I would think it’s obvious:
Ted Bundy for President!
Oh, wait. He’s dead.
Ed Bundy for President!
Al Bundy for President!
AL BUNDY!!
When the terrorists strike, at least we’ll die laughing!
Absolutely. As Norm McDonald used to say on Weekend Update - Another fascinating story from the pages of the magazine “Duh!”
Screw that. King Kong Bundy for President! He’ll do that leg drop off the top rope thing all over those evildoers in the masks.
–Cervaise scurries around the thread handing out tinfoil to the participants–
Dear Dopers (no pun),
The point, as I see it, is that if the statement is all so naked to even the eye of a two brain cell Joe then how come president even thought about making it? Shouldn’t he be saying something that vastly makes sense to people? To me something like that coming from the most of the most official person of US is an insult to people’s intelligence. What made him think that it’d be acceptable to people? Even more and so, how can he continue to make it (read motives behind Iraq war and popular support behind it)?
BTW, what’s OP?
This my friends, is your brain on drugs.
That or the rantings of a calm lunatic.
Trust me when I say this, when you’re in other shoes (non-American) then you do wonder about such balatant statments and take them more seriously than perhaps the Americans. You do also wonder, how the heck Americans look at that and how can they allow it while claiming to be the most educated and democracy-propagating nation on earth? So they end up assuming that Americans are hypocrites.
Wolf- …how come president even thought about making it?
Because it brings up fewer ugly questions than the complicated truth.
**Shouldn’t he be saying something that vastly makes sense to people? **
This gives people something simple to fear/rally against. I guess some brainiacs can go read a book or something. 
To me something like that coming from the most of the most official person of US is an insult to people’s intelligence. What made him think that it’d be acceptable to people?
Because he said it when people were blinded by grief and rage.
** Even more and so, how can he continue to make it (read motives behind Iraq war and popular support behind it)?**
He would really not like to get into the messy details. As you can see coming up with real motives/evidence is not this admin’s forte.
OP= Original Post (or sometimes Poster)
I really thought that that OP would have a point for some reason.
So, what’s your point exactly? You think Americans are stupid?
Bah! You probably just hate democracy.
Wolfe: If you’ve never heard a US president, or political leader of another country, spout emotional comments that don’t stand up to reason, then you have lived a very sheltered life indeed. It happens everyday, all the time. Most of us just tune it out.
I believe that the OP was comparing popular serial killers and mass murderers to Bush, but then complimenting the 9/11 terrorists for their strong convictions in flying airliners into skyscrapers. But, they actually liked America. That’s why they did it.
rabble rabble rabble…Bush is Evil Incarnate…blah blah blah.
I know the OP had a point, since he is a self-proclaimed expert. His point was that we should try to understand their motives, that would protect the American way of life.
“This is what he said: ‘The terrorists are people who fear freedom and liberty and want to destroy the American way of life’. And thus, ‘we will hunt them down and punish them’”
What is so wrong with this statement? Is self preservation so bad?
I always chuckle at the conspiracy theories about Bush knowing about the 9/11 attacks, as the OP implied to in the opening breath. It appears that the ends do not justify the means in the current war on terror, but that same mentality justifies the means when talking about Pearl Harbor, when there was a Democrat president.
The OP fully satisfies my curiousity about Grandpa Simpson’s take on 9/11.
It compared serial killers to the 9/11 hijakcers.
What’s wrong with the statement is the point of the OP. The reason, “[the] fear [of] freedom and liberty and [the desire] to destroy the American way of life,” that Bush gave is implausible and over simplified at best.
Self preservation can be very bad. Especially if you’re Ted Bundy. (Or someone I’m trying to kill. 
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Actually Bob, it’s too bad you and me posted. The OP and Chicago Faucet’s posts would have made perfect incomprehensible bookends to this thread. I guess I’m an artist at heart.
I agree w/ him.
Maybe I just have vastly lowered expectations of politicans.
Is that bad?
One-liner of the week! 
Daniel
Given their religious-political association with radical islamic paramiliotary groups, it is not an incorrect statment to say they despise American freedom. Quite correctly, Bush identified one of the roots of the symbol of American culture, which they feel is an invasive force in their own. By denying American freedom, they gain breathing room for their own authortarian regimes.