Bush Mispeaks--Indonesia Training Programs...

[bluedog]

Why do they always call it mispeak? It's like he totally out of the loop or out of the ballpark when issues are being made...




WASHINGTON (AFP) - President George W. Bush (news - web sites) misspoke last week when he said the United States was ready to launch new military training programs with Indonesia, according to administration officials.






No new programs are planned or have been approved, the administration officials told the Washington Post, speaking on condition of anonymity. more....

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20031020/pl_afp/us_indonesia_bush_031020141600

[jbfam4]

1. Officials Correct Bush on Indonesia

Another version by Dana Priest.......Misspoke is an interesting term.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50584-2003Oct19.html

Officials Correct Bush on Indonesia


By Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 20, 2003; Page A19


President Bush misspoke when he said last week that the United States was ready to "go forward with" a new package of military training programs with Indonesia, according to a White House official questioned about the president's remarks.

Bush said on Indonesian television that new military programs could be launched because Indonesia had cooperated in an investigation into the killing of two U.S. citizens last year in the eastern Indonesian province of Papua.

The comments caught U.S. officials by surprise. Asked to explain Bush's remarks, a senior administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: "We want to move ahead with increased military-to-military cooperation with Indonesia, which is in both of our interests

2. What do you think he really believes

In a related vein, did you see what he said in Manila? This according to the NYTimes.

"President Bush told the Congress of this former American colony on Saturday that Iraq, like the Philippines, could be transformed into a vibrant democracy. He also pledged his help in remaking the troubled and sometimes mutinous Philippine military into a force for fighting terrorism.
While the administration often speaks of the occupations of Japan and Germany after World War II as rough models for the effort to rebuild Iraq, Mr. Bush used the visit here to make a less explicit analogy to the American administration of the Philippines, which also led to the formation of a democracy. But the comparison has less power to reassure, given that the Philippine government did not gain full autonomy for five decades."

Now, what I'm wondering about this is
1) Marcos, a shining light of democracy?
2) the former American colony of the Philippines...the American administration of the Philippines.. it worked there, so it will work in Iraq? Is this because Iraq is an American colony too?

These misstatements and such may be accidental, but they show what is underneath it all, don't you think.

[newyawker99]

5. Hi 56kid!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[theivoryqueen]

3. Why do so few call the man what he is?

A liar. I have read accounts of editors refusing to print the words "lie, liar, lying" in connection with Bush. They seem determined to use every possible synonym.

[bluedog]

4. I agree

every time he says something thats a lie the media calls it mispeak....they know its a out and out lie....I know they are afraid of this bush goon gang but damn..the people are not hearing the truth..this filtered stuff has to stop....