Bush dismissed the ongoing Iraq crisis as "just a comma."

[LiviaOlivia]

September 24, 2006
'Just a comma'
Posted 12:56 pm
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/8551.html

...George W. Bush on "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer" this afternoon and made one of those stunning remarks that could — or rather, should — become a political problem for the White House.

Blitzer asked the president to respond to the nightmare that Iraq has become, but Bush wouldn't hear of it. He dismissed the ongoing crisis as "just a comma."

BLITZER: Let's move on and talk a little bit about Iraq. Because this is a huge, huge issue, as you know, for the American public, a lot of concern that perhaps they are on the verge of a civil war, if not already a civil war…. We see these horrible bodies showing up, tortured, mutilation. The Shia and the Sunni, the Iranians apparently having a negative role. Of course, al Qaeda in Iraq is still operating.

BUSH: Yes, you see — you see it on TV, and that's the power of an enemy that is willing to kill innocent people. But there's also an unbelievable will and resiliency by the Iraqi people…. Admittedly, it seems like a decade ago. I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is — my point is, there's a strong will for democracy. (emphasis added)

Even by Bush's already-low standards, it was a stunning comment. We're talking about a war that has claimed 2,700 American lives and seriously injured 20,000 more. It's a crisis that has, by any reasonable measure, made the threat of terrorism against Americans considerably worse. It's a misadventure that has cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, to fight a war sold under false pretenses, and mismanaged with almost child-like incompetence.

~snip~

[uppityperson]

1. misspelled "Coma"

and wasn't he talking about the "bush years"?

[C_U_L8R]

2. more like an ampersand

the dumbshit asterisk of a prezidunce
just keeps piling it on. Can't wait to see what
the history books make of this clown.

[eleny]

3. !

What a bastard to be minimizing tens of thousands of deaths to try and steer us away from the Iraq issue for the sake of our midterm elections.
K&R

[LiviaOlivia]

5. indeed George W. Satan speaks

He's a fucking psychopath.

[Dudley_DUright]

4. %^$#@*& you Bush

and by the way, &^%$#@!

[onehandle]

6. He's right. I found the comma.

2,702

It's behind the first 2.