Gov. Perdue to Iraq critics: ‘Keep your mouth shut.’
By on May 11th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Gov. Perdue to Iraq critics: ‘Keep your mouth shut.’
This morning, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue (R) was a guest on the radio show of former Education Secretary Bill Bennett on WKGA in Atlanta. He lashed out at the Republicans who have been criticizing President Bush on the Iraq war, stating that “until you’ve got a better idea, keep your mouth shut.” He added, “The president did not choose war. The president chose to protect the United States of America, and he did.” (Listen to the audio HERE.)
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The President did not choose war? Jeebus, talk about being delusional.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:42 pmSonny must be related to the chicken producer.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:44 pmDo we REALLY have to refute EVERY wingnut talking point EVERY time one of them uses one? I’m getting exhausted.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:44 pmYo Sonny boy, the better idea is to stop occupying the country we invaded and destroyed. Now stfu.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:44 pmthis is just what these neo-cons and their media whores do.
if you oppose the government – shut up. if you oppose war – shut up.
if you don’t shut up, maybe we’ll have to make you shut up.
People who support peace, liberty, free speech and the like, are the ones who love this country and what it stands for.
Perdue, and the rest of these criminals, clearly hate America – and liberty.
Some reading:
“The America-Haters Strike Again”
May 11th, 2007 at 1:45 pmhttp://www.populistamerica.com/the_america_haters_strike_again
No, Sonny. Bush choosed to fool the people towards an illegal war against the wrong enemy based on false pretenses.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:46 pmTechnically, he may be right. Cheeeney and the neocon boys chose war and W. went along for the joyride.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:46 pmThis is another installment of Republicans eating their own…
May 11th, 2007 at 1:47 pmBush may not have chosen the “War on Terror” but he did indeed choose to invade Iraq and start that war under false pretenses. How could Bush “protect” America whith his invasion of Iraq when Saddam wasn’t even a threat to his neighbors?
May 11th, 2007 at 1:47 pmIn other words: “NO SNITCHING!”
May 11th, 2007 at 1:48 pm“The president did not choose war. The president chose to protect the United States of America, and he did.”
BS
He did chose to go to war, and it had little to to with protecting America from the terr-wrists. And for his terrible lack of judgement, he deserves to be dropped off in the middle of baghdad and find his way back to America on his own. Like in that show, man vs. wild.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:49 pmAww, yet another W lackey who can’t stand the liberal bias of reality
Boo Fuckin’ Hoo, Perdue, Cry Me A Fuckin’ River and get your ass over to Iraq to support your Glorious Leader if he’s so right about the meat-grinder chewing up so many US and Iraqi lives
May 11th, 2007 at 1:49 pmSo much for free speech and dissent eh? May they rest in peace.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:49 pmhow wrong can one person be?
May 11th, 2007 at 1:50 pmOn just what planet does this idiot live?
May 11th, 2007 at 1:50 pmSonny,
May 11th, 2007 at 1:51 pmYou need to give the peach juice sippin’ a break.
“until you’ve got a better idea, keep your mouth shut.â€
here’s mine: sonny perdue for governor of diyala province.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:52 pmDo republicans pussie out against loud mouthes like this?
Better plans have been flowing for years now.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:52 pmThe Republican lemmings are marching right off the cliff together.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:52 pmAnother believer in freedom of speech – Fair and balanced news as well! O’ YAY!
May 11th, 2007 at 1:53 pmThis would funny….if people weren’t dieing.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:53 pm….and WHO decides WHAT is a better idea?
May 11th, 2007 at 1:53 pmIn other words: “NO SNITCHING!â€
Comment by qusan — May 11, 2007 @ 1:48 pm
Nicely put. It calls to mind the difficult first step that prisoners and parolees have to take in order to enter substance-abuse treatment. The prison code calls for “no snitching”. The recovery code of behavior calls for “total honesty”. The client who falls back on the old standards of no snitching is one who will fail to deal with his issues.
In other words, “no snitching” is a criminal standard of behavior. “Total honesty” is anathema to Republican values.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:54 pmSTFU, Sonny.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:55 pmJust because the Gov. has a mouth doesn’t mean he can say anything.
Preemptive war without complete anihilation is a failure. Not advocating it, just pointing it out.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:55 pmthere’s one more Governor’s mansion a Democrat will soon inhabit!!!
thanks, cracker
May 11th, 2007 at 1:55 pmBetter idea: leave now. Now, YOU shut up.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:56 pmI have a better idea, so my mouth ain’t shut.
Withdraw all troops from Iraq. The Iraqi congress wants us to leave, the American people want us to leave, and Al Queda is a little whisp of nonsense compared to the ethnic violence in Iraq.
GTFO, and wait for the world to ASK for our help. Take all that money and rebuild New Orleans, Kansas, and a few thousand American schools over 50 years old in this country.
Now, you may not like that idea, but it’s a better idea. If you still want me to shut up, you’re going to need more guns.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:57 pm“until you’ve got a better idea, keep your mouth shut.â€
- Sonny Perdue (R)
I love how the wingnuts have to pretend that “better ideas” just don’t exist in order to silence their critics. As if no one had ever suggested benchmarks, or timetables for withdrawal, or Iraqis taking charge of their own security. Nope. No one ever suggested any of those. First I’ve heard of it.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:58 pmTHE PRESIDENT DID NOT CHOOSE WAR???? What? What planet are you from dumb as$? The boy moron chose war before he stole his way into office.
And Satan (Dick) chose war way back in the 90s, these scum have been aching for control of the Middle Eastern OIL for years.
Some think that they just didn’t think it out well enough, NO, they did and they just don’t care how many die to get what they want.
It’s all about OIL and WAR PROFITING, period.
Americans are too bogged down in trying to make ends meet and are just numb from being brainwashed into good little rats running that treadmill to get involved.
Just the fact that these criminals are still in office says it all. It is all going to come crumbling down soon if this keeps up.
GAS IS NEAR $4 a GALLON in Washington State already, how’s that energy task force working for you guys now, uh?
Hating the Repukian Mafia daily
May 11th, 2007 at 1:58 pm#14: On just what planet does this idiot live? – - The planet Georgia, where it’s 1953.
May 11th, 2007 at 2:00 pmReminds me of a Chris Rock line, “I’m not afraid of al Qaeda, I’m afraid of Al Cracker.” Gov. Perdue is Al Cracker? Who knew he was real?
May 11th, 2007 at 2:03 pmHey Sonny!
In the words of the honerable Senator Daniel P. Moynihan. from the great state of New York…
“You are entitled to your own opinions. You are not entitled to your own facts.”
May 11th, 2007 at 2:05 pm“until you’ve got a better idea, keep your mouth shut.â€
I have a better idea…in fact, I’ve had a better idea since 2002.
Do I have to “keep my mouth shut” as well?
May 11th, 2007 at 2:10 pm“Bush didn’t choose war”?
Two Years Before 9/11, Candidate Bush was Already Talking Privately About Attacking Iraq, According to His Former Ghost Writer
by Russ Baker
HOUSTON — Two years before the September 11 attacks, presidential candidate George W. Bush was already talking privately about the political benefits of attacking Iraq, according to his former ghost writer, who held many conversations with then-Texas Governor Bush in preparation for a planned autobiography.
“He was thinking about invading Iraq in 1999,” said author and journalist Mickey Herskowitz. “It was on his mind. He said to me: ‘One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief.’ And he said, ‘My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it.’ He said, ‘If I have a chance to invade·.if I had that much capital, I’m not going to waste it. I’m going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I’m going to have a successful presidency.” Herskowitz said that Bush expressed frustration at a lifetime as an underachiever in the shadow of an accomplished father. In aggressive military action, he saw the opportunity to emerge from his father’s shadow. The moment, Herskowitz said, came in the wake of the September 11 attacks. “Suddenly, he’s at 91 percent in the polls, and he’d barely crawled out of the bunker.”
May 11th, 2007 at 2:18 pmBush absolutely chose war with Iraq… this hayseed must be thinking of Afghanistan…
a lot of people have better ideas; the president refuses to listen, and then his henchmen say no one has any ideas…
May 11th, 2007 at 2:18 pmUntil the First Ammendment is repealed we shall do no such thing, Sonny. What do you have against a free and open society? You will lose your next election because you and the Republicans who say, “keep your mouth shut”, hate America. I don’t want to live in the Soviet Union.
May 11th, 2007 at 2:23 pmFrom his website bio:
In a time of increasing apathy toward politicians and policymakers, Sonny Perdue never forgot that his job was to serve the people, not play politics.
They should do a touch up; the “not play politics” part is no longer applicable.
May 11th, 2007 at 2:28 pmIt is with the saddest joy that I watch these clowns eat each other as the pathetic illusion of self-rightiousness they’ve built crumbles under it’s own weight. The truth really does suck when you’ve been hiding from it for so long.
May 11th, 2007 at 2:29 pmI always wondered how Hitler fooled the German People to follow him.
May 11th, 2007 at 2:32 pmThen I look at the Republican party and I completely understand.
“Yer doin’ a heckuva job there, Perdooey!”
May 11th, 2007 at 2:40 pmThe Commander Guy certainly DID choose war — the rat bast*rd.
Is that your real name…..Sonny? Lordy…
May 11th, 2007 at 2:43 pmThese troglodytes are idiots.
May 11th, 2007 at 2:49 pmWhen we let the Republicans hack, rig and steal elections electronically on computerized voting machines, we get right-wing idiots like: Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue (R). The GOP and Diebold rigged the 2002 elections in Georgia and gave us: Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue (R) and another right-wing GOP Senator. Not even a paltry paper trail from these GOP election thugs.
It’s time to return to 100% hand-counted paper ballots in all American elections. Not six months from now, not six years from now, but now, today. Otherwise, these right-wing GOP dingbats will happily hack, rig and steal the 2008 Presidential Election.
May 11th, 2007 at 2:54 pmThe Dems need to bring up that the Iraq sign a petition to set a time table for the US to leave. It is about time. More power to the Iraqis.
Who does this Perdue Guy think he is? This is America and we do have Freedom of Speech. If he does not have any good thing to say maybe he should shut-up. He is a tipical Republican like Rep. Sensenbrenner from Wisconsin ARROGANT.
May 11th, 2007 at 2:58 pmEverybody goose step along and STFU, we have oil to steal. (Sarc)
May 11th, 2007 at 3:04 pmWhat the republicans who spoke out will discover is that their base is angry for their remarks, but their polling numbers among independents and dems rose after their public statements. This will lead to individual triangulation strategies for re-election, and some major policy defections. These are the ones keeping Bush from being impeached; when they start paddling away from the wreckage, the SS Bush goes under.
May 11th, 2007 at 3:10 pmOxyCon,
That was a great article, do you have a link to the rest of it? Wasn’t Herskowitz sidelined because he was too truthful in reporting Bush’s own admission of being a lousy businessman, then Karen Hughes brought in to re-write a glowing biography?
There’s no doubt, Bush wanted this war and he WILL be remembered as the war president. A little albatross around his neck. A noose would be better though………
Thanks for that tidbit.
May 11th, 2007 at 3:11 pmHell yeah, boy. That’s m’dawg
May 11th, 2007 at 3:12 pm#29
Is that why Carter acted as the Ayatollah’s lapdog? To boost the price of oil?
May 11th, 2007 at 3:33 pm#49
WOW! That one must have really hurt when you pulled it out of your hind end.
May 11th, 2007 at 3:51 pmIs that why Carter acted as the Ayatollah’s lapdog? To boost the price of oil?
Comment by m12
No, but it was why Reagan sold him weapons. Lapdog? Try traitorous cur.
May 11th, 2007 at 4:08 pm#51
Reagan was President when the price of oil skyrocketed?
Just the opposite infact. OPEC shattered due to the force of our great President in the 80s.
May 11th, 2007 at 4:26 pmWhite CONSERVATIVE DUHmerikkka’s version of…
…”Stop Snitching”?…
…What?
…no MSNBC, CNN or Fox Noise reports on (castigation of) the White CONSERVATIVE community’s…
…propensity for anti-disclosure (uncooperative) behavior?
May 11th, 2007 at 8:05 pmm12,
May 11th, 2007 at 8:16 pmThats astute, the prevalent Presidents of the 80’s were Reagan and Bush I and oil prices soared during theiir terms.
I live in Georgia and Perdue is a certified nincompoop!
May 12th, 2007 at 12:45 am#25
Not for another 3 1/2 years, at least. Purdue was just reelected as Governor in more or less a landslide.
He actually passes as a moderate Republican in Georgia, which provides all the insight you need into the politics of that state.
By the way, #31, most confederate-leaning white Georgians are proud of being termed a “cracker.” Another insight into the politics and the social structure.
May 12th, 2007 at 7:32 amSonny, I’ve got a better idea: Keep Your Mouth Shut Until You Sober Up.
May 12th, 2007 at 8:50 amI beg to differ with Gov. Perdue: The Naked Emperor most certainly chose this war. Neither the government of Iraq nor the general population of Iraq had any ties to Al-Queda or the Bin Laden family, members of which financed and planned the Al-Queda attacks of 9/11/01. And on top of it all, there were few, if any, Wahabbi muslims in Iraq. Wahabbis started the Taliban and Al-Queda, not Saddam Hussein. In fact Saddam Hussein wanted the Taliban to hold sway over his Dictatorship about as much as George Bush wants responsible, intelligent, competent, qualified professionals to have any say in his Dictatorship.
May 12th, 2007 at 7:08 pmHOW DARE YOU SONNY PERDUE!!!!!! I HOPE YOU READ THIS. ANYONE AND EVERYONE IN AMERICA HAS THE RIGHT TO BE A WAR CRITIC…AND AS FOR BETTER IDEAS HOW ABOUT THIS…GET ALL YOUR LITTLE BUDDIES TOGETHER THAT YOU WORK WITH ….ALL THE ONES WITH THEIR COLLEGE DEGREES AND “LIFE EXPERIENCES” AND YOU COME UP WITH A BETTER IDEA. WE PAY OUR TAXES FOR YOU TO DO THAT AND WHEN WE WANT TO CRITICIZE YOU ON YOUR EFFORTS WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO….ANY AMERICAN SHOULD BE ABLE TO!!!!! I HAVE A DARE FOR YOU SONNY. I WANT YOU TO SIT IN AN ARENA WITH EVERY BLOOD RELATIVE OF EVERY SOLDIER LOST IN THIS WAR AND TELL THEM TO SHUT UP WHEN THEY CRTICIZE YOUR EFFORTS ON THIS WAR.
Jacqueline Humphrey…..soldier and wife of a soldier who has spent over 30 months in Iraq
May 13th, 2007 at 12:03 pm