Bush: Tyranny's end is major commitment

[Ian David]

Bush: Tyranny's end is major commitment
2 hours, 50 minutes ago
By Judy Keen, USA TODAY

President Bush (news - web sites) on Wednesday answered critics of the chief goal he described in his inaugural speech last week. Ending tyranny in the world is a "commitment of generations," not a shift in policy, he said at a news conference.

Foreign governments and commentators were disconcerted by Bush's inaugural assertion that advancing freedom and democracy is "the urgent requirement of our nation's security." They interpreted that doctrine of aggressive idealism as an implied threat of future military action. (Related: Full text of Bush remarks)
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• Critics of his Iraq policies are prompting people there to wonder "whether or not this nation has the will necessary to stand with them as democracy evolves."

• The qualms of some Republicans in Congress about his proposal to retool Social Security (news - web sites) are signs that they are worrying "whether or not it is worth the political price. I think it is."

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[htuttle]

1. No shit, Sherlock

I propose we begin here in the US.

Let's start with Bush resigning.

[AllyCat]

2. When I saw the subject line I thought:

He's quitting?!?!

[William Bloode]

5. Hahahahah!

I had the exact same thought, as you and poster #1 when i read the subject line!

[AllyCat]

9. Hey, any chance your screen name has anything to do with

a character on Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

[Fenris]

3. Nice to see Manifest Destiny has once again returned.

[Ian David]

6. It's not Manifest Destiny. It's White Man's Burden n/t

[zbdent]

4. So STEP DOWN, BUSHOLE!!!

And take your misAdministration with you!

[Tempest]

7. Bush has ADD

Remember his plan to go to Mars?

[indepat]

8. Doesn't charity begin at home? Doesn't getting one's own house in orderr

come first?

[Disturbed]

10. Saudi Arabia

Why doesn't the Bush Junta start there?

[No Exit]

11. What?? Bush is committed to ending tyranny?? Has

Laura called in a psychiatrist to help him address his commitment to killing himself and Cheney??

[Betty]

12. Wasn't he against nation building

back when he was running against Gore? How convenient, now that the WMD justification has melted away, that we are now going to spread democracy everywhere, whether people want it or not. Oh, except we won't ask our friends in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan to become democracies, will we?

[fshrink]

13. Must have inverted " : "and " 's ". nt

[opihimoimoi]

14. BUSH IS a TYRANT.....so what he going do....throw himself OUT?

[Laurab]

16. Indeed, tyranny begins at home

So, he'd better go fast, and take all his little maniac buddies with him. Freedom would surely be on the march, then.

[ima_sinnic]

15. this guy is crazier than a sh**house rat:

"a commitment of generations" my @ss. who the F does he think he is, anyway? thanks for asking the unborn, your sacred charges, and the unborn of the unborn, and their as yet unborn, what the F THEY will want to be sacrificed for. your plan for the next millennia is a bit, er, ambitious, isn't it?

sheesh, the hubris is outrageous! if only I could now get up from the theater, spilling my tub of buttered popcorn on somebody's lap in my haste to get out, and go out on the sidewalk to puke, and then get on with what USED to be a sane existence.

[Jack Rabbit]

17. It may not be the final end of tyranny . . .

. . . but putting Bush and the neocons on trial in The Hague would be a giant leap in that direction.

[springhill]

18. Has anyone noticed.........

that our goal has changed yet again? Now, instead of fighting terrorism it has become ending tyranny. They move from one thing to another seamlessly. How do they continue to do this? They did the same thing after 911. First, in was Osama Bin Laden who morphed into Saddam Hussein. It's really just astonishing.

[daleo]

19. (channelling Churchill): Bush will not accomplish the end of tyranny

But he will accomplish the tyranny of the end.