Bush Asked Whether He’s ‘Still In Denial,’ Responds ‘It’s Bad In Iraq. That Help?’
Bush Asked Whether He’s ‘Still In Denial,’ Responds ‘It’s Bad In Iraq. That Help?’
At a press conference this morning with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a reporter asked President Bush whether his use of the word “unsettling” to describe the violence in Iraq would “convince many people that you’re still in denial about how bad things are in Iraq.”
Bush responded curtly, “It’s bad in Iraq. That help?” and then chuckled. Watch it:
Bush later said, “You know, in all due respect, I’ve been saying it a lot. I understand how tough it is, and I’ve been telling the American people how tough it is.”
On 10/25, Bush said the U.S. was “absolutely” winning the Iraq war. On 10/17, Vice President Cheney claimed the “general overall situation” in Iraq was going “remarkably well.”
Full transcript:
QUESTION: Mr. President, the Iraq Study Group described the situation in Iraq as “grave and deteriorating.” You said that the increase in attacks is “unsettling.” That will convince many people that you’re still in denial about how bad things are in Iraq and question your sincerity about changing course.
BUSH: It’s bad in Iraq. That help? (Laughter)
QUESTION: Why did it take others to say it before you’ve been willing to acknowledge it to the world?
BUSH: You know, in all due respect, I’ve been saying it a lot. I understand how tough it is, and I’ve been telling the American people how tough it is. And they know how tough it is.
And the fundamental question is: Do we have a plan to achieve our objective? Are we willing to change as the enemy has changed?
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Once again, it’s the British reporters who ask the tough questions and press these goons for follow-ups, while the American “reporters” just sit there timidly laughing at Bush’s bullying attempts at humor.
December 7th, 2006 at 12:47 pmit’s tough being the Decider
December 7th, 2006 at 12:52 pmSnotty reporter, sarcastic “question.” Dubya put him in his place. Good for Dubya!
December 7th, 2006 at 12:52 pmBush responded curtly, “It’s bad in Iraq. That help?†and then chuckled.
Bush just laughed and made light of all the commas in Iraq. Commander in Chief my butt.
And in answer to his question….no it doesn’t help.
December 7th, 2006 at 12:52 pmSorry, for going blue early, but what a dick.
December 7th, 2006 at 12:53 pmTo Bush, what he says is always more important than what ‘reality’ might be. So if he says he’s been frank and honest, he has been. If you don’t believe him, just ask him.
December 7th, 2006 at 12:53 pmThere’s that nervous chuckle again.
“Leader of the free world,” accountable to We, The People, and to his God for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians and brave soldiers, CHUCKLES as he says, “it’s bad.” .
And the snide sarcastic “that help?” remark…
My God, I’m just dumbfounded. Truly, the worst president ever, and arguably the worst world leader ever…
Jim
December 7th, 2006 at 12:53 pm“The Enemy has changed”. But the real question is whio is the real enemy : the architects of 9/11 that changed everything — and created this phony baloney war on terrorism or 19 Muslims with boxcutters that brought down the Trade Towers? I ask you.
December 7th, 2006 at 12:55 pmAh yes, our old friend… “in all due respect”… Better described as “I apologize, but I’m about to tell a little white lie”.
By the way, awesome question.. challenging Dubya’s sincerity. That really touched a nerve.
December 7th, 2006 at 12:57 pmStupid blogger, dumb posting. Somebody needs to put him in his place. Good for whoever does it.
December 7th, 2006 at 12:58 pmOh Exley, you dumb cun*. Bush’s role is putting people in their place isn’t it? And for an increasing number of good men, that place is six feet under.
You look like a fool to support this idiot. What is it that draws you morons to Bush?
Honestly, why does anyone support that POS?
December 7th, 2006 at 1:00 pmExley…Snotty reporter, sarcastic “question.†Dubya put him in his place. Good for Dubya!
Are you serious? You can’t be. The question is of the nature the Amercian press corp should have been asking from day 1. Sarcastic? I didn’t get a hint of sarcasm at all. If you watch the clip again, Bush was the only one laughing. He gets uncomfortable and irritable when someone calls him out and was suprised when the guy didn’t back off. In other words, the reporter was doing his job. Something the American press needs to be doing. It’s amazing that citizens think that the press is just a cheerleader, when in fact they are supposed to be the opposite, a watchdog. And a continual pain in the ass to those in power.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:01 pmI think he’s sociopathic! He can’t contain the disdain when someone challenges one of his many failures, so he can only manage sarcasm. God, what an ugly, dangerous person he is, and how lame are we?
December 7th, 2006 at 1:01 pmThis stay-the-course strategy of his is so frustrating. According to the Borgen Project, if just $40-60 billion of the $300 billion already spent in Iraq was redirected to achieving the UN Millennium Goals, the Bush administration could have already eradicated extreme global poverty and hunger. That would have been a glorifying act for this administration.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:02 pmExley,
Do you really think that it is important for Dubya to “put somebody in their place” when the entire world can now see the harm that he has caused in the Middle East? Is that what you think is important when their are Americans dying, while Bush “puts a reporter in his place”
BTW: Bush just made himself look like a fool in the world forum and you think it is cool. Next time you think Bush is doing something cool, stop, don’t type, walk away and don’t post.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:02 pmWhat a tool. I can’t believe people (few as they are these days)are willing to be seen in public with him. I am embarssed to even aknowledge that he is the leader of my country…hell any country.
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December 7th, 2006 at 1:06 pmSelf-centered president, assinine “administration”. The reported put him in his place. Good for the reporter!
December 7th, 2006 at 1:06 pmEvery question he’s asked gets funneled into the same morass of cliches. Hard to tell if he even understands what he’s being asked to address…worse than Nixon (never thought I’d be saying that).
December 7th, 2006 at 1:07 pmNeither one of those graphics in front or behind “W” is the official Presidential seal — it’s some sort of fake Bush-co concoction of what they think the seal should look like.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:07 pm“Bush responded curtly, “It’s bad in Iraq. That help?†and then chuckled.”
Anyone has any doubt left that the Chimp is a sociopath in the clinical sense of the term?
This President is demented. He needs to be institutionalized.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:07 pmWhat’s the object of the war again? Something about Caliphates?
December 7th, 2006 at 1:09 pmHas Dumbya been hitting the sauce again? Maybe. Shows all the signs. He is the most arrogant piece of shit for a president I have ever seen.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:11 pmHow many more times does Bush have to demonstrate to all of us that he is a sociopath before we start to believe it. The man clearly does not have what most of us call a conscience. He snickers and jokes about the most grave and disturbing things. He is a sociopathic, insecure bully, not only the worst president in history, but the worst man to hold the office in history.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:11 pmAnother one of the British press corp asked him (paraphased) “Based on the Iraq Study Group’s report, can you now admit that your policies in Iraq have been a failure? And can you also tell us if you intend to alter your current policies?” Bush didn’t respond to the first question (no surprise there!) and with his usual long-winded “lots of words and saying nothing manner,” avoided a substantive reply to the second part of the question.
Actually, watching this travesty of a press conference, he actually answered both questions: “No” and “Probably not.”
December 7th, 2006 at 1:13 pmExley, old buddy, this would be a sarcastic question:
When did you stop beating your wife?
This would not:
When did you stop beating off to Bush?
The former is designed only to irritate, the latter is founded in truth and intended to get an honest response. Bush couldn’t provide an honest answer, so he tried to make light of the situation, then seeing that didn’t work, just flat-out lied.
Yet you still worship this sociopathic motherf*cker… goddamn oxygen thief.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:15 pmSnotty reporter, sarcastic “question.†Dubya put him in his place. Good for Dubya!
—- Exley
Actually it was an honest question and your hero, Bush laughed, thought it was f*cking funny, like the uncaring sociopath he is.
Hard for me to decide who is a bigger asshat, Bush for thinking it was funny or you for running to the defense of your “hero”.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:15 pmAbout 25 to 30% of the population are “authoritarian personalities.” These people have a need for a strong leader, a need to follow, a strong need to defend the leader and an aversion to any challenge to authority. My guess is that almost everyone still supporting Bush is this kind of person.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:22 pmAnd we are surprised at Dubya’s response, ……….why?????
I think the W stands for WTF!!!!
December 7th, 2006 at 1:22 pmThe reporter wanted an answer to the question then he makes up a BS assumption that because Bush said “unsettling” that people are going to take that as still being in “denial”. All the reporter wanted was for Bush to agree with him and say “Yes, I don’t think thinks are that bad in Iraq”. If you make asinine statement you get a smart ass answer.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:23 pmBUSH: It’s bad in Iraq. That help? (Laughter)
Unforgiveable.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:26 pmSeriously people - I could spend all day picking apart your comments about President Bush. So, what - you all would be able to do better?? By doing what exactly? Seems like so many people here are able to criticze without having half a clue about what they are talking about. I especially love the comment above about spending war $ on erraticating poverty and hunger. HA - good luck. Go protest something, hippie!
I honestly hope that terrorists drop something in your proverbial backyards…or do something to disrupt the way you live your lives. Then maybe you’ll remember back to 9/11 and how it felt to feel threatened on US soil. But five years after the fact, some return to being naive, complacent little whiners.
It’s easy to sit on a board, post insults and continue with name-calling. Things are a little different when you have to MAKE hard decisions.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:29 pm#29
That’s probably what Bush was thinking when the reporter made a dumb assumption and that when Bush said “unsettling” that wasn’t the answer he was looking for.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:30 pmBUSH: You know, in all due respect, I’ve been saying it a lot. I understand how tough it is, and I’ve been telling the American people how tough it is. And they know how tough it is.
He went on to say, “I’m not in denial. I deny any implication that I am in any such state. Nope. Not me.”
December 7th, 2006 at 1:30 pmTracy, Exley, do you find that you are unsettled when you don’t have a strong leader telling you what to do or how to think?
December 7th, 2006 at 1:30 pm#30,
Or, with Bush, you say pretty much anything and you get a smart ass answer. It’s what he does.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:30 pm#32 “It’s easy to sit on a board, post insults and continue with name-calling.”
Yeah it is, isn’t it.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:32 pmI don’t care what Bush’s answer was. I’m just happy the questions are finally getting asked.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:32 pm#32 Tracy
Seriously people - I could spend all day picking apart your comments about President Bush. So, what - you all would be able to do better??
Yes. Why do you ask?
December 7th, 2006 at 1:34 pm#28….
December 7th, 2006 at 1:34 pmI agree with your perceptions, they also have a tendency to bully those whom they have authority over, in direct response to being bullied themselves.
“Dung rolls downhill…..”
We need to remember that G. Dubious is not his own master, he is owned and operated by corporate entities, and his unilateral bullying of others is in direct reaction to his being told what his actions and words are to be.
Another item from the cuddlefest with his fuzzy poodle this morning, is that “there will be no “early” talks with Syria or Iran”…
(read.. there will be no talks at all……..)
without reading the comments yet, here’s mine…
the pause after the assinine, “it’s bad in iraq”, made blair turn to look at the bozo… what i can’t tell is, did blair then smile/chuckle along with the nervous uncouth laughter that followed the smartass remark, “that help?”…
we could sure use more foreign reporters not beholden on the corporate teet to ask the real questions, that’s for sure…
December 7th, 2006 at 1:35 pm#33 Tracy -
I do feel that “unsettling” is a bit of an understatement for the damage and carnage to an entire country by an invading force commanded by The Decider and his Plundering Herd of Neocons.
Thank God for the Nov.7 intervention!!
December 7th, 2006 at 1:35 pmBush is a bully and there is no denying that. He bullies with his own version of humor, taking advantage of his position behind the podium. He does not owe the reporter a straight answer — he owes the world a straight answer. He hasn’t played straight with Americans or people around the world from the start.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:35 pmSympathizers can say he is in psychological denial; some of us say he is a diabolical, amoral despicable person.
Bush has a lot to answer for, and history will undoubtedly treat his legacy poorly. But he doesn’t care what historians think because he will be long dead and so will we; he has damned the people that follow us. He should be made to admit his abysmal failure and accept his just punishment.
Bluedog49, I think you are right on with that assessment. I tend to simplify and brand the Bushies as religious, faith-based folk, but those are probably both manifestations of the “authoritarian personality” dare I say, disorder, rather than any causality.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:36 pmInitially the “enemy” was the Iraqis trying to kill our soldiers (aka “insurgents”). Months and months ago the “enemy” started killing each other too (aka “civil war”).
Is Dubya recognizing that there is now a civil war in Iraq? I’m not holding my breath.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:36 pmIt’s easy to sit on a board, post insults and continue with name-calling. Things are a little different when you have to MAKE hard decisions.
Comment by Trish
You’re here, aren’t you? We welcome the assholierthanthou.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:36 pmBush wants Iran and Syria to save his butt, then he puts conditions on talking to them. What’s wrong with this picture?
December 7th, 2006 at 1:36 pmwhat you are seeing is a man who is “bored” now of the presidency. He is not up to the task of getting us removed from Iraq. He will leave it to his successor just like LBJ left it to Nixon to get the job done.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:37 pm#32:
December 7th, 2006 at 1:37 pmYou know, it’s so easy for you wingnuts to invoke 9/11 for your own gain. But to make it extraordinarily clear to you:
Ahem,
IRAQ HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11. AND NOTHING YOU SAY WILL CHANGE THAT.
And yet, you guys still support the war, as the violence rises to unimaginable levels.
If your so concerned with people being threatened, ask the Iraqis about how they feel. Discover the fear and discord you have sown into Baghdad and Iraq.
Trish: “I honestly hope that terrorists drop something in your proverbial backyards…”
Do we need any further proof that Bush’s supporters are despicable, unamerican sociopathic fascists. Thanks, Trish. You’ve made my point.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:38 pmYou admit its going bad… whaddya going to do?
Bush: “Ugh… Stay the course?!”
ITS BAD… DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Good lord.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:38 pmTrish, wow didn’t know you were such a coward?
What are you afraid of? A few terrorists, 99.99% of them cannot afford dinner, let alone coming here to attack, except once every 10 years or so. Why are you such a SCAREDY CAT? And these terrorists might not have had their day on 9-11 had Bush and Company listened to the PDB’s stating Osama is going to attack via airplane, and soon….
You’re such a mindless ass-kissing Bush lover, you make the world sick, I suppose only you know whats best, and the entire world who thinks Bush and his supporters are the worlds worst enemies?
Only CRAZY/STUPID people think they’re right, and everyone else is wrong.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:38 pmThat’s probably what Bush was thinking when the reporter made a dumb assumption and that when Bush said “unsettling†that wasn’t the answer he was looking for.
Comment by Tracy
George W. Bush answers to us. Remember? We The People? GWB needs to suck it up and remember that.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:39 pm“So, what - you all would be able to do better?? “=Trish
A 4 year old could do a better. Bush steadfastly refuses to fix the situation. He just sits back with his thumb in his mouth and plays the ’stay the course’ tape-recorder.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:41 pmWrong.
The reporter from the BBC asked Bush to agree with 75% of the people on the planet and Bush couldn’t and neither can you. That makes Bush and you wrong.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:42 pmI honestly hope that terrorists […] do something to disrupt the way you live your lives.
Comment by Trish — December 7, 2006 @ 1:29 pm
They already have… have you got on a plane lately? Or traveled outside the US and got back? Or walked into a government building?
They changed all that without having to drop anything in my back yard. Of course, they did get a lot of help from an administration that plays on people’s fears.
Then maybe you’ll remember back to 9/11 and how it felt to feel threatened on US soil.
You seem to have forgotten Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. But you just showed how much Pres Bush has played on your fears, too, by conflating the attacks with the occupation of Iraq.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:42 pmI honestly hope that terrorists drop something in your proverbial backyards…or do something to disrupt the way you live your lives.
Comment by Trish
Why do you hate America so much?
Talk about commenting on things you have clue about… b-b-b-beeeeyatch!!!
December 7th, 2006 at 1:42 pmA friggin otter could do better.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:42 pmspudgeboy……………exely is not mentally healthy. Articulate on and off perhaps……..sane no.
I wonder how much he’s being paid by psyops. He is just here to disrupt….no reasonable person can in good conscience support this president now…..that is obvious to almost everyone. I wouldn’t worry about him
December 7th, 2006 at 1:44 pmThe reporter made Bush be honest. Now, without a doubt, the MSM will have big headlines how Bush finally admits Iraq is “bad.”
Of course, in the manner he did it won’t be addressed - Forced to do so and the reply actually snotty and demeaning. It’s little wonder the globe thinks so little of the man. It’s like the old saying: “a fool in a high office is like a man high up on a hill. He looks small to everyone and everyone looks small to him.”
December 7th, 2006 at 1:44 pm#33 That’s probably what Bush was thinking…
Bush… “thinking”?
Brain-farting, perhaps, but not thinking.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:44 pmoops - “NO clue about” is what I meant there…
Sigh - valid point hamstrung by a typo…
My kingdom for an edit link.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:45 pmEver watch the monkeys in the zoo fling their poo? That’s the 30% of the population that still supports this administration…
December 7th, 2006 at 1:45 pmassholierthanthou Comment by Zooey
Down-right excellent!
I honestly hope that terrorists drop something in your proverbial backyards…or do something to disrupt the way you live your lives. Comment by Trish
Sounds like somebody needs to drop a house on YOU.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:45 pm#33 - Trish
It’s easy to sit on a board, post insults and continue with name-calling. Things are a little different when you have to MAKE hard decisions.
Comment by Trish
Yea Trish, it IS hard! And he makes them hard ones every day, just happens to be the wrong ones and the results get thousands of people killed and maimed.
Oh, BTW - I fought in a f*&ked up war just like this one 35 years ago, and we also had the same level of leadership. And with about the same results. The Vietnamese didn’t blow up the Trade Center, and neither did Iraq!
December 7th, 2006 at 1:46 pmOoops - Meant to say “NO clue about” on 57…
Sigh - Valid point hamstrung by a typo…
My kingdom for an edit link.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:47 pmi.e…..people who defend Bush now are in serious need of the adreniline rush of just being the opposition……a thorn. People like this need a life and can only feel alive by feeling people push back against them. I remember a Kroger checkout person who was fired for purposely going as slowly ( “inspecting” every item in a person’s stuff in case they got a bad product….yeah…for their own good….yeah) just to drive them nuts. It was his way of feeling connection…….provoking them and going against their interest in getting home quickly after shopping. Passive aggressivel. This is what the hold out Bush creeps are like. They aren’t even really for him half the time…..he’s just a good prop for their illness. Exactly. It’s all they have.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:48 pm#42
The carnage is being caused by American forces? Who is responsible for the frequent findings of groups of people slaughtered and tortured in Iraq? What about the 30 years of carnage and damage caused by Saddam and his sons?
December 7th, 2006 at 1:49 pmTrish: “Seriously people - I could spend all day picking apart your comments about President Bush. So, what - you all would be able to do better??”
A diseased strawman argument from a diseased person. Trish, the answer is yes, some of us would be able to do a better job than the worst ever.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:50 pmI honestly hope that terrorists drop something in your proverbial backyards…or do something to disrupt the way you live your lives. Comment by Trish
Awwwww look! Somebody needs a hug!
December 7th, 2006 at 1:50 pmWhere’s McCain?
I honestly hope that terrorists drop something in your proverbial backyards…or do something to disrupt the way you live your lives. Then maybe you’ll remember back to 9/11 and how it felt to feel threatened on US soil. But five years after the fact, some return to being naive, complacent little whiners.
It’s easy to sit on a board, post insults and continue with name-calling. Things are a little different when you have to MAKE hard decisions.
Comment by Trish —
Trust, if it drops in my backyard, your’s is next, B*tch
December 7th, 2006 at 1:50 pm#32 Trish
I honestly hope that terrorists drop something in your proverbial backyards…or do something to disrupt the way you live your lives. Then maybe you’ll remember back to 9/11 and how it felt to feel threatened on US soil. But five years after the fact, some return to being naive, complacent little whiners.
Yeah, that’s right, Trish. We need to be reminded by you and Bill O’Reilly about what happened on 9/11, because it was just so gosh darned long ago and our attention spans are so short. It’s just too bad you weren’t down there in Crawford in August of ‘01 to explain to your beloved president why he needed to pay attention to the PDB he’d been handed. I realize it’s hindsight and all, but I’m guessing that any one of us “whiners” would have sat up and taken notice if we’d just been warned that “Bin Ladin determined to strike in US” and “Bin Ladin wanted to hijack a US aircraft”.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:50 pmSeriously people - I could spend all day picking apart your comments about President Bush. So, what - you all would be able to do better?? By doing what exactly? Seems like so many people here are able to criticze without having half a clue about what they are talking about. I especially love the comment above about spending war $ on erraticating poverty and hunger. HA - good luck. Go protest something, hippie!
I honestly hope that terrorists drop something in your proverbial backyards…or do something to disrupt the way you live your lives. Then maybe you’ll remember back to 9/11 and how it felt to feel threatened on US soil. But five years after the fact, some return to being naive, complacent little whiners.
It’s easy to sit on a board, post insults and continue with name-calling. Things are a little different when you have to MAKE hard decisions.
Comment by Trish — December 7, 2006 @ 1:29 pm
As you prove so well in your post.
Would you consider starting an illegal war a hard decision? You’re right. I think it would be hard to decide to send my fellow Americans to die for oil.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:51 pmMy, how absolutely patriotic of you to wish for the deaths of your own countrymen and women and hope for another terrorist attack on the US. I can practically hear the ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ playing in the background as I read your post.
As it’s been pointed out you’re a coward for allowing a handful of terrorists to control your sad, little life. You are much more likely to get killed in a car then by a terrorist. But, of course it’s not much fun to demand greater safety features in autos then (giggle) stand tall against terrorists.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:51 pm#52
“A few terrorists, 99.99% of them cannot afford dinner, let alone coming here to attack, except once every 10 years or so.”
Yes it’s not really the terrorist’s fault that they are forced to resort to blowing up innocent civilians.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:51 pmTrish is another big time loser
December 7th, 2006 at 1:53 pmSee, here’s where you liberal commie journalist types piss me off the worstest! Preznit Bush Jr. is TOO BUSY to be answerin’ questions all the time. He has IMPORTANT stuff to do. Did CAESAR answer a lot of questions? How about NAPOLEON? Did HE have a pack of jackal reporters nippin’ at his tiny little heels? ALEXANDER the GREAT would have only been ALEXANDER the MEDIOCRE if he had found hisself beset on the left and right by yapping, snapping, foaming journo-morons like Preznit Bush Jr. always does. So he loses his patience sometimes and comes off like an arrogant, browbeating thug. SO WHAT? He’s the PREZNIT! Of AMERICA! And as soon as he whups some MARTIAL LAW on you idiots, you’ll start to RESPECT that Freedom of the Press means Freedom to PRINT what yer friggin’ TOLD to!!!
December 7th, 2006 at 1:54 pm#55
“The reporter from the BBC asked Bush to agree with 75% of the people on the planet and Bush couldn’t and neither can you.”
He does agree that things are bad in Iraq. He’s been saying it for a while now.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:54 pm#65
“Oh, BTW - I fought in a f*&ked up war just like this one 35 years ago, and we also had the same level of leadership.”
Yes, Lyndon Johnson.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:57 pm“The reporter from the BBC asked Bush to agree with 75% of the people on the planet and Bush couldn’t and neither can you.â€
He does agree that things are bad in Iraq. He’s been saying it for a while now.
Comment by Tracy —
Tracy, get off your knees and stop sucking the Chimp’s d*ck. It won’t help you when the scary terrorists come and get you!!!!:D
December 7th, 2006 at 1:57 pmTruth Seeker: “Mr. President, are you aware that you’re illegally waging war against and occupying a sovereign nation that had absolutely nothing to do with the terrorist attacks of 9/11?”
Bush: “It’s bad in Iraq. That help? You know, in all due respect, I’ve been saying it a lot. I understand how tough it is, and I’ve been telling the American people how tough it is…” to lie, cheat, murder, and steal the natural resources of a sovereign nation. You think this is easy? Do you think sleeping at night is easy? Well, luckily there are medications that assist that process but thats besides the point. The point is that we’re going to stay in Iraq until the Iraqi’s agree to only trade oil to the US. We’ve got 14 bases in Iraq I’ve spent just spent my wad of political capital of about a Trillion US tax dollars on. Do you know how much money that is? Thats about as much as I have in my trust fund. So you should know that I don’t take spending that kind of money lightly…
December 7th, 2006 at 1:59 pmSeems like so many people here are able to criticze without having half a clue about what they are talking about.
Comment by Trish — December 7, 2006 @ 1:29 pm
I know that Bush continually lies about almost everything to do with Iraq and when he doesn’t lie, he brushes it off like it’s this trivial border skirmish that will be over in time for all the soldiers to order pizza for dinner. When he’s caught in a lie he zips past it like he didn’t do anything wrong.
If anything the reporter showed remarkable restraint. If I were in the press corp, I would either be constantly saying “Would you please answer the previous reporters question?” or they remove me from the room for being “disruptive” I may not know what it’s like to make the tough decisions, but I can tell when someone isn’t paying attention in class.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:59 pm#68 - Trish
And you think by us being there after we illegally invaded their country, established the perfect environment for a secular civil war, where over 90% of the population wants us the f*&k out?
We have improved things, ya think?
WHEWWW!!, you really have drank the Neocon Kool-aid… from a fire hose!!!
December 7th, 2006 at 2:02 pmTracy-
December 7th, 2006 at 2:02 pmYou don’t really believe that American troops are actually helping the situation in Iraq, do you?
It’s so easy to paint the other side as “evil” with no souls, and no hearts. It’s so easy to say that their only motives are that they hate America and our freedoms, and puppies and sunshine and people in general.
Terrorism is a much more rooted issue than you are giving it credit for. And American soldiers won’t be able to solve it entirely.
There is really no point in keeping them there any longer.
No he hasn’t you fu*king liar.
Just yesterday Bush said that we are winning in Iraq to counter Robert Gates. You can lie to yourself. We don’t believe your lies. Liar.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:03 pmSwordsbane, part of the problem is that if a reporter does this, he might not be allowed in the room again. I’m not excusing their behavior, but the press has been put in a very difficult position by this administration. I think we need some kind of legislation to protect the integrity of white house reporting.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:03 pmI think one of the biggest denials in this entire discussion is that so many don’t think that this Islamic fundementalism is that big of a deal.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:04 pmTracy,
quick look outside, I heard that the terrorists are in your backyard!!:D
December 7th, 2006 at 2:05 pmSo, Tracy, you seem to be saying that Johnson was a failed leader and , at the same time, comparing Johnson to Bush. Is this some kind of a turnaround on your part? Are you now agreeing that Bush is a failed leader?
December 7th, 2006 at 2:05 pm#80
Your post fits so well in this high class blog! I’m impressed.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:06 pmDo you think that a swipe at a lame Democrat affects us. We aren’t democrats. LBJ made just as bad of decisions as Bush is making.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:06 pm#79 - Tracy
Yea, and LBJ was a Texan too!!! And don’t forget Trickie Dickie, the Poster Child of the Repugs. He was a real keeper! But Dubya makes even HIM look good.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:08 pm#80
Your post fits so well in this high class blog! I’m impressed.
Comment by Tracy
You should be impressed, beyotch!! But not half as impressed as you are with the Chimps’s d*ck!!!:D
December 7th, 2006 at 2:08 pmYes we do, that is why we support the war in Afghanistan. That is part of the GWOT. Iraq has nothing to do with the GWOT. You believe it does, but 75% of the world does not.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:09 pmTrish and Exley are buffoons…
Explain the sarcasm in the question Ex - at least in this story there is audio so you don’t have to speculate about the “tone” of voice (a la the Jim Webb/Bush encounter), not that it makes any difference. How does a lame answer and a desperate chuckle deserve a well done?
Trish - refresh my memory again about Iraqi involvement with 9/11? Specifically, the role Sadam Hussein played in it? Since bringing HIS regime down was the only reason we went there after that whole WMD thing turned out to be a LIE. Well? Don’t be so naive and think that this President is handling his duties better than anyone else could have. It isn’t like he was an accomplished statesman before (he couldn’t run a baseball team, much less a country), and now you put blind faith in the man?
Twits the both of you.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:12 pmI’ve been a Democrat all my adult life and have no problem admitting that LBJ was a failure with his war policy. LBJ also pushed JFK’s idea of civil rights legislation, partially saving his legacy. What has Bush done besides make the world less safe for everyone?
December 7th, 2006 at 2:12 pmTracy: “I think one of the biggest denials in this entire discussion is that so many don’t think that this Islamic fundementalism is that big of a deal.”
Tracy, since you’re so up on this subject, tell us, are al Qaeda Sunnis or Shiites? Which kind of Sunni or Shiite are they. I mean, you’re so right. We need to be up on all of this stuff we’ve been forgetting.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:16 pmIMO there is a sexual element for some of the Bush zealots. And likely with some there is a homo-erotic element to the adoration of Bush (keeping in mind the name ‘Tracy’ isn’t gender specific.)
Of course, they would never admit it to themselves or anyone else. But I would hazard to guess that with some right-wing males Dubya gives them a sensation that is confusing and arousing. And certainly it would cloud their judgment as to his policies and motivate them to defend Bush’s honor - as we see so often on these boards.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:16 pmWhenever a reporter asks a tough question, Bush, Snow and former WH Press Sec. never call on them again. Look what they did with Helen Thomas, or didn’t you notice???? Helen asked the HARD questions and she was NEVER called on again … This is the way that Bush keeps the “Press in line”.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:17 pmSwordsbane, part of the problem is that if a reporter does this, he might not be allowed in the room again. I’m not excusing their behavior, but the press has been put in a very difficult position by this administration. I think we need some kind of legislation to protect the integrity of white house reporting.
Comment by Bluedog49 — December 7, 2006 @ 2:03 pm
That’s precisely why he should do it. More than even the President, these reporters have a responsibility to the public. I can’t understand why the networks tolerate this and why we tolerate it from our networks. Everyone but Bush now says the war is going into the crapper. Even the generals on the ground say that things are worse now than they were a year ago, and Bush still gets away with saying “It’s bad. Does that help?” Bush is a liar. He’s probably the biggest one that’s ever sat the chair in the oval office, but he’s not the real problem. He would shape up in a second if he couldn’t get away with his and his administrations spin. THAT is the fault of the a**holes reporting on him. When do the f**king gloves come off? How bad do things have to get?
December 7th, 2006 at 2:17 pmTweedster,
Let’s not forget Arbusto Oil, George W Bush’s Oil company couldn’t find oil in TEXAS!
December 7th, 2006 at 2:17 pm#96 - Bluedog
Stole my words!!!
So to paraphrase from Mr. Colbert ——— “Dubya…..a terrible President, or the WORST President?”
December 7th, 2006 at 2:19 pm#96:
December 7th, 2006 at 2:19 pmYour statement’s a bit false.
President Bush has helped make the world save for the .000001% of Americans who live at the top.
#
About 25 to 30% of the population are “authoritarian personalities.†These people have a need for a strong leader, a need to follow, a strong need to defend the leader and an aversion to any challenge to authority. My guess is that almost everyone still supporting Bush is this kind of person.
Comment by Bluedog49 — December 7, 2006 @ 1:22 pm
Yes, just like in Germany back in the 30’s. A good percentage of the rest of the population were just plain scared of their government. Sound familiar?
Trish, Tracy and Exeley…go back to your handlers and stay off this board. You people remind me of “Smith” in the movie, Matrix. We woke up and aren’t connected to your damn machine anymore. You have NOTHING to say that is possibly going to convince anyone here to support this monstrous administration.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:19 pmHe does agree that things are bad in Iraq. He’s been saying it for a while now.
Comment by Tracy — December 7, 2006 @ 1:54 pm
This is simply not true. What Pres Bush has been saying all along is that the situation is good, improving, and that the US is “winning the war” (whatever that might mean).
His administration only hinted about a change in the “stay the course” motto until very recently.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:19 pmTrish…. I honestly hope that terrorists drop something in your proverbial backyards…or do something to disrupt the way you live your lives. Then maybe you’ll remember back to 9/11 and how it felt to feel threatened on US soil. But five years after the fact, some return to being naive, complacent little whiners.
Spoken like a true simpleton who believes that the 2 were ever connected. Your repsonse is predictable and suprising, especially since I haven’t heard it in at least 6 months. You are misunderstanding the argument and aloof response he gave. I was going to go into how ignorant, diluted and brainwashed you remain, but it’s tiring having to re-educate kool aid drinking ass clowns. You will never hear me say I wish anything bad on another American when it comes to being attacked, even if you and your ideology are just a bunch of out of touch, intolerant, name calling, hate mongering, war mongering, fear mongering fascist sympathizers. Remain in your abject ignorance, if nothing else, it’s very entertaining and comforting to know your party and ideology has been marginalized, ridiculed and finally stopped. You are an ass.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:21 pmIraq has nothing to do with the GWOT. You believe it does, but 75% of the world does not.
Comment by SpudgeBoy — December 7, 2006 @ 2:09 pm
You mean it didn’t. Since we invaded, the terrorists have been helping themselves to the new recruits we keep sending their way. Ironic that Bush can now claim that Iraq is important to the war on terror. He made it releveant.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:21 pmHis neo con advisors (wolfowitz et.al) said Iraq would be able to support itself with its oil revenues and we would be out in six months or a year….
Why listen to Bush now? The level of stupidity is just unbeleivable.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:22 pm#101 - Spudgeboy
Good one!!
As they say in Texas —— How do you become a Texas millionaire? Start with Daddy’s billion!!
December 7th, 2006 at 2:22 pmI think one of the biggest denials in this entire discussion is that so many don’t think that this Islamic fundementalism is that big of a deal.
Comment by Tracy — December 7, 2006 @ 2:04 pm
This is a strawman argument since nobody has downplayed the dangers of radical Islam -which are no different from the dangers fundamentalist Christians posed to a secular, democratic form of government.
Can you defend Pres Bush’s policies without resorting to a strawman?
December 7th, 2006 at 2:26 pmTRACY and TRISHY
December 7th, 2006 at 2:30 pmsittin’ in a tree
b-l-o-w-i-n-g…
…
i’m outta here… another freeper fest…
#110,
They can’t defend Bush’s policies with the strawmen. Lord knows they try, though.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:34 pmTrue that.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:42 pm#84
“You don’t really believe that American troops are actually helping the situation in Iraq, do you?”
As far as the internal sectarian violence is concerned at this point in time….no. The ONLY reason I think that we still need to be there, in a much smaller role BTW, is to make sure that Iran, the true culprit in this whole situation, doesn’t turn Iraq into another puppet state for them like Lebanon currently is. I think that the initial premise of trying to change that region for the better by promoting democracy was a good idea in and of itself, considering Iran IS NOT a democracy, but I just don’t think the culture over there will allow it any time soon. I do think however, that we need to get out of Iraq just to get out of the way and let the Iraqis settle things themselves.
“It’s so easy to paint the other side as “evil†with no souls, and no hearts. It’s so easy to say that their only motives are that they hate America and our freedoms, and puppies and sunshine and people in general.”
So what exactly are there motives? Don’t say I don’t know, it would only reinforce what those who study the terrorists already know.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:44 pmIs it just me or am I missing something here?
We went into Iraq for the WMD threat……. Oops, not there.
No no, NOW we are here to establish a Democracy, How is that working out for everyone?
THEN….. we are there to stem the Genocide and ethnic cleansing, which is the REAL reason, right??
If so, why aren’t we in Darfur, same thing over there, and they also have some oil, just not as much, maybe?? What, no Bush Family investments there? Halliburton can’t make the same margins?
December 7th, 2006 at 2:46 pmTracy, you act like you know what you’re talking about, yet refused to answer my simple question: are al Qaeda Sunnis or Shiites and what kind of Sunnis or Shiites would they be. You also claim Iran is the “true culprit.” What exactly do you mean by that. We invaded their neighbor. Before we invaded their neighbor, we supplied their neighbor with weapons to use to kill Iranians. WTF are you talking about?
December 7th, 2006 at 2:50 pmSo Tracy, If George has been saying for quite a while that things are bad in iraq, whay has he been bemoaning the lack of coverage for all of the “good things” happening there? Whhy has he not done anything to try and change the situation other than to stay the course and say over annd over that we are winning?
December 7th, 2006 at 2:51 pmI could have sworn it was the United States along with the Coalition of the willing that invaded Iraq on March 20, 2003. Who could have guessed it was really Iranians in disguise.
Funny, their president was elected just like Bush was. Same with Hugo Chavez. Just because you don’t like who is elected doesn’t mean it isn’t a democracy.
If that is how you interpret democracies, then the US does not have a democracy, because 66% of Americans don’t agree with or like Bush.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:51 pmIran forming a puppet state as opposed to the US puppet state it is currently?
December 7th, 2006 at 2:52 pmIt would actually be hilarious how deluded the Bushites are in their devotion to this diddering fool.
Exley is a favorite of mine because of he’s dresses up the most pathetically moronic arguments in a George Will-like diction and syntax.
Keep on shining your Fool’s Gold buddy, you are not fooling anyone!
As for Tracey and Trish, they are just plain idiots.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:52 pmTracy,
How is Iran the true culprit in this situation? The true benefactor, perhaps, but the only culprits here are the coalition of the willing to be led over a cliff.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:57 pmTracy,
” the initial premise of trying to change that region for the better by promoting democracy was a good idea…”
So that is why we invaded Iraq? So good of you to tell us that, instead of the lies our men died for.
Your boy Bush is the enemy of America, more so than any fundamentalist Muslim. Bush has done more to harm us than Osama, Sadam, or any other person on earth.
My dog has a bad habit of eating shit and throwing up on the back porch. It’s amazing, but I see Bush in the slimy pile. I could sell it on ebay or I could give you a “buy-it-now” opportunity to have a reminder of your hero.
That’s the level of respect I have for your boy.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:58 pmTrish, wow didn’t know you were such a coward?
What are you afraid of? A few terrorists, 99.99% of them cannot afford dinner, let alone coming here to attack, except once every 10 years or so. Why are you such a SCAREDY CAT? And these terrorists might not have had their day on 9-11 had Bush and Company listened to the PDB’s stating Osama is going to attack via airplane, and soon….
You’re such a mindless ass-kissing Bush lover, you make the world sick, I suppose only you know whats best, and the entire world who thinks Bush and his supporters are the worlds worst enemies?
Only CRAZY/STUPID people think they’re right, and everyone else is wrong.
Comment by BanReligion — December 7, 2006 @ 1:38 pm
Guess again, they’re secretly here right now. Think about the open Mexican border, hmmm. Also, more terrorist cells are recruiting non-arab people. They’re also being secretly financed by other middle eastern regions. Please read “Fight Back Liddy Style” by G. Gordon Liddy.
December 7th, 2006 at 3:00 pmwhat’s a guy got to do to get a little leadership around this place?
December 7th, 2006 at 3:05 pmThe ONLY reason I think that we still need to be there, in a much smaller role BTW, is to make sure that Iran, the true culprit in this whole situation, doesn’t turn Iraq into another puppet state for them like Lebanon currently is.
I do think however, that we need to get out of Iraq just to get out of the way and let the Iraqis settle things themselves.
December 7th, 2006 at 3:05 pmTracy..both of these statements came out of your mouth in a single post. So…which IS it? Got logic?
iran is a democracy. they elect their leaders. they are more democratic than most middle eastern countries, except israel.
December 7th, 2006 at 3:07 pmAlso read “Dress Slick Liddy Style” and “Cook Eggs Liddy Style” The eggs book has a chapter that kicks terrorists’ ass!
December 7th, 2006 at 3:07 pm#123 - Daryll
G Gordon Freaking Liddy!!!!! Our Poster Boy from the Trickie Dickie Fun Show??? Now there is a person we ALL can look up to, right along with his buddy, Mr. Ollie (Iran/Contra) North.
Where do you get these books? The Ann Coultergeist Memorial Library????
BTW, say Hi to Daryll and your other brother Daryll.
December 7th, 2006 at 3:07 pmGuess again, they’re secretly here right now. Think about the open Mexican border, hmmm. Also, more terrorist cells are recruiting non-arab people. They’re also being secretly financed by other middle eastern regions. Please read “Fight Back Liddy Style†by G. Gordon Liddy.
Comment by Daryll
I also heard they shoot terrorists over here from a big cannon in Cuba. We must build a huge net over Florida before more come over to undermine our freedom. And don’t get me started about the open Canadian border I mean terrorists would never think of coming over that way. Or how about airplanes…or boats. No its the Mexican border that’s is the problem. I heard they drive taxi cabs…..thank god a Repub Congressman pointed that one out. I’ll bet they all start to have little terrorist babies and in a generation they can vote and get elected….ah then where will we be. Shall we only allow the white male to vote again?
December 7th, 2006 at 3:09 pm#116
December 7th, 2006 at 3:09 pmBluedog49, you know that you’re making the wingnuts heads spin, don’t you?
Facts aren’t exactly the strong suit of kool-aid drunks.
And the US is worse with YOU in office…That help?
December 7th, 2006 at 3:10 pmThings are a little different when you have to MAKE hard decisions.
Comment by Trish — December 7, 2006 @ 1:29 pm
Yeah. It’s so damned hard figuring out what is going on in Iraq. You want to jump on somebody? How about starting with this joke of an administration.
Quotes (paraphrased) from:
Bush: “We are winning in Iraq.”
Cheney: “The general overall situation in Iraq is going remarkably well.”
Robert Gates: “We are not winning in Iraq.”
Tony Snow, in response to a reporter’s question: “Are we winning in Iraq? I don’t know. How do you define winning?”
December 7th, 2006 at 3:13 pmDo you make sure to check under the bed before you wet it?
December 7th, 2006 at 3:17 pm[…] Hi Geroge, welcome to reality…When questioned about weather he was still in denial about Iraq Bush said “It’s bad in Iraq…That help?” well of course we know it’s bad but thanks for letting us know that you joined the party that is reality. Think Progress has a video HERE. […]
December 7th, 2006 at 3:17 pmThe ONLY reason I think that we still need to be there, in a much smaller role BTW, is to make sure that Iran, the true culprit in this whole situation, doesn’t turn Iraq into another puppet state for them like Lebanon currently is.
Comment by Tracy — December 7, 2006 @ 2:44 pm
And think Iraq, Iran were sworned enemies until the Bush (mis)administration had the magnificent idea of invading Iraq, create a power vacuum within that country by gutting all institutions -hence generating a regional power vacuum and leave Iran with no counterbalance.
You’d think the genius of the people at the White House could have foreseen some of these developments, wouldn’t you?
Instead, here you are defending all these misguided policies tooth and nail. The same policies that have made the US less secure not more, and that have left Iran as the regional hegemon.
I think that the initial premise of trying to change that region for the better by promoting democracy was a good idea in and of itself,
Ahem… the main reason for invading Iraq was to rid Hussein’s regime of those WMD, not regime change. May I remind you that going to war for the sole purpose of regime change is contrary to international law.
What do you do when the people you are supposedly helping are shooting at you instead of thanking you?
considering Iran IS NOT a democracy, but I just don’t think the culture over there will allow it any time soon.
Iran is a democracy -albeit far from perfect. They do hold elections and elect the president and the members of the Parliament.
I do think however, that we need to get out of Iraq just to get out of the way and let the Iraqis settle things themselves.
So, does the US still need to be there or not? On the other hand, thanks for recognising what many of us here have been saying for months: The invasion was a bad idea from the very beginning, the occupation was an even worse project to undertake, and the “stay the course” meme is a sham.
The US is not the world’s vigilante.
December 7th, 2006 at 3:18 pmbush, the lying piece of crap has to be hit over the head to realize how much he has f@cked up iraq.
December 7th, 2006 at 3:21 pm#85
He has said for a long time that things are “tough” in Iraq. If you want to get into semantics you are on your own SpungeBOY.
December 7th, 2006 at 3:25 pm#91
“We aren’t democrats.”
Yeah you’re liberal…even worse
December 7th, 2006 at 3:26 pmNew Yorker said:
“Anyone has any doubt left that the Chimp is a sociopath in the clinical sense of the term?
This President is demented. He needs to be institutionalized.”
Many people believe the President is a sociopath, but do you really think he needs to be institutionalized? It’s not like he’s a danger to society…. oh, wait — never mind.
December 7th, 2006 at 3:26 pmThe presidents job as well as being the decider, is also to not needlessly worry his countrymen in a time of war.
We are all his children,he is like a father to the american people.
Thanks for not worrying my beautiful mind with such things dad.
TP and it`s posters could take a lesson from the president.
What you see now is what you get,a strong leader,in difficult times.
There will be no elections in 08.
Wait and see.
tina
December 7th, 2006 at 3:26 pm#92
“But Dubya makes even HIM look good. ”
How many American troops were killed under LBJ’s command?
December 7th, 2006 at 3:28 pm#137 Tracy,
How would Bush KNOW it is tough over there, he had to have his latest Iraqi meeting in freaking JORDAN, because it wasn’t safe enough for him.
And he is also the little National Guard FlyBoy who didn’t want to go to Vietnam and wasn’t even up to finishing his tour in the NG.
What a total LOSER!!!!! But he is YOUR loser right?
December 7th, 2006 at 3:29 pmWhat the “HELL”is there to chuckle about….. 100 solders have died in the last 5 weeks…… 31 have died alone this month and today is only the 7th. and He wants to chukle…..This Man is Sick and is detached from what is really going on… Someone needs to Stop Him……
December 7th, 2006 at 3:29 pmYou know, in all due respect, I’ve been saying it a lot. [I’ve been saying that] I understand how tough it is, and I’ve been telling the American people [that I understand] how tough it is. And they know how tough it is [and they keep trying to tell me about it ‘cuz they seem to think that I don’t really understand… something about nobody in my family serving in the current military or somesuch nonsense].
And the fundamental question is: Do we have a plan to achieve our objective? [And the answer is “well of course we have to plan to achieve our objective, otherwise it wouldn’t be our objective — we’d be objecting to something else.” Duh.] Are we willing to change as the enemy has changed? [And clearly, as I’ve lead us into neoconservofascism, we’re quite willing to change as the enemy has changed. So the answer is a resounding yes! Now I know some of those nay-saying defeatocrats want to say that we shouldn’t change like our enemies, but they clearly don’t understand that this is the fundamental struggle of 1984. Osama bin Laden believes that War is Peace and Freedom is Slavery and Ignorance is Strength, so we’re going to meet him and defeat him on those. United we Stand, These colors don’t run, and God Bless America.]
December 7th, 2006 at 3:30 pm[…] Gewitzt ist er ja. QUESTION: Mr. President, the Iraq Study Group described the situation in Iraq as “grave and deteriorating.†You said that the increase in attacks is “unsettling.†That will convince many people that you’re still in denial about how bad things are in Iraq and question your sincerity about changing course. […]
December 7th, 2006 at 3:31 pm#137…
December 7th, 2006 at 3:33 pmyes, he has used that word often, as has the ex-secretary of war, Donnie boy.
The delivery has always had the inflection of “that’s to bad, sorry, better luck next time…”
People are dying in Iraq and he has the nerve to be flip about it? Can someone give him a blowjob so that we can impeach him?
December 7th, 2006 at 3:33 pmfacts
figures
books
tools
knowledge
postings
Mere dung under my feet.
This president will prevail.
With or without democratic help and support
There will be no elections in 08
How do I know you ask?
I have seen the memo
I will say no more
December 7th, 2006 at 3:36 pm# 141 - Tracy
I was in that one and also was against it, so can’t we learn anything from our past… if not, we are doomed to repeat it, as they say. And Boy are we ever repeating it.
With Dubya in charge, we will have to have a wall bigger than the Vietnam memorial to hold the names of this current adventure. The weekly numbers are getting painfully close lately.
And a difference between LBJ and the Decider, LBJ actually CARED and cried about the troops he was losing, that’s why he wouldn’t run again. Can’t really say the same for your guy.
December 7th, 2006 at 3:36 pm#94
“Yes we do, that is why we support the war in Afghanistan.”
Well that is where your small thinking shows. You seem to think apparently that Islamic fundmentalism only exists in Afghanistan just as you probably think that al Qaeda is only in Afghanistan. The invasion of Iraq and removal of Saddam was an attempt to establish democracy in the Middle East (not oil so don’t even try it)….the ONLY thing that will solve the problem of Islamic fundementalism BTW, and lessen Iran’s goal of total Islamic fundementalist rule in that region.
December 7th, 2006 at 3:39 pmAnd a difference between LBJ and the Decider, LBJ actually CARED and cried about the troops he was losing, that’s why he wouldn’t run again. Can’t really say the same for your guy.
Comment by upside00 — December 7, 2006 @ 3:36 pm
Nobody knew LBJ cried until long AFTER he was gone!
December 7th, 2006 at 3:40 pmOh man, I hate to feed the trolls but here goes…
Tracy: “Yeah you’re liberal…even worse”
Quick question, Tracy, who would you rather have in control in Iran — liberals or conservatives? Given that “liberal” is synonymous with “westernized” and “conservative” with “hard-liners”, I’m guessing you’ll have a hard ime answering.
December 7th, 2006 at 3:41 pm#151
Pistol, and your point is??? At least he had remorse. Dubya wouldn’t know how to spell the word, let alone feel it.
December 7th, 2006 at 3:46 pm“democracy…the ONLY thing that will solve the problem of Islamic fundementalism”
How’s that been working out? You do realize that “Islamic Fundamentalism” just means that they are devout in their beliefs. Its the violent terrorism I thought we had a problem with and, guess what? That’s been on a more than steady rise since Bush