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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-19-07 05:35 PM
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Bush on Iraq pullout: "contagion of violence...could engulf the region"
Iraq Transition

Bush: Iraq pullout could spill 'contagion of violence'

POSTED: 5:56 p.m. EDT, March 19, 2007

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"If American forces were to step back from Baghdad, before it is more secure, a contagion of violence could spill out across the entire country," Bush said. "In time this violence could engulf the region."

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"The new strategy will need more time to take effect. And there will be good days and there will be bad days ahead as the security plan unfolds.

Sixteen dead in attacks

The latest reports of Iraq violence Monday included six explosions in oil-rich Kirkuk that killed at least 10 people and wounded 37, police said, and a bomb blast at a Baghdad mosque that left six dead.

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Abducted mayor found dead

In Dujaila, about 115 miles (185 kilometers) southeast of the capital, abductors kidnapped and killed the town's mayor, Khalaf Ghargan, according to an official for the province of Wasit.

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On good days and bad days, Bush sounds as silly as Laura Bush: "Much Of Iraq Is ‘Stable,’ There’s Just ‘One Bombing A Day That Discourages Everybody’."

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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-19-07 05:36 PM
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1. What a bloomin' idiot. 'A contagion of violence COULD spill out'?
Look around, dim one.
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durtee librul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-19-07 05:37 PM
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2. And what stroke of genius is this?
"If American forces were to step back from Baghdad, before it is more secure, a contagion of violence could spill out across the entire country," Bush said. "In time this violence could engulf the region."

Hey F*HEAD - - weren't you told that BEFORE you started this damn war? What a stupid prick.
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CrazyOrangeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-19-07 05:38 PM
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3. chickenhawk
insane, murderous chickenhawk.
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-19-07 05:40 PM
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4. How can he even say that sh*t with a straight face?
If ever there was a doomsday for America, it was Nov. 7, 2000. :hurts:
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Mind_your_head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-19-07 05:45 PM
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5. Uh-oh.......we've ALL got to start to worry when the shrub has been introduced to a new word
to his vocabulary (vocabularilariry)..........what does he know of contagions to use this word? :scared:

Main Entry: con·ta·gion
Pronunciation: k&n-'tA-j&n
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin contagion-, contagio, from contingere to have contact with, pollute -- more at CONTINGENT
1 a : a contagious disease b : the transmission of a disease by direct or indirect contact c : a disease-producing agent (as a virus)
2 a : POISON b : contagious influence, quality, or nature c : corrupting influence or contact
3 a : rapid communication of an influence (as a doctrine or emotional state) b : an influence that spreads rapidly
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mloutre Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-19-07 05:45 PM
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6. Jeez. What a maroon.
n/t
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gulliver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-19-07 06:11 PM
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7. Dems are rhetorical idiots. No question remains.
Edited on Mon Mar-19-07 06:16 PM by gulliver
Witness the creator of the contagion of violence preparing to blame the Dems for it. And we are just standing there oblivious like sheep lined up at the shearing station.

Dems! God damn! Wake up! It's like a horror movie. Rove's got his fangs on full display and the scary music has been cued. And there's the Dems in their usual role, glassy-eyed victim.

Bush has pumped some version of this catastrophe/contagion rhetoric for a few months now, ever since the stupid Dems let him get away with it the first time. When Bush mouthed the word "disaster" for the first time about his disaster, the Dems should have simul-shoved it right down his throat and right up his ass.

You mean, Mr. Bush, the disaster that you created? Could you possibly be referring, MR. BUSH, to the contagion that wasn't there until you created it? Mr. Bush, shouldn't the real authors of disaster, yourself and Dick, be sitting down, piping down, and begging for forgiveness?

Sure, Dems. Let him get away with it. Let him slide in behind you until it looks like Bush's colossal, stupid, failure is all or partly your responsibility. Go ahead, Dems! Don't disappoint me. Lose the damned argument again. Lose an argument that anyone in their right mind would say is metaphysically unloseable.
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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-19-07 08:09 PM
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9. Do you really believe Bush's spin will have any inpact on public opinion? n/t
Edited on Mon Mar-19-07 08:09 PM by ProSense
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gulliver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-19-07 08:48 PM
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10. Sure do.
A lot of the public is hard core Republicans, and they'll believe it because they want to. Then time will pass and everyone who doesn't know any better -- the ignorant and the young for example-- will start to half-believe it too or, rather, won't have sufficient information to feel empowered to dispute it. Pretty soon we've got President George P. Bush and Vietnam III.

I believe that Bush's spin, no matter how gallingly dishonest, illogical, and cracked it may be can easily become tomorrow's disputed history, then alternative interpretation, then widely held public opinion.

I think Bush/Cheney/Rovism isn't something to be overcome or defeated. It is deserves to be humiliated and sent crawling back under its rock. Then we push the rock off a cliff.


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maxsolomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-19-07 06:16 PM
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8. Pandora's Box?
i don't buy it.

with Murka gone from Iraq, and I/P settled, the motivation drops out from under Jihad. we're already out of SA.

Islam will have defeated the Great Satan. Paradise ensues. Everyone moves to Abu Dhabi & goes skiing indoors while enslaving the huddled masses of SE Asia.

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