Internecine, is Bush playing dumb?

[originalpckelly]

I have to admit I have never heard the word internecine in my whole life. I consider myself to have a big vocabulary. I have even read the dictionary (I know I am weird), but I honestly have never heard of that word, until President Bush used it in that meeting with Tony Blair. The quote is of Bush from that memo that actually isn't downing street after all. So I wonder if he was playing smart for Blair or if he was playing dumb for America? What do you think. I don't want to fan the flames of radicalism, but Hitler was considered a joke for a while in Germany. Maybe that is what has happened with the President. I don't mean to say the President has killed millions, which is why Hitler's name has impact not because of his rhetoric, but that if he is playing dumb it would be a tactic so we wouldn't take him seriously. I have been thinking about the memo, and came across the particular word while researching the charges against the President.

Here is the quote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12041516/

[Bluebear]

1. He has no idea what the word is & probably did not write the memos

They came from 'higher up' in the Group.

[CottonBear]

2. Nah. Bush is dumb. It was probably his "word of the week." nt

[originalpckelly]

3. Well

The story says he (Bush) said that word, not anyone else.
Quote:
"Bush said it was 'unlikely there would be internecine warfare between the different religious and ethnic groups.' Blair agreed."

[TomInTib]

4. Internecine is the correct word in that context.

1. Of or relating to struggle within a nation, organization, or group.
2. Mutually destructive; ruinous or fatal to both sides.
3. Characterized by bloodshed or carnage.

Unfortunately, he was wrong as hell.

[pretzel4gore]

5. well, it's an act, if that's what you mean

the entire gopig phenomenon is really an act, a variation on the 'nuremberg rally' shows that the nazis had (which goebbels thought were silly, but....) the purpose is to swell the chests of bush's rustic admirers, the boors and creepoids from freeperland and tweetyville, but it's a wild bull they're riding, cuz if they ever lay off the whip, or try to talk sense into the bucking beasty, they are dead muthafukkas
"nothing fails like success when working for the devil"
klol!

[originalpckelly]

6. I

didn't mean that I didn't know the word's definition, I did have to look it up in google. There was only one result from the search engine, from Princeton's Wordnet. That is a commentary about the infrequent use of the word. I just thought it was interesting to note. I am trying to get all the little things I can to figure the President out to see if he is planning anything, and little stupid clues like that are helpful because they make me wonder if he is really dumb or acting that way. I mean if I was a guy trying to take over America, I'd play dumb so people wouldn't take me seriously.

There are sometimes when I have thoughts about why he hasn't pounced already if he is going to do that. It seems to me that if he really is taking over the country, he probably could. Maybe, he is just trying to gain power but is not actually going for the whole shebang. I just don't know at this point.

Really out everything I worry about when it comes to internal threats I worry about crazies on our side and the Republican side. There are always criminals in every population. If we don't stop attacking each other in this country some nutcase will take it too far and kill someone. I think the Republicans are far more militant than us, so it would probably be one of them who starts it. I really am worried that said terrorism could spark the taking away of more American freedoms and it might shift focus from Arabs and Muslims alone to all Americans. That worries me. This radicalism would be like what happened in Kansas after the Kansas-Nebraska act.
Here is a link to an article about that act:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas-Nebraska_Act
Here is a link to Bleeding Kansas the violence caused by the passage of that act, and what is considered the first violence of the Civil War:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_Kansas

This should be a look into the abyss for our country, we need to stop being so vengeful, even if we are right.

Disclaimer:
The preceding should not be taken as a threat of violence in breach of this site rules, nor in violation of any federal or state code. It is a prediction aimed a stopping any sort of violence.

[benddem]

7. I can flat guarantee

if he said it he mispronounced it. They were so stupid...no Neocon knew anything about the difference between Shia and Sunni. I doubt Bush even heard of the divisions. Wolfowitz (the supposed expert on the Middle East) flatly stated there was no history of internecine conflict between groups in Iraq.
DUH they'd been controlled by a dictator who didn't even allow Shia to participate in their rituals.

[doc03]

8. I think he is smarter than he actually acts, it's all part of

the awh shucks I'm just a good old boy from down Texas way. I've noticed his accent changes depending on the audience he is talking to at the time, when he was here in Wheeling WV he was just another common strait talking country boy. At other times times he talks more like his old man.

[reichstag911]

9. There's also a distinct possibility...

...that the material in quotes is a paraphrase. They regularly clean up spoken grammar, and no doubt incorrect words, so I wouldn't be at all surprised -- without audio corroboration of him uttering that sentence -- if Bush said something that meant approximately that but with a whole differnt set of words and butchered syntax.