Bush Dismisses Significance of Recent Violence In Iraq: ‘We’ve Been In This Phase For A While’
Bush Dismisses Significance of Recent Violence In Iraq: ‘We’ve Been In This Phase For A While’
Yesterday, a reporter asked President Bush, “What is the difference between what we’re seeing now in Iraq and civil war?” Bush responded by dismissing the significance of the rash of violence afflicting Iraq in recent months. He told the reporter that “we’ve been in this phase for a while.” Watch it:
His own administration disagrees. ABC News reported yesterday that the White House acknowledged “that Iraq is clearly in a ‘new phase‘ and new solutions are urgently needed to stem the violence.”
Transcript:
Q Mr. President, thank you, sir. What is the difference between what we’re seeing now in Iraq and civil war? And do you worry that calling it a civil war would make it difficult to argue that we’re fighting the central front of the war on terror there?
PRESIDENT BUSH: You know, the plans of Mr. Zarqawi was to foment sectarian violence. That’s what he said he wanted to do. The Samarra bombing that took place last winter was intended to create sectarian violence, and it has. The recent bombings were to perpetuate the sectarian violence. In other words, we’ve been in this phase for a while. And the fundamental objective is to work with the Iraqis to create conditions so that the vast majority of the people will be able to see that there’s a peaceful way forward.
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This phase consists of commas and stuff.
November 28th, 2006 at 10:21 amhe's in total denial...what next?
November 28th, 2006 at 10:24 amThe "phase" is called Stay The Course.
November 28th, 2006 at 10:25 amDid W say that no progress has been made since last winter?
November 28th, 2006 at 10:25 amwe've been in this phase for a while quoted from emperor bush.
November 28th, 2006 at 10:26 amGee, you think?
Bush must be happy. He is in Stone-ya.
November 28th, 2006 at 10:26 amThe President is now on yada yada mode.
November 28th, 2006 at 10:26 amI wonder what it takes to be a "reporter" and have to talk to and then print the things said by people you know to by lying.
kind of makes you wonder if the press isn't collectively, well, nothing. They report lies, but are afraid to report the truth. They report events, but the version printed for them, not the one they can gather on the ground.'
so, in lieu of actually being able to "be" in iraq to report, they are forced to make it up with heresay. And they have been doing this for 6 years now.
in my opinion, this means that any current active journalist that has reported thusly, is a meaningless non entity that can't be trusted. So do we have any that are still true to their profession? Where's the list?
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November 28th, 2006 at 10:28 amA phase is when your kid is whining a lot, or won't eat dinner for a week. I know phases, George W. Bush, and this is no phase!
November 28th, 2006 at 10:29 amWhat we have now is a series of commas interspersed with numerous exclamation points.
-GSD
November 28th, 2006 at 10:30 amwhy do reporters bother asking this retard anything, b.s. spews from his mouth every time he opens it.
November 28th, 2006 at 10:31 amBush the Dumber: In other words, we’ve been in this phase for a while.
Yes, ever since your invasion and occupation of a sovriegn country for personal reasons.
November 28th, 2006 at 10:32 amBush said to day that he "will not withdraw from the battlefield before mission is accomplished". Isn't he the one who said "Mission accomplished" end of May 2003...and "all military hostilities are over"?!!
November 28th, 2006 at 10:36 amI wonder what it takes to be a “reporter†and have to talk to and then print the things said by people you know to by lying.
Nothing, really. They aren't reporters. Or, they are, in the absolute strictest sense, i.e., they "report" exactly what was said. They're props. They might as well be tape recorders. As you say, "meaningless non entit[ies] that can’t be trusted". Certainly not journalists.
November 28th, 2006 at 10:41 amThe embarrassment of having a moron like this as president is increasingly intolerable. What is with this guy - his stupidity is superceded only by his stubbornness. This is only a "phase" -- WTF?
November 28th, 2006 at 10:42 amA phase we have been in for several years?
As he goes around the world, asking for help, he is a long distance from the arrogant cowboy who taunted enemies with "bring it on."
As for reporters even bothering to ask him questions, I see that as a form of entertainment -- watching the boy-king fail to express himself on issues he doesn't understand, briefed by people who deny the facts, not only through their own ineptitude and incompetence, but because they don't want to subject the boy-king to having a vertical hissey fit over something he doesn't want to hear.
I still can not quite understand how this complete dipshit ever became president.
November 28th, 2006 at 10:50 amWhat kind of human being dismisses the deaths of 3000+ civilians a month as a phase?
What kind of people could vote for and support such a creature.
November 28th, 2006 at 10:50 amBush is asking for help from Europeans to send more troops and money to Afghanstan and Iraq. But when Europeans like France and Germany told him to wait on his war decision regarding Iraq until the final report on WMDS; France ,Germany and many other countries were ridiculed, and Bush said when he makes his decision on the war..the UN will be 'irrelevant' ..now he needs their help....!!
November 28th, 2006 at 10:50 amI could not agree more with Marie. I still don't understand why we voted him back into office. That aside, I really wonder if anyone actually preps him for these press conferences. For the "leader of the free world" he sure is confused.
November 28th, 2006 at 10:53 am#18: Welcome to Zombieland.
November 28th, 2006 at 10:56 amThe statement from the WH yesterday claimed that we are in a new phase. The President says it's a phase we've been in for a long time. The disconnect between he and his staff goes on. This disconnect was precisely the problem leading up to the decision to invade Iraq and their prosecution of the war. He has never taken to counsel whose advice contradicts his position.
November 28th, 2006 at 10:57 amHere's how that reporter should write the story:
"The White House has declined to describe Iraq as being in a civil war. Today President Bush was asked to describe the difference between what we’re seeing now in Iraq and civil war. He did not answer the question."
November 28th, 2006 at 10:58 amStill in denial , still in Lala land , is impeachement needed more than ever ? This guy is getting more confrontentional . The dems are wistling dixie if they think there will be partisanship.
November 28th, 2006 at 11:02 amMarie you summed it up nicely. I second that.
November 28th, 2006 at 11:03 amW's absolutely accurate on one thing: "we've been in this phase for a while"....and "this phase is a bona fide CIVIL WAR! We've been screaming about this for the past 18 months at least - where are the idiotic brains of this administration still insisting on parsing vocabulary while thousands are being killed each day??? Where is their level of morality? Where is their conscience? How dare them equate semantics with the loss of human lives? While they dicker around with definitions, people are dying. How much more criminal can that get???? Let's get real here folks. And where's our MSM been? Allowing their constitutional rights to be "gagged" by war profiteers??
November 28th, 2006 at 11:04 amBush is a lameduck....King Bush's reign is over. He's a non entity and the people of this country have no respect left for him because he's acting like an inhmane idiot.
November 28th, 2006 at 11:05 amIn a matter of months, the republicuns will have the easiest two jobs in the world. As they start to distance themselves from "bush the Idiot" they won't even have to work at making him look like an idiot and second (and this will be only slightly more difficult) they will have to sway the sheeple into voting for them because the Dems got it all wrong.
November 28th, 2006 at 11:09 amHow nice, now he's going to look for a peaceful way forward. Maybe he should have thought about a peaceful way forward before he started this fraudulent war. HE found it necessary to start a war in Iraq because of a non-existing threat... thereby creating a power vacuum that led to the civil war we now witness. Don't get your hopes for the Nobel peace price up not just yet, Sir President Chimpanzee, Sir.
November 28th, 2006 at 11:11 amHe forgot to get the daily lies, ummm talking points, err briefing straight before speaking.
November 28th, 2006 at 11:26 amBush Dismisses Significance of Recent Violence In Iraq: ‘We’ve Been In This Phase For A While’
Well, I guess suicides that throw themselves from skyscrappers' windows say exactly the same while they are falling to the street's sideway...
November 28th, 2006 at 11:32 amIt's been this way, for sure.... blood, death, gore, horror. But Bush is pleased... it's exactly what was meant to be. Just think:
...had there been no attack on American soil on September 11th, there would not and could not have been a war in Iraq. And, conversely, if there was going to be military action by the US against Iraq by Bushco, there first had to be an unprecedented attack on American soil.
No theories... just documented (and linked) factual information to ponder and understand fully:
9/11 and Iraq: The Concealed Connection:
http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=503
November 28th, 2006 at 11:34 amThe standard follow-up from any reporter should be:
Is this another one of those…..“the only way to answer that question, and get it on to another question, was to give you [the reporters] that answer.â€â€¦..moments?
Or
For brevity’s sake….just follow-up with *cough* bullshit *cough*……
November 28th, 2006 at 11:40 amBush will be the last person in the entire world to recognize the failure of his presidency. He may well never realize it.
November 28th, 2006 at 11:46 am"...I wonder what it takes to be a “reporter†and have to talk to and then print the things said by people you know to by lying..."
Comment by oldtree — November 28, 2006 @ 10:27 am
I can imagine that there are a LOT of reporters right now that go home and feel it's hard or harder to look themselves in the mirror knowing that this guy is running the country into the ground and they can't (or wont) speak up against it.
November 28th, 2006 at 11:50 amHe told the reporter that “we’ve been in this phase for a while.â€
November 28th, 2006 at 11:57 amYes, indeed.
6 years now.
While countries like Turkey turn more to Islam because of Bush & his lies, we lose another potential ally in the middle east.
Hell, even Argentinians hate Bush & his daughters so much they're protesting...and they don't have a dog in this fight!
Cheney was summoned by the Saudis to share what the plan in Iraq is. How long do you think that briefing took?
W, we don't need a new 'phase', we need a new 'face' in the White House.
#17 I still can not quite understand how this complete dipshit ever became president.
If you recall the front page of London's Daily Mirrior the day after the 2004 election. It simply said how could 57,657,088 people (voters) be so wrong. Thats how the dipshit got elected along with the "help" of some questionable voting machines.
November 28th, 2006 at 12:01 pmThe phase is called "CIVIL WAR" you dumbass Shrub
November 28th, 2006 at 12:13 pmPoor George. All he wants is for things to be like they were after September 11, 2001, when everyone in good 'ol U.S. of A. looked up to him as a hero and defender of the "evil terra" that lurks out there in the shadows.
Like Michael Moore stated in Farenheit 911: "Darn, the Saudi's are responsible! I better blame it on this guy! (Saddam Hussein).
November 28th, 2006 at 12:45 pmBush is a known, never wavers, full of resolve. That's why people like him, he is a constant. So are flies on shit.
If he can hold back the tide for two more years, keep from being impeached, keep from admitting failure..... he will be able to claim a successful presidency until the day he dies. Of course there will be the naysayers, the ones who will find fault in his course of performance, and they will be an overwhelming majority, but he and his braindead supporters can blame the next administration for the surge in violence and hate against Americans.
November 28th, 2006 at 12:56 pmSo... because they've in a civil war 'for a while now'... that makes it ok?
Screw off Bush. God, I can't wait to get a real president in there.
November 28th, 2006 at 1:05 pm"If he can hold back the tide for two more years, keep from being impeached, keep from admitting failure….. he will be able to claim a successful presidency until the day he dies."
Ronald Reagan was voted "the greatest American" somewhere in TVland, wasn't he? Ergo, God does not exist. Q.E.D.
November 28th, 2006 at 1:22 pmAnd here we have a president who considers himself to be a "good Christian". The stupidity, hypocrisy and arrogance astounds.
November 28th, 2006 at 1:32 pmI guess unka karl didn't copy chimpy on the memo about the violence representing a new phase... or more likely, chimpy didn't bother to read the memo, forgot what it said, or, most likely, didn't understand it.
November 28th, 2006 at 2:40 pm.
What a sick man the so called president is.
November 28th, 2006 at 2:47 pmIncredible informative source, please read.
November 28th, 2006 at 2:56 pmEr, Mr. President, sir, even conceding Iraq "had been in this phase for a while", it would only mean Iraq has been experiencing a budding civil war for a while.
Not to mention you didn't answer the question: What is the difference between what we see now in Iraq and a civil war?
Although I have to admit your answer here was a lot more articulate than your answer about tribal sovereignty.
November 28th, 2006 at 3:44 pmi tried posting this on the FAST thread this morning and it didn't show up - subject matter must me too much for TPs "tastes"... tuff shite...
November 28th, 2006 at 4:51 pmhere goes again... i'm just back from some more yard work and hear randi talking about it, as exasperated about it as i am...
did you hear about the man in chicago who set himself on fire as a protest against this war???? ...probably not... it's not covered my any major news outlets... only made a local paper when a curious reporter decided to dig into the story... the link i posted was the international herald tribune, also globe and mail - both foreign...
now it's posted at http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003438519 via randi's site...
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I think he just makes things up as he goes, he has the mind of a child.
November 28th, 2006 at 10:54 pmUnfortunately I can not post visuals here, but a friend in Switzerland sent me a photo of George Bush Sr. and Jr. with the priceless caption:
November 29th, 2006 at 4:01 am"Son, you're making the same mistake with Iraq that I did with your mother. I missed pulling out in time."
[...] God Yes! We did it, baby. We’re in and they can never get us out now. You were perfect, I love you. [...]
December 1st, 2006 at 5:23 am