# Your FAVORITE line from GWBs speech tonite!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 14, 2004, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-line-from-gwbs-speech-tonite/239892 "2004-04-14T01:21:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OneYogini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9e5f3/32.png) [@OneYogini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneYogini)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-line-from-gwbs-speech-tonite/239892/1 "2004-04-14T01:21:23Z")
Mine: “…they found 500 lbs. of mustard gas buried on a turkey farm…” ((in my best Homer Simpson voice)) “mmmmm…mustard gas on turkey” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nekosoft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c2a13f/32.png) [@Nekosoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nekosoft)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-line-from-gwbs-speech-tonite/239892/2 "2004-04-14T01:26:41Z")
Paraphrasing: “I’m confident I’ve made lots of mistakes…” ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-line-from-gwbs-speech-tonite/239892/3 "2004-04-14T02:37:20Z")
At one point, didn’t he say something like “Peace in Iraq works FOR the terrorists?” I’m sure he meant to say “Againest” but that had to be emberresing. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-line-from-gwbs-speech-tonite/239892/4 "2004-04-14T12:22:04Z")
Is “suiciders” a word? Or is it one he made up? ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-line-from-gwbs-speech-tonite/239892/5 "2004-04-14T12:31:27Z")
“You can leave in a cab. If you can’t find a cab you can leave in a huff. If that’s too soon you can leave in a minute and a huff.” I love that guy, he’s so funny! Wait a minute. . . Was I watching the speech or something else? ---
**Author:** ![Nekosoft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c2a13f/32.png) [@Nekosoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nekosoft)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-line-from-gwbs-speech-tonite/239892/6 "2004-04-14T14:48:29Z")
Was that before or after he started singing: “If you think this country’s bad off now, just wait 'till _I_ get through with it”? ---
**Author:** ![NailBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-line-from-gwbs-speech-tonite/239892/7 "2004-04-14T15:46:18Z")
I loved it when he said that people who don’t necessarily believe that we can _make_ Iraq be free, believe so because (paraphrasing) “maybe they think that if you’re Muslim, or if you have brown skin, you don’t deserve to be free.” Oh yes, I’m sure that is EXACTLY why people have problems with us trying to force freedom on another country. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-line-from-gwbs-speech-tonite/239892/8 "2004-04-14T21:21:13Z")
The OP is using a meaning of “favorite” that I’m not familiar with… ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-line-from-gwbs-speech-tonite/239892/9 "2004-04-14T23:31:47Z")
Thanks to [Salon](http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/04/14/bush/index1.html): > [@](#): > > He misidentified Donald Rumsfeld as the secretary of state. He referred to the Pakistani nuclear trading network headed by Abdul Qadeer Khan as a “shadowy network of ‘folks’” and said that Saddam Hussein had “funded ‘suiciders.’” He proclaimed that “a free Iraq in the midst of the Middle East will have incredible change.” And when asked about the domestic political ramifications of the war in Iraq, the president rather indelicately explained, “Look, nobody likes to see dead people on their television screens.” ---
**Author:** ![Mithril](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mithril/32/3517_2.png) [@Mithril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithril)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-line-from-gwbs-speech-tonite/239892/10 "2004-04-14T23:49:09Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > Thanks to [Salon](http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/04/14/bush/index1.html): I tried finding a news source that commented on that, to no avail. I was starting to wonder if _I_ had it wrong. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-line-from-gwbs-speech-tonite/239892/11 "2004-04-15T01:09:08Z")
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. [http://www.bluestraveler.net/lyrics/unreleased/jabberwock.html](http://www.bluestraveler.net/lyrics/unreleased/jabberwock.html) ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-line-from-gwbs-speech-tonite/239892/12 "2004-04-15T01:38:37Z")
He used the word “suiciders” a couple of times. [10/29/03](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/28/politics/main580473.shtml): “It is dangerous in Iraq because there are some who believe that we are soft, that the will of the United States can be shaken by suiciders.” That is the same speach where he said that a question regarding whether or not the number of troops in Iraq would be higher or lower a year later than that date was “A trick question” and refused to answer. He also [said](http://www.crystalclouds.co.uk/humourquotespage.php?quotecategory=Humour%20Bushisms&page=5) in 2002 that “These people don’t have tanks. They don’t have ships. They hide in caves. They send suiciders out.” ---
**Author:** ![gentle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eb8c5e/32.png) [@gentle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gentle)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-line-from-gwbs-speech-tonite/239892/13 "2004-04-15T01:39:59Z")
[This article](http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0414-10.htm) has some juicy excerpts and analysis. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-line-from-gwbs-speech-tonite/239892/14 "2004-04-15T01:50:54Z")
Hell, most of those lines are CLASSIC sig material! ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-line-from-gwbs-speech-tonite/239892/15 "2004-04-15T13:21:29Z")
> [@](#): > > Iraqis do not support an indefinite occupation, and neither does America. We’re not an imperial power, as nations such as Japan and Germany can attest. Yeah - we sure pulled out of [Germany](http://www.globemaster.de/germanybases.html) and [Japan](http://www.jca.apc.org/wsf_support/2004doc/WSFJapUSBaseRepoFinalAll.html).