Bush Explains His "Broken" I Mean "Cracked" Egg Theory Of Iraq To Mr.Lehrer

[kpete]

MR. LEHRER: Is there a little bit of a broken egg problem here, Mr. President, that there is instability and there is violence in Iraq - sectarian violence, Iraqis killing other Iraqis, and now the United States helped create the broken egg and now says, okay, Iraqis, it's your problem. You put the egg back together, and if you don't do it quickly and you don't do it well, then we'll get the hell out.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Yeah, you know, that's an interesting question. I don't quite view it as the broken egg; I view it as the cracked egg --

MR. LEHRER: Cracked egg?

PRESIDENT BUSH: -- that - where we still have a chance to move beyond the broken egg. And I thought long and hard about the decision, Jim. Obviously it's a big decision for this theater in the war on terror, and you know, if I didn't believe we could keep the egg from fully cracking, I wouldn't ask 21,000 kids - additional kids to go into Iraq to reinforce those troops that are there.

What's different is an Iraqi attitude, and it is - look, failure last time was not enough troops in Baghdad, and the rules of engagement were such that our troops couldn't move when given an order. Their order was countermanded by Iraqi politicians - in other words, you need to go get this guy in a particular neighborhood, and they would be moving in toward him, and then the Iraqis would pull - say, well, we'd better not make that move right now, we'd better - it may be too much politics. And Prime Minister Maliki has assured his commander and our commander that the rules of engagement will be different this time. And so things have changed. In other words, I'm not putting troops into a situation where there hadn't been enough changes to assure me that we can make progress.

more at:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/white_house/jan-june07/bush_01-16.html

[Poiuyt]

1. So does Bush think you can un-crack an egg?

[SaveOurDemocracy]

2. He's cracked

:wtf:

[mzmolly]

4. He mustn't be aware of salmonella?

;)

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. and here's the PERFECT animated gif for your OP...

[PsN2Wind]

5. My Mother-in-law

got salmonella and damn near died from a cracked egg.

[PATRICK]

6. Can we demand of the Democratic party

that they never ever ever allow Mr. Lehrer to participate in a national debate? Transcending self-satire and what appears to be an Onion-style exaggerated analogy this revolting stupidity in order to kill our soldiers is also an unmistakable revelation of how these incompetent press toadies try to feed gratuitous simple symbols into the sieve that is our president's incoherence.

Are they ALL Tony Snow now? Hasn't Bush revealed how bad they are and dragged them down to his bottomless level long enough? Lehrer and others should be totally unacceptable forever and a day from participating in any national forum that involves intelligent Democrats.

Humpty Dumpty is not Iraq. Bush is both the Egg(minus Humpty's speaking abilities) and the King and has been cracked or on crack since birth.

[magellan]

7. And all the King's horses and all the King's men....

[Jeffersons Ghost]

12. ...couldn't do this, magellan>>>

[Erika]

8. W sounded like a bumbling idiot

Conversing about cracked eggs. He is such an embarrassment.

[jfkraus]

9. OK, now I am scared.

That interview was just plain scary. Bush is an imbecile. I don't think he said one coherent thing at all.

[ginnyinWI]

18. he's a real loon

At one point he was grabbing Lehrer's words and using them because he couldn't think of his own. When we finally get an intelligent president again we will be able to see what we've been doing without.

The low point was when Lehrer asked him why more people in this country shouldn't be sacrificing, if this war is so crucial. *'s answer was that we "sacrifice" our peace of mind when we watch bad news on TV!! I'd like to see how a typical Iraqi citizen would react to that! It was beyond crass, beyond insensitive--it was unimaginable.

[Patsy Stone]

10. Humpty Dumpty

had a great fall.

Even if the egg is just cracked and not broken Georgie, it's still going to go rotten.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

13. ok, here's one last egg-graphic... three's my limit... they give gas, unlike the exxonbush-regime...

[Patsy Stone]

14. Nice!

This is Iraq:

[uppityperson]

20. If I could recommend 1 post, yours would be it.

Thank you for helping me laugh amidst my tears.

[madeline_con]

11. ".... the rules of engagement were such that

our troops couldn't move when given an order"

Yeh, right. That's what holds back missions like Fallujah and Ramallah. :puke:

[rhiannon55]

15. So Lehrer sets up a broken egg analogy

and the Dim One runs with it, blithely blathering on about how he views Iraq not so much as a broken egg, but as a "cracked egg that we still have a chance to move beyond"...while "keeping the egg from fully cracking"...bla fucking bla, bla, bla....arghhh!!! What gibberish! What absolutely ridiculous bullshit.

Does he have ANY idea what an idiot he is?

[ginnyinWI]

19. no, he thinks he's smarter than the rest of us

That's why he's being the "educator" and going around convincing us that we have to stay in Iraq. He is fond of saying "in my judgement" because he feels his judgement is the right one, even if 99% disagree with it.


People have gotten used to his nonsense--the press hardly reacts anymore. Because you can't follow his logic without getting lost in the weeds. I sympathize with Jim Lehrer for having to go there. It was hard for him to frame questions simply enough for *.

[Rageneau]

16. The egg is cracked and the yolk is on us.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

17. I notice Bush didn't answer the question

Instead he got bogged down in refuting the notion that the egg that is Iraq is fully broken yet and not just cracked. Lehrer was trying to ask him how he could put Iraqis completely on the spot and take responsibility for turning around a mess that Bush himself created. In a way, Lehrer was trying to throw the Chimp a lifeline, by giving him a further reason for why we should stay in Iraq, because it is a mess of our (Bush's) creation and that we shouldn't force the Iraqis to repair our mess under threat of departure. But Bush couldn't see it and instead wanted to talk about eggs.