‘Imminent.’
By on Apr 29th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
‘Imminent.’
Defined by most as “likely to occur at any moment; impending.” Condoleezza Rice’s definition: An “imminent threat” is not “if somebody is going to strike tomorrow,” but rather, “it’s whether you believe you’re in a stronger position today to deal with the threat, or whether you’re going to be in a stronger position tomorrow.” FireDogLake and Raw Story have more.
UPDATE: She repeated the line on CNN:
RICE: The question with imminence is, are you in a situation whether you’re better to act now, or are you going to be in a worse situation later? That’s the question that you have to ask in policy.
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April 29th, 2007 at 2:59 pmthis is the most incoherent administration ever...
how many times can one feign facts?
it seems to be a 1 to 1 ratio with the bushies.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:03 pmBullshit Baffles Brains
April 29th, 2007 at 3:06 pmPut down the crack pipe, Condi.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:16 pmBullshit.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:18 pmim·mi·nent
April 29th, 2007 at 3:24 pmPronunciation: 'i-m&-n&nt
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin imminent-, imminens, present participle of imminEre to project, threaten, from in- + -minEre (akin to Latin mont-, mons mountain) -- more at MOUNT
: ready to take place; especially : hanging threateningly over one's head
And, yes, I DO take it personally
Well, if this administration had the gall to redefine torture, why not redefine "imminent" too?
It is such an innocuous word.
Unless you find yourself being the target of an imminent military invasion, that is.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:27 pmAnd the re-writing of history continues.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:36 pmWhy do these interviewers let them get away with it?
....Oh never mind .... I know.
It's pathetic to watch the enablers aid and abet the criminal.
3,300 dead American soldiers in Iraq for the idiocy and lies of these war criminals. Had enough?
April 29th, 2007 at 3:38 pmSo, is the fall of the Third Reich...sorry, the Bush Administration, imminent or impending?
April 29th, 2007 at 3:38 pmWhat nonsense! This means that speculation trumps factual evidence. Abstract theory cancel concrete facts. Isn't this what was flawed about the domino theory?
Indeed, what to make of the well-reasoned speculation of Pappy Bush's administration that invasion of Iraq would lead to a quagmire and the eventual domination of Iran in the region?
April 29th, 2007 at 3:41 pmYeah well our civil right will never be stronger than those of our enemies, and a black woman knows this. F*** her. Traitor.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:43 pmIs imminent idiocy the kind of idiocy that makes you more stupid now then compared to what stupidity you could have exhibited in the future? Did the Cunning Rice learn this double-douchebag talk at Stanford, the Bush-Yale of the West?
April 29th, 2007 at 3:46 pmThe Poorman Institute for Freedom, Democracy and a Pony defines imminent.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:48 pmis it still considered parsing when you make stuff up?
April 29th, 2007 at 3:48 pmWhatever you say, your Imminence.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:53 pmWhat the f*ck? This sh*t makes no sense! Why doesn't she just read some mumbo jumbo from Revelations instead?
April 29th, 2007 at 3:58 pmBut you know what? The Bush koolaid drinkers are actually STUPID enough to buy into this garbage.
Hey, do we have any trolls who want to defend the proposition that Condi's statements mean anything at all?
April 29th, 2007 at 3:59 pmYou can tell these despicable bastards are really down in the polls because they are spewing "they're gonna get us" scare tactics with the same frequency now that they did in the run up to the 2004 eleciton. Maybe the increased talk of impeachment has them looking over their shoulders. I certainly hope so.
April 29th, 2007 at 4:00 pmUp= down, white is black, truth= lies- the parallel universe that the CONTURD and republi-SCUM live in and issue the talking points they legislate and rule by-
The truth has a liberal bias.
April 29th, 2007 at 4:00 pmShes right. It's in the RNC Mobster's Dictionary:
im·mi·nent [ Ãmmin'nt ]
adjective
Definition:
about to occur: about to happen, or threatening to happen unless Condoleezza Rice comes up with another creative meaning. In that case it can be whatever she says it can mean.
Noun
Definition:
Clinton did it.
April 29th, 2007 at 4:01 pmAs a public service to readers, here's a list to consult when the inevitable wingnuts arrive, trying to push the point that no one in the Bush administration ever said the actual words, "imminent threat:"
"I think some in the media have chosen to use the word 'imminent.' Those were not words we used." - White House spokesman Scott McClellan, 1/27/04
"There's no question that Iraq was a threat to the people of the United States."
- White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan, 8/26/03
"We ended the threat from Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction."
- President Bush, 7/17/03
Iraq was "the most dangerous threat of our time."
- White House spokesman Scott McClellan, 7/17/03
"Saddam Hussein is no longer a threat to the United States because we removed him, but he was a threat...He was a threat. He's not a threat now."
- President Bush, 7/2/03
"Absolutely."
- White House spokesman Ari Fleischer answering whether Iraq was an "imminent threat," 5/7/03
"We gave our word that the threat from Iraq would be ended."
- President Bush 4/24/03
"The threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction will be removed."
- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 3/25/03
"It is only a matter of time before the Iraqi regime is destroyed and its threat to the region and the world is ended."
- Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke, 3/22/03
"The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder."
- President Bush, 3/19/03
"The dictator of Iraq and his weapons of mass destruction are a threat to the security of free nations."
- President Bush, 3/16/03
"This is about imminent threat."
- White House spokesman Scott McClellan, 2/10/03
Iraq is "a serious threat to our country, to our friends and to our allies."
- Vice President Dick Cheney, 1/31/03
Iraq poses "terrible threats to the civilized world."
- Vice President Dick Cheney, 1/30/03
Iraq "threatens the United States of America."
- Vice President Cheney, 1/30/03
"Iraq poses a serious and mounting threat to our country. His regime has the design for a nuclear weapon, was working on several different methods of enriching uranium, and recently was discovered seeking significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 1/29/03
"Saddam Hussein possesses chemical and biological weapons. Iraq poses a threat to the security of our people and to the stability of the world that is distinct from any other. It's a danger to its neighbors, to the United States, to the Middle East and to the international peace and stability. It's a danger we cannot ignore. Iraq and North Korea are both repressive dictatorships to be sure and both pose threats. But Iraq is unique. In both word and deed, Iraq has demonstrated that it is seeking the means to strike the United States and our friends and allies with weapons of mass destruction."
- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 1/20/03
"The Iraqi regime is a threat to any American. They not only have weapons of mass destruction, they used weapons of mass destruction...That's why I say Iraq is a threat, a real threat."
- President Bush, 1/3/03
"The world is also uniting to answer the unique and urgent threat posed by Iraq whose dictator has already used weapons of mass destruction to kill thousands."
- President Bush, 11/23/02
"I would look you in the eye and I would say, go back before September 11 and ask yourself this question: Was the attack that took place on September 11 an imminent threat the month before or two months before or three months before or six months before? When did the attack on September 11 become an imminent threat? Now, transport yourself forward a year, two years or a week or a month...So the question is, when is it such an immediate threat that you must do something?"
- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 11/14/02
"Saddam Hussein is a threat to America."
- President Bush, 11/3/02
"I see a significant threat to the security of the United States in Iraq."
- President Bush, 11/1/02
"There is real threat, in my judgment, a real and dangerous threat to American in Iraq in the form of Saddam Hussein."
- President Bush, 10/28/02
"The Iraqi regime is a serious and growing threat to peace."
- President Bush, 10/16/02
"There are many dangers in the world, the threat from Iraq stands alone because it gathers the most serious dangers of our age in one place. Iraq could decide on any given day to provide a biological or chemical weapon to a terrorist group or individual terrorists."
- President Bush, 10/7/02
"The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency."
- President Bush, 10/2/02
"There's a grave threat in Iraq. There just is."
- President Bush, 10/2/02
"This man poses a much graver threat than anybody could have possibly imagined."
- President Bush, 9/26/02
"No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq." - Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 9/19/02
"Some have argued that the nuclear threat from Iraq is not imminent - that Saddam is at least 5-7 years away from having nuclear weapons. I would not be so certain. And we should be just as concerned about the immediate threat from biological weapons. Iraq has these weapons."
- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 9/18/02
"Iraq is busy enhancing its capabilities in the field of chemical and biological agents, and they continue to pursue an aggressive nuclear weapons program. These are offensive weapons for the purpose of inflicting death on a massive scale, developed so that Saddam Hussein can hold the threat over the head of any one he chooses. What we must not do in the face of this mortal threat is to give in to wishful thinking or to willful blindness."
April 29th, 2007 at 4:01 pm- Vice President Dick Cheney, 8/29/02
Credit where it is due: the list was obtained from Raw Story.
April 29th, 2007 at 4:03 pm18. Comment by VerbalKint — I haven't seen one troll for two days? Whats up with that? Its bad when the Troll's aren't even showing up to TP to defend Der FurorBush. It's getting so stupid that they are even starting to understand.
April 29th, 2007 at 4:06 pmc, n thus bush had the wtc broken down on 911
despite:
April 29th, 2007 at 4:06 pmFRANCE: Marky by Sarky
http://ccoaler.blogspot.com/2007/04/marky-by-sarky.html
http://ccoaler.blogspot.com/2007/04/left-reaction-on-sarkozy.html
http://ccoaler.blogspot.com/2007/04/46-of-french-voters-intend-to-vote-thru.html
its more a question of your psyche, your soul, your carma. its a question of I/O.
April 29th, 2007 at 4:10 pm(aye wheres the diffrence between a supervisor stack pointer and an IO handler? THERE! k)
JTitor
The trolls have failed, and thus their funding is just starting to get pulled.
April 29th, 2007 at 4:17 pmAs long as there are profits to be made from the U.S. occupation of Iraq, and as long as the recipients of those spoils continue to funnel a piece of the action to their friends in Washington, D.C., don't expect much to change. Those monies can buy a lot of ad time to convince U.S. citizens to vote against their own interests. So, what has the ruling class sacrificed for the U.S. actions in the Middle East so far? Oh yes, gigantic tax cuts.
April 29th, 2007 at 4:24 pmThe American Heritage Dictionary defines imminent as: about to occur, impending, from the Latin imminens, present participle of imminere, meaning to project over or toward, i.e. to threaten. Blitzer's passivity regarding Rice's statement is simply more evidence that Bill Moyers was right regarding the timidity of the press. Their job is to seek out the truth and not to blindly accept what the government, in the form of Ms. Rice, tells them as being true.
April 29th, 2007 at 4:26 pmspeaking of Imminent.
US forces storms Sadr''s office, arrest those inside
BAGHDAD, April 29 (KUNA) -- Armed clashes broke out in Kadhmiya district in northern Baghdad Sunday after an American force stormed Shiitte cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr's office and arrested some of the people inside.
April 29th, 2007 at 4:28 pmA source at the Iraqi police told KUNA US forces exchanged fire shots with the guards of Al-Sadr's office. He said the guards resisted the American troops.
American army vehicles surrounded the office and the forces started shooting at it then stormed it and arrested the people inside, said the source.
Locals at Khadmiya and eyewitnesses said the exchange of fire lasted for some an hour.
They reported that warnings, through loud speakers of mosques, to the citizens that the American forces were surrounding Al-Sadr's office.
This thinking can be explained by watching this 3 part series....
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=881321004838285177&q=The+Power+of+Nightmares+Part+1&hl=en
April 29th, 2007 at 4:29 pmMaybe the taste of some lovely Peach-Mint would hit the spot about now...
April 29th, 2007 at 4:38 pmThree gang members are walking down the street. Two cops say to each other, "Let's arrest them now, because you know those boys are gonna rob somebody some day and you're off tomorrow."
April 29th, 2007 at 4:43 pmJesus, God! Rice has taken the neo-con "One Percent Doctrine" to new absurd heights.
trolls don't work on Sundays
April 29th, 2007 at 4:43 pmRice: "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."
"I believe the title was 'Bin Laden Determined To Attack Inside the United States."
"Our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors."
"Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia. "
"Iraq will not require sustained aid."
On the destruction of Lebanon July 2006:"What we're seeing here, in a sense, is the growing -- the birth pangs of a new Middle East. And whatever we do, we have to be certain that we are pushing forward to the new Middle East, not going back to the old one. "
Today on CNN's Late Edition:"It is very clear that the U.S. and coalition forces are there by U.N. mandate."
April 29th, 2007 at 4:49 pmdennis's view
April 29th, 2007 at 4:49 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAIJyKhJhiM&mode=related&search=
" The question with imminence is, are you in a situation whether you’re better to act now, or are you going to be in a worse situation later? That’s the question that you have to ask in policy."
Let us assume she is correct in her statement. Let us also take as a given that it is the policy of the Citizens of this Country to expect our elected leaders to live up to their oath of office and defend our Constitution. The question then becomes one of the imminence of the removal from office of King George the Dumb and whether to impeach now or will the Country be in a worse situation if he fulfills his term but not his oath.
I find it hard to believe but I do believe that Condom Rice just advocated the impeachment of KGtD.
April 29th, 2007 at 5:00 pmSaddam was imminent. OBL and 9/11, not so much.
April 29th, 2007 at 5:01 pmWell, the words I said weren't really the words I meant. What I meant to say was......
Can NOBODY in this administration be held accountable for ANYTHING?
April 29th, 2007 at 5:02 pmThis is what Condi defined, without using the term:
Preventive war is war launched in anticipation of a future loss of security or strategic advantage. Preventive war is sharply distinct from preemptive war, or anticipatory self-defense. Preventive war is only claimed to prevent a hypothetical attack which might occur in the future; for example, a war launched to prevent an adversary acquiring more powerful weapons. In international law, preventive war has no recognized status as distinct from a war of aggression. Many, if not most wars have been characterised as "preventive" in nature, often by both sides of the conflict.
April 29th, 2007 at 5:04 pmWhichDoctor, CondomLooser Lice is a complete FACIST phuck!!! She learned her FACIST ways with a PhD in Soviet Studies (FACISM!!) She is an ENEMY WITHIN!!
She will side with the impending, facist, lock down of our society in the name of REPUGNISCUMISM!!!!!!
She must be scorned and resisted forever and ever AMEN!!
April 29th, 2007 at 5:04 pmGod, how much more incompetence can we take?!
April 29th, 2007 at 5:05 pmShe also said the question about the imminence of the threat was not "if somebody is going to strike tomorrow."
And thus it was necessary to invade Iraq before the U.N. inspector's report was published. That was what was imminent, the revelation that the U.N. Sanctions had worked to keep Saddam from obtaining WMD.
April 29th, 2007 at 5:07 pm36 - thanks for the link.
April 29th, 2007 at 5:08 pmImpeach Bush:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmXdep8_IIM&NR=1
April 29th, 2007 at 5:10 pm"You define words with the delusions you have, not with the dictionary you wish you had." - Condi
April 29th, 2007 at 5:11 pmComment by barfly — April 29, 2007 @ 4:01 pm
What is sad and worrisome (and affects the security of this nation) is that there are leaders and countries which could easily substitute U.S. for Iraq and Bush for Saddam. I was struck by an international survey that was done last year where an extremely large percentage said they believed Bush was more dangerous than OBL.
April 29th, 2007 at 5:14 pmComment by impeachcheneythenbush
As I posted just now on another thread, the republicans could salvage something politically from this fiasco, if they would impeach Bush, but count on them to blow it again in '08. I look for a whole lot of newly-registered independents by then, and not former dems.
April 29th, 2007 at 5:20 pm02-22-2001 Rice: US and UK will review all alternatives in dealing w/Iraq
03-01-2001 Rumsfeld, Tenet, Powell & Rice meet to revisit policy on Iraq
07-29-2001 Rice discusses success of Iraq sanctions
07-29-2001 Rice: President considers Saddam a threat even though he's been considerably weakened by sanctions
09-16-2001 Bush to Rice: "We won't do Iraq now...But it's a question we're gonna have to return to"
10-15-2001 Rice: US will act if Iraq threatens its interests
11-18-2001 Rice implies Saddam could be next target
03-11-2002 Rice: US has made no decision on Iraq
07-06-2002 Condoleezza Rice: "the decisions been made - don't waste your breath"
09-08-2002 Condoleezza Rice: The "smoking gun - mushroom cloud"
09-25-2002 Condoleezza Rice makes connection between Al Qaida and Iraq
10-01-2002 Rice: September 11th Attacks "Crystallized our vulnerability"
10-20-2002 Condoleezza Rice "to seek a peaceful solution"
01-23-2003 Rice says Iraq fails to explain their efforts to obtain uranium
02-24-2003 Rice: Authorization for invasion already exists without any new UN resolutions
03-09-2003 Powell, Rice argue for regime change in Iraq and vote on new UN Resolution
03-19-2003 IRAQ WAR BEGINS =============================================================
05-01-2003 Condoleezza Rice says WMD may be 'in bits and pieces' and are 'just-in-time' inventory
05-14-2003 Rice: "...never expected that 'we were going to open garages and find' WMD"
06-08-2003 Rice defends intelligence assessments about nuclear weapons claims and WMD
06-10-2003 Representative Waxman letter to Condoleeza Rice about Bush's claims of evidence about Iraq's nuclear capabilities
07-11-2003 Rice: Tenet had cleared the "16 words" in SOTU speech
07-13-2003 Rice: The "16 words" were accurate
07-30-2003 Condoleeza Rice explains how "16 words" got in the State of the Union Address
07-30-2003 Condoleezza Rice discusses the inclusion of controversial information in the State of the Union address
09-22-2003 Rice: "I think we will we find that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction can be accounted for, and we'll know the truth."
10-08-2003 Rice: [Saddam] might have used WMD or terrorists might aquire WMD from his regime
GOING BY THIS TIMELINE THERES ONLY ONE THING IMMINENT TO ME
April 29th, 2007 at 5:20 pmIf ComdomLooser Lice is ever allowed back into the public discourse in the this country (post GW BOTCH), like that supreme a$$hole Kissinger, it will be the end of this nation!!! She is a completely useless UN-American!!!
April 29th, 2007 at 5:40 pmPreventive and Preemptive
DoD Dictionary of Military Terms
April 29th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Preventive and Preemptive
DoD Dictionary of Military Terms
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc-law.htm#preventive
April 29th, 2007 at 5:44 pm#50 Dixie Blood,
May I assume that you have little use for the bushco? I tend to agree with you.
Keep up the good work!
April 29th, 2007 at 5:45 pmClearly the war in Iraq was not preemptive, but rather a preventive one. Calling it a preemptive one is pure doublespeak.
Preventive war is supposed to be a war crime. Preventive war was what Germany did in WWI and WWII, and what the US did in Iraq.
Prevention or Preemption? - towards a clarification of terminology
April 29th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
Let's just start a Bush administration dictionary!
Terrorist - any person or persons that openly question Bush administration policies.
Competent - having the skill to avoid responsibility or prosecution for the administrations' blunders
Patriotic - willing to circumvent the constitution and/or congress for the benefit of the administration
Just a few off the top of my head.
April 29th, 2007 at 5:52 pmSo, uh, ... if back in 2001 Condi had known the definition of imminent we wouldn't even be in this situation? Jeez, who woulda thought!
April 29th, 2007 at 5:54 pmCondi's definition of "emminent" doesn't even make sense - it's pure bullshit doubletalk. Did she attend the same school as Gonzo by any chance? I suspect that they both never graduated from high school with what I hear emanating from their mouths!
April 29th, 2007 at 6:10 pmJust read "1984" by George Orwell and you've got Bush's dictionary - nothing new or inventive - except Orwell's was acknowledged as "pure fiction"....whoops....so was George Bush's version....sorry!
April 29th, 2007 at 6:11 pmAnother important lie Rice gave was saying that it was not known that the Niger-uranium documents were forgeries:
"We did not know at the time—no one knew at the time, in our circles—maybe someone knew down in the bowels of the agency, but no one in our circles knew that there were doubts and suspicions that this might be a forgery."
The truth was they were known to be poor forgeries 11 months before they were in the Jan '03 State of the Union Speech. They might have been the brainchild of Ledeen and Hadley. Notice how their origins is not a story in the mainstream media.
April 29th, 2007 at 6:14 pmIf you read Condi's bio you will see that Condi has had a deeply entrenched insecurity complex all of her life. This made her Bush's "perfect candidate" to be Secy of State - a job which serves to question and provide balance when the Presnut goes whacko....it's like a rudder on a ship. Enter CondiCandi....Insecure and a "yes gal"....also the clerk at the shoe store in DC where Condi was buying shoes while thousands perished in the New Orleans flood, told me that Condi has "round heels"..... From the Palfrey HookerGate, I presume that's a job qualification for this administration???? Or perhaps it's all in the hands?? Or heels??
April 29th, 2007 at 6:14 pmCondi Rice is OVER with the american people. We're sick and tired of seeing her "Howdie-Doody grin" and her disgusting hairstyles....her dowdy clothing and her superiority complex which is clearly masking her profound inferiority complex.
April 29th, 2007 at 6:17 pmLet's face it: Our Secretary of State is every bit as complicit and a corrupt liar as Alberto VO5....The Dick, Cheney....and The Shrub!
April 29th, 2007 at 6:18 pmTHE BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S PUBLIC STATEMENTS ON IRAQ [pdf]
Between September 8, 2002, and September 28, 2003, National Security Advisor Rice made 29 misleading statements about the threat posed by Iraq in 16 separate public appearances.
Although Ms. Rice had the fewest public appearances and the fewest misleading statements, ... she had the highest number of statements that were false. ...(p iv)All of Condi's Iraq lies, listed one by one
April 29th, 2007 at 6:19 pmComment by Clyde the Ripper — April 29, 2007 @ 5:45 pm
You bet Mr. Ripper!! I was wearing a pin, in 1999, that read "ABB" ANYBODY BUT BUSH!!! I asked all my friends how they could vote for someone dumber than me for president. They thought he was smarter than me I guess. Who's the dummy now?
I am an original 22 percenter (sp?) that was against the BOTCH WAR from the very beginning!!!!!! Now I'm amoung the 66 percenters (sp?)!!
April 29th, 2007 at 6:20 pmCan't wait till she starts writing a book.
April 29th, 2007 at 6:24 pmOr maybe she can team up with Gonzo and have their own act on Comedy Central.
They could come on before Stewart and Colbert, and all Jon and Steve would have to do is sit there with smiles on their faces.............
hopefully all her future holds is teaching semantics at a minimum security prison as part of her sentence.
April 29th, 2007 at 6:30 pm#64 Dixie Blood
DUHbya is dumber than everybody in this Country except Laura. She has to be dumber than him to marry him. Even with Ma Babs blackmail.
April 29th, 2007 at 6:55 pmCondi, I believe you are confusing "imminent" and
April 29th, 2007 at 6:58 pm"eminence".
65 - I suppose the grandest book of all will be Bush's. I expect a coloring book, with connect-the-dots that don't go anywhere.
April 29th, 2007 at 7:19 pmCome on, give her a break.It must have been the author of the breif that simply used the wrong word there.Either way her explaining is a waste of time since she didn't pay attention to it anyway.
April 29th, 2007 at 8:14 pmBut when has the real meaning of a word been an issue.After all words are only sounds that come out of your mouth subject to distance,noise levels and wind direction among other things.
You see if the distraction is dressed up right the subject fades into a different issue.
There are many dressed up distractions making noise right now.
Pay attention.
Hint: look at world map of oil and gas pipelines,existing, planned and under construction.Now look who controls the most wealth (gold) and add to that who is manufacturing and selling weapons to who.
Dylan's image of a clown with his hand in his pants always comes to mind when I consider this repulsive administration.
April 29th, 2007 at 8:53 pmSounds alot like the progressive position on global warming. I guess we should just wait until the sea swallows Manhattan to work on limiting our carbon footprints.
April 29th, 2007 at 9:52 pmBriseadh na Faire. Yeah, Bush is an idiot. But, it is worth remembering, he beat the best your party could offer. Twice.
April 29th, 2007 at 9:54 pm#72 - paul,
Did you hurt yourself stretching for that one?
April 29th, 2007 at 9:54 pmZooey. It was the best I could do. Alot of these posts are too complicated (or boring) for my ADHD brain.
April 29th, 2007 at 10:06 pmThat is the strangest definition of "imminent" I've ever read.
April 29th, 2007 at 10:07 pmZooey. It was the best I could do. Alot of these posts are too complicated (or boring) for my ADHD brain.
Comment by paul
That explains a lot.
April 29th, 2007 at 10:11 pmThat is the strangest definition of “imminent†I’ve ever read.
Comment by kelso
Things are strange when pulled out of one's butt.
April 29th, 2007 at 10:19 pmOn Wednesday May 1st, the United States will mark the fourth anniversary of President Bush's declaration of "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq. But as the carnage continues and the war funding debate rages, President Bush and allies in the conservative amen corners can only offer the American people recycled talking points to sell his catastrophically ill-conceived war without end.
For a look back at four years of wartime marketing gone bad, see:
April 29th, 2007 at 10:37 pm"Mission Accomplished: 4 Years of GOP Iraq Talking Points."
Briseadh na Faire. Yeah, Bush is an idiot. But, it is worth remembering, he beat the best your party could offer. Twice. Comment by paul — April 29, 2007 @ 9:54 pm
Yeah, he SINGLE HANDEDLY beat Gore by losing by a half million votes, and then surviving a rigged vote in Florida, thanks to his buddies on the Supreme Court. Yeah, that's the kind of *victory*, than normally people equate with gambling houses that have their tables smashed by gaming wardens.
You're an idi*t.
April 29th, 2007 at 10:39 pmThis administration was almost drunk with hubris after the CIA, the Northern Alliance and our air power deposed the Taliban. Preemption was the new policy. Bush was telling the rest of the world they were either with us or against us. Pride damn well went before the fall.
April 29th, 2007 at 10:47 pmCondi Rice is actually a dunce who slept her way into her position.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:42 pmSomehow I think Condi's dictionary (along with the rest of the neocon's and their harem) is a bit different than Webster's.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:54 pm#82 I disagree. She knows she is a lying whore. She is a sellout of the highest degree. My great, great, great aunt Harriet Beecher Stowe would call her an Uncle Tom.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:56 pmJPark > Condi is an Uncle Tom, but she did not climb her way up the ladder of power by her intellect. I have not seen one bit of intelligence in anything she has said or done as Secretary of State.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:59 pm#85 She is a loyal Bushite. There is no other trait necessary.
April 30th, 2007 at 12:05 amthat depends on what your definition of "is" is Condi
April 30th, 2007 at 12:41 amTranslation: Imminent is whatever I can get away with.
April 30th, 2007 at 2:03 amI can't believe that four years have passed and journalists are just now getting around to trying to nail the BushCo language down.
April 30th, 2007 at 4:23 amRICE – The enabler of Armageddon:
Secretary of State Rice's response to the disaster in New Orleans was: "The Lord Jesus Christ is going to come on time." She added: "If we just wait." "On time"? How does Rice know the exact time Armageddon starts? “If we just wait� That means in her, that is our, lifetime!
By using NSA intelligence to set an invisible tripwire, the Bush administration is laying the condition for regional conflagration with untold consequences -- from Pakistan to Afghanistan, from Iraq to Israel. Secretly devising a scheme that might thrust Israel into a ring of fire cannot be construed as a blunder. It is a deliberate, calculated and methodical plot.
In order to try to understand the neoconservative road map, senior national security professionals have begun circulating among themselves a 1996 neocon manifesto against the Middle East peace process. Titled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," its half-dozen authors included neoconservatives highly influential with the Bush administration -- Richard Perle, first-term chairman of the Defense Policy Board; Douglas Feith, former undersecretary of defense; and David Wurmser, Cheney's chief Middle East aide.
Richard Haass, the Middle East advisor on the elder Bush's National Security Council and President Bush's first-term State Department policy planning director, and now president of the Council on Foreign Relations, openly scoffed at Bush's Middle East policy in an interview on July 30 in the Washington Post:
"The arrows are all pointing in the wrong direction. The biggest danger in the short run is it just increases frustration and alienation from the United States in the Arab world. Not just the Arab world, but in Europe and around the world. People will get a daily drumbeat of suffering in Lebanon and this will just drive up anti-Americanism to new heights." When asked about the president's optimism, he replied, "An opportunity? Lord, spare me. I don't laugh a lot. That's the funniest thing I've heard in a long time. If this is an opportunity, what's Iraq? A once-in-a-lifetime chance?"
It is a deliberate, calculated and methodical plot.
"A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm"
Meyrav Wurmser was its author.
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April 30th, 2007 at 7:52 amImminent is fear word.
Put "imminent" in front of anything and you automatically scare little old ladies and neo con bootlickers.
April 30th, 2007 at 8:46 amInteresting... I wonder how Condi's dictionary defines "mendacity", or "prevaricate", or "corrupt", "homicidal", "delusional", and hopefully "convicted' and "incarcerated".
April 30th, 2007 at 9:32 amIt's obvious. She means that it was the U.S. who was the imminent threat at the time, not Iraq.
April 30th, 2007 at 10:12 amUm, I don't think she was literally defining the word "imminent." She was merely relating the questions that must be addressed in an "imminent situation."
May 7th, 2007 at 10:36 pm