Bush* live from Rose Garden now (10:15 am, July 23)

[SpiralHawk]

This will be cute. Not.

[SpiralHawk]

1. All we are doing is for the good of Iraq

And we are doing a splendid job, he says.

[SpiralHawk]

20. US doing a crappy job says UN

in direct contradiction of what Bush* is saying. Sheesh.

http://www.turks.us/article.php?story=20030723082041101

Istanbul, TURKEY, July 23, 2003 - The United Nations
(UN) first progress report on Iraq, released on July 22,
states that conditions in the country have getten worse
since the US-UK allied military occupation.
The 22-page report, prepared by Sergio Vieira de Mello, Special
Representative of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, stressed thatdemocracy could not be imposed from outside.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

2. can you keep the cuberats informed?

n/t

[buff2]

3. I turned my tv OFF!

I can't stomach to hear or see that lying,ignorant,blundering,blathering pile of trash. He makes me sick. :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Creamed Corn]

29. I hear a lot of people say this.

But I think you need to be able to watch the man without allowing him to cause a visceral reaction. It's bad for you. Same with hate radio.

[bushisanidiot]

4. Look at how often the CHimp has to turn the pages..

has he only got 1 paragraph in big bold letters on every page?

What a frickin' moran!

[buff2]

8. I can't figure out how ANYONE

Can stand to listen to his chopped up sentences.He is a freakin bad joke and nothing more. :thumbsdown:

[glarius]

5. Where are the troops of the 19 nations who are in Iraq helping?

It seems odd to me that not ONCE in all the tape we've seen of the fighting forces in Iraq, have we seen anything but American and British fighting men and women....Where are these troops from the 19 nations Bush says are helping?????

[spotbird]

27. Yeah! Where is Micronesia when you need them? n/t

[peekaloo]

6. spreading shit in a rose garden is good for the flowers!

[buff2]

11. LOL!

That's a good one! :evilgrin:

[jbfam4]

12. You made me

LOL.......thanks, Peek

[bigendian]

7. he's saying

What a great job we are doing.

infrastucture
gov council
un membership ( milestone )
asking other countries to help ($$)

[LiberalLibra]

9. Can that boy talk without having to read, word for word, from notes?? He..

...commented about Saddam's sons killing people and I couldn't help but yell at the TV "isn't that exactly what you are doing asshole?" :grr:

[bigendian]

10. Now

he's talking about the promise to remove old leadership.
values. blah blah. it's over. no q's.

[Desertrose]

13. great way to wake up.....lookin at *

:puke:

I just want to clip his lips shut with a big clothespin!
blah blah blah

"Iraqi governing council"

"prepare the way for elections..."

"important milestone..."
nations of the world to assist...IOW HELP US!

buzzword ...bs...nothing new

Oh yeah we kept our promise..we removed the dictator...every remnant of the regime...
83 days we have made progress -steady progress
:puke:

Bremer...thank you....

NO QUESTIONS!?
Gosh!!!!

now its talking head spin time...
diddn't miss much..
regime is gone & can't come back...
uh...where is Saddam??
what lies!!!

AAKKK!
anybody buying???
not yet I don't think.....

Peace - I wish
DR

[Pale Blue Dot]

14. Was it just me, or did that smack of desperation?

Nothing new was said. It was just a cheerleading session. A very weak ending, too.

[bigendian]

15. what a waste

of airtime. full spectrum coverage, even cnbc. ask anyone in an hour what he said and you will get a blank stare.

[The_Bearded_Liberal]

16. What the fucks a "remanant"??

The idiot kept saying....."We are removing the remanants of Saddams regime...."

Is that the same as the "remnants" of Saddams regime?

[bushisanidiot]

17. Mutherphuckingphuckhead Refused Once Again To Answer Questions

from the press. He just walked away and gave his stupid "talk to the hand" wave as if they press just wanted to say "hi". IDIOT!

WHERE ARE THE WMD? WHERE'S OSAMA? WHERE'S SADDAM? HOW MUCH MONEY IS YOUR FAMILY MAKING OFF OF THEIR IRAQI OIL DEALS? HOW THE HELL DID YOU EVER GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL?

[Sagan]

18. I think I see why the press loves him so...

They know they don't have to do any prep-work because he never takes questions anyway.

What a sweetheart job that must be.

[Cha]

23. But not very Great for History!!

What a shameful job I say!

[oceanpoetry]

19. not very effective

Moon "void of course" during speech which means to me that this speech is going to have no impact on public criticism, not a very effective speech.

on edit: a comment for the astrologers and astrology enthusiasts :)

[Cha]

25. Thanks! I didn't even realize the "Moon was Void" until you

said that and then I looked at my calendar! No, it won't have any effect. But it seems nothing he does has any real meaning except bad bad bad for various People on the Planet!

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

21. normal people say "remnant"

bush says "reminant" (twice)
will they fix it in the transcript?

[SpiralHawk]

22. The "news" in his speech was that Iraq will soon have a

new currency -- no doubt based on the US dollar.

He just slipped that in to a long paragraph -- but it reminds me that Iraq wnet of the dollar standard -- and many observers speculated that this move ratcheted up the BushCo lust for war.

Watch out Cuba.

[LS_Webmaster]

24. I found it rather amusing that...

he said that it is saddam that threw the Middle East off balance. Last I knew it was Bush who threw the Middle East into turmoil.

[Cha]

26. Does bush ever say ANYTHING that is True?

:kick:

[chromotone]

28. Sure...twice

You know I could run for governor but I'm basically a media creation. I've never done anything. I've worked for my dad. I worked in the oil business. But that's not the kind of profile you have to have to get elected to public office.
http://www.allhatnocattle.net/DubyaQuotes.htm

I believe "I'm basically a media creation" and "I've never done anything" qualifies as two truths uttered by His Royal Flatulence.

[Cha]

30. Wow! that was back in the day before rove got a hold of him.

Man, those quotes should be broadcast from Coast to Coast!

[Lisa]

31. I've got a trifecta for you: "I'm the master of low expectations"

http://www.dubyaspeak.com/himself.shtml


See -- even now, the truth does sometimes slip out.

[RedSock]

32. from a will pitt article

How is the US (I make it a point never to say "we") really doing in Iraq?


From William Rivers Pitt:
http://truthout.org/docs_03/072103A.shtml

I spoke last week with a woman named Jodie Evans, long-time peace activist and organizer of a group called the International Occupation Watch Center, or IOWC:

"It was 120 degrees, it was dusty, the air had a haze that makes everything gray. ... Immediately after we arrived, we hear that it is not only worse than before the war. It is worse than during the war. People are upset, people are angry. There were lots of stories about how the Americans are doing this on purpose. A month after the '91 war, which was much worse than this one, everything was back and working. Now, the people live in this chaos they can't even imagine. People can't go outside. Women haven't left their homes. Lots of people haven't come back from Syria or Kuwait or wherever they fled to get away from the bombing, because life in Iraq is unlivable. There is 65% unemployment, and even the doctors and nurses and teachers who are going to work don't get paid, so there's no money.

"That professor I spoke to, the one doing intelligence for Bremer, I told him that I had spoken to countless Iraqis and all of them felt this chaos was happening on purpose. He basically said this was true, that chaos was good, and out of chaos comes order. So what the Iraqis were saying - that this madness was all on purpose - this intelligence guy didn't discredit. He said, 'If you keep them hungry, they'll do anything for us.'"

"I met the man who was hired to create a new civil government in Baghdad, to bring Baghdad back to order. His name was Gerald Lawson. I asked him what his background was that allowed him to get this job. He said he was in the Atlanta Police for 30 years. I asked how this gave him the ability to create a stable, civil government. He said he was a manager. I asked him what he knew about Iraqis. He knew nothing, and didn't care to know anything. He didn't know their history, their government, didn't speak a word of Arabic and didn't care to learn. This guy doesn't work for the American government, doesn't work for the State Department, and doesn't work for the CPA. He works for a corporation created by ex-Generals. Their job is to create the new Iraqi government structure.

"We met the man whose job is to make sure the hospitals have what they need. He is a veterinarian. We met a British guy who showed up at the Compound gates one day and said he was a volunteer who wanted to help. The next day he was named the head of rubbish control in Baghdad, which is a huge problem there because there is garbage all over the street. I asked him what he had been doing with his time. He said he'd been hanging out at Odai's palace playing with the lions and the cheetahs. I met the guy in charge of designing the airport, where major jumbo jets are supposed to land. He had never designed an airport before.

"Another man I spoke to associated with this process is named Don Munson. His job is civilian affairs policy. He said to me, 'We are replacing one dictatorship with another.' He's there for two years, and he works in the palace on the first floor.

"Remember, that the first thing America did was to fire 80,000 police officers. These guys weren't associated with the Hussein regime. That's like connecting a cop in LA to the Bush administration. All the people I've talked to over there, the ambassadors and others, said they warned Bremer not to do that. The cops knew who the criminals were, and 80,000 cops are gone. So now there are these little mafias that run neighborhoods. With no other work and no way to survive, people are going to become criminals. The borders are wide open - we didn't even get stopped when we came in - so everything is just flowing into Iraq.

"A friend of mine's husband is an ambassador. I asked him if this was normal operating procedure. He said that, basically, no one will work on this Iraq project who has any respect for their work or career, because it is so clearly a farce. He said that later we will go in after these guys have blown it, but right now with Bremer there it is a farce. Even the press is over there are just shaking their heads and asking, can anyone fail so badly? Can anybody make so many mistakes? You can't imagine they can be so dumb."

http://truthout.org/docs_03/072103A.shtml