t care for you godless atheists either.
July 23rd, 2006 at 1:47 pmWithout any concept of divine justice all mankind is left with is dog-eat-dog,and the strong taking the weak ad infinitum.
Mankind is a creature,just like all the beasts of the earth.The moderating force we all have in common is the fear,or love,of God:not the opposite.
#29 - Ho Chi Minh,
July 23rd, 2006 at 2:01 pmIt’s Bolten, not Bolton. Bolton is the one who looks like a Walrus with hemorrhoids who has just been douched with vinegar.
#31: I stand corrected, need to use spellcheck for typos more often.
July 23rd, 2006 at 2:07 pmI don’t care for you godless atheists either.
Hindu ‘gods’ are not actually gods in the way Christians mean it. One of my best friends is from Mumbai. So, “Gandhi”, you should pick another moniker that you do know something about. How about Tickle Me Elmo, or SPongeBob SquarePants?
Without any concept of divine justice all mankind is left with is dog-eat-dog,and the strong taking the weak ad infinitum.
Is this why there are proprtionately far fewer Atheists in prison than Christians?
You don’t need ‘fear’ to be moral. You seem to either not know I am a vegan or have forgotten.
Mankind is a creature,just like all the beasts of the earth.The moderating force we all have in common is the fear,or love,of God:not the opposite.
Comment by Gandhi — July 23, 2006 @ 1:47 pm
Animals attend your church? That’s a new one. I didn’t realize that your religion was keeping animals from over-populating the planet, destroying the rain forests, and killing things just because they can….
Seriously, religion is based upon humanity. Not the other way around. There is no god - not in the Christian sense. And the actions of those who profess to believe in one are clearly all the proof of that I need.
July 23rd, 2006 at 2:09 pmBolten is just a mouthpiece for Bush Regime stupidity, so who cares what the man spews > lol.
July 23rd, 2006 at 2:16 pmHow about easing the spelling problem by calling Bolton “Bolt-on”
July 23rd, 2006 at 2:46 pmand calling Bolten “Strap-on” ?
and……..
July 23rd, 2006 at 3:02 pmChainey can be X-on
Rummy can be Glue-on
Condi can be Stick-on
Karl can be Spit-upon
and, of course,
George is Moron
……much better!!………
July 23rd, 2006 at 3:35 pmDe Lay is D-Con
#27. From the Stanford Law School Review, interview of “Yosh” (Bush’s nickname for Bolton) …His wall collection of Bush photos, typical throughout the White House complex, is unique. The pictures focus exclusively on Bush’s hands at key moments in his presidency. Not a single photo of Bush’s face can be found. “Josh is extremely eclectic,” explained Card. I’ve got another word for a guy who “exclusively collects photos” of another guys hands. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with it unless you try to look at all the pictures in the darkness of a closet.
July 23rd, 2006 at 3:48 pmand Jeff Gannon could be Conon
July 23rd, 2006 at 3:54 pmThese criminal, TREASONOUS Bushite Zionists (the Bolten twins/Bushiva, L’il Dick and Co.)) and their mass murdering Jewish masters…
…have got balls the size of petrochemical tanks, and brains the size of ant sh*t…
…Bolten (the White(man’s) House Jew) spouted the al Cracker/Zionist propaganda on MTP without batting an eyelash…
…”We’re supporting Israel’s right to defend itself, while not abandoning the Lebanese people”…
…having it both ways…
…creating reality…
…and the reason they’re so successful using these laughable lies and psychological tactics is that the slaves (inbred Bush-worshipping TRAITORS)…
…don’t have the capacity to understand that the so-called “terrorists”…
…even though they bombed the USS Cole, the Khobar Towers, and Marines in Beirut in ‘87…
…STILL did NOTHING to the American people…
…why you ask?
…because the “victims” (military, corporate) were agents of the American corporate criminal culture…
…the soldiers were/are occupying these people’s countries (defiling their holy lands) to protect American (criminal) CORPORATE interests…
…the same corporations that abandoned your dumb al Cracker slave mentality having as*es…
…and who continue to “outsource” your middle class lifestyles…
…but you are too dense to understand such a complicated concept…
July 23rd, 2006 at 4:17 pmKen Lay………. Pass-on……
July 23rd, 2006 at 4:38 pmthe twins………Pour-on………..
Anyway to all you dumb ass republican warmongers
SOURCE Koreas Oh My News
Israeli missile strike killed seven members of a Palestinian family picnicking on a Gaza beach, which prompted Hamas to end its 16-month-old informal ceasefire with Israel. Hamas has repeatedly pointed to the Gaza beach incident as one of the central events that prompted its cross-border raid. Hamas also points to the capture of some of its leaders by Israel as the provocation for its raid.
TO ALL YOU REPUBLICAN TROOLS PUT UP OT SHUT THE F*CK UP…
July 23rd, 2006 at 5:10 pmAnyway to all you dumb ass republican warmongers
SOURCE Koreas Oh My News
Israeli missile strike killed seven members of a Palestinian family picnicking on a Gaza beach, which prompted Hamas to end its 16-month-old informal ceasefire with Israel. Hamas has repeatedly pointed to the Gaza beach incident as one of the central events that prompted its cross-border raid. Hamas also points to the capture of some of its leaders by Israel as the provocation for its raid.
Israel fired 7,000 to 9,000 heavy artillery shells into Gaza, killing and wounding scores of people.
TO ALL YOU REPUBLICAN TROLLS PUT UP OR SHUT THE F*CK UP
July 23rd, 2006 at 5:26 pm#40 - bones,
That is incredibly creepy….ick, ick, ICK!
It wouldn’t be creepy at all if it were simply a collection of photos of different people’s hands, but only one person’s hands? That’s kind of creepy.
And if that one person is not a significant other? Mondo creepy.
And if it’s only GWB’s hands? Ultimate creepazoid, our Mr. Bolten.
July 23rd, 2006 at 5:43 pmI don’t care for you godless atheists either.
Without any concept of divine justice all mankind is left with is dog-eat-dog,and the strong taking the weak ad infinitum.
Mankind is a creature,just like all the beasts of the earth.The moderating force we all have in common is the fear,or love,of God:not the opposite.
Comment by Gandhi
—————–
Gandhi,
I think I have more faith in humankind’s ability to demonstrate the courage to love and serve than do you.
July 23rd, 2006 at 6:01 pm#48. Everything you are today you got from heathen/godless societies. Your law, science, architecture, sanitation, philosophy including ethics all come from Greece and Rome - both of which had no idea you would invent your conception of “God” two thousand years later. Oh, and by the way, you got math from the Islamists. If it takes the threat of hell to keep Christians moral then they aren’t worth much, when you are moral and ethical without promises of heaven or threats of hell - that’s a great human being.
July 23rd, 2006 at 6:28 pmWith Friends Like These Department…
Now, let me get this straight, this guy is on our side?Yesterday, the speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, said “We know there was a corrupt regime in Sad……
July 23rd, 2006 at 8:15 pmmore Organized sudo-Conservative Hypocrisy.
Why I am, I tell you..Sho..actually, no, this doesn’t shock me anymore, it’s Soooooooooooo patheticall lame.
Its lame..! I tell ya..damn Lame!
July 23rd, 2006 at 10:03 pmCarville Analogism
It’s the Stupidy, stupid!.
July 23rd, 2006 at 10:04 pmPat Buchanan slams Israel on attack of Lebanon
This is really emotional, and its from a very conservative American. I was touched.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jFZDbDyinw
July 23rd, 2006 at 11:17 pmWith this in mind…take a look at this collage titled ‘An Army of One’:
http://deadissue.com/ archives/ 2006/ 07/ 22/ an-army-of-one/
July 24th, 2006 at 12:02 amMaybe Bush can get the Israeli Army to handle Iraq for him, too.
July 24th, 2006 at 12:48 pm#17 - Any time the ingrate Mahmoud al-Mashhadani and the rest of the iraqi gov want us to leave they can simply ask. But they dont because they and their fellow countrymen are not man enough to do the job themselves. They would rather let the Americans die doing their dirty work then demagogue the issue.
Comment by troll — July 23, 2006 @ 12:58 pm
Did you forget that Iraqi elected officialsi have, in fact, asked Bush for a timetable to withdraw our troops? He (Maliki) did when Bush pulled his “drop in unannounced” photo-op a few weeks ago.
http://www.thestate.com/ mld/ thestate/ news/ world/ 14823067.htm .
You are also forgetting to remember that the Iraqi people did NOT ask us to enter their country militarily. We invaded them and now we are occupying. Frankly, they shouldn’t HAVE to ask us to leave. Bush himself said a couple years that our Mission was Accomplished, so we have no reason to remain an occupying force.
It is precisely this type of meddling by our government over the years that is the crux of WHY some of the people living there hate our government. It has nothing to do with our “freedom” or our “way of life”. It has to do with our government’s interference in their internal politics and history of toppling democratically elected leaders whom “we” don’t think will serve our interests.
July 24th, 2006 at 2:44 pmRight-on bones! Well said.
July 24th, 2006 at 3:37 pm[…] Last weekend, the speaker of the Iraqi parliament, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, described the U.S. occupation of Iraq as “butcher’s work.” Confronted with those remarks on Sunday, White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten said he had met with al-Mashhadani privately and believes he has an “appreciation for the sacrifice so many Americans have made.” […]
July 25th, 2006 at 10:42 am