Fratto admits White House looked at Iraq through ‘rose-colored glasses.’
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By on Apr 7th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Fratto admits White House looked at Iraq through ‘rose-colored glasses.’
During today’s White House press briefing, deputy spokesman Tony Fratto admitted that the White House has, at least up until recently, been looking at Iraq through “rose-colored glasses.” Responding to a question about the rising violence in Iraq, Fratto said, “I think we have thrown out all of the rose-colored glasses in how we look at Iraq and try to look at it through clear lenses as to what is going on in the country.” Fratto later added: “Like I said, we threw out the rose-colored glasses. I think we have a clear-eyed view of what’s happening in Baghdad.” Watch it:
A question for Fratto: When exactly did the White House throw away its rose-colored glasses?
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Jeff Gannon must need them for his latest photoshoot….
April 7th, 2008 at 2:18 pmVodka is clear, so it must be Vodka-colored glasses.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:20 pmRelease the hounds!!!
April 7th, 2008 at 2:22 pmSurge! Surge! Foreward Surge! Is there No end to their innane drivel?!?!??! What next, they’ll actually announce that the war was a Bad Idea??? January 20th Cannot come fast enough! Impeach Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution!
April 7th, 2008 at 2:24 pmAbu Ben Hussein Leporello
Those glasses are clearly the smokey mirrored version.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:24 pmOut go the rose colored sunglasses, Hello blinders. I hear nothing, I see nothing , I do nothing words Bush lives by.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:25 pm.
NOW the Admin cares about viewing the situation with a clear perspective?
But they’ve survived for SIX years with such a rosy outlook, why change now?
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April 7th, 2008 at 2:26 pmI think those glasses were tinted with $$$ signs and provided by Halliburton.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:26 pmBush has ducked reality for for over 50 years, why start now?
April 7th, 2008 at 2:28 pmDO THEY MAKE PIN HOLE ROSE COLORED BLINDERS? I WOULD LIKE TO FIND SOME AND SEE WHAT THE WORLD LOOKS LIKE THROUGH THEM AND THE REPUGLICAN’S VIEW
April 7th, 2008 at 2:29 pmThey’ll never discard the rose-colored glasses of deception! Lies, all of it and the people cannot believe or trust one word coming from this administration.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:32 pmRose colored shades courtesy of KBR.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:32 pmKrazny: His whole life has been one big fabrication. Every business he owned, he tanked into the ground. Now he’s doing precisely the same thing to this country. He’s an abomination and a national embarrassment.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:33 pmNow that they’ve got a clear view . . . they just need another 6 months to get things going in the right direction,
April 7th, 2008 at 2:33 pmwhile their media tries to sell McLoser.
cough, hack, spit . .
Fratto said, “I think we have thrown out all of the rose-colored glasses in how we look at Iraq and try to look at it through clear lenses as to what is going on in the country.” Fratto later added: “Like I said, we threw out the rose-colored glasses. I think we have a clear-eyed view of what’s happening in Baghdad.”
And you’re all counting on McStupid to take up that imbecilic mantle , aren’t ya’ ?
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 7th, 2008 at 2:35 pmSo now they only have their rose-tinted contacts to rely on?
Maybe ocular aids had nothing to do with it, and they were batscat-crazy arseholes from the very get-go, huh Tony??
what a sad f’in joke.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:35 pmraynman: What’s the new from Jeffy Lube these days? Isn’t it time to release the classified visitor logs so the people can see how often this male prostitute visited the white house? From what is known, his name was changed from Jeff Guckert by GWB, for obvious reasons and was given a “press pass” so his comings and goings would not appear suspicious. The logs that are available show him clearly going in for his nocturnal visits when absolutely nothing press-worthy was occurring therein.
Wonder who he was servicing?
April 7th, 2008 at 2:35 pmFratto, the Fatso, looks like he knows all about Jeffy Lube.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:36 pmthe White House has thrown out the rose-colored glasses.
NO proof of that whatsoever. Next claim: The US actually WON the Vietnam war.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:37 pmTony Fratto admitted that the White House has, at least up until recently, been looking at Iraq through “rose-colored glasses.”
UP TILL NOW???? Methinks those are rose colored lens implants.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:41 pmNot coming off anytime soon.
Yeah, Elton John was looking for those!
April 7th, 2008 at 2:42 pmReplacing the rose colored glasses with a blindfold is not progress.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:42 pmA term I overheard recently would fit those Republicans afflicked with this kind of mental illness…’pathological optomism’. This term sums up the Republican Party.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:44 pmDoes this White House have a “clear-eyed view” of anywhere or anything?
Besides oil profits?
April 7th, 2008 at 2:44 pmpaleolib Says:
April 7th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Replacing the rose colored glasses with a blindfold is not progress.
it would be if the blindfold came with a trial and firing squad.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:45 pmThe Unitary Executive, maybe.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:47 pmAre the families of the 4000+ dead soldiers looking through rose-colored glasses at their funerals?
April 7th, 2008 at 2:47 pmWhat about rose-colored contact lenses?
You know how this administration is - what is not said is more important than what is said.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:48 pmWhen the tip of the iceberg is painfully obvious, take the word of the drunk boat captain, wearing the rose-colored glasses, that it’s only a light chunk of floating ice.
I only hope President Obama can save this country in time.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:52 pmI’m convinced that the White House keeps Fratto around just to make Dana Peroxide look cerebral.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:52 pmHe’s right. They have replaced the outdated rose-colored glasses…..with blinders.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:52 pmThis Week: Cokie Roberts Sneers At The Responsible Plan To End The War, Says Most Americans Interested In Winning
Cokie got the Memo from the White House before this Newscast.
She is another one that likes to Spoon Feed us what we should think.. Sorry Cokie, you are not selling us that line of crap. We are not buyin it..
April 7th, 2008 at 2:53 pmSo, wouldn’t that like, you know, like mean, like, the librals were like RIGHT.
And wouldn’t that mean the Shrub WH was **WRONG**
And wouldn’t that mean that McCain and the other republicans, in their attempt to beatify Shrub, be WRONG ????
April 7th, 2008 at 2:56 pmmanicare Says:
April 7th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
robbez_92107 Says:
April 7th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
What about Big Milk And Big Egg? all those have risen drastically due to increased bio-fuel production. And all the
Almost all US oil refineries have shown fiscal loses last quarter!
What about you just shutting the hell up …………
April 7th, 2008 at 2:56 pmFreedom Rebel Says:
April 7th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
This Week: Cokie Roberts Sneers At The Responsible Plan To End The War, Says Most Americans Interested In Winning
Cokie got the Memo from the White House before this Newscast.
She is another one that likes to Spoon Feed us what we should think.. Sorry Cokie, you are not selling us that line of crap. We are not buyin it..
Dopey Roberts possesses the brilliance of a polished turd …..
April 7th, 2008 at 2:58 pm33 themanwhocaintspel
April 7th, 2008 at 2:59 pmGee,you think it might actually have something to do with diesel being $4+ a gallon???Please go back to pleasuring your sister.
It is in fact my opinion, manicare, that no food in this country should be converted to energy.
Almost all US oil refineries have shown fiscal loses last quarter!
Link, please. And what chapter Bankruptcy will the refineries file? Golly, I sure wish they had billions in rainy day funds.
The right sure has a very rich definition of the word “plight.”
April 7th, 2008 at 3:02 pmGas prices are at all time highs and ‘manicare’ expects to believe its sob story about the companies’ smallest decrease in profits (if true)?
April 7th, 2008 at 3:09 pm39mispelledcares: your brain is $HIT! You don’t have a clue how BioDiesel is made do you?
April 7th, 2008 at 3:11 pm23 - To call R’s “pathologically optimistic” misses (and forgives) their truly malevolent nature. They understand unwavering optimism as a tool by which people can be manipulated, and they have come to know that by practicing a deep, dark cynicism re: the nature of people. Their cheery and/or high-sounding rhetoric is sincere only in the sense that they hope to “sincerely manipulate” their audience.
These are the guys with more-or-less impeccable table manners, who whisper the unthinkable amongst themselves when they know no one’s listening (and moreover think it’s ok to push their private agendas on the entire public through deceit). We all behave similarly in some context and to some degree, but “the republican right” has turned it into an aggressively un-civil (see: “fear-and-smear”); anti-democratic (see: gerrymandering, voter caging); and destructive (see: education, economy, environment) institution, all the while insisting it is their opponents who are to blame for any given ill.
That kind of calculated, cynical, self-serving sophistry is the scummiest kind of human endeavor - Dante rightly reserved the deeper circles of hell for exactly that kind of player.
April 7th, 2008 at 3:11 pm“defense-tinted contract lenses”
April 7th, 2008 at 3:13 pmmanicare Says:
April 7th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
$2 an ear for corn due to ethanol production this summer ought to catch your attention, too, if your mom let you do the shopping.
April 7th, 2008 at 3:22 pmOh good. Another incoherent troll.
Oops — my mistake. Its the same incoherent troll with another new name. How pathetic do you have to be to keep signing up with new email addresses just to hang out where no one likes or respects you?
April 7th, 2008 at 3:31 pmsee ralph - ya big’ol hater!! you’re just a meanie!!
i’m tellin’!!
April 7th, 2008 at 3:40 pmI believe McCain stole those rose colored glasses. Somebody follow the spittle and we’ll find them with the old, drooling, dolt.
April 7th, 2008 at 3:40 pmDoes anyone else get the feeling that Tony Fratto is the bastard love-child product of the unholy union of Karl Rove and Slugworth from Willy Wonka?
April 7th, 2008 at 3:41 pmWe don’t hate the country, as soon as we can lock up all you wather carrying fascists under President Obama we’ll absolutel love this country.
April 7th, 2008 at 3:41 pmUgh, a union between Rove and anybody makes me nauseous. Even worse than when I think of pasty old McCrazy and the next young, blonde tropy, wife or lobbyist.
April 7th, 2008 at 3:44 pmI don’t speak gibberish; can anyone translate this for me?
It sounds like the trollcantspell despises the United States more than he despises himself. Sounds like he says this to make the point that, from this perspective, changing emails constantly in order to hang out among people who don’t like or respect isn’t really that pathetic.
April 7th, 2008 at 3:45 pmManic are as Manic does.
April 7th, 2008 at 3:53 pmMCMetal Says:
April 7th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
I so agree. I can’t believe they still keep her around.
April 7th, 2008 at 4:46 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
April 7th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Ralph, I liked it when you were method acting as a troll. It was very entertaining that day that we didn’t have any. I gave you a standing ovation.
They must have been upset by your performance. The real trolls are no fun.
April 7th, 2008 at 4:52 pmSo all those pronouncements of things going so well, last throes, succeeding, winning, surging, progress — all those descriptions were through rose-colored glasses? Just how opaque were those lenses?
April 7th, 2008 at 4:53 pmThanks, Freedom Rebel. You know, the reward is in the performance itself. And the real trolls make it so easy.
April 7th, 2008 at 5:03 pmThrow away your rosy colored glasses and tell Bush and Chenney to hand themselves in… they should be handcuffed and taken imediatly to an International Court. That goes also for Rice, Gates, Negroponte, Perle, Wolfowitz, Yhoo, Rumsfeld, and all the rest of this bunch of criminals! Never forgeting the fat and ugly Rove!!!
April 7th, 2008 at 5:17 pmI prefer the term “Freedom Goggles”.
And furthermore, who are we to be pointing fingers.
Don’t we all romanticize war? WWI and WWII, those were the days….
Yes, Bush, but it’s pronounced “sarcasm”
April 7th, 2008 at 5:54 pmI guess this is Fratto’s McCain moment where McCain finally admits he was “wrong and slow” to coming around to MLK Day and what it meant and represented….
April 8th, 2008 at 2:25 amNow he tells us….!
You know there isstill 20 to 30 percent still wearing those republican rose colored glasses.
April 8th, 2008 at 2:47 amthey’ve moved on to rose colored blinders
April 9th, 2008 at 7:27 amApril 27th, 2008 at 10:56 am
How many dead soldiers did they miss looking through “rose colored glasses?” It seems each day brings more proof these cretins should be before the Hague. War criminals and war profiteers. Including the puppet generals lying to get contracts and profits for their defense contractor puppet masters. As shameful and pitiful as invading Iraq in the first place. NOW they are using animation to convince the intelligence committees why we are preparing tactics for Iran. If EVER there was an oxymoron. Just like Powell’s cartoons before the United Nations. There is no low low enough for these dispicable people.
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