Bush: "...there is an enemy willing to bomb innocent people in a symbol of democracy."

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N12334057.htm

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"I strongly condemn the action," Bush told reporters after a meeting at the White House on an education bill. "It reminds us though that there is an enemy willing to bomb innocent people in a symbol of democracy."

The suicide bomber killed eight people and wounded 20 in the blast that tore through a cafe where lawmakers were having lunch.

"That is the same type of person that is willing to come and kill innocent Americans and it is in our interest to help this young democracy be in a position so it can sustain itself, and govern itself and defend itself against these extremists and radicals," Bush said.

"The message to the Iraqi government is we stand with you as you take the steps necessary to not only reconcile politically, but also put a security force in place that is able to deal with these kinds of people," he said.

[otherlander]

1. .

:wow:

[Solly Mack]

2. I watched him speak

and as always, wondered why a war criminal is still free

[bobthedrummer]

24. Yep, kick.

[Greeby]

3. He has no goddamn clue, does he?

:eyes:

[jwirr]

9. No. He doesn't even know that he is discribing himself.

[NewJeffCT]

13. A few years ago

He said that free people don't develop WMD, missing the irony that we had just announced we were developing new nuclear bunker-busters.

[Supersedeas]

20. frankly i have no clue...wtf is the PoTUS saying: symbol of democracy???

[opihimoimoi]

4. As Usual....EMPTY LANGUAGE......Much Blathering about same ole Crap....The man is a CREEP....or IOW.

a Cretin....

[bdamomma]

5. what democracy George, you sick SOB.

playing that FEAR card again, George?

"That is the same type of person that is willing to come and kill innocent Americans"


what person George? Cheney, Rove and your band of sick men.

[Botany]

7. Well the Iraqi democracy .... the one that has not controll over the country

I used to think "they" just controlled inside the green zone ... now not even that
area.

[aquart]

6. Still irony challenged.

[TwilightGardener]

8. "And we have met that enemy, and it is us..."

[Forkboy]

21. My very first though as well.

[BattyDem]

10. "an enemy willing to bomb innocent people in a symbol of democracy"

You think? :eyes:

[raccoon]

11. That sentence, seems to me, doesn't make much sense.

(Imagine that.)

"It reminds us though that there is an enemy willing to bomb innocent people in a symbol of democracy."

IN a symbol of democracy? Does that mean, "as a symbolic gesture of democracy?" Or something else?

I know Bush doesn't know the English language, but can't his speechwriters do better?

And of course, it's yet another case of the pot calling the kettle black.

[malaise]

19. Bush making sense

Get real!

[NewJeffCT]

12. Do his speechwriters realize what's they're writing?

Or, do they just not miss the irony?

[Oilwellian]

22. It wasn't a written speech

He was answering a question off the cuff. Can't you tell? :rofl:

[NewJeffCT]

23. Sort of like the time

He said that free people don't develop WMD right around the time we announced we were developing new bunker-buster nukes.

[Jacobin]

14. "symbol of democracy?"

:rofl:


:rofl:

:rofl:

A parliament that has to live behind 20 foot concrete blast walls is a 'symbol of democracy"

:rofl:

:rofl:

[MasonJar]

15. Pure unadulterated IRONY.

[stellanoir]

16. A thoroughly armed fortress with heavy security concrete barriers and razor wires

and innumerable check points doesn't really qualify as a "symbol of democracy." IMHO

Hardly an open air tent or "a city on a hill" is it. . .?

[bobthedrummer]

17. Sidebar to Mr. Bush: many of US remember those "total war" criminals

that "influenced" your "decisions", and now you've run out of evading accountability for your own crimes.

Total War influences start with folks like Richard N. Perle and Eliot A. Cohen (who was given a position in the criminal Condoleeza Rice's State Department last month replacing the criminal Zelikow)


Right Web R.N. Perle profile
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1315

Source Watch R.N. Perle profile
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_N._Perle

Right Web E.A. Cohen profile
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1100

Source Watch E.A. Cohen profile
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eliot_Cohen

"...there is an enemy willing to bomb innocent people in a symbol of democracy..." "Money trumps peace..." "Freedom is on the march..." "I'm the decider..."

[malaise]

18. Does that war criminal have a mirror?

Yes George that's what you did in Iraq.