Memorable quote by Bush tonight (said to Katie Couric)

[lwcon]

"One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the War on Terror."

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[catzies]

1. Please let the whole world see that!!!!!!

:wow:

[babylonsister]

2. Link? I know you said it was on CBS, but really! Ha! nt

[journalist3072]

4. Go here

http://progressiveminds.bloghi.com/2006/09/06/bushie-it-s-hard-work-propagandizing-the-american-people.html

Once you get to my blog, you will see that I have a link to an article on CBS News' website where they have that direct quote in the article.

[lwcon]

9. I just heard him say it. I think there's more with him ahead...

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[journalist3072]

3. I am blogging about that quote

I am discussing that direct quote from Bush on my blog tonight.

Please feel free to comment at:

http://progressiveminds.bloghi.com/2006/09/06/bushie-it-s-hard-work-propagandizing-the-american-people.html

On my blog, I also included the link to an article on CBS News' website that references that quote.

[radfringe]

37. might want to mention this comment from a DUer posted yesterday

Candy Crowley actually got a clue!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2813397
September 6, 2006

Just heard her on CNN saying that because Bush has been tying Iraq to the war on terror, and his approval rating for the war on Iraq has become dismal, people are now starting to disapprove of his performance on Iraq.

In other words, to his detriment, Bush has successfully programed many Americans to equate the war on terror with his failed Iraqi adventure.

[ChoralScholar]

5. If it were actually connected, he wouldn't have to

fabricate the connection himself.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Catapulting the propaganda, so to speak.

He's too stupid (or too arrogant) even to try to conceal the fact that his whole program is nothing more than a cynical sales pitch. Bush only knows how to campaign; he has no idea how to govern.

[bdamomma]

41. and cheerlead.

[Webster Green]

7. What a fucking lunatic!

Can't someone just put the sorry little mutherfucker in a straight-jacket and drag him out of our White House House?

[Nite Owl]

8. He meant to say,

"I created all these new terrorists in Iraq and no one thanks me but Halliburtin."

[TomInTib]

10. That is hard, ain't it, georgie?

But you all just keep trying and trying.

[MarianJack]

11. Was katie Wearing Brown Lipstick?

She might want to conceal how much she kissed his ass.

[lwcon]

12. Is anyone else watching this show on CBS...?

Did that (CIA?) guy just say that our terrorist watch list has 350,000 names on it!?

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13. Holy shit...

In answer to whether our policies have created more terrorists, he said this:

"We weren't in Iraq on September the 11th, 2001, when nineteen killers killed 3000 Americans in the most brutal attack on our soil ever."

She notes that they were from Saudi Arabia.

"No but they're -- they're they, they they share the same Jihadist radicalism."

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[Disturbed]

14. Busholini has lost all credibility except for his

Corp. backers, the MIC and his Fudie Cult. It has taken five long years for the majority of Americans to notice how much of a phony asshole he is.

[lwcon]

16. Today's annnouncement about secret prisons...

...was a really bizarre, cynical ploy. I think he's banking that news of secret prisons full of terrorist suspects is tasty red-meat news for red staters, as opposed to evidence that our country is going all KGB.

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[Donna Zen]

19. Frances Townsend on Charlie Rose

Now saying the same thing: "We weren't in Iraq and they flew planes into our buildings." So let's think about that logic considering that most of those people were from Saudi Arabia. We still aren't in Saudi Arabia, and now they hate us even more.

Oh, according Townsend, who is blinking and stuttering as Rose keeps pitching those softballs, everything is great because the bush administration is great.

[Patsy Stone]

15. Lying

is hard werk.

I can't believe he actually said that out loud. I mean, we all know it's true, but it's one of those rare truthful moments which have come along infrequently (to be kind), and always as the result of running on too long at the mouth.

[lwcon]

18. My favorite inadvertantly honest moment...

... was when they posted this bitmap on the White House site:

http://vastleft.blogspot.com/2006/05/honest-george.html

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[Patsy Stone]

20. That's fabulous!

Now that I think about it, my very favorite one completely backs this up and explains why it's such a "hard" thing to do. Remember when he finally admitted that 9/11 had nothing to do with the war in Iraq?

[lwcon]

21. Hearing him conflate the two...

... and then in the same breath say that there's no connection reminds me of the scene in "Rain Man," where the psychiatrist can't make Raymond Babbitt (Dustin Hoffman) understand that he can't both stay in the "home" and move in with his brother.

"They're two different things," the doc insists, but the Rain Man just doesn't get it.

Can't you just hear him:

"Iraq, yeah, connected with 9/11. Definitely connected."

"But they're not connected!"

"Yeah, they're not connected. Definitely not connected. Yeah, I'm excellent decider."

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[Patsy Stone]

26. Gotta watch Wapner.

But really, should Raymond be president? I don't think so. I'm smarter than the president; and that scares me. BTW, nice blog.
:thumbsup:

[AtomicKitten]

17. The RepubliCANTS are counting on it.

Otherwise they are in deep shit in November.

[sutz12]

22. Please tell me somebody You-tubed this moment.. nt

[lwcon]

24. I'm sure it'll show up tomorrow at....

http://crooksandliars.com/

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[AZBlue]

33. Ironically, I found it on cbsnews.com

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=1979679n

[beaconess]

23. Quote from CBS website

"I mean that a defeat in Iraq will embolden the enemy, and will provide the enemy more opportunity, to train, plan to attack us, that's what I mean. One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror," Mr. Bush said. "I believe it, but the American people have got to understand that a defeat in Iraq, in other words if this government there fails, the terrorists will be emboldened, the radicals will topple moderate governments. I truly believe that this is the ideological struggle of the 21st century. And the consequences for not achieving success are dire."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/06/eveningnews/main1979106.shtml

[astonamous]

25. Won't this make a great headline

on the front page of every major paper in this country?

Trudy
www.pryorsplanet.com

[fuzzyball]

27. First democracy in the middle-east is a huge thorn in those desiring

caliphates in all muslim countries. Iraq being the at the
top of the list taking into account size+wealth, it is a
particularly big thorn for the islamists.

As for the direct connection between terrorism and attack on
Iraq, I am not so sure there was one. The blood and treasure
being spilled in Iraq could have been better spent in other
ventures. But the long range benefits of Iraq turning democratic
can not be denied by anyone with a scintilla of knowledge of the
middle-east.

[lwcon]

31. Say what?

By "first democracy in the Middle East," do you mean Israel, which is under perennial siege?

Or perhaps the Palestinians, who elected Hamas as their leadership?

Or Lebanon, where Hezbollah is a growing part of the government?

Or do you mean Iraq, where it is becoming increasingly clear the country will split into three, causing Iraqi Shi'ites to join forces with Iran, and continued fighting between them and the Sunnis. Oh, and the Turks will freak out when the Kurds officially get their own state.

Yeah, democracy's going great in the Middle East!

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[fuzzyball]

34. Ofcourse I am talking about first MUSLIM democracy in the ME

I never said the democratization of Iraq is going well.
Please don't put words in my mouth! I actually agree it
is not going well.

My point is, IF IRAQ becomes a stable democracy, it is
a huge thorn for Iran, Syria, and Islamists in ME.

[lwcon]

35. It would be great if it were going well...

... but it was started on some combination of lies and whims, and it is indeed going terribly, thanks to the hubris and incompetence of the administration.

I'm not trying to put words in your mouth. I'm responding to "First democracy in the middle-east *is* a huge thorn in those desiring..." I guess it depends on what one's definition of is is. :v)

Even in the best case, it opened up a Pandora's box (which BTW is what our Ambassador to Iraq has frequently called the war) of the U.S. as a reckless power, quite reasonably suspected of imperial ambitions and defiance against standards such as the Geneva Conventions. Before the war, we had many allies, and a lot of good will from people who sympathized with our 9/11 suffering. Now, our reputation is shot, our resources are strained, and our leverage with Iran (let alone scary nuke-club member Pakistan) on nukes is minimal at best -- unless we want to spread war deeper into the Middle East, and spread our troops even thinner.


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[ieoeja]

45. Why would a MUSLIM democracy be a thorn to Iran?

Iran *is* a Muslim democracy. They have parties, elections and everything. In fact, prior to our conquering Iraq, the progressive party was in power in Iran. Following that, the conservative party swept to power on an anti-US campaign using the same fear tactics as conservatives here in the United States.

Oh, yeah, I guess that WOULD be a bad thing for Iran. I guess I see your point.

But your facts are still off. Iran *is* a Muslim democracy. And while Turkey, Lebanon and Palestine are secular, not Muslim, they are democracies in the Middle East with Muslim majority populations.

And really, wouldn't SECULAR democracies in Muslim countries be a thorn in the side of the Islamists? In fact, haven't the Islamists made it plain they don't care what you call the head of the government, Caliph or President, or how he is selected as long as his powers are limited by the Quran, etc? Doesn't Iran prove that?

[tandot]

28. If there would have been any connection between Iraq and the WOT

it wouldn't be so hard...it always takes more effort to lie than tell the truth. Keeping up a lie IS hard.

What a fascist a**hole.

[Canuckistanian]

29. Out of the mouths of babes (intellectually speaking)

You can probably hear the sound of Karl Rove smacking his forehead in the background (again).

[AZBlue]

30. Ding! Ding! Ding!

I've said before that you can just listen to what they say, find the statements that don't fit in with the rest of the rhetoric and lies, and that's where you'll find the truth. Both Bush and Cheney do it - quite a bit actually.

[Contrary1]

32. We can refer to this as...

"An Inadvertent Truth".

[KitSileya]

44. ROTFLMAO!

That collage is just perfect! Talk about hitting the nail on the head!

[karynnj]

36. Gee - maybe because there isn't a connection!

[many a good man]

38. Why Americans don't want to make the connection:

If Iraq = War on Terror, then we've already lost the war on terror. Americans don't want to believe we've lost the war on terror!

Another VERY interesting point: Most of the 911 hijackers were Saudis. Now that we've pulled our troops OUT of Saudi Arabia, we've had no more 911s. THAT's a very interesting connection!

[lwcon]

42. That's a shift...

I think that, until recently, red staters have been afraid to separate Iraq from the "war on terror" -- because if there is no reason for the war, then they're guilty for rooting it on and for voting for this clown. But, I think you may be onto something here. Now that the war looks like a loser, there's no percentage in pretending it's our Great War that avenges 9/11 and prevents future attacks.

As for the attacks stopping because troops are out of Saudi Arabia, I don't think we can declare any sort of victory over anti-US terrorism, especially with our administration being so ham-handed over there.

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[Olney Blue]

39. It's hard work.

:mad:

[bdamomma]

40. because Iraq is not connected to the War on Terror

the war on terror, aren't you guys getting sick of that, war on terror. it wouldn't be a war on terror if this stupid government had a proper foreign policies.

[AZBlue]

43. The second best

was his bumbled attempt to respond to the criticism about his actions and policies since 9/11:

"COURIC: I know we're almost out of time, Mr. President, and you have a very busy day ahead. But one philosophical question that many have that I'd like you to respond to, if you could, is that US policy, vis-à-vis Iraq, and the United States' close alliance with Israel, certainly highlighted in recent events between Israel and Lebanon, has galvanized terrorists worldwide. In other words, these policies have created more terrorists than they have eliminated.

BUSH: Yeah.

COURIC: How do you respond to that?

BUSH: Well – the first thing I would tell people that – we weren't in Iraq on September the 11th, 2001, when 19 killers killed 3,000 Americans in the most brutal attack on our – on our soil – ever."


You could almost see Katie Couric having to stop herself from saying, "Excuse me, Mr. President? WTF are you talking about?"

[Ishoutandscream2]

46. Hey, Bush, it's hard werk to catapult the propaganda

You sniveling, conniving, worthless bastard.

[zoeb]

47. did his catapult break? what? this guy just gets more stupid by

the hour!

[MoonRiver]

48. Every time they let Dim Son loose without a teleprompter & ear piece

connection to Rove, they LOSE! :rofl: