Does anybody know anything about a "desert badger"?

[frank frankly]

Bush Disputes Ex-Official's Claim That Iraq War Was Early Goal
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON

Published: January 13, 2004

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/13/politics/13ONEI.html

"And no, the stated policy of my administration toward Saddam Hussein was very clear," Mr. Bush said at a news conference in Monterrey, Mexico, when asked whether he had begun planning within days of his inauguration for an invasion of Iraq. "Like the previous administration, we were for regime change."

"And in the initial stages of the administration, as you might remember, we were dealing with DESERT BADGER or fly-overs and fly-betweens and looks, and so we were fashioning policy along those lines," Mr. Bush continued, APPARENTLY REFERRING to confrontations with Iraq over the no-flight zones. "And then all of a sudden September the 11th hit."

(Capitals on DESERT BADGER & APPARENTLY REFERRING added by me)

[rumguy]

1. I'm thinking it was a special ops campaign...

[BrotherBuzz]

2. more badger stuff on this thread

Some of it pretty funny!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1011989

[frank frankly]

3. very funny

but they couldn't figure it out either!!!

[BrotherBuzz]

4. That's right...

and you think Bush* knows what he's talking about? I think Bush* started mixing things up with Vicente Fox and started tripping on an old Walt Disney series "Swamp Fox". Bush* has mush for brains.

[necso]

5. Many "Operation Desert ...."

There have been at least one "Fox", "Viper", two (or three) Thunders, etc, etc.

Some of these were planned/actual strikes against Iraqi targets. There were such operations in Bush's early days. There could have been a "Badger".

Not out of the question that he was right --- or that the neocons will invent something --- like the made-up threat to AF1 during 9/11.

[Kinkistyle]

6. It was a terrorist plot coordinated by Saddam and Hussein.

Strap explosives unto badgers, inject them with anthrax and rabies and unleash wave after wave of the nasty little buggers into downtown NYC. Its pure genius, and was thankfully thwarted by the quickthinking by the Bush administration. Thank goodness!

[SpiralHawk]

7. Bush got it confused with "Operation Pet Goat Book"

So please cut him some slack. Everyone makes mistakes.

(although I hasten to add that not every mistake winds up with your nation's capital and National Military HQ being undefended despite ample warning when a huge frikkin plane crashes into it).

[0rganism]

8. Also, what's a "fly between" and a "look"?

I usually infer these kinds of pseudotech jargon from context, but after everything changed on September 11, context no longer seems fashionable. Too much context makes otherwise-complacent presstitutes ask uncomfortable contextual questions, I guess.

Come to think of it, I wonder if the definition of "fly over" has changed, too.

BTW, I did find some hits on a Project Badger, which predate Desert Storm. It had something to do with troop vaccination coverage. Nothing specific about a Desert Badger, tho.

[frank frankly]

9. kick

Bush is best when he is fashioning policy

[MrPrax]

10. Badgers?...Badgers...We don't need no stinkin' badgers!!

Couldn't resist...(Shrub's lawlessness reminds of a bandido)

:evilgrin:

And kicked (to boot)

[LifeDuringWartime]

11. Speaking of Badgers!

;)


http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/21/

[DrBB]

12. Desert badger? My LTTE, NYTimes

You quote Mr Bush as saying the following, in response to his former Treasury Secretary's assertion that the Iraq invasion was intended from the beginning of Bush's administration ("Bush Disputes Ex-Official's Claim That Iraq War Was Early Goal," Jan. 13, 2004):

"And in the initial stages of the administration, as you might remember, we were dealing with desert badger or fly-overs and fly-betweens and looks, and so we were fashioning policy along those lines."

"Desert badger"?

It hardly helps Mr Bush's case that he can not explain his own policies without lapsing into incoherence.

Actually, here's a new theory: they mistranscribed it (as usual, those damn, liberuls). What he actually said was "dessert badger." It's just something they eat in Texas. Y'know. For dessert.

[soup]

14. dessert badger won't fly

-over or -between. ;-) *jr gave up sweets for the duration, didn't he? Seem to remember him saying that. But, then again, how sweet is dessert badger?

Like the idea of the LTTE. good job. It does seem like it's fairly important for the U.S. to fashion foreign policy based on something a tad more solid than 'badgers and fly-betweens'.

[soup]

13. Be careful.

*jr mentioned the 'b' word yesterday, and look at him, now. Some things are just better left unresearched.