Great moments in Bush’s Iraq speeches.
By on Jan 11th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Great moments in Bush’s Iraq speeches.
MSNBC takes a look back from “this will not be a campaign of half-measures” to “mistakes have been made.”
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So Failure in Chief threatens anticipatory repercussions of the eventual reality of his mistake. I could do a dissertation on his incompetence and historical colossal failures. However, it is poignant to note that Failure in Chief’s only defense is to hold America hostage in a failed direction. America rejects that fear card and resents the impotence thrust upon us.
There is no remaining credibility or stance to his delusion since he has been incorrect 100% of the time regarding this optional blunder, now he assumes his judgment has any remaining credibility? That is laughable.
I can prove the WH and this incompetent administration lacks all credence and is incompetent. If you buy the lie espoused by the Failure in Chief, that our society, mind you, all of civilization is in jeopardy then where is the measurable determined leadership and action? During WWII we rallied every resource of our society to fight and win. Where is the drive for a million men? Where is the draft? Where is the tax to pay for two wars? Failure in Chief tells you to go shopping. How persistently pathetic
January 11th, 2007 at 11:18 amA sociopath ONLY admits one mistake when he is clearly using it as a strategy to condone a larger one – Psychiatry 101!
Does this idiot really think the american people have any respect for him at this point?
No one I know even watched the speech – pretty telling right there. Besides, most people feel sorry for him and his obvious psychopathology and can no longer watch him making a total fool of himself nationally and internationally.
His handlers need to keep him off the air – he’s a big enough fool in people’s eyes and he doesn’t need to compound it by pushing his tomfoolery continually before people’s eyes. YYYYYYUUUUUUKKKKK!
January 11th, 2007 at 11:19 amOUR Global Village Idiot!!
January 11th, 2007 at 11:20 am~ Sad & Touchin’.
Shocking & Awful
January 11th, 2007 at 11:21 amThe history books will be full of contradictory statements this guy has made which illustrate the mind of a deluded madman. This is precisely what his legacy will be.
In today’s age of technology, you can no longer speak with forked tongue or out of both sides of your mouth. The proof is there and the sound bites will bit you in the proverbial arss! Bring on the inconsistencies, half truths, outright lies, and plain old bastardization of the English language.
January 11th, 2007 at 11:21 amdear god he really is a bufoonish sock puppet isn’t he?
Someone please explain how so many people can look at that, listen to it and still see a leader.
January 11th, 2007 at 11:22 amFlip flopping away, flip flopping away
January 11th, 2007 at 11:22 amYou know the nearer your destination, the more you flip flopping away…
…i’m a super nice person. However, it struck me while watching W last night….i don’t care one bit about Iraq. Talk about health care, energy, environmental contamination, childhood obesity, etc ! The reason W intentionally botched the occupation/resurrection is starkly evident: so the fog would hide his contempt for the American ideal. I can count his good deads on my two hands…but need a mid-sized city of hands to count his bad deeds. This person is clearly an ‘enemy of the state’ and needs to be impeached ASAP. Please support your reps to this end.
January 11th, 2007 at 11:24 amGreat moments in Bush’s Iraq speeches = “Good Night.”
OT, I loved the line in the Democratic response last night, that Iraqis cannot keep calling 9-1-1 for America’s help in securing their country. Now, if there had been a “slip” and it was enunciated as 9-11 or if there was an added line that Bush cannot keep calling on 9-11 for help with his policies, it would have been perfect.
January 11th, 2007 at 11:24 amWorst War President Ever
January 11th, 2007 at 11:24 amFrankly, there are times when I feel very sorry for him. Does he have any insight into how foolish he acts and how unintelligently he speaks. Run for the hills when he goes “off the cuff” and begins ad libbing. I cringe when that happens and, predictably, he says something he shouldn’t or mutilates the grammar or pronunciation….nuke-u-ler! Still needs remedial speech lessons on that one! Pathetic, really.
I can’t recall a time when the american public respected a president less. I can’t recall a time when the voice of the people has been so continuously ignored. I cannot recall a time where a fool fixed an election to take the highest office in the country. I guess that’s what Hobbes meant when he said that “when man builds on shaky ground (stolen offices), the greater he builds (Iraq War), the greater is HIS ruin (the destruction of our country from within). Important lesson to be learned here.
But, given all of this, can this country wait two years for real change? Can the voice of the people be ignored for two more years which will result in greater depletion of our national spirit? Two more years of self destruction will certainly cripple this country and bring it to it’s knees. I say the bringing to the knees of one man will result in the rising of the american people FROM their knees to a position of power once again……a resurrection of this dying democracy….
January 11th, 2007 at 11:27 amWell, you cant say that bush isn’t capable of lying with a straight face. He’s been doing it for 4 years on Iraqnam alone.
January 11th, 2007 at 11:30 amTalking about Iraq when this country is crumbling to shambles all around us is like worrying about nematodes in your neighbor’s garden when yours is overtly being destroyed by racoons while you watch!
We’ve taken our eye off the ball and haven’t even taken care of our own victims of Karina and we’re sooooooo concerned about Iraq?? What gives here? Stealing more of the War money perhaps?? Big Oil (Bush & Cheney) filling their coffers even more?
What has happend to the middle class of this country?? People having to make choices between eating and affording their medicine?? People not being able to afford homeowners insurance and then having their homes destroyed by hurricanes? People losing everything they’ve ever owned because they fall ill and cannot afford to pay their hospital bills?
We used to care about our middle class. We used to care about each other. We used to care what happened to our neighbor. We used to have a great country. We used to have a democracy. We used to……..
January 11th, 2007 at 11:30 amveritas
I also sometimes feel a bit sorry for Bush. Without Iraq, he’s got nothing. With Iraq, he’s got worse than nothing. The American people used the Peter Principle on Bush, elevating him to a position way above his head.
January 11th, 2007 at 11:34 amYes, there was one great moment in Bush’s speech last night.
He didn’t wear a red power tie.
January 11th, 2007 at 11:35 amA $1Billion dollar jobs program to rebuild Iraq? What about New Orleans, President Butt Munch? Why does he hate America so much?
January 11th, 2007 at 11:40 amNice New Orleans remark, Bush seems to finance unlimited destruction /reconstruction of Iraq, but obviously has forgotten his own country basic needs.
January 11th, 2007 at 11:46 amPeople, it’s up to US to stop this madness. WE have to hold the miserable failure accountable, before he kills hundreds of thousands more. WE are his boss; WE are responsible for letting him continue his killing spree and bankrupting of OUR nation.
January 11th, 2007 at 11:47 am[...] Think Progress has a video up from MSNBC (Joe Scarborough of all people) of clips from great Bush addresses. No CC though, so you have to watch it with the sound on. Bummer. [...]
January 11th, 2007 at 11:51 amSo the merry-go-around spins faster. And to think the dems will be capable of slowing or stopping the spin all together. NOT! Flat wrong. Gonna need the citizens of this country to stand together for this one. Oh wait, not gonna happen. Like ‘Your Conscience’ says,”stay the course American citizens, shop, ignore and be fat.” Hmmm, anyone know the how much the taxes are GOING to go up because of our ignorance? Anyone? Being the capitalistic society that we are, surely Americans know we gonna foot the bill. I am shoring and bracing for that tax bill in 2yrs. I hear Mexico has very inexpensive land. Good luck my fellow citizens.
January 11th, 2007 at 11:54 amBush was against admitting mistakes before he was for it.
January 11th, 2007 at 11:56 am“I’ve made it clear to the Prime Minister and Iraq’s other leaders that America’s commitment is not open-ended…So America will hold the Iraqi government to the benchmarks it has announced…To establish its authority, the Iraqi government plans to take responsibility for security in all of Iraq’s provinces by November.”
Let’s have it now. What will the excuse be in November when yet another condition isn’t met? You’ll tell us the situation is unacceptable, that things didn’t change as quickly as you’d hoped, that you’ll be consulting with all the generals who agree with you and a bipartisan panel consisting of Joe Lieberman and a few Republican senators to find a new plan for whatever it is we’re trying to do in Iraq, but that we can’t pull out and let everything fall apart. Is that about right?
It’s been four years now and things only continue to get worse, not better. You’re all out of last chances. Get out.
January 11th, 2007 at 12:02 pmI’d say he as dumb as a box of rocks, but I don’t think you should denagrade boxes of rocks
January 11th, 2007 at 12:07 pm“Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me. It is clear that we need to change our strategy in Iraq…”
January 11th, 2007 at 12:14 pmthis crook has to be on tranquilizers…. no wonder he can’t think
logically, but in reality i understand he is quite a hot head.
however in reality bush is just following the orders to who he
serves, the ultra wealthy which totally corrupts everything
oh yeh they serve the people all right… take services were suppose to
get and steer it towards earmarks and funding for oil, pharma, defense,
whatever else can serve their political contributions
if the real american people were to really be impeached he would have
been impeached a long time ago, not some superficial paradox of
serving the people all right. lies, lies, & more lies…. the 109th congress
just shines the light how bad corruption has infested public servants…
with dracula and all this arm twisting of bush, it’s all corruption
enough to make you PUKE :(
January 11th, 2007 at 12:24 pmLISTEN PEOPLE…
we don’t need IMPEACH and clean the government out
January 11th, 2007 at 12:27 pmof all the leeches and corruption :)
The Washington Post is reporting…”Majority of Post-ABC poll respondents oppose president’s plan to add troops and are skeptical on increasing chance for victory.” He’s fooling fewer and fewer people.
January 11th, 2007 at 12:28 pmI find the banter interesting. This is A. Hitler or Sadam, times ten, and we are hamstrung what to do?????
January 11th, 2007 at 12:34 pmCORRECTION —
listen people…. we don’t have to change any strategy concerning
iraq… it’s been a failure.
but what we do need to do is IMPEACH and clean out all these
corrupt leeches, crooks, and return the government back to
the people NOW
now i fully understand exactly what corruption is and just 3 years
January 11th, 2007 at 12:36 pmago i thought this kind of insanity we are witnessing today was
rare and an exception… all that changed with the 109th and
now this insane war lord bush….. absolutely horrendously
sickening…. PUKE … :(
“Sending more Americans would undermine
January 11th, 2007 at 12:47 pmour strategy of encouraging Iraqis to take
the lead in this fight. And sending more
Americans would suggest that we intend
to stay forever…”
— Liar in Chief, June 2005
Flip flopping away, flip flopping away
You know the nearer your destination, the more you flip flopping away…
Comment by JPV — January 11, 2007 @ 11:22 am
JPV, every time I hear the phrase “slippery slope”, I hear Paul Simon in my head. (Okay, meds might help, but… ;-D) (That parenthesis makes it look like my little emoti-face or whatever you want to call it has a double chin!)
January 11th, 2007 at 12:53 pmI can count his good deads on my two hands…
Not unless you’ve got 1500 fingers on each hand (and that’s just counting Americans).
January 11th, 2007 at 1:17 pmSo drop on the deck and flop like a fish…
Sponge Bob Squarepants
January 11th, 2007 at 1:21 pmWasn’t long ago this fool was prancing around in a poor fitting flight suit claiming victory and taunting the enemy to “bring it on”. He has been dead wrong from day one and it is fitting he be removed from office and charged as a war criminal and for his crimes against humanity.
Let none of us forget, when he offers the all shucks, some mistakes were made that this is the fascist empire building dictator who has secret prisons of torture and he has killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people, including mothers with children.
January 11th, 2007 at 1:28 pmOpen your eyes people, and see through the Neo-Con, right-wing, zionist agenda that is being bobmbarded at you by their media content control-methods.
January 11th, 2007 at 2:02 pmIf you havent already, watch the movie called “V FOR VENDETTA”.
I can’t get the video to play.
January 11th, 2007 at 4:12 pmKatrina…Bush said am accountable for the federal government mistakes. Look at New Orleans, what has changed?? Now he says the same thing about Iraq and we’re to believe that change is going to come with this troop surge?? yeah right, pull my finger and my ass will play Santa Baby for ya.
January 11th, 2007 at 4:15 pmjohn Kerry was right. Think about all the things he said during the “04″ race regarding Iraq.
January 11th, 2007 at 4:19 pmCalling anything a ‘mistake’ is copping a plea.
Let Bush be brought before the dock on charges first — then the court can hear his plea.
Crimes may be mistakes, but ‘mistakes were made’ is a defense.
Where is the court to hear that defense? Because if he’s pleading to me, I already know he is a bastard traitor who, on the Nuremberg standard, should hang from the neck until the smirk turns to wax.
January 11th, 2007 at 4:58 pmMarcus, not only was Senator Kerry right, but Kerry won the election in 2004.
They stole the count. Most obviously in Ohio, where the $125,000 we raised for the court-ordered recount did not buy us a recount. It bought a load of bs from OH SecState Katherine Blackwell, liar and co-conspirator for Bush.
January 11th, 2007 at 5:01 pmThought this was an interesting way to point out the fallacies in his arguments. http://hardblogger.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/01/11/30328.aspx
January 11th, 2007 at 6:05 pmI watched the whole thing, and I’ve been angry since. If our elected officials don’t stop the Iraq was NOW, and start impeachment proceedings against Bush, Cheney and his entire posse, then the American people are going to have to revolt. Get to work Congress, NOW, not later. Do your mother-fu–ing job you a-holes, or we’ll do it for you. The time for tolerating this nonsense ended six years ago. We’re overdue. This entire administration, along with every single republican needs to be indicted, impeached and imprisoned. The American people have had enough of being given the finger by the republican party. Enough!
January 11th, 2007 at 7:22 pmWhen will a leader arise from the black cloud of lies and deceit? This Bush dynasty is a slap in the face to the American Citizen.
January 11th, 2007 at 7:23 pmThis LIAR, this URSURPER, this IGNORANT piece of KKKrappp makes me SICK!! How much longer must Our Country be DESTROYED by this Smirking, Reptilian Alien posing as a Human Being? Along with fellow Satanist “Lame Dick” Cheney, they only work for their Masters–Israel Zionists, Right Wing Fundamentalists, the Military-Industrial Complex, Big Oil, and the Illuminati ‘New World Order’!! OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!!
January 11th, 2007 at 9:50 pmIMPEACH! INCARCERATE! IMPALE THE SOBs!!!
January 11th, 2007 at 9:51 pmIMPEACH! INCARCERATE! IMPALE THE SOBs!!!
January 11th, 2007 at 9:51 pmJust get out and let the iraqis work it out themselves. Enough Americans have died for oil profits.
January 12th, 2007 at 12:44 amPaul in LA is somewhat right.
You are all falling for the propaganda. To say that Bush is incompetent and stupid is to completely fall into his hands. If you actually think Bush is the one really in charge, then you need to seek psychiatric help. He does exactly what he’s told, he’s there to sign orders and cop the flak for whatever policy is being pushed.
Bush is a puppet, don’t buy into the “Bush the idiot elf” propaganda that will only serve to give some degree of legitimacy to what is being done in the American people’s names.
January 12th, 2007 at 4:24 amWe get the leaders we deserve
January 12th, 2007 at 5:17 amgeorge bush is laughing at american people, and the world thinking we are just cattle needing to be culled, you first and all your satanist friends, BARSTARDS.
January 12th, 2007 at 8:02 amwell you american citizens dont do anything about it anyway, so dont whine about it,theydestroyed your life because of those stupid laws…its not only the goverment, you people can still change it but begin with yourself and be good for other people…
January 12th, 2007 at 8:33 ambtw you guys are not the only one, we depent on the US..if the US will collapse, the world collapse!
January 12th, 2007 at 8:37 amIf only there was an “Easy Button” to push!
January 12th, 2007 at 10:05 amdudes and dudettes, I’m in the navy… worst mistake ever btw and ya… let me be the first to tell you that’s the leader of the entire military, and all the way down the chain it just continues to get yet even more retarded than him! yes! it is possible to have yet even worse leaders than that moron. we’re led by amateurs that are just learning how to be a leader from experience. that’s why we get morons like bush. it’s like throwing a kid in the middle of a lake to teach him how to swim.
January 12th, 2007 at 10:17 amgeorge bush and all the neo cons, the new world order gang, bilderburge, trilateral commision, council on foreign relations jhon howard tony blair george bush are just pawns in the game of political fall outs of the higher agenda of of the 4 new economical unions they have put in place, american union, asian union, middle eastern union which is a treaty between israel and the palistinians, and the last one, european union. this is already inplace out of caos will come order yes a world economical calapse is all that is needed and will happen thanks to our selfish ways may god save us from what is taking place.
January 12th, 2007 at 11:29 amEvery ones thanks Bush is an idiot, he as. Get him on his Society, Freemasons, Illuminati, Bilderberg, Zion, and New World Order. No know the other’s, few take the false for him to spoke.
January 12th, 2007 at 11:29 amBush promise the troops they would be home in time for Christmas.
January 12th, 2007 at 12:21 pmapprox. 6 months. They will still be there in twenty years possibly much longer. Plan for new american century.
Expose who were the real perpetrators of 9/11 and how it was an inside job (as all the physical, scientific and visual evidence, backed up by powerful testimonies like the one from William Rodriguez, show it was) and the NWO House of Cards will collapse.
January 13th, 2007 at 2:14 amI am so sick by this administration. It is frightening. We’ll end up with another revolution. I can’t believe this is even happening. I can’t see Bush on TV, I get sick looking at him. People with AIDS are losing benefits, everything in our country gets worse. Iraq, jeez, I don’t get it. Bush is the total opposite of love. What is ol’ Abe Lincoln’s spirit thinking?????? years ago i always heard people talking about 2012 and the changes to happen, so many will die and the loving, spiritual will rebuild. Nostradamus, hos prophecies, all this stuff I think is to be true. A-A-N
January 14th, 2007 at 7:54 pmWhat is it you don’t understand Mr. President, Congress, Senate and Supreme Court? I WANT MY AMERICA BACK.
Sister nurse collegue, blog #60 and all interested:
Yes Bush doesn’t make sense at times and a detriment to the human race especially us Americans and Iraqis who are dying to save his image, what an image! In looking behind his face and image I want to know what drives this man, I know who but how it is done.
From the carnage of the US that is quickly on its way to becoming a third world country as our infrastructure has been sold to the highest bidder Look at the horror of the North American Union, it is here ripping the heart of America out
Would you or I stand for the corruption in Washington, no, emphatically. Then why do they? How is this orchestrated? Maybe our elected officials become possessed by greed, power, a satan, aliens, implants, mind control ? I don’t know. Do you?
Something is not right for so many people to witness the complete destruction of America by the hands of a few,
The New World Order is their plan not a plan that I made up or agree with . It is their conspiracy, not mine. The bible’s Armageddon scenario has always been their plan to bring about the NWO is being trumped by their inbred descendants, behind them the old robber barons and their greed filled puppets, the Neocons, found within both major political parties.
With the completion of the North American Union, they essentially own us. That will give total dominance to them with chipping us and withholding free energy and good health and abundance from the common person as they have done for centuries.
I predict that when the house of cards falls, and it will fall soon, we would have world wide sustainability in a very short time.
The wizard is behind the curtain, ladies and gentlemen, and the quicker we leave Oz the better off we will be………but make sure we don’t go back to Kansas, the heart of NAFTA nightmare.
It is not too late. All we have to do is to make our representatives adhere to the law of the land and nothing else, By working within the system it can be done, it must be done for our survival. I WANT MY AMERICA back, don’t you?
Trisha
A hard working American registered nurse
January 15th, 2007 at 11:57 amWe the citizens need to fast, pray and scream for help to The Most High. Bush and his administration think that our soldiers are dispensable and disposable. Where are their young kinfolks these days? Taking family photographs together and getting drunk, socializing and partying. I say put them in the war too and see if they still want to “sacrifice” for the lies of this war. Not only impeach Bush, Cheney and Rice, but drag their loved ones out of their comfort zones into the war zone. Make them separate from spouses and children and their cozy homes. That might snap Bush out of his insensitivity.
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