Perino: We’re not occupiers in Iraq; we’re guests.
Perino: We’re not occupiers in Iraq; we’re guests.
During today’s White House press briefing, spokesperson Dana Perino echoed President Bush’s claim that Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zaidi’s frustrations are not representative of the Iraqi public’s sentiments. She pointed out that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki apologized for the mistreatment of his guest. When reporter Helen Thomas pointed out that U.S. forces are actually “occupiers,” Perino bristled:
QUESTION: Why not worry about it? Does it reflect the feelings of the people?
PERINO: I don’t think that you can take one guy throwing his shoe as representative of the people of Iraq.
And I will tell you that Prime Minister Maliki and the journalists who were there in the room, who apologized on behalf of the Iraqis, saying this is not how they would treat a guest. [...]
QUESTION: But he wasn’t a guest. We’re occupiers.
PERINO: No, we’re not. We are absolutely a guest.
Watch it:
Perino later added, “If — if the Iraqis didn’t want us there, we wouldn’t have been signing that agreement that allows our troops to operate there for the next three years,” ignoring the fact that Iraqis primarily supported the agreement because it set a firm deadline for U.S. withdrawal.
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Guests, like fish, stink after three days.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:19 pmOh, I see. It's like in Japan, where guests are supposed to take off their shoes.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:20 pmWhen your hosts start throwing their shoes at you, do you think they're telling you to go home?
December 16th, 2008 at 1:21 pmI don’t think that you can take one guy throwing his shoe as representative of the people of Iraq.
Uhhhh, OK, Ms. Black Eye - how 'bout all those thousands protesting in the streets of Iraq?
December 16th, 2008 at 1:23 pmGuests don't bring tanks for a visit.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:24 pmIt seems to have been confirmed that he was tortured for throwing that shoe at Iraq "guest".
December 16th, 2008 at 1:25 pmPERINO: I don't think that you can take one guy throwing his shoe as representative of the people of Iraq.
No silly rabbit, we judge it by the crowd of people cheering in the street.
Oh now they have a firm date. Is she that stupid or is she insulting my intelligence?
Stop playing dumb.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:25 pmShe's insulting your intelligence and she appears to enjoy doing so.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:26 pmliberal unions are crippling american business
December 16th, 2008 at 1:27 pmOh, for the love of God, Barbie - we ain't *THAT* stupid!!!!
December 16th, 2008 at 1:27 pmYou want another black eye, B-I-T-C-H?!?!
December 16th, 2008 at 1:27 pmHow many guests break your sewage system and take away the chlorine needed to purify the water?
December 16th, 2008 at 1:28 pmI always throw shoes at my guests.
/snark
December 16th, 2008 at 1:28 pmAre we sure she did not get hit with a shoe? Or another large object?
Guests????
December 16th, 2008 at 1:29 pmDana, you ignorant sl*t! Were you born stupid, or did you have to work at it?
December 16th, 2008 at 1:30 pmYeah, Dana, your black eye is a sign of friendship.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:33 pmPerino is just a lying whore for tyrant-boy Bush. The worthless, lying, election-stealing, war-mongering Bush should be tried for High Treason. Bush's puppet in Iraq, Maliki, is now reportedly torturing the patriotic shoe-thrower, Muntader al-Zaidi. Heck of a job, Bush morons and Bush puppets.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:35 pmYou're not helping. Liberals are moving the ball down the court in the right direction. I guess you suggest just doing away with workers rights and that will make it all better.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:35 pmGuests????
Yeah, nothing screams "thank you" for the welcome like dropping a few bunker buster bombs on the way in the door.
Somebody please give this bimbo the hook. I can't even look at her picture with a straight face anymore.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:36 pmDecember 16th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
There should simply be an automatic press black-out on anything Perino says. She is disconnected from the realities of our world and should be completely ignored. The more attention she gets, the worse she becomes. Helen Thomas should have slapped her.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:38 pmDana Perino is a bizarro version of C.J. Cregg
December 16th, 2008 at 1:39 pmIf she is acting, she deserves an Oscar.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:40 pmWithout an effective free press they know they can say anything and get away with it.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:42 pmIf we were truly guests, don't you think we could have behaved more graciously than engaging in "shock and awe" bombing? Or was that just to entertain our hosts?
Speaking of entertainment, Perino only has about 35 days left in her present position. Even though the vapid bimbo act IS getting a bit stale, we should probably appreciate what's left. I doubt our next WHPS will be as entertaining.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:43 pmPM Maliki says we are guests.
Helen Thomas says we are occupiers.
Naturally, Maliki is ignored and Thomas embraced.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:43 pmMy "guests" don't kill my family and friends.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:46 pmThe Bush liars are so easy to detest. Each time they make statements like this, they insult the vast majority of the world.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:47 pmTechnically she has a point. We are there currently per agreement with the Iraqi government. The only reason they do have the power to kick us out now is that overthrowing the government we just installed would be so patently insane I don't even think BushCo could wrap their heads around that one.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:47 pmPerino has become the US version of "Baghdad Bob".
December 16th, 2008 at 1:49 pmPM Maliki says we are guests.
Helen Thomas says we are occupiers.
Naturally, Maliki is ignored and Thomas embraced.
Pres Bush says we are guests.
Muntader al-Zaidi says we are occupiers.
Naturally, Bush is embraced and al-Zaidi ignored.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:49 pmThe end of the Botch misAdministration will hopefully bring an end to News Conference Barbie and her stupidity.
I'm thinking she'll get a book deal for a White House coloring book.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:50 pmI know who of the two I respect and it aint the bush bootlicker maliki.
Besides, you claim to be intelligent and objective. I guess this is how you think all guests in other countries behave.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:50 pmOn the other hand, I don't think "guest" quite applies to being there at the request of a government which your government installed. The same could have been said to be true for South Vietnam.
Likely, there should be a special word for somebody who knocks your house over, shoots you and your family, partially rebuilds the house, moves someone else in to it and then has that person invite them over the threshold. "Guest" just doesn't capture the flavor of that.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:51 pmWhen a guest is asked to leave and refuses, he/she is no longer a guest, but now an occupier.
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It would appear that defeated wingers talk in Newspeak. Hardly a day goes by without some Republican uttering a howler about what a great job they've done. I wonder what drugs they're on.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:53 pmYou know, such blatant lies are really putting a black eye on her record.
Heh heh.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:55 pmthere should be a special word for ...
I'm proposing "guwub" (George W Bush 2 u)
December 16th, 2008 at 1:56 pmThe comments made by Perino, Bush and Cheney (among others) over the past few days scares me a bit. For years, everyone in this administration have hewn closely to the 'official' talking points of whatever 'reality' they believe they have 'constructed' for our consumption. But now, the clock is almost running out, and I think the comments are getting careless. They're getting sloppy.
In this mad dash to inflict long-term post-administration damage to the country, there are going to be some serious errors (and slips-of-the tongue) made and it's going to do them in.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:59 pmPatrioticLiberalChristian Says:
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PM Maliki says we are guests.
Helen Thomas says we are occupiers.
Naturally, Maliki is ignored and Thomas embraced.
Pres Bush says we are guests.
Muntader al-Zaidi says we are occupiers.
Naturally, Bush is embraced and al-Zaidi ignored.
Oh? I am not seeing a whole lot of Bush embracing around here.
My point is this is yet another battle of semantics. Yes, TP, there are Iraqis who don't want us to bug out instantly. Yes, they want us gone, but gone under the conditions set forth in SOFA and ratified by their duly elected parliament. A parliament that would have never convened were it not for the invasion.
Whose semantics you go with -Thomas, Al-Sadr, Al-Zeidi vs Maliki, Talibani or Bush - says more about your own politics than it does the reality of the situation in Iraq. It is neither all one thing or all the other but a mix of the two.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:59 pm--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Naturally, you embrace Maliki because he holds the same warped view as Bush. Would you embrace Maliki if he disagreed with Bush?
BTW, please do not come over to my house as a "guest". I don't like for my family to be shocked and awed.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:00 pmOnly a Republican could consider the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent people to be a "battle of semantics"
December 16th, 2008 at 2:03 pmIRAQ TO U.S. : GET THE 100% OUT!
December 16th, 2008 at 2:03 pmTuesday, December 16, 2008 » 09:37pm
Iraqis have taken to the streets to demand the release of a reporter who threw his shoes at President George W Bush.
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Thousands of Iraqis have taken to the streets to demand the release of a reporter who threw his shoes at President George W Bush.
The protests came as suicide bombers and gunmen targeted Iraqi police, plus US-allied Sunni guards and civilians, in a series of attacks on Monday that killed at least 17 people and wounded more than a dozen others, officials said.
The journalist, Muntadhar al-Zeidi, was being held by Iraqi security on Monday and interrogated about whether anybody had paid him to throw his shoes at Bush during a press conference on Sunday in Baghdad, said an Iraqi official.
He was also being tested for alcohol and drugs, and his shoes were being held as evidence, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to talk to the media.
Showing the sole of your shoe to someone in the Arab world is a sign of extreme disrespect, and throwing your shoes is even worse.
Iraqis whacked a statue of Saddam with their shoes after US Marines toppled it to the ground after the 2003 US-led invasion.
Al-Zeidi was immediately wrestled to the ground after throwing the shoes, by Iraqi security guards. But the incident raised fears of a security lapse in the heavily guarded Green Zone where the press conference took place. Reporters were repeatedly searched and asked to show identification before entering the compound, which houses al-Maliki's office and the US Embassy.
Meanwhile, newspapers across the Arab world on Monday printed front-page photos of Bush ducking the flying shoes, and satellite TV stations repeatedly aired the incident, which was hailed by the president's many critics in the region.
Many are fed up with US policy and still angry over Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein.
Wafa Khayat, 48, a doctor in the West Bank town of Nablus, called the attack 'a message to Bush and all the US policy makers that they have to stop killing and humiliating people'.
In Jordan, a strong US ally, a 42-year-old businessman, Samer Tabalat, praised al-Zeidi as 'the man. ... He did what Arab leaders failed to do'.
Al-Zeidi's TV station, Al-Baghdadia, repeatedly aired pleas to release the reporter on Monday, while showing footage of explosions and playing background music that denounced the US military presence in Iraq.
'We have all been mobilised to work on releasing him,' said Abdel-Hameed al-Sayeh, the manager of Al-Baghdadia in Cairo, where the station is based.
Al-Jazeera television interviewed Saddam's former chief lawyer Khalil al-Dulaimi, who offered to defend al-Zeidi, calling him a 'hero'.
In Baghdad's Shi'ite slum of Sadr City, thousands of supporters of radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr burned American flags to protest against Bush and call for the release of al-Zeidi.
'Bush, Bush, listen well: Two shoes on your head,' the protesters chanted.
In Najaf, a Shi'ite holy city, some protesters threw their shoes at an American patrol as it passed by. Witnesses said the American troops did not respond and continued on their patrol.
Violence in Iraq has declined significantly over the past year but daily attacks continue. A truck bomb killed at least nine police officers on Monday and wounded 13 others in Khan Dhari west of Baghdad, said Dr Omar al-Rawi at the Fallujah hospital, where dead and wounded were taken.
The US military said eight Iraqi police officers were killed and 10 people were wounded in the blast. Conflicting casualty tolls are common in the chaotic aftermath of bombings.
Hours earlier, a female suicide bomber knocked on the front door of the leader of a local chapter of the Sunni volunteer militia north of Baghdad and blew herself up, killing him, said an Iraqi police official.
Also on Monday, gunmen killed seven people from a single family, members of the minority Yazidi sect, when they stormed into their home in northern Iraq, police said.
If you think you are a guest Perino, I invite/dare you and your 'dear leader', the one who received the "guest" shoes, for a stroll in any city of Iraq, without security personel, helicopters and snipers. Than you tell me if you are a guest in that country or if you are a WAR CRIMINAL member of an immoral administration... I dare you Perino!
December 16th, 2008 at 2:04 pmWhat kind of guest comes in, install a puppet goverment, and steal the host natural resources? Mind you, the guest came in using false and manipulated information...WMD, Mushroom clouds, etc..
December 16th, 2008 at 2:08 pmWhat kind of guest TORTURE its host?
You mean like this:
Clinton in Kosovo
December 16th, 2008 at 2:11 pmPlease somebody, make Perino eat someone's shoes!!!! This press conference need a jornalist with as much guts Al-Zeidi to throw a shoes at liers like Perino!
December 16th, 2008 at 2:11 pmThe good thing is it seems Bush is starting to realize how unpopular this war is and is trying to show some respect for the sovereignty of a country they invaded illegally. Of course it's all lies meant to whitewash a war crime they need to be held accountable for.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:13 pmKeltoi at Night Says:
Oh? I am not seeing a whole lot of Bush embracing around here.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Ok, name something Bush has done that YOU embrace, and then tell us why WE should embrace him.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:13 pmI meant:
December 16th, 2008 at 2:14 pmPlease somebody, make Perino eat someone’s shoes!!!! This press conference needs a jornalist with as much guts as Al-Zeidi to throw a shoes at liers like Perino!
Keltoi: Oh? I am not seeing a whole lot of Bush embracing around here.
Apparently, like Bush, self-reflection is a non-existent trait with you.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:15 pmDiapers, the flaming herr dubyah apologist, to the rescue!
December 16th, 2008 at 2:15 pmshoeless Says:
Naturally, you embrace Maliki because he holds the same warped view as Bush.
I embrace Maliki because he is the ruler of the only democracy in the Arab world and a vital ally. Helen Thomas is a knee jerk liberal journalist - her opinion might influence an article, his opinion will influence history.
Would you embrace Maliki if he disagreed with Bush?
Yes - and he did disagree. This SOFA isn't what Bush wanted, it was the result of long hard negotiation. Will you embrace Maliki if he disagrees with Obama?
December 16th, 2008 at 2:16 pmKeltoi at Night Says:
PM Maliki says we are guests.
Helen Thomas says we are occupiers.
Naturally, Maliki is ignored and Thomas embraced.
The FACT is we are occupiers and have been since Bush declared "Mission Completed". Anything else is bullsh!t.
Nice attempt to spin, I am not buying it.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:17 pmHow many times to hosts throw shoes at guests?
Diapers at Night = debunked.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:19 pmThat's your job, you flaming herr dubyah apologist.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:20 pm--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zooey Says:
Ok, name something Bush has done that YOU embrace, and then tell us why WE should embrace him.
I didn't say you should, I merely pointed out that you weren't as someone suggested.
I don't expect you guys to like Bush, I know where I am. I just find it odd that Helen Thomas view on our status in Iraq holds more weight with TPers than the view of the Iraqi PM.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:20 pmGuests don't install a mega embassy with permanent military bases on someone's cities! They don't Torture! Guest don't steal the host's reconstruction money nor their resouces! Guests don't use WHIT PHOSPHORUS against the host's civilian population. We can go on forever... lots of War Crimes on the record of the Iraq and Afheganistan's occupations!
December 16th, 2008 at 2:21 pmNo one finds it odd that Diaper "thinks" her view on our status in Iraq holds more weight than the majority of the country.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:22 pmAfter the carnage we have brought to Iraq, any Iraqii still wanting us there has a financial motive as their reason. There are lots of Iraqii's making tons of money off our soldiers and contractors. bribery, corruption, kidnapping, ransom, dropping dime on enemies and friends for profit, selling 'secrets' to W's army, re-building stuff we have broken or ruined, etc...
If you are not making a financial killing off our presence there, you want the Americans GONE!!!!!!
December 16th, 2008 at 2:22 pmObviously, we are un-welcomed guests as evidenced by the shoe slinging aimed at "Two Shoes" Bush.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:24 pmKeltoi at Night Says:
I didn’t say you should, I merely pointed out that you weren’t as someone suggested.
I don’t expect you guys to like Bush, I know where I am. I just find it odd that Helen Thomas view on our status in Iraq holds more weight with TPers than the view of the Iraqi PM.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
I thought you'd back away from that one.
Why so surprised about the status of Helen Thomas around here, as opposed to the Iraqi Puppet PM? She has WAY more credibility.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:24 pmIn that case, may I ask if we are being good guests ? Or are we trashing our host's condo ?
December 16th, 2008 at 2:25 pmKeltoi, how does it feel to be a 23% Bush ball licker?
December 16th, 2008 at 2:27 pmA wise man told me once that Maliki is only PM because of Bush. He may be conflicted in his assessment of "guest".
Damn those petards!
December 16th, 2008 at 2:30 pmKeltoi In the Dark says: I didn’t say you should, I merely pointed out that you weren’t as someone suggested.
Are you really that sarcasm-deficient that you couldn't recognize that I took your little dig at us and turned it to a dig at you? My comment did not suggest that any of us are siding with Bush but rather that Maliki is a Bush flunky and that you are the one embrassing both of them. The good journalists in both countries confront the BS and that's what we embrace.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:32 pmI find it extremely frustrating that these people seem to be so clueless. Bush doesn't seem to realize the insult of having someone throw his shoes at you in the Arab world and Perino doesn't understand that we are indeed occupiers and not simply guests.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:33 pmHelen Thomas is an American icon, Malaki is an American stooge. There is a huge difference in their reputations.
BTW: Malaki is one of those person making a killing while we protect and prop up his government. Malaki will leave Iraq a very, very wealthy man. And every penny came from YOUR POCKET.
How do you like that?
December 16th, 2008 at 2:34 pm"embrassing" should be embracing. Must be an "embarrassing" Freudian slip there somehow.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:34 pmGuests do not shock and awe. imbelcile.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:53 pmMaliki will call us whatever we tell him to call us. We installed his government.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:53 pmSo glad to hear again today from Ms. Perino the phrase Tony Snow made famous: "An Iraq that can govern, sustain and defend itself, and be an ally in the Global War on Terrrrrrr."
Make it end. Make it all end.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:58 pmShe pointed out that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki apologized for the mistreatment of his guest. When reporter Helen Thomas pointed out that U.S. forces are actually “occupiers,” Perino bristled:
That does Bush's toady Maliki apologizing have to do with anything. It is the people of Iraq who don't want to apologize and are supporting the guy who threw the shoe, demonstrating that they feel the same way about Bush.
Is Dana Perino really so stupid that she actually believes the things she is programmed to say? And what's up with allowing Helen Thomas to ask a question? I thought she never did that.
December 16th, 2008 at 3:00 pmKeltoi at Night Says:
I don’t expect you guys to like Bush, I know where I am. I just find it odd that Helen Thomas view on our status in Iraq holds more weight with TPers than the view of the Iraqi PM.
Yeah, because EVERYONE KNOWS how TRUSTWORTHY politicians protecting their OWN SKIN like the Iraqi PM is doing are COMPLETELY HONEST!! ROTFL, gullible and TARDED to the end Keltoi in the dark... Poor little TARD...
December 16th, 2008 at 3:01 pmFred Says:
old_hack Says:
liberal unions are crippling american business
from your link:
making American business' pay for health care is a SCAM! all that does is make them less competitive in the world at a time when globalism has become the most difficult markets to compete in. its crippling us and yet liberals are all out fighting to keep it that way.
Thank you.
It sound as if these repugs want workers on a plantation.
December 16th, 2008 at 3:04 pmAnd your black eye is just a token of the Iraqis affection for their house guests who've overstayed their welcome by 4-5 years.
December 16th, 2008 at 3:08 pmKeltoi is a Maliki man. He has always loved al-Maliki. He cares not what George W. Bush says. al-Maliki's word is gospel to Keltoi.
December 16th, 2008 at 3:11 pmKeltoi at Night Says:
PM Maliki says we are guests.
Helen Thomas says we are occupiers.
Naturally, Maliki is ignored and Thomas embraced.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
__________
It's really stretching the definition of "guest" when the "guest" breaks into a house, murders the homeowner, installs someone else as the new homeowner, and the new homeowner then welcomes the "guest" with open arms.
December 16th, 2008 at 3:15 pmIt is neither all one thing or all the other but a mix of the two.
You are mixed up. People favor one side or the other. 50-50 gets you nothing.
December 16th, 2008 at 3:16 pmEverybody needs a guest that kicks in the front door and refuses to leave.
December 16th, 2008 at 3:23 pm"PatrioticLiberalChristian Says:
Guests, like fish, stink after three days."
Didn't even have a chance to be the first.
December 16th, 2008 at 3:23 pmquestion for perino:
December 16th, 2008 at 3:41 pmgenerally, don't you have to be asked to be there in order to be a guest?
Yeah, guest who shot their way in.
December 16th, 2008 at 3:47 pmKeltoi,
"I just find it odd that Helen Thomas view on our status in Iraq holds more weight with TPers than the view of the Iraqi PM."
Now you value what Maliki says? Maliki has been calling for a timetable for withdrawl since day 1. Why was he ignored then?
"But that demand was foreshadowed by an episode in June 2006 in which al-Maliki circulated a draft policy calling for negotiation of just such a withdrawal timetable and the George W. Bush administration had to intervene to force the prime minister to drop it."
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43339
December 16th, 2008 at 4:31 pmKeltoi at Night Says:
No Keltoi there is NO semantic argument GUESTS are INVITED. Did I MISS the Iraqis inviting us to invade and occupy their country. NO I didnt miss it because it never happened. We ARE OCCUPIERS there can be no reasonable argument we arent. NO country with 150,000 foriegn troops is anything but occupied. It is flat out stupid to pretend otherwise and YES it is insutling our intelligence to even TRY to say anything else. Guests dont kill a few hundred thousand hosts. More than 80% of Iraqis want us gone and have NEVER seen us as anything but occupiers. You want to drink the kool-aid and leave reality far behind thats fine but dont even TRY to pretend we ought to take such idiocy seriously.
December 16th, 2008 at 4:49 pmKeltoi at Night Says:
Your entire argument about Maliki is stupid. First even if he WERENT a politician saying what is convienient did you accept that argument from the Soviets when the Afghani government 'INVITED' THEM in? I am betting you saw the USSR as occupiers and invaders NOT guests. Second the Iraqis DONT WANT US THERE
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001927572_iraqpoll13.html
82 percent of Iraqis oppose U.S. occupation
WASHINGTON — Four out of five Iraqis report holding a negative view of the U.S. occupation authority and of coalition forces, according to a new poll conducted for the occupation authority.
In the poll, 80 percent of Iraqis surveyed reported a lack of confidence in the Coalition Provisional Authority, and 82 percent said they disapprove of the United States and allied militaries in Iraq.
THAT was in 2004. The Iraqis have NEVER seen us as guests. Any spin you put on it trying to pretend we are there because the Iraqis want us there is LUDICROUS
December 16th, 2008 at 4:58 pma "guest" like a tapeworm is a "guest" in your intestinal tract.
December 16th, 2008 at 5:00 pmKeltoi, was that a serious question? Helen Thomas has been a respected journalist, a REAL journalist, and covering the White House since 1960. Her observations and opinion have some weight behind them, especially when they fit the facts: it's an occupation and has been since 2003.
December 16th, 2008 at 5:04 pmgummitch Says:
Keltoi, was that a serious question? Helen Thomas has been a respected journalist, a REAL journalist, and covering the White House since 1960. Her observations and opinion have some weight behind them, especially when they fit the facts: it's an occupation and has been since 2003.
Thank you.
December 16th, 2008 at 5:23 pmThe truth hurts kel's head, the pain feels like a shoe hitting his opposite, backward thinking head.
The Nazis were "guests" in Austria and Norway. Is that the kind of guests Perino was referring to?
December 16th, 2008 at 5:26 pmKeltoi says it is not an occupation because Helen Thomas called it an occupation. Of course, he didn't tell us what it is.
Logic is not Keltoi's strong suit. His lone thought is that anyone who disagrees with George W. Bush is wrong.
December 16th, 2008 at 5:29 pmAnyone remember Peter, Paul and Mary:
Just like Poland is protected by her Russian Friends,
December 16th, 2008 at 5:35 pmEl Salvadors protected by Americans........
Good grief, Keltoi.
Those arguments are truly stupid - even for you. You ought to be really embarrassed.
December 16th, 2008 at 5:57 pmKeltoi left this thread. I guess even he realized how badly he had embarrassed himself.
December 16th, 2008 at 6:21 pmAnd the Native Americans signing all those treaties with us is proof that we were guests and not invaders/occupiers.[snark]
December 16th, 2008 at 7:02 pmDana gives professional educated woman a bad name. Now many times have the Iraq people asked the US to leave their country. To save we're guest is scary as now guest invade, bomb, torture, rape, murder, steal and refuse to leave. It took a man with guts to throw his shoes for the World to see what is truly in the hearts of all the Iraq people. GET OUT!!
December 16th, 2008 at 7:02 pmlol on comment number #98.
A guest??? Ahem, excuse me? I think when Dana got hit with the mic that it loosened a screw in her brain.
Memo to Dana: Iraq citizens want the U.S. gone from their country. They are evicting us, Dana. Our so-called "guest card" that you claim we have has been stamped no admittance.
December 16th, 2008 at 8:08 pmI would have liked to see her with 2 black eyes. They just keep on lying and pushing their propaganda
December 17th, 2008 at 10:51 am