Dumbya 's new word of the day: "Caliphate" (and ELEVEN "Stakes" are high)

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Wed Oct-11-06 12:18 PM
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Dumbya 's new word of the day: "Caliphate" (and ELEVEN "Stakes" are high)

Edited on Wed Oct-11-06 12:30 PM by jackstraw45

Used it 4 times in the press conference today.

CALIPHATE , the rulership of Islam; caliph , the spiritual head and temporal ruler of the Islamic state.

Imagine being the staffer who had to teach the president the word before the press conference and help him say it..over and over....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/11/bush.transcript/
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QUESTION: Senator Warner says Iraq appears to be drifting sideways. And James Baker says a change in strategy may be needed.

Are you willing to acknowledge that a change may be needed?

BUSH: We're constantly changing tactics to achieve a strategic goal. Our strategic goal is a country which can defend itself, sustain itself and govern itself.

The strategic goal is to help this young democracy succeed in a world in which extremists are trying to intimidate rational people in order to topple moderate governments and to extend the caliphate.

The stakes couldn't be any higher, as I said earlier, in the world in which we live. There are extreme elements that use religion to achieve objectives. And they want us to leave. And they want to topple government. They want to extend an ideological caliphate that has no concept of liberty inherent in their beliefs.

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My job is to look at the intelligence and to -- and I'm going to tell you that there's an enemy out there that would like to do harm again to the United States, because we're in a war. And they have objectives. They want to -- they want to drive us out of parts of the world to establish a caliphate. It's what they have told us.

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But the stakes are high if we were to leave. It means that we would hand over a part of the region to extremists and radicals who would glorify a victory over the United States and use it to become -- use it to recruit. It would give these people a chance to plot and plan and attack. It would give them resources from which to continue their efforts to spread their caliphate.

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Also, Dumbya used the term "stakes" ELEVEN times:

"The stakes are high. As a matter of fact, they couldn't be higher."

"The stakes couldn't be any higher, as I said earlier, in the world in which we live."

"Our policy is to help this country succeed, because I understand the stakes."

"As a matter of fact, I'm going to spend a lot of time repeating the stakes about what life is like in the Middle East."

"And my vow to the American people is I understand the stakes."

"I appreciate them working on this issue, because I think they understand what I know: The stakes are high."

"And the stakes are high when it comes to developing a Palestinian state so that Israel can live at peace."

"And the stakes are high when it comes to making sure the young democracy of Lebanon is able to fend off the extremists and radicals that want to crater that democracy."

"I understand how hard it is. And I also understand the stakes."

"But the stakes are high if we were to leave. "

"The stakes are really high."