Comments on: Bush On Saudi Rape Case: I ‘Don’t Remember’ If I Brought It Up With King Abdullah http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:15:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: shoeless http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/comment-page-3/#comment-4178050 shoeless Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:44:33 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/#comment-4178050 <em>to finish, i just how one poster assumed i was a bush republican, despite my existence as a black, jewish, lesbian, herb-growing hippie from northern california….. Comment by darladoon — December 5, 2007 @ 2:21 am That’s a good one! Tell us another… Comment by Zooey</em> This has become the standard cop out for Bush Republicans. None of them ever supported Bush. to finish, i just how one poster assumed i was a bush republican, despite my existence as a black, jewish, lesbian, herb-growing hippie from northern california…..
Comment by darladoon — December 5, 2007 @ 2:21 am

That’s a good one! Tell us another…

Comment by Zooey

This has become the standard cop out for Bush Republicans. None of them ever supported Bush.

]]> By: Zooey http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/comment-page-3/#comment-4177701 Zooey Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:52:28 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/#comment-4177701 <em>to finish, i just how one poster assumed i was a bush republican, despite my existence as a black, jewish, lesbian, herb-growing hippie from northern california….. Comment by darladoon — December 5, 2007 @ 2:21 am</em> That's a good one! Tell us another... to finish, i just how one poster assumed i was a bush republican, despite my existence as a black, jewish, lesbian, herb-growing hippie from northern california…..
Comment by darladoon — December 5, 2007 @ 2:21 am

That’s a good one! Tell us another…

]]> By: darladoon http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/comment-page-3/#comment-4177492 darladoon Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:32:56 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/#comment-4177492 eric alterman = cynical, sad, depressed, tired, hackneyed think progress = eric alterman i love how all these supposed "liberal" websites regularly engage in the most depressing form of political engagement......else why engage with michael savage? our intellectuals are as cancerous as mr. savage..... you wanna cure mr. savage? forgive him. love him. embrace him. make him fee like his views are ok. at least he doesn't kill people. whatever.....all of you are crazy, so am i.... eric alterman = cynical, sad, depressed, tired, hackneyed

think progress = eric alterman

i love how all these supposed “liberal” websites regularly engage in the most depressing form of political engagement……else why engage with michael savage? our intellectuals are as cancerous as mr. savage…..

you wanna cure mr. savage? forgive him. love him. embrace him. make him fee like his views are ok. at least he doesn’t kill people.

whatever…..all of you are crazy, so am i….

]]> By: darladoon http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/comment-page-3/#comment-4177490 darladoon Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:27:48 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/#comment-4177490 eric alterman blamed ralph nader for our current president does anyone see the problem here? eric alterman blamed ralph nader for our current president

does anyone see the problem here?

]]> By: darladoon http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/comment-page-3/#comment-4177487 darladoon Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:25:29 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/#comment-4177487 if you people really want to make life difficult for saudi arabia, i would start by not driving. seriously. or stop buying products made possible by saudi arabia. good luck!!! saudi arabia is, single-handedly, making our luxurious lifestyle possible! britney spears should personally thank the abdullah! if you people really want to make life difficult for saudi arabia, i would start by not driving.

seriously.

or stop buying products made possible by saudi arabia.

good luck!!!

saudi arabia is, single-handedly, making our luxurious lifestyle possible!

britney spears should personally thank the abdullah!

]]> By: darladoon http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/comment-page-3/#comment-4177485 darladoon Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:21:57 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/#comment-4177485 <em>Fact check - Saudi Arabia is not the majority supplier of oil and gas to the US. Try again.</em> ok, fine. their the second largest importer. whatever, my point still stands. <em>Oh god. Not *another* stupid Bushtoady apologist troll….! Darla - I’m all in favor of us not trading with the Saudis. That’s a nation ruled by a dictatorial and corrupt monarchy, full of religious extremists who hate us (Osama bin Laden, etc.), that has a worse human rights record than China. They behead criminals there - at least in China they shoot them in the back of the head. If America had any moral high ground left (which we don’t), we would not trade at all with SA - we would develop alternative sources of energy so we would not have to kiss their tryannical, medieval butts - and look the other way when a 19 year old girl is punished with 200 lashes for having the gall to be gang-raped by 7 men.</em> it's funny, but your characterization of saudi arabian culture-politics smacks of self-importance. the united states is viewed around the world as being just as awful, if not worse, than saudi arabia. "we would develop alternative sources of energy"? oh man, i have no idea as to how to respond to such overt simplicity. to finish, i just how one poster assumed i was a bush republican, despite my existence as a black, jewish, lesbian, herb-growing hippie from northern california..... Fact check – Saudi Arabia is not the majority supplier of oil and gas to the US.

Try again.

ok, fine. their the second largest importer. whatever, my point still stands.

Oh god. Not *another* stupid Bushtoady apologist troll….!

Darla – I’m all in favor of us not trading with the Saudis. That’s a nation ruled by a dictatorial and corrupt monarchy, full of religious extremists who hate us (Osama bin Laden, etc.), that has a worse human rights record than China. They behead criminals there – at least in China they shoot them in the back of the head.

If America had any moral high ground left (which we don’t), we would not trade at all with SA – we would develop alternative sources of energy so we would not have to kiss their tryannical, medieval butts – and look the other way when a 19 year old girl is punished with 200 lashes for having the gall to be gang-raped by 7 men.

it’s funny, but your characterization of saudi arabian culture-politics smacks of self-importance. the united states is viewed around the world as being just as awful, if not worse, than saudi arabia.

“we would develop alternative sources of energy”? oh man, i have no idea as to how to respond to such overt simplicity.

to finish, i just how one poster assumed i was a bush republican, despite my existence as a black, jewish, lesbian, herb-growing hippie from northern california…..

]]> By: Lefty Patriot http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/comment-page-3/#comment-4177170 Lefty Patriot Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:35:58 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/#comment-4177170 Southern Pansy, punked again. You're not going to get away with your antiAmerican treason on this board, SM. Take it tp LGF, they'd like to see their deomocracy turned into a third-world dictatorship, which is Bushco's goal. Southern Pansy, punked again. You’re not going to get away with your antiAmerican treason on this board, SM. Take it tp LGF, they’d like to see their deomocracy turned into a third-world dictatorship, which is Bushco’s goal.

]]> By: shaun http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/comment-page-3/#comment-4177111 shaun Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:55:13 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/#comment-4177111 putting bush's weak-as-piss response aside,where are the united nations on this? - they should be going balls out to put a stop to atrocities such as this - don't they have human rights reps there? - reminds me a few years back of a woman in,i think it was sudan (could be wrong there),who was condemned to death by stoning after being convicted of adultery,and then after huge international outcry and pressure,she got a reprieve - why isn't the same thing happening with this girl from saudi arabia? putting bush’s weak-as-piss response aside,where are the united nations on this? – they should be going balls out to put a stop to atrocities such as this – don’t they have human rights reps there? – reminds me a few years back of a woman in,i think it was sudan (could be wrong there),who was condemned to death by stoning after being convicted of adultery,and then after huge international outcry and pressure,she got a reprieve – why isn’t the same thing happening with this girl from saudi arabia?

]]> By: Zooey http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/comment-page-3/#comment-4177084 Zooey Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:26:58 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/#comment-4177084 <em>Southern Man’s time done come and gone, bro. Best git yerself a compound Up in Ida-ho Comment by tombaker — December 4, 2007 @ 4:03 pm</em> Hell no!! Those white racists moved on when they lost their compound in a lawsuit -- we don't want that idiot up here. Southern Man’s time done come and gone, bro.
Best git yerself a compound
Up in Ida-ho
Comment by tombaker — December 4, 2007 @ 4:03 pm

Hell no!! Those white racists moved on when they lost their compound in a lawsuit — we don’t want that idiot up here.

]]> By: Moderation http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/comment-page-3/#comment-4176962 Moderation Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:08:46 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/#comment-4176962 <em>Bush should be made to watch the lashing. Based on standard practice, each lash will take roughly 4 seconds. There is generally a 15-20 second pause after 50 lashes to implement a substitution for a rested lasher. So anticipate somewhere in the neighborhood of slightly more than 14 solid minutes of watching a 19 year-old woman being repeatedly, systematically, unrelentingly flogged, complete with scores of welts breaking open along the flayed scapular region, mid-back and shoulders, the torso, buttocks and legs drenched in blood, the body generally sprayed from blood, feces and urine, initial screams and howls of agony, followed by pathetic groans, then eventual silence as the victim collapses into shock-induced unconsciousness. But Bush right in their, ringside, so he can witness first-hand. Comment by philomena — December 4, 2007 @ 4:00 pm</em> You would not have to MAKE a sociopath like George W. Bush watch such a horrific spectacle. He would gladly PAY to watch it, and would likely make sure the U.S. taxpayer shelled out the moola for front-row, PREMIUM, blood-and-sweat-and-feces-and-urine-splash-zone, ringside seats. No, such would not give him pause. It would encourage his abhorrent behavior. After all, he certainly feels <em>something</em> with regards to his daughter, yet...by his own speech strongly indicates with physical and mental cues that he does NOT feel for the ACTUAL woman who is being tortured by Saudi Arabia. Bush should be made to watch the lashing. Based on standard practice, each lash will take roughly 4 seconds. There is generally a 15-20 second pause after 50 lashes to implement a substitution for a rested lasher. So anticipate somewhere in the neighborhood of slightly more than 14 solid minutes of watching a 19 year-old woman being repeatedly, systematically, unrelentingly flogged, complete with scores of welts breaking open along the flayed scapular region, mid-back and shoulders, the torso, buttocks and legs drenched in blood, the body generally sprayed from blood, feces and urine, initial screams and howls of agony, followed by pathetic groans, then eventual silence as the victim collapses into shock-induced unconsciousness.

But Bush right in their, ringside, so he can witness first-hand.

Comment by philomena — December 4, 2007 @ 4:00 pm

You would not have to MAKE a sociopath like George W. Bush watch such a horrific spectacle. He would gladly PAY to watch it, and would likely make sure the U.S. taxpayer shelled out the moola for front-row, PREMIUM, blood-and-sweat-and-feces-and-urine-splash-zone, ringside seats.

No, such would not give him pause. It would encourage his abhorrent behavior.

After all, he certainly feels something with regards to his daughter, yet…by his own speech strongly indicates with physical and mental cues that he does NOT feel for the ACTUAL woman who is being tortured by Saudi Arabia.

]]> By: Moderation http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/comment-page-3/#comment-4176859 Moderation Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:13:53 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/#comment-4176859 <em>A different day means a different approach to whatever subject you progressives have on the agenda. Today it’s the rape of a Saudi woman who gets punished for being a woman in Saudi. Bush doesn’t do anything about it, and you crucify him for it. Last week he was villified for meddeling in other countries affairs, which many of you wrote” That’s why the world hates us, he needs to stay out of their business!”. Which is it progressives. Does Bush stay out of other countries affairs, or does he force them to adhere to the same rules most of the western world does? It’s so pathetic, it’s funny. Do you read what you write anymore? Comment by Southern Man — December 4, 2007 @ 3:52 pm</em> There is a significant difference between publicly criticizing (or even applying diplomatic pressure), and forcing one's views with the barrel of a gun. The former is OK. The latter is not. The former involves words (and potentially quashing deals unrelated to national security). The latter involves billions of dollars, and violating another human being's right to live. A different day means a different approach to whatever subject you progressives have on the agenda. Today it’s the rape of a Saudi woman who gets punished for being a woman in Saudi. Bush doesn’t do anything about it, and you crucify him for it. Last week he was villified for meddeling in other countries affairs, which many of you wrote” That’s why the world hates us, he needs to stay out of their business!”. Which is it progressives. Does Bush stay out of other countries affairs, or does he force them to adhere to the same rules most of the western world does? It’s so pathetic, it’s funny. Do you read what you write anymore?

Comment by Southern Man — December 4, 2007 @ 3:52 pm

There is a significant difference between publicly criticizing (or even applying diplomatic pressure), and forcing one’s views with the barrel of a gun. The former is OK. The latter is not. The former involves words (and potentially quashing deals unrelated to national security). The latter involves billions of dollars, and violating another human being’s right to live.

]]> By: Doc Rock http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/comment-page-3/#comment-4176822 Doc Rock Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:01:29 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/#comment-4176822 Bush probably caught that Libby-Gonzales brain flu. Bush probably caught that Libby-Gonzales brain flu.

]]> By: Leftside Annie http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/comment-page-3/#comment-4176795 Leftside Annie Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:55:12 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/#comment-4176795 Too bad the Chimp has come so close to succeeding in HIS bid to become Dictator of America. Maybe Venezuelans are smarter than we are. Too bad the Chimp has come so close to succeeding in HIS bid to become Dictator of America.

Maybe Venezuelans are smarter than we are.

]]> By: shoeless http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/comment-page-3/#comment-4176769 shoeless Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:48:37 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/#comment-4176769 <em>At least Hugo honored the results of that vote, rather than having his Dad’s golf buddies on the Supreme Court force the vote counting to stop. Southern Man’s time done come and gone, bro. Best git yerself a compound Up in Ida-ho Comment by tombaker</em> Isn't it amazing how these Bush worshipping wingnuts love brutal dictators, like King Abdullah, and General Musharraf who support and harbor the very terrorists who attacked our country, while they despise democratically elected leaders like Chavez or former French President Chirac, just because they criticized their Chosen One. It just shows they care nothing for our country. Their only allegiance is to Bush. At least Hugo honored the results of that vote, rather than having his Dad’s golf buddies on the Supreme Court force the vote counting to stop.

Southern Man’s time done come and gone, bro.
Best git yerself a compound
Up in Ida-ho

Comment by tombaker

Isn’t it amazing how these Bush worshipping wingnuts love brutal dictators, like King Abdullah, and General Musharraf who support and harbor the very terrorists who attacked our country, while they despise democratically elected leaders like Chavez or former French President Chirac, just because they criticized their Chosen One. It just shows they care nothing for our country. Their only allegiance is to Bush.

]]> By: shoeless http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/comment-page-3/#comment-4176739 shoeless Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:37:48 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/#comment-4176739 <em>I have another idea. Buy all of your gas from Citgo. I do. Comment by shoeless — December 4, 2007 @ 3:21 pm Hugo lost his bid to be a dictator. If you supported him because of his dislike of Bush, the reason you bought gas from Citgo has changed. Now your supporting the peoples of Venezuella, and not the commie. They thank you. Comment by Southern Man</em> I could care less whether Chavez likes or dislikes your Bushgod. That obsession is your little neurosis. I have a better reason for buying all of my gas from Citgo. Unlike Bush's friends, the DICTATORS of Saudi Arabia, Hugo Chavez, the LEGALLY ELECTED President of Venezuela, does not support the Wahabi terrorists who attacked the United States. I have another idea. Buy all of your gas from Citgo. I do.

Comment by shoeless — December 4, 2007 @ 3:21 pm

Hugo lost his bid to be a dictator. If you supported him because of his dislike of Bush, the reason you bought gas from Citgo has changed. Now your supporting the peoples of Venezuella, and not the commie. They thank you.

Comment by Southern Man

I could care less whether Chavez likes or dislikes your Bushgod. That obsession is your little neurosis. I have a better reason for buying all of my gas from Citgo. Unlike Bush’s friends, the DICTATORS of Saudi Arabia, Hugo Chavez, the LEGALLY ELECTED President of Venezuela, does not support the Wahabi terrorists who attacked the United States.

]]> By: Menehune http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/comment-page-3/#comment-4176717 Menehune Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:33:27 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/#comment-4176717 110...I saw that movie--Passion of the Christ, right? 110…I saw that movie–Passion of the Christ, right?

]]> By: tombaker http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/comment-page-3/#comment-4176641 tombaker Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:15:38 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/#comment-4176641 [dubbie was too busy gobblin' the royal goo to get a word in edgewise...he doesn't go there to be listened to - he goes there to be told what to do] [dubbie was too busy gobblin' the royal goo to get a word in edgewise...he doesn't go there to be listened to - he goes there to be told what to do]

]]> By: tombaker http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/comment-page-3/#comment-4176601 tombaker Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:03:10 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/#comment-4176601 At least Hugo honored the results of that vote, rather than having his Dad's golf buddies on the Supreme Court force the vote counting to stop. Southern Man's time done come and gone, bro. Best git yerself a compound Up in Ida-ho At least Hugo honored the results of that vote, rather than having his Dad’s golf buddies on the Supreme Court force the vote counting to stop.

Southern Man’s time done come and gone, bro.
Best git yerself a compound
Up in Ida-ho

]]> By: philomena http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/comment-page-3/#comment-4176590 philomena Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:00:46 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/#comment-4176590 Bush should be made to watch the lashing. Based on standard practice, each lash will take roughly 4 seconds. There is generally a 15-20 second pause after 50 lashes to implement a substitution for a rested lasher. So anticipate somewhere in the neighborhood of slightly more than 14 solid minutes of watching a 19 year-old woman being repeatedly, systematically, unrelentingly flogged, complete with scores of welts breaking open along the flayed scapular region, mid-back and shoulders, the torso, buttocks and legs drenched in blood, the body generally sprayed from blood, feces and urine, initial screams and howls of agony, followed by pathetic groans, then eventual silence as the victim collapses into shock-induced unconsciousness. But Bush right in their, ringside, so he can witness first-hand. Bush should be made to watch the lashing. Based on standard practice, each lash will take roughly 4 seconds. There is generally a 15-20 second pause after 50 lashes to implement a substitution for a rested lasher. So anticipate somewhere in the neighborhood of slightly more than 14 solid minutes of watching a 19 year-old woman being repeatedly, systematically, unrelentingly flogged, complete with scores of welts breaking open along the flayed scapular region, mid-back and shoulders, the torso, buttocks and legs drenched in blood, the body generally sprayed from blood, feces and urine, initial screams and howls of agony, followed by pathetic groans, then eventual silence as the victim collapses into shock-induced unconsciousness.

But Bush right in their, ringside, so he can witness first-hand.

]]> By: tombaker http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/comment-page-3/#comment-4176587 tombaker Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:00:26 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/#comment-4176587 105 - and that's different from your approach how??? 105 – and that’s different from your approach how???

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