President says, 'I firmly planted the flag of liberty'

[Pirate Smile]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Saying he has "firmly planted the flag of liberty," President Bush on Wednesday expounded upon themes put forth in last week's inaugural address, promising to pursue democracy in Iraq and elsewhere around the world.

"A world without tyranny is an ideal world," the president said in opening remarks at a White House press conference. (Transcript)

Later, in response to a question about how Iraqis view dissent with Bush's policies in the United States, the president said: "I think the Iraqi people are wondering whether or not this nation has the will necessary to stand with them as a democracy evolves."

But he vowed to make history and pursue the goal of democracy worldwide.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/26/bush/index.html

That headline which is listed as the link on CNN's Homepage had to be shared here.

[balta1701]

1. Disagree

Mr. Bush, I think that the Iraqi people are wondering whether they're going to survive this nation standing with them and building a democracy.

[soothsayer]

2. And the US people, too

[Oversea Visitor]

18. Plant the flag of liberty my ass

watch this children and tell me what flag is that. More like "Look here this is the USA in case you get it wrong"

www.zonaeuropa.com/01467.htm

[pfitz59]

25. "They hate us for our freedom!!!"

Sure, whatever Mr. Whistleass! Now we get "Abu Ghraib Gonzales" and "Lying Sychophant" Condie as two of our top Govt officials. America as a nation is dying.

[Oversea Visitor]

27. I thought

Gonzales didnt make it.

[NYC]

29. He will. He's still in progress.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/10732627.htm?1c

The Senate Judiciary Committee sent the nomination of Alberto Gonzales to be attorney general to the full Senate on Wednesday, setting the stage for the first full-scale debate over torture and the harsh interrogation of suspected terrorists.

The vote was along strict party lines, with all 10 Republicans backing Gonzales and all eight Democrats opposing him. The Senate could take up the nomination next week.

The committee's Republicans praised Gonzales, who's President Bush's White House counsel and close adviser, as an ideal choice. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, described him as a man of "integrity, decency and honor who deserves to be confirmed."

The eight Democrats criticized Gonzales' role in a series of decisions that pushed the limits on interrogation methods and, they charged, paved the way for prisoner abuse from Iraq to the detention center at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that they said had crippled America's standing in the world.

[Chico Man]

39. How can a democracy and occupation exist at the same time?

How did we achieve "democracy" and freedom from Britan here in the usa? Did we wonder if the Brits stood with us? WTF are you talking about?

[AlCzervik]

3. firmly in his ass no doubt.

[Mz Pip]

4. Bush planted diddly-squat.

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.

People still live in fear. People are still dying. People are still tortured. Maybe being afraid, dying or being tortured in then name of liberty is good enough for Bush, but those on the receiving end of such liberty might not really see the differnce.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[izzybeans]

5. Is this sexual innuendo? Where did he plant it? n/t

[i miss america]

9. Why here, of course ...

"

[politicaholic]

6. Invoking mental images of planting the flag on the moon is a joke...

This kind of worthless spin I imagine makes him think that he's going to be quoted with that for the rest of history.

What a baffoon.

[fshrink]

20. I don't think it's the moon the Idiot had in mind...

But the planting of the flag version WWII. That's his weak point: wanna be and coward, intelligent enough to be aware of what he is and is not.

[politicaholic]

23. OH GOD! You're right! What a cheap taudry little weezle he is!

If you listen to Al Franken he does that "Bill O'Rielly Tales of Combat" schtick. Bill picks up stripes and medals off of dead soldiers on the battle field and acts like he's a major or a captain and starts giving out stupid orders that only get people killed.

It's invoking that image right now but eith Bush in Bill's place.

[dqueue]

7. A world without tyranny?

Well, dumbass, first get rid of the TYRANTS at home (i.e., march your pathetic self back to Crawford!)

[SHRED]

8. "A world without tyranny is an ideal world," the president said in opening

Except his buddies in Saudi Arabia. They are exempt.

[pinto]

10. he always lets his sociopathic truth slip out. it's his "mo"...n/t

[KansDem]

11. Bush's "flag of liberty" for Iraq...

Liberating Iraq from its oil...

[librechik]

12. I thought of all the little doggydoo US flags in Germany

<g>

[Karenina]

14. ALL the flags I have seen

have been a picture of the *dauphin with a yellow backround.

[calimary]

13. He planted it, alright. Six feet under.

Fucker.

[Chicago Democrat]

15. UP HIS ASS!

[ninkasi]

16. Ok, so he thinks he's going to make history...

maybe so, but not in the way he thinks. He will forever live in history as the worst, most hated, most incompetent president ever. He will go down in history as being completely delusional, and willing to sacrifice other lives, spill other's blood, to further his insane agenda.

I would never have believed that this once mighty country would be so craven and cowardly, that it would willingly surrender our treasury, world opinion, and many,many lives, just so this monkey-faced, smirking, strutting little Napoleon can swagger around feeling important.

God help the world.

[Deja Q]

17. Whoo boy. *'s own comments suggests he wants to haul out the nukes.

"I think the Iraqi people are wondering whether or not this nation has the will necessary to stand with them as a democracy evolves."

Yup. Liberty. Liberty from life. Liberty from life after we made conditions so bad there that the Iraqis would probably want that vile Saddam back in power. :crazy:

Why wouldn't * mention Iraq in his great plan of freedom for all nations? Or is Iraq a fake country now? Sorry, his words are minced with reality. And the result is frightening.

[mordarlar]

19. Where on Mars my 12 yr old asked n/t

[dave123williams]

21. You'll have liberty, or we'll bomb the shit out of you...we may...

Liberty doesn't come at the point of a gun. Ever.

[pinkpops]

22. That boy is so full of himself

[BadGimp]

24. what is he REALLY saying or NOT saying

This is what we will hear not long after the elections and Iraq begins to turn into an Islamist state:

"We went into Iraq and libertated those folks"

"We planted the flag of liberty there in that sand with our oil under it"

"It's not our fault they went Islamo and stuff"

"At least Sadam is not there"

"They are no longer opressed..oh wait...never mind"


WASS

[KissMeKate]

26. unbelieveable hubris.

eom

[Hand]

28. Hey, Chimpy...

I got yr. plant right HERE!

[superconnected]

30. that man needs a vocabulary test

infact give one to, and flunk the whole republican party.

[deadparrot]

31. I'll tell him where he can plant his goddamn flag. nt

[Fridays Child]

32. Uh, George? Iraqis are saying that it feels more like a boot than a flag.

[Jawja]

33. As Lyndon Johnson's

"Great Society" is remembered, so shall be *'s "Ideal World."

Both are noble concepts whose reality is not achievable.

[Massachusetts]

34. Ya, where the sun don't shine!

[jamesinca]

35. He planted his flag of liberty years ago

He planted it in Laura's crotch and look at what was spawned. Now he is trying to plant that flag on the world stage, I wonder what will be spawned this time. Regardless of the outcome, the world is screwed.

[goodboy]

36. he planted it alright...into a huge pile of dead Iraqi's and Afghans...

and poor US soldiers.

[egoprofit]

37. so what good is liberty when your DEAD?

[Emboldened Chimp]

38. Me, me, me!

I did it all by myself. See, mommy, I AM a big boy!

[TahitiNut]

40. "planted" = "fucked" (it's a language lesson)

"President says, 'I firmly fucked the flag of liberty'"

[Redstone]

41. "I firmly planted the flag"??

All by his own self.

Yessir, he suited up in his camos and flak vest, charged into Iraq with his 16 a-blasting, stormed into Saddam's palace, and dragged the fucker out of there by the hair, and off to jail.

Just like he suited up more'n thirty years ago and kicked all them commie asses in Veet-Nam.

The son of a bitch has gotten even more delusional; it's time for a mandatory psychiatric evaluation, yes?

Redstone

[Ilsa]

42. The GOPers will be claiming he did those things in

a couple of years, I bet.

[superconnected]

43. he's firmly planted the flag of liberty

the liberty to trod on and pillage any country he feels will be an asset to his corporate supporters.