Bush granted Kristol advance preview of Iraq speech.
By on Apr 10th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Bush granted Kristol advance preview of Iraq speech.
In a Weekly Standard column published today, conservative columnist William Kristol reveals that President Bush invited him over to the White House to “preview the Iraq speech he’s giving today.” Kristol breaks the rules of journalistic ethics in order to emphasize Bush’s grieving during Tuesday’s Medal of Honor ceremony and paint a hagiographic picture of the President:
I’ll violate the off-the-record rules in order to convey the tenor of the president’s lengthy response. He explained how difficult it had been for him to keep his composure. … And he had a certain amount of steel in his voice when he then reiterated his determination not to allow the sacrifices of our fighting men and women to have been made in vain.
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More theatrical crap from the fratboy cheerleader. Jan 09, you can't come too soon.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:09 pmThrough the Kristol Ball? The yellow one, made of iced pee?
April 10th, 2008 at 12:11 pmWilliam Kristol reveals that President Bush invited him over to the White House
- - Geeze, George, all you had to do was squat down over a toilet and Kristol would have squeezed out from between your cheeks.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:13 pmOh please!!! We the American people can see through all of his theatrics! We are not stupid. Kristol is a self-serving traitor posing as a journalist.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:14 pmI have made a bumper sticker for my car that says NO MORE REPUBLICANS!
Ethics don't mean anything to Neocons. They are doing God's work afterall.
/sarc
April 10th, 2008 at 12:15 pmRUCerious Says:
April 10th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
More theatrical crap from the fratboy cheerleader. Jan 09, you can’t come too soon.
are you serious? do you REALLY believe all this is magically gonna get repaired in Jan '09? does ANYONE really believe this? I got some Bear Stearns stock I'd like to sell ya...
April 10th, 2008 at 12:16 pm"reiterated his determination not to allow the sacrifices of our fighting men and women to have been made in vain."
If Bush knew invading Iraq was right he would never need to feel like there lives were given in vain.
It kind of says it all.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:16 pmThe ridiculous thing about "to not allow the sacrifices of our fighting men and women to have been made in vain" is that most troops in Iraq and Afghanistan don't care about the mission anymore, they're there fighting for each other because they can't stand the thought of coming home when their brethren are dying overseas. So Bush will continue asking for sacrifices from our fighting men and women, but from no one else- because asking for a sacrifice from every American would only further turn the tide against the war. Furthermore, he surely won't ask the military contractors to sacrifice massive profits by providing cost effective, quality products, services, and aid to our fighting men and women, which I suppose is just another sacrifice our fighting men and women have to make.
Even short of bringing them home there are hundreds of measures he could pursue to make things better for our troops overseas and when they come home, but he won't. It's like a millionaire saying, "I was distraught when my grandmother died of cancer, but she didn't have the money to pay for proper treatment."
April 10th, 2008 at 12:19 pmToo late. The Iraq adventure will go down in history as folly but shame will prevent a discussion of how much American blood has been shed in this vain attempt by bush to be relevant.
America will regret the compacency which allowed this to happen.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:20 pmSo now the US has to stay in Iraq because the thought of leaving makes Bush cry?
April 10th, 2008 at 12:23 pmBush 'crying' over a soldier killed in Iraq is like the Romans crying over the Christians they just threw to the lions.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:24 pmSaw a bumper sticker saying
"Of course it hurts, you're getting screwed by an elephant"
April 10th, 2008 at 12:24 pmto receive the nations' highest award for valor above and beyond the call of duty from a drunken, coke-snorting deserter is the ultimate slap in the face and a mockery of service.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:24 pmWilliam Kristol is so brave! He violates the very rules of journalism in order to paint a loving portrait of a man he so admires. How very touching and what a load of crap. William Kristol is violating the rules of journalism, but not the ones he claims. He is acting in the role of a spokesperson for the White House rather than as a reporter covering the White House. Pathetic.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:27 pmWho made Bill Kristol a "journalist"?
April 10th, 2008 at 12:28 pmConservatives everywhere should gag on their tongues whenever they use the phrase "Liberal Media".
April 10th, 2008 at 12:29 pmtokin librul Says:
April 10th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
RUCerious Says:
April 10th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
More theatrical crap from the fratboy cheerleader. Jan 09, you can’t come too soon.
are you serious? do you REALLY believe all this is magically gonna get repaired in Jan ‘09? does ANYONE really believe this? I got some Bear Stearns stock I’d like to sell ya…
Magically??? no.
in Jan '09 ??? no.
But I hope repairs will start. I hope we'll be going in the right direction. Taking care of the obvious is never a bad first move. Fatalism fixes nothing. It's not like the bad apples aren't obvious.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:29 pmThe phonetic spelling allowed both Kristol and Bush to fully understand the words in the speech.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:31 pmSo what you are saying is that in 2001 this country did not "magically" change direction to get us into the nightmare we are living today?
So what you are saying is that when the democrats regain control of the presidency and both houses of congress that they will not work to restore or economy from the damage done by the malicious republicans who have been hard at work for 7 years?
So what you are saying is that the democrats will not address our domestic concerns instead of taking us to war against a drummed up evil tyrant by saying he was going to attack us "imminantly"?
So what you are saying is that the democrats will not work to improve the health care crisis that the republicans created for profit?
etc.
I think you are a defeatist or not really paying attention to the differences between the parties......
April 10th, 2008 at 12:35 pmWhat the difference between Monica Lewinsky and Bill Kystol?
Monica didn't get paid.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:35 pmBut they HAVE died in vain; aWol's vanity.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:37 pmKristol is, of course, too stupid to realize he's being played like a gong. As he left the White House, his heart filled with patriotism and pride, because the President has chosen him to open his heart up to, the Bush staff was rolling on the floor of the Oval Office, wiping away tears of laughter. Bill Kristol, tool.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:39 pm[Bush] explained how difficult it had been for him to keep his composure...
This little canard would be more believable if it were about Bush admitting that he often struggles to keep a straight face...
This war has been based on lies from its conception. If Bush had the slightest regard for the sacrifices of our fighting men and women, then he would NEVER have sent them to die for a lie.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:40 pmare you serious? do you REALLY believe all this is magically gonna get repaired in Jan ‘09? does ANYONE really believe this? I got some Bear Stearns stock I’d like to sell ya…
Yes, I'm dead ass serious, that I can't wait until this moron is OUT OF OFFICE and can't DO any more damage.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:43 pmWhere did I say anything about how FU(KING long it's going to take to repair all this shit?
Kristol Ball: He explained how difficult it had been for him to keep his composure.
Did he also explain why he cannot make a complete, coherent sentence, Yellow SnowBall??
April 10th, 2008 at 12:47 pmWe must honor the dead troops by getting more killed
April 10th, 2008 at 12:48 pm~RNC talking point 593,231,543
Kristol mentions the "steel" in Bush's voice, but I wonder if he meant to refer to a "steel" plate in Bush's head - how else to explain the lunacy of the last 7 years?
April 10th, 2008 at 12:53 pmThis November the American people have an opportunity. By sweeping neocons out of office we can tell the world: "We're sorry. We won't let it happen again".
Unless, and until, we do that our fortunes will continue to plummet. It's not a cure. It's not a guarantee. But, it's the best, first, step in restoring honor to ourselves and our nation.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:54 pmMemo to Bill and Bush : They are not fighting for your oil war anymore. They are fighting for each other.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:54 pm"I got some Bears Stearn stock I'd like to sell ya"
Hold on.....got a nickel in my pocket.
What's that get me? 1,000 shares?
April 10th, 2008 at 12:58 pmAh yes, however, when it comes to their right to VOTE uh, not so much determination is given.
April 10th, 2008 at 1:02 pmI wonder how many people worked on that speech to help make him sound convincing?? I get it, He was method acting in front of Kristol to see if he was coming off emotional enough. "And he had a certain amount of steel in his voice" Definitely method-acting...
April 10th, 2008 at 1:04 pmSorry Dubbie - pulling a Boehner and weeping over how much all this has pained you is something even worse than "too little too late". I'm sure some diehard 19%ers will buy it, but nobody else is going to.
If ya wanna cry now little Prince, you'd best just run home to mommy and do it. Sympathy is not on the menu.
April 10th, 2008 at 1:19 pmWilliam the Bloody is nothing but a cheerleader for an 0-14 team, trying to keep up the spirits of the ten people in the stands as their quarterback fumbles again on his own four-yard-line.
April 10th, 2008 at 1:19 pmSteel in his voice, rocks in his head, ice in his veins, and money in his pocket. All is good for Bush. Next.
April 10th, 2008 at 1:23 pmThe question is, WHY Georgie Porgie endured 4000 deads WITHOUT a tear in five years?
April 10th, 2008 at 1:29 pmtokin accuses us of magical thinking? How about the magically changing votes, magically disappeared WMD, magical success in Iraq, magical money for funding without taxes, magical terror alerts when there was political danger, etc.? Bush is probably a graduate of Hogwarts, not Harvard.
April 10th, 2008 at 1:30 pmUhm.....shouldnt the headline read "Kristol granted Bush advance preview of Iraq speech"?
April 10th, 2008 at 1:46 pmWould someone please put Billy out of our misery?
April 10th, 2008 at 1:54 pmAnd by all means, let's sacrifice MORE men and women on the pyre of Iraq so that the previous sacrifies won't be in vain. How long does THAT madness go on???
April 10th, 2008 at 1:55 pmBush began planning his mis-adventure re: Iraq right after his inaugeration in January of 2001. Would it not be unreasonable to expect that whomever takes over on January of 2008 begins the process of repairing the damage Bush and friends have wrought right after THEIR inaugeration?
“From the very beginning, there was a conviction, that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go,” says (Paul) O’Neill, who adds that going after Saddam was topic "A" 10 days after the inauguration - eight months before Sept. 11.
“From the very first instance, it was about Iraq. It was about what we can do to change this regime,” says Suskind. “Day one, these things were laid and sealed.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/main592330.shtml
April 10th, 2008 at 2:10 pmSigh - I meant "would it not be REASONABLE"...
April 10th, 2008 at 2:10 pmand...I suppose it would have been nice if I'd spelled "inauguration" correctly!
Back to work for me!
April 10th, 2008 at 2:12 pmCan't wait for the idiot President to leave on January 20, 2009. Bush granted Vampire Kristol a preview of the Iraq speech. Bush might as well just hand the terrorists a copy of the speech.
April 10th, 2008 at 2:14 pmBUSH DOES NOT CARE! HAVING AN IDIOT LIKE KRISTOL TRYING TO SELL AN IMAGE OF SOMEONE WHO STARTED THIS WHOLE THING FOR OIL AS SOMEONE WHO CARES, JUST EMPHASIZE HOW MUCH OF IT IS JUST ANOTHER LIE!
April 10th, 2008 at 2:49 pmSteel in his voice? How about some cold steel in his fcking throat?
April 10th, 2008 at 4:45 pmSP Biloxi Says:
April 10th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Can’t wait for the idiot President to leave on January 20, 2009. Bush granted Vampire Kristol a preview of the Iraq speech. Bush might as well just hand the terrorists a copy of the speech.
Um...He did, Kristol IS one of the biggest terrorist.
April 10th, 2008 at 8:52 pmWhat Billy gonna do when his butt buddy is gone?
April 11th, 2008 at 12:57 amIf only Condi saved her dressessohbet instead of cleaning them. But in today’s twisted America, I don’t believe anything would happen if George Bush was cetcaught in bed with a dead girl AND a live boy. And it all procedes with a cheeky grin and a sickening smugness that is as arrogant as it is insultingBedava mp3 indir.
April 11th, 2009 at 1:06 pm