Comments on: Snow: Intense New Levels Of Violence In Iraq Are ‘Signs Of Success’

By: Dick 'the Dick' Cheney

Dick 'the Dick' Cheney — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:54:41 +0000

YES TONY…… VOILENCE IS A GOOD SIGN, LIKE CANCER IS A GOOD SIGN THAT YOUR BODY IS WORTHY OF BEING ATTACKED.

SEE…. IF YOU WERE DEAD… NO CANCER.

CANCER IS THE PROOF OF GOOD.

does all this thinking make your head hurt??
——that is good too… it means you still have feeling in your head.

By: ozarkBison

ozarkBison — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:59:59 +0000

didn’t they give the same exact rationale a couple years back about more violence means things are getting better?

By: Kenny

Kenny — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:32:20 +0000

The goal of this adminisration is to keep the middle east in the dark ages. A free and democratic Iraq or any middle easterm county would only mean less oil for us. Our only goal is to keep the oil supply comming to US.
Now that so many other countries are consuming more oil, we cannot afford to let Arab nations consume as well. The lies of the Bush Adminitration that the surge is working will allow us to remain in Iraq FOREVER. Hence the huge U.S. embasy being built. Soon the oil fields will be gone and we can finnaly leave the middle east. Just wait for it.

By: Cole

Cole — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:20:17 +0000

This thread has it all wrong. It is all in the definition of “Success”.
If success does not succeed then do the logical thing–broaden the meaning of “success”.

If in doing that you allot a value for “success”, and you find that the value is quantity of bombs dropped, bullets shot then it follows that increasing violence is putting large funds into the pockets of those who need it most—–the munitions makers—and is therefore “Success”!

You know the old story of destroying a village in order to save it–? –the classic “success”. Iraq is slowly becoming that village.

By: Leftside Annie

Leftside Annie — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:28:27 +0000

If lying caused cancer, the entire Bush administration would be dead.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:41:44 +0000

Granularity

By: Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:41:22 +0000

Granularity?

By: colonius

colonius — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:28:27 +0000

Sorry, I meant to say, “hundreds of thousands of deaths.” Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.

By: colonius

colonius — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:25:39 +0000

There’s no real double-speak or absurd logic here, folks. Remember, the trademark failure of Bush’s War is that he has never (until now) defined what success in Iraq actually is.

So yesterday, Tony finally told us, in a rather cryptic fashion … paraphrasing only slightly, “the war is a success when there is more violence”.

Finally, we have the administration’s truthful definition of that they regard as success: violence, chaos — in other words, no less than perpetual war.

They keep telling us, in barely veiled ways, this same goal of theirs, over and over. But we keep refusing to believe them when they tell us this, this truth as they see it. We keep thinking, there must be some more reasonable, constructive goal that they really have in mind, they are just having major trouble achieving it.

Simply take them at their word — what they believe is, violence, destruction, perpetual war, is good. $$$$$.

The correct journalistic response is to simply tell this to the people: “Tony Snow, on behalf of POTUS, is telling us, finally, after more than 4 years, tens of thousands of deaths, and trillions of US taxpayer dollars, the objective of this war: more violence.”

By: Gorgeous Bush

Gorgeous Bush — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:49:46 +0000

Sorry for the double post but with so much doublespeak going on these days … well you know… these things just happen

By: Gorgeous Bush

Gorgeous Bush — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:48:39 +0000

Tony is making Baghdad Bob look like Noam Chomsky. To get up at a presser and spew such arcane insanity should be a crime. These guys must worship Satan or something. I’m wondering what else is up the sleeves of these fascists besides more brown shirt material. It’s getting to the point where they have lied so much and so blatantly that this thing has to be about more than just getting the Iraqis to sign an Oil law and for Bush to set up a dictatorship here in America. What they are planning must be so perverse that it defies comprehension by any rational mind.

By: Gorgeous Bush

Gorgeous Bush — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:47:50 +0000

Tony is making Baghdad Bob look like Noam Chomsky. To get up @ a presser and spew such arcane insanity should be a crime. These guys must worship Satan or something. I’m wondering what else is up the sleeves of these fascists (besides more brown shirt material). It’s getting to the point where they have lied so much and so blatantly that this thing has to be about more than just getting the Iraqis to sign an Oil law and for Bush to set up a dictatorship here in America. What they are planning must be so perverse that it defies comprehension by any rational mind.

By: Cstrut

Cstrut — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:21:06 +0000

Didn’t Rumsfield and Cheney use this same lie once? Yes they did but by now those statements have fallen down the memory hole of the MSM.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:21:26 +0000

He reminds me more every day of the Iraqi Information Minister, running around on the rooftops saying to the press, “The Americans have been destroyed”.. if these guys weren’t so absolutely sick, this would be kindof funny.

By: NurseRiches

NurseRiches — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:54:42 +0000

Damn! Double post! Error message, btw.

By: NurseRiches

NurseRiches — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:53:44 +0000

So… let me get this right… by Snow’s absurd logic, we should be up there celebrating with Hamas in the Gaza Strip because that situation is obviously just about to go REALLY, REALLY well for everyone…

By: NurseRiches

NurseRiches — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:51:52 +0000

So… by Snow’s absurd logic, today’s developments in the Gaza Strip means everything’s going fantastically well, then!

By: Blu2Purple

Blu2Purple — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:16:15 +0000

Does anyone else think Tony Snow is starting to look like Baghdad Bob?

By: fkay

fkay — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:26:31 +0000

People the Bushes are stalling until they get out of office. The USA is going to be in Iraq for decades. What do you think that massive embassy is being built for?

By: Billlong

Billlong — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:20:51 +0000

Tony Snow was a breath of fresh air when he first took his job. Although he did his best at mission impossible (trying to make Bush look good), he actually inserted a little truth into the press conferences from time to time.

All that is history now. Why the press continues to show up at these spin fests is beyond comprehension. I guess everyone has to be somewhere. And why we continue to listen to and read about these continued insults to our intelligence is also incompreshensible. The only thing that matters now is how fast we can get to 1/20/2009!