Bush: War not inciting terrorists

[shraby]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In an interview with Irish television ahead of a U.S.-EU summit, U.S. President George W. Bush defended his stance on Iraq and said the war has not incited terrorists.

Bush leaves Friday for Ireland, where he will meet with European Union leaders Saturday before heading to Turkey for a NATO summit. Ireland currently holds the rotating six-month presidency of the EU.

In the sometimes combative interview with Irish network RTE -- the president at one point asking the interviewer to let him finish his answers -- Bush disputed the suggestion that the world is more dangerous with the focus on Iraq instead of Afghanistan and al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

"On September 11, 2001, we were attacked in an unprovoked fashion -- everybody thought the world was calm," the president told RTE's Carole Coleman at the White House.

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What planet does he live on anyway????

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. You can bet he will say that the movie F9/11 is inciting them.

:eyes:

[patdem]

2. How the crap does bush* connect that America was 'calm' on 9/11

to more terrorist activity today??? Is he saying calm is an indication of terror...and as long as he can continue chaos we will all be safe???

[frankly_fedup2]

3. Also, on CSPAN, Pedro announced that the reporter who

interviewed Bush was scheduled to Interview Laura this morning as that reporter's network had the exclusives. Since she questioned Bush's answers, It was announced this morning that her exclusive interview with Laura was canceled.

He was so ticked. You could really tell that reporter was getting under his skin. I loved it.

Also, when he was standing at the podium with EU leaders with the castle in the background, someone must have asked him a question that pissed him off because in his ohh so arrogant way he stated (paraphrasing here) I have a vision, then a plan, then I LEAD, and then the chips fall were they may.

Even the Irish hate him. Think he gets it yet???

[Disturbed]

8. He is to dense to get it.

Shrub is a little man that has a Napolean complex. He will never understand anything beyond what his shallow brain has been programmed to keep repeating ad nauseum. "I don't understand poor people." GW Bush

The Repugnant Award

I can't decide which BushCo Cult member is more repugnant after him.

I am against the Death Penalty but the members of Bush Cult make it difficult to maintain my belief. I keep being tempted by a vision of them all lined up in front of a firing squad.

[bacchant]

4. Typical Bush, shouting out both holes at once

"The insurgents killing our troops are terrorists, not the Iraqi people"

"The war is not inciting terrorists"


Thanks Dunceboy.

[TexasSissy]

5. What else CAN he say? Of course he and Cheney HAVE to keep

defending their war and their "evidence" of an Al Qaeda-Iraq connection. What other choice do they have? Confess it was all a hoax, and that they have no evidence of a connection, and therefore, they are responsible for tens of thousands of deaths, and even more maimings?

They keep on with their deny-deny-deny program. But we're not buying anymore. Some never did. And the rest of us have come to our senses.

[ewagner]

6. UUUmmm, excuse me Mr President....

You said On September 11, 2001, we were attacked in an unprovoked fashion -- everybody thought the world was calm,"

Did you forget the August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily briefing? You know, the one entitled Bin Laden determined to Attack in the United States ?

[Fenris]

7. The revised State Department Terrorism Report says otherwise!

http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=9416&cid=12&cname=The%20New%20War

The TTIC was created last year and is an independent organization that reports directly to the Director of Central Intelligence and is staffed by analysts from the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI's Counterterrorism Division, the Pentagon and other intelligence agencies.

Mr Powell defended the intgegrity of the process and the general conclusions of the earlier report, saying the narrative would not be changed substantially and that, "On balance, it is a good report."

Media seized on the large discrepancies between the numbers of reported deaths due to international terrorism in the initial and amended reports -- a figure that more than doubled, from 307 in the intitial report to 625 in the revised report.

But the revised number -- 625 -- is still 100 deaths shy of the tally in 2002: 725.

There was also a gain in the number of incidents reported -- to 208, a slight gain from the 198 reported in 2002. The earlier report had understated the number of attacks by 8, saying there were 190 reported terrorist attacks. The new report revises that number upward by 18.

But the actual number for 2003 still represented a 42 per cent decline from 2001's 355 attacks, the State Department said in the preface to its amended report.

The largest discrepancies in the report dealt with the numbers of victims injured in terrorist attacks.

The initial report said that a total of 1,593 persons were wounded in the attacks that occurred in 2003, down from 2,013 persons wounded the year before.

In the revised report, that number has jumped to 3646 persons, more than twice the earlier figure.

[patdem]

12. Were these reports created to make bush* believe terrorism

was indeed going down??? You know, the Plausable Deniability thing? Maybe the 'mistake' was to show bush* his GREAT war was working...and since he NEVER READS why would his REIGHT WING tell him that they had to change the numbers???

I could argue with ALL the CHANGES that have occured since this POS hss occupied MY whitehouse??? :shrug:

[Fenris]

14. It might have been to deceive our illiterate President, but it was

designed specifically to deceive the public.

To paraphrase Jon Stewert, when it's off by a few numbers, it's an honest mistake. When it's off by hundreds or thousands, you're fucking lying.

[Fenris]

9. delete

fucking slow

[Darranar]

10. Bush: Reality and all the evidence is wrong. I am right. n/t

[Fenris]

11. And what kind of fucking moron "thought the world was calm"?

Blue-blood upper class POS politician's sons, that's who.

[carpetbagger]

13. He needs to see F911.

He'll find out a lot about what happened during his administration.

[MrSlayer]

15. How do you respond to something like that?

The Chimp is brain damaged or something. He's been exposed as a fraud yet he clings to the lie. How I would love to be a fly on the wall during his meetings.

[Kitsune]

16. B*sh: Hitting Hornet Nest With Rocks Not Cause of Incredibly Painful Welts

Proof once more that this man has absolutely no logic circuits in that pitiful coke-addled excuse for a brain he's got.