President Bush had that to say in defense of his decision to go to war with Iraq, according to the Washington Post.
Um, what? I seem to remember that your reason was that the inspectors were given too much time, not that they weren’t let in at all. Saddam didn’t keep them from coming in the country. He let them in. What kind of fucking revisionist history is this? Hans Blix gave reports to the Security Council about his progress and never said he wasn’t allowed in the fucking country.
What the hell is wrong with this administration? They can’t keep the basic story straight?
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You liberals just can’t let him win, can you? Bush won the war! For the freedom of the Iraqi people! For the liberation of Afghanistan! He killed Osama and got Saddam! FREEDOM!
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I don’t know what’s worse, that he said it or that so many people will buy it.
I’ll tell you what’s bloody wrong with him. He’s a lying piece of sack of shit bitch who lies so much he can’t remember what lies he told. When’s the last time you heard him tell the truth? It’s an abstract concept to him. “The truth? It’s whatever I’m saying right now!” He lies even when he doesn’t have to. It’s a wonder his nose doesn’t grow, even though he’s nothing but a puppet. L is for all the lies he’s told. I is for Ignorant, which is what he thinks we are. A is for A liar, which is what he is. R is for ROTFLMAO, which is what I’m doing at anyone who believes the outlandish lies that comes out of his crooked mouth. What’s that spell? LIAR. Every third phrase out of his mouth should be “Yeah…that’s the ticket!” Little white ones, whoppers, tall tales, fish stories, even the Big variety–he’s got 'em. Face it, America. You’ve been had.
The man is stunned. For months, it didn’t matter what he said, what he did, or how apparent his hypocrisy, his ratings stayed sky-high, it looked as though he could brazen it out, no matter what it was.
But there is some kind of threshold, some almost psychic barrier that once crossed leads to a kind of chain reaction of shit.
I think it happened in the places Presidents don’t see. The ordinary places, the beauty shops, the work places. The places the wives and parents of servicemen overseas worry about thier loved ones. Where they vent thier frustration that they aren’t home yet. I’d be willing to bet that every poster here knows or is related to someone like that.
It isn’t the nature of the bullshit that has changed, nor the nature of the bullshitter.
It is the mood of the bullshitees that has changed.
Vibrotronica, I’m beginning to think you feel the President has been dishonest. Just reading between the lines here.
One of the many offenses against the vibrant expressive English language committed by the current administration is their use of the term “revisionist historian” as an insult. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with revisionist history. It doesn’t (usually) mean changing the basic factual account; it means looking at the available facts with a fresh perspective, and using any new facts that have come to light. Each history written is influenced by the cultural background of the historian; that’s why it’s useful to have historical questions reexamined periodically. Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was a masterpiece, but many historians since the 18th century have taken their own stabs at the subject from different angles. (I leave the Julius Caesar jokes to somebody else.)
So when Bush says something stupid like that, or when Ari Fleischer flat-out denies that the administration ever presented the spectre of a potentially nuclear-armed Saddam as a big reason for going to war, that’s not revisionist history, it’s just bullshit.
You know what? Fuck George Bush. I’m going to avoid news programs for the next year or so and do something much less painful than listening to Bush, like feasting on my own penis.
<RANT>WTF??? What kind of goddamn fucking nightmare am I living in? The Presi-fucking-dent of the USA makes a statement to the American people that everyone knows is the exact opposite of the truth. And that he knows (or should know) everyone knows is the exact opposite of the truth. How friggin’ blatantly patronizing can he be. It’s like he’s saying to our faces that he thinks we’re either stupid or willing to be led around like sheep who don’t care about the truth. Not only is it untrue. It’s obviously, inarguably, untrue. There’s no room for quibling about semantics or context, it’s a bald-faced lie!!!</RANT>
Sorry, I had to get that out of my system. Please tell me that this is a misquote or that there is some context within which it makes at least some sense.
You know, I would give a lot to know what was going through the mind of the guy (President of Uganda?) next to him on stage. He looked really uncomfortable.
Airports? Nay, we should be naming aircraft carriers after the man. This glorious, shining example of all that we hold dear will be the namesake of the means by which the legions of our Big Brother heavy bombers lead the strike against all those nuclear anthrax producing WMD facilities that will be destroyed to lead humanity towards a brighter tomorrow.
I had been wondering what the resident SDMB Republican apologists would have to say about this latest bit of news. I just didn’t want to be the one to give Eonwe that bit of satisfaction:D
