Bush Says He Tried to Avoid War 'To The Max,' Explains How God Shapes His

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Bush Says He Tried to Avoid War 'To The Max,' Explains How God Shapes His Foreign Policy


NEW YORK President Bush today said he had tried to avoid war with Iraq "diplomatically to the max."

Speaking to a business group in Irvine, Ca., he admitted mistakes were made in planning for the Iraq invasion, but he defended the troop level, saying "it was the troop level necessary to do the job," and he would commit the same number if given a second chance.

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Bush also explained, in unusually stark terms, how his belief in God influences his foreign policy. "I base a lot of my foreign policy decisions on some things that I think are true," he said. "One, I believe there's an Almighty. And, secondly, I believe one of the great gifts of the Almighty is the desire in everybody's soul, regardless of what you look like or where you live, to be free.

"I believe liberty is universal. I believe people want to be free. And I know that democracies do not war with each other."

[BlueEyedSon]

1. delusional sociopath

[William Seger]

4. No, he's a Goddamned Liar

... and he appears to be setting up the same goddamned lie about about bombing Iran.

[JerseygirlCT]

47. You know, I go back and forth

Is it possible he's both a delusional psychopath AND a liar?

[ginnyinWI]

107. no, I think he believes it

He thinks he is a diplomat but he has no idea what diplomacy is.

He admits he's an ideologue--makes decisions based on what he thinks should happen, rather than realities.

He thinks all you have to do is have your heart in the right place and everything will turn out all right in the end.

He can't see the world any other way than the narrow one he's chosen. Just can't do it.

As Kerry put it, "you can be certain, but you can be wrong."

[Divine Discontent]

113. BAR NONE, the BEST post on this topic!

to the MAX this post is the most pointed, factual, intellectually driven, and succinct!


everyone should hear the craziness bush has been spouting about God leading him to war and how he wouldn't change the troop level if he did it all over again (God help us), and then read Gin's excellent post!

http://www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable CHECK IT OUT!

[saigon68]

160. Bush Says He Tried to Avoid VIET-NAM 'To The Max"

FUCKING DRAFT DODGER CHICKEN HAWK

[abester]

116. Don't be superficial

if you read the exact wording used in his quotation you'll find it obvious he is making a desperate attempt to regain favour of his religious base by stating his policies are divinely inspired.

It has nothing to do with the 60% of America that rather see him go. He/His handlers know they cannot be persuaded anymore, so he's betting all his money on the delusional christian fanatics by posing as a man of god.

[Binka]

117. Bible Thumpin Nonsense

He is pandering to the dumb shits that cling to this bull hooey because they are too ignorant/afraid/cowardly/selfish what the fuck ever. He only has his 30% and he is gonna play Jesus on a pogo stick for as long as the fucker will bounce. Welcome to DU btw.

[thereismore]

138. Agree. He is once again pulling the "God" card. Won't work. nt

[depakid]

129. Which would also make him a narcisist

Which is fully compatible with his being both a sociopath AND a liar.

Not unlike a good many others in the Republican party.

[IndianaGreen]

35. You are right, Bush should be committed to a mental institution

I am reminded of David Cronenberg's version of Stephen King's The Dead Zone (1983) in which Martin Sheen plays Greg Stillson, an American President with a Messianic complex that pushes the nuclear button in order to bring about the Second Coming.

Bush is a real-life Greg Stillson!

[adigal]

124. It is confirmed:

George W. Bush is out of his mind.

[Kierkegaard]

127. I don't think he has enough of a mind to be 'out of.'

I think he is just following the Rovian script, like a good monkey.

He's only pandering to the psycho religious right to try and drum up a little support for the midterms.

[Mr. Peanut]

159. Wow...

No. 43 scares me. He is getting scarier and scarier as time passes, and we have over two and a half years to endure this obviously unwell twelve-step graduate with one finger up his nose and the other finger on the button. Indiana, your comparison of George Bush and Stephen King's sociopathic character is so on the mark it's frightening. What will POTUS Alfred E. Neuman think up next?

[Vanje]

80. yeah. To the Max

nt

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Valley of the Dead Girl talk?

:shrug:

"Gag me with an aluminum tube!"

[Kikosexy2]

43. Totally...

barf out!....Like I totally diplomatted Iraq to the max..but like it sucks when Saddam would not like disarm....so like I totally had to attack...before like we end up seeing mushroom clouds ya know...and that would be like totally gross ya know...

[goclark]

93. The Decider is now " MAX MAN!" ROTFLaughing

at this idiot.

Wake me when the nightmare is over.

[Mad_Dem_X]

130. LOL! I'm the decider to the max!

What kind of president uses the phrase "to the max"???????

God, he is such an embarrassment. :banghead:

[Coventina]

146. "Like, O mi god, should I totally bomb them? That would be BITCHIN'!"

I'm like, sick of that Saddam guy. Barf me out, gag me with a spoon....

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. I don't even think he believes his own bullshit. If he does then I agree

with the first reply.

[anitar1]

103. Tommy Chong says * is a tweaker. Guess he counts on

the business community to never use the net.Such a totally bald faced liar as he--Well, I have no words to describe how this makes me feel, But it isn't warm and fuzzy.

[Rose Siding]

5. Dude

:smoke:

He also said that high gas prices are "like a tax". No, you IDIOT, they are "like a PROFIT"

[nickinSTL]

15. If they're like a tax...and he's so into cutting taxes...

Why the F#@^ doesn't he do something about them?

Of course, that's easy...becuase he and his buddies are getting rich.

[Rose Siding]

24. He's probably hoping it will go like this-

"They're like a tax? hmmm....gops cut taxes....gops against taxes....gops against high gas prices"

That's the only thing I can figure even though it's so LAME. Not even enough Americans are that stupid.

[jdadd]

71. Yep

Like a tax....cut to the rich. :crazy:

[pinto]

6. He's insane. When reality is a series of "talking points",

strung together willy nilly, it seems a little off...

(edited for clarity)

[redqueen]

7. Oh that's just beautiful...

*shakes head sadly*

What kind of drugs are those 33% on? Or if not drugs... is it brain damage? What?!

[KC21304]

18. 32% according to latest CNN poll

[redqueen]

28. hehe... well good ... another 1% finally stopped sucking down the kool aid

*sigh*

[FiveGoodMen]

19. Brain damage from those weekly visits to the indoctrination centers!

[stevietheman]

21. You mean "dain bramage"? heh. :) n/t

n/t

[Inland]

8. Is it a random phrase generator? What is he SAYING?

I get the felling that he knows the only thing he can't tell us is the REAL reason why he invaded and he does things, and he's just rambling, trying to think something up.

[pinto]

11. "Random phrase generator" - good call.

[July]

12. God is my Teflon, I shall not want.

He uses God as a way to short-circuit a real discussion, because if there is one, he's got nothing.

[Kali]

89. random phrase generator

:rofl:

[tridim]

9. Using that 80's slang to make himself appear Reaganesque

I think he found his new backdrop.

[stevietheman]

17. Typical Republican...

...tries to be hip... to the people of a full generation before the current moment.

King George, is, shall we say... LATE!

[tularetom]

10. If there is an almighty and if he wants everybody

to be free, then why the fuck don't he (or she) just make 'em free. What does he or she ned bush for? He is almighty after all. What's the use of being almighty if you can't even do something as simple as make people free? Does the fact that a lot of people ain't free prove that there is no almighty or just that he isn't THAT almighty?

[mark11727]

13. Somehow, I just don't believe a DIPLOMATIC PRESIDENT would say...

..."F*CK SADDAM, I'M TAKING HIM OUT." :eyes:

[HuffleClaw]

14. 'to the max' !

what a clown. he must have been watching nickleodeon before that speech i guess. this tops 'i'm the decider'.

[Moochy]

92. to the EXTREME!!!

Bush was watching nickolodeon, or maybe The Simpsons...


oh wait that was poochie, "To the EXTREME!!"

[HuffleClaw]

106. there's a simpsons in which

bart throws an 'old' game console into a fire, and as it lays smouldering in the fire, it cries out, 'i can still make you happy. to the maaax!'.

ON EDIT: the episode in question is: 'Lisa the Tree Hugger'.

Announcer: "Krusty the Klown" is brought to you by the new Gamestation 256:
It's slightly faster ... to the max!
Bart: 256? And I'm stuck with this useless 252?
melts]
252: Don't destroy me! I can still make you happy ... to the max!

excerpt from: http://www.snpp.com/episodes/CABF01

[LuckyLib]

104. I told my daughter to let me know when Saturday Night Live has

a new show. They are going to have a field day with "Decider" and "To the Max."

[CrazyOrangeCat]

Diplomacy to the max . . .

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

insane mofo. didn't his momma ever tell him not to drink the bathwater?

[Supersedeas]

147. maximum diplomacy + liberty of the dead + non-warring democracies

[Notoverit]

16. I'll buy that. So stop the war now, why doncha?

I'm sure the Almighty wouldn't object...

[calimary]

44. Truly. The Son of the Almighty is widely quoted as saying "blessed are the

PEACEMAKERS."

If bush is such a man of God, he certainly never heard of the Beatitudes. Nowhere in them does Christ say "Blessed are the warmakers," or that the strongarmed hard-asses and greedmeisters will inherit the earth.

[Rocknrule]

161. But I thought * was the Son of the Almighty!

:sarcasm:

[Missy M]

20. He is a sick, evil liar........

I'm not sure if he believes his lies or not but he lies, lies, lies and no one calls him on it. He bases his foreign policy decisions on his belief there's an Almighty. What the hell does that mean. He is one sick, psychotic liar and dumb to boot.

[ginnyinWI]

108. not a liar--in major denial

I think he's been in some kind of denial or other his whole life. He's a coward who could never be as good or brave as Dad. So he learned to fake it so well that he now lives in that reality--began to believe his own spin.

[bdamomma]

131. bush must be de throned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This man is sick, I wish all psychiatrists and psychologists would come to the forefront and tell the American people we have a very sick sick man who must committed in an institution.

why do people think this maniac was appointed by God, geez, drinking kool aid alright, it is time for all of us sane people to do something.

[remfan]

22. So he also believes democracy can be installed at gunpoint

or under a load of SHOCK AND AWE bombing.

How typical of these sociopaths.

I remember chants of Weapons Of Mass Destruction and Mushroom Clouds, followed by a chorus of Regime Change, and liberation only as an afterthought. I remember claims that they didn't need to consult congress, that there was no need to go to the UN, and I also remember hearing FUCK SADDAM, WE'RE TAKIN' HIM OUT. Maybe he was channeling the Almighty.

I couldn't possibly begin to decribe how much I loathe these lying fucktards.

[jeff30997]

23. "God influences his foreign policy"

Replace the word God by Oil and he's telling the truth.:evilgrin:

[FighttheFuture]

55. It's the God of the underworld! That's what so many do not get

BUSH = SATAN

[Raksha]

83. He just never bothers to tell anyone that his "god"

is actually named Mammon! We've had to figure that one out ourselves.

[Malva Zebrina]

25. He has gone off the deep end

and is floundering in a morass of false "religiousity".

Look for his poll rating to go down below thirty percent. He is desperate at this point and behaving like a ignoramus who has no idea how to conduct a government.

[Kali]

84. Behaving like an ignoramus?

Don't you mean he IS an ignoramous who has no idea how to conduct a government - or ANY thing else.

[Rex]

26. So wrong on so many levels. Bush must have a 10 IQ.

Dumbest man alive; worst president ever!

[Arkansas Granny]

75. Absolutely! It still amazes me to this day how anyone could look

at him and see anything that resembled the qualities you would expect and desire from the President of the United States.

[Kali]

86. He doesn't even have the qualities I would expect from

used car salesman. No class, no brains, no morals - nothing. Just a waste of carbon.

[JVS]

27. Like he's so totally going to get us into another war, duh!

Barf me out!

[AzDar]

29. Truly frightening. n/t

[Az_lefty]

30. chimpy wanted to invade Iraq from the first day...

everytime he was asked about national security or terrorism the response was always "Iraq...Iraq...Iraq". Trying to blame his little war on 9-11, WMD's or God's will is total BS.

You reap what you sow george, have a nice day.

[tabasco]

31. He dismissed millions of people against war as a "focus group."

UN inspectors had to haul ass out of Iraq because of US war plans.

Known fake intelligence was used in the State of the Union speech to dupe the American People.

But Bush claims he used diplomacy "to the max."

What a godawful liar.

Bush abandoned the war on the real enemy so that his big oil cronies could sit on top of all that oil.

I guess that's what he calls diplomacy to the max.

[TankLV]

32. Small correction: bunkerboy KICKED THE INSPECTORS OUT,

they weren't "asked to leave", "volunteer to leave", and BUNKERBOY, not "saddam" KICKED THEM OUT!

Never forget that!

[opihimoimoi]

115. Profits to the Max....big OIL reaps extra Billions...almost Trillions

Same for Haliburton, etc....

[disndat]

141. Then why is this man smiling?

Call him crazy. Call him a liar. He may be smiling because either he is totally out of it or, he and his cronies have trillions of our tax dollars in their private banks, no matter what the outcome. How many innocent people have been killed and murdered "because God told him to bring democracy to the world"? Nauseating.

[Martin Eden]

33. Idiot or Liar? Either way, Bush is unfit for office.

This seems like the appropriate thread to re-post this gem from August 2003:

by John V. Whitbeck

On July 25 (2003), President George W. Bush made a truly staggering statement to the press after a meeting with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

“The fundamental question is, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? And the answer is, absolutely. And we gave him a chance to allow inspectors in, and he wouldn’t let them in. And therefore, after a reasonable request, we decided to remove him from power, along with other nations, so as to make sure he was not a threat to the United States and our friends and allies in the region.”

This statement is worth reading carefully. The president of the United States has stated, in a public forum, that he invaded Iraq because Saddam Hussein would not allow weapons inspectors back into his country. So far as I am aware, this statement has not been the subject of any serious critical analysis in the mainstream American media. I will therefore provide my own brief analysis. Assuming, as seems reasonable, that the president of the United States was neither drunk nor on LSD, there can be only two possible explanations for this statement:

Explanation 1: The president of the United States believed what he said. In this case, he is so dim-witted and/or totally divorced from reality as to be mentally unfit to hold his current job — or, indeed, any job — and should be taken into medical care.

Explanation 2: The president did not believe what he said but, rather, believes (unfortunately not without compelling post-Sept.11 evidence) that the vast majority of the American people are so dim-witted and/or uninformed and the vast majority of the American media is so sycophantic and/or terrified of being branded “unpatriotic” (or simply losing White House “access”) that he can now tell any lie, no matter how obvious and outrageous, and get away with it. In this case, he is morally unfit to hold his current job and should, by constitutional means, be forced to relinquish it as soon as possible.

Either explanation should scare the wits out of anyone who is not comatose.

When a single individual combines ignorance, immorality, dry-drunk syndrome, a publicly proclaimed commitment to perpetual military domination of the entire world by his country, a publicly expressed belief that God personally instructs him to make war on specific countries and a wildly irrational born-again brand of Christianity that views the Battle of Armageddon and the consequent end of life on earth as desirable developments and, at the same time, has command authority over an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction more than sufficient to achieve the end of life on earth, it is difficult to argue that this individual is not the most dangerous person who has ever lived.

When (if ever) will the American people wake up to the real threat facing America and the world?

Link:
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=30536&d=19&m=8&y=2003

[Broken Top]

98. Idio or Liar? Either Way Bush Unfit to Hold Office

At the finale of the 2000 election, I knew without any doubt
GWB was unfit to hold office. Whoever believed a blatant thief
would turn out to be a president this country could be proud
of was either brain dead or kidding themselves.  The reality
that it has taken over 5 years for a majority to finally come
to the realization Bush is a pathological liar, a thief,
warmonger, and a religious zealot with delusions of empire,
grandeur and deity is in itself disquieting. Now we have the
CIA purging its own--who's next? I'm sure this is at the
direction of the "decider" and his slithering
handlers. 
I agree Bush is dangerous and needs to be locked up along with
his equally delusional cabinet and followers. If a person
really wants to scare the hell out of themselves, just take a
few minutes to concentrate on the fact this gang has at their
disposal the greatest nuclear arsenal in the world and they're
just itching TO USE IT!!! 

[Stinky The Clown]

34. "Diplomatically To The Max"

That was from ..... the president of the US?

He didn't have Nicholas Cage play him, did he?

[superconnected]

36. This is a massive lie. We attacked iraq. They were no threat to us.

This I'm innocent and didn't want war, and *God* stuff and how he wants everyone to be *free* is grossly hypocritical in lieu of the fact that his administration was the only one trying to get the United Nations to go to war with Iraq.

The United Nations was voting NOT to attack Iraq. The Bush administration was pushing for it.

So who would he have to argue against to try and stop the war? N O B O D Y.

This is a gross abberation of the truth. Bringing *God* and *patriotism* into it just makes it grosser.

It's times like this when the fact that he is truly evil shines through with stunning clarity.

[coalition_unwilling]

37. Let the War Crimes trials begin (eom)

[Frank Cannon]

38. If this guy believes in God, I believe in L. Ron freakin' Hubbard

Bush has faith in ONE thing and one thing only, and in case there's any confusion about this, let me spell it out for you as plainly as I can. This is what Bush worships:

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

This is Bush's sun and his moon, his alpha and his omega, his first and his last, his morning and his night. This is Bush's God supreme. And he takes his orders from those who deal MOST in $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$(etc.), and they are the first word he hears in the morning and the last word he hears at night, and as long as he worships this, you and anyone else who might be reading this do not register on his little radar screen. You are, quite frankly, screwed.

[superconnected]

39. He's not really hearing the voice of God.

He's being the false prophet acting like he's of God.

He KNOWS he was the aggressor there. That's why this is so sick. People will read that and believe him. It's designed for them to respond to him as being "Godly", and it couldn't be further from the truth. He stands on lies. He KNOWS it.

[PegDAC]

73. He's only hearing

the voices in his psychotic little head.
:puke:

[ginnyinWI]

109. I'm no longer religious, but

He is spiritually "in error" if he is arrogant enough to think that he, alone, can hear from the "voice of God" and be 100% correct!

[laylah]

40. ...

:puke:

[susu369]

41. "I know that democracies do not war with each other."

What other proof does one need to prove that bu$h* is totally insane?

[Technowitch]

42. Bush's 'Almighty' is pretty lax on the whole bombing thing, huh?

Or maybe his idea of being 'free' includes freedom from respiration, heartbeat, limbs...

[Media_Lies_Daily]

45. Lying dog...and most Americans now believe he lies constantly.

[jaysunb]

46. Thank You. President Bush

I hope you'll continue to talk like this. Please let the 32% that support you still, see what a delusional idiot you are...It will help hasten your stupid ass out of the Peoples House !
:evilfrown:

[truthisfreedom]

48. let the man talk! he has a right to numbers below 30%. it's as if rove

is punishing him with these speeches... i wonder what's up?

[grannylib]

49. OK now I KNOW the oatmeal between his ears has congealed and

gone moldy.

WTF is he talking about???

Is the moron really not aware that the US is (or at least was supposed to be) a democracy???

What a stupid loser.

[kurth]

50. What a congenital liar

aka Goddamned lying son of a bitch.

[leftofthedial]

51. how blatantly these assholes lie

unbelievable.

[54anickel]

52. WTF? The almightly gave everyone the gift of the DESIRE to be free?

You mean we're not free, but we desire to be? The man makes absolutely no sense, and what is that last paragraph all about?

[sakabatou]

53. His pants seemed to have exploded

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

122. I was thinking that the seat of his pants had turned into a flamethrower

But an explosion is another reasonable explanation.

[goodboy]

54. "...to be free...even if we have to kill every last one them...*

[Roland99]

56. He would commit the same number if given a second chance....ARGH!!!

Fucking INSANE!!


Murderous Bastard!!

[babylonsister]

57. What a lying sack of shit he is!

:grr:

[DemGa]

58. God help us escape this regime with no further damage

[stevedeshazer]

59. K & R vote #5 - I think he is insane.

[benddem]

60. and he goes to church???? n/t

[think4yourself]

79. anybody ever see any photos?

What churches does he attend? I'm very curious....

[Virginian]

155. Only for show and not very often.

He said he was too busy in his first term. That's odd, he had all that time for fundraisers. I guess he was afraid of being struck by lightening for lying and killing and taking the Lord's name in vain. God doesn't like it when his people do those things.

Jimmy Carter not only went to church every Sunday when he was President, he also taught a Sunday School class.

[Terran1212]

61. The Decider to the max!

[ShaneGR]

62. "Democracies dont go to war with each other"

Last time I checked Hitler was originally elected democratically.

[grannylib]

63. Which is more than anyone can honestly say about the Imbecile...he was

NEVER elected.

[goclark]

99. Last time I checked Bush was Hitler

Remember that he is the DECIDER and MAX MAN. :sarcasm:

[Olney Blue]

64. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdumb

coming to a war theater near you

[Zorra]

65. Dude is 100% certifiable. Someone call the men in the white coats

before he nukes Iran on orders straight from the voices in his head.

[nashville_brook]

66. freudian slip alert: where he mentions the Articles of Confederation

being a rocky road to start our democracy on... last paragraph. suprised he didn't try to slip in Dread Scott.

[nashville_brook]

68. "what you're watching on your TV screens is a new democracy emerging."

He also said: "It's not easy work, by the way, to go from tyranny to democracy. We had kind of a round go ourself, if you look back at our history. My Secretary of State's relatives were enslaved in the United States even though we had a Constitution that said all were -- that believed in the dignity, or at least proclaimed to believe in the dignity of all. The Articles of Confederation wasn't exactly a real smooth start for our government to begin. And what you're watching on your TV screens is a new democracy emerging."

we had a few years before our forming and our CIVIL WAR -- but yeah, point well taken mr. president.

[thereismore]

142. he needs to take an ESL class (English as a Second Language).

I know immigrants whose English is better than his. What a dumb turd.

[pschoeb]

164. Huh? the Articles of Confederation did start our democracy

Bush is right, this has nothing to do with the Civil War, before the Constitution, we had the Articles of Confederation.

[The Backlash Cometh]

67. He sounds like Jesus Christ accepting his fate in the garden.

[neuvocat]

72. Nah. Jesus didn't lie.

I think the Holy Spirit is a bit upset with the false prophet from Texas.

[YDogg]

69. 68% of the people in that room think he's nuts.

[sellitman]

70. I feel sorry for him...

I feel worse for us.

[young_at_heart]

74. How did the business group respond to these statements?

These are the people who voted for him....do they still think he's wonderful? Do they still stand behind him 100%? We can only hope that they are finally waking up to what they have wrought on our country and the world.

[glitch]

87. They probably gave him a standing ovation. After all, these are the same

types of people as those who laugh at the trifecta joke, and think his cute wmd hunt in his office was just hilarious.

[Punkingal]

76. Yeah, he believes there is an almighty,

And he thinks it's him. :puke:

[BikeWriter]

77. Pentagon Contradicts General on Iraq Occupation Force's Size

Mr. Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary, opened a two-front war of words on Capitol Hill, calling the recent estimate by Gen. Eric K. Shinseki of the Army that several hundred thousand troops would be needed in postwar Iraq, "wildly off the mark."
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"The idea that it would take several hundred thousand U.S. forces I think is far off the mark," Mr. Rumsfeld said.
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/attack/consequences/2003/0228pentagoncontra.htm

[think4yourself]

78. WTF? ( W., The Faithful)

Sweet Jesus take him now.

Amen

[borlis]

81. He is just sooooo full of shit

I still can't believe his approval rating is as high as it is. The most pathetic excuse for a human being and somehow he winds up running the country (into the ground.) I want to be free all right - free of him!!

[glitch]

82. So what we've long suspected is true: Bush is a 13 year old from the 70s.

Or at least that's his developmental level. Well, good to know. I suppose.

[LoZoccolo]

85. You are a rock star. You are a rock legend to the max.

You can really knock it out
You can really wupp a horse's ass

Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette

- Wesley Willis, "Alanis Morissette"

http://www.lyricstime.com/wesley-willis-alanis-morissette-lyrics.html

[Zorra]

112. lol. yep. n/t

[DS1]

88. In other words you're just another theology before country fuckwit

just like that dude in Iran, only unlike him, you've inherited (just like you did everything else) nukes and a functional military. But you've already blown the functional military, so what do you have left?

[UrbScotty]

90. If God shapes his foreign policy, why'd he go to Iraq? (nt)

[Odin2005]

91. He's got to have paranoid schizophrenia.

He might have Asperger's Syndrome as well.

[madmax]

105. Never heard of Asperger Syndrome

Googled this:

http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/


Very interesting.

[bdamomma]

133. The guy is insane, I do not want to taken out by this imbecile

are we going to stop this maniac with these crazy visions he has. He is truly sick.

[aaronbees]

94. These are the incoherent ravings...

of someone completely out of control. I've gone beyond the point of caring whether he knows what he says, believes what he says, or understands what he says. Because unfortunately, the power-hungry machinery behind him is in complete, lockstep, thuggish control and knows exactly what the aims are: bankrupt most Americans and make the corporations, and the wealthy connected to them, rich and richer -- all the while deluding people with chimera issues like gay marriage one election and immigration another. It just astounds me that people in mainstream America hear this man's warblings and don't demand he be jettisoned from his office into a holding cell for psychopaths.

[colorado_ufo]

118. All he needs is a fiddle.

[kurth]

95. He Did Try to Avoid War 'To The Max' - IN 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972,

1973, 1974.

[borlis]

97. good one!!!

:rofl::rofl:

[killbotfactory]

96. And just like everything else he does, he failed. miserably.

Lying sack of crap.

[november3rd]

100. Drop Bush/Cheney

[genieroze]

101. What planet is this guy from?

:banghead:

[Sugar Smack]

132. Thank you. My sentiments exactly.

:grr: :nuke:

[Mr_Spock]

102. Sick bastard

fucking lying psychotic insane murdering bastard.

[ginnyinWI]

110. needs to go to a nice place with bars on the windows and

high walls around the grounds. Let him take his bike along.

[Initech]

111. "Bush tried to avoid war to the max"

To quote Super Troopers - "I'll belive that when me shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbert."

[Divine Discontent]

114. he's an idiot that believes it....

but like ginni said above, he isn't a diplomat at all! if he had 1/10 of Clinton's charm and skill the war may have been avoided. he is HELLBENT on death & destruction of "evil"... well ya know what Dubya, GOD discerns what happens to evil unless you're a judge, and I don't see the word "Honorable" in front of your name!


http://www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable CHECK IT OUT!

[wickerwoman]

119. It's Dick and George's Excellent Presidency!

We tried to avoid war to the max but then we got the munchies...

[tomg]

120. "I base a lot of my foreign policy decisions

on some things that I think are true." But most of it he bases on stuff that he knows is utter bullshit and lies. Oh, and he is pretty delusional about the stuff he thinks is true. I used to want to see him impeached. Now I simply want him committed.

[Sugar Smack]

121. Laugh or cry? Laugh or cry?

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

123. This man is so mentally ill, he makes Charles Manson look sane.

Still thirty plus percent of Americans approve of this madman. Shows how dangerous media concentration is.

If not for M$S propaganda, he would never have been "elected", much less "re-elected". Without black box voting and voter purges, he would never have won anything.

[Norrin Radd]

125. He is also projecting his mistakes:

"...Taking questions from members of the Orange County Business Council, Bush said the United States erred in attempting large reconstruction projects soon after the invasion was completed. This "didn't make any sense," he said, because they "became convenient targets for the enemy..."

The United States erred? Does he believe he is the United States?

[Vinca]

126. Let's hope God doesn't tell him to hit the nuke button. nt

[cassiepriam]

128. He admitted we are not a democracy:

"And I know that democracies do not war with each other."

[BlueEyedSon]

134. "It's like, omigawd... gag me with a spooo-oooon!"

[PATRICK]

135. Maximus Gassius

At last our Nero has a name. Maybe he has gasoline prices on his mind and the hip term was a slip. The height of his diplomacy in my book was his speech to the UN where he avoided talking about iraq and instead diverted the topic to the human slavery issue, slavishly reading from a prompter whereas other delegates were able to eloquently speak from notes or none.

He is such a liar it is impossible to believe he even believes the garbage he is dishing out, especially when he knows more than he is ever willing to tell, but yet slips up and begins to admit his lies and contradicts himself.

The poet Charles Baudelaire sardonically "reserved the right to contradict himself" but that came from being a conscious wit not a subconscious nitwit.

[Ecumenist]

136. Certifiably insane

and even the scarier to realise this maniac, theoretically speaking, has the ability to use the bomb on anyone the "voices" tell him to. God, I hope there's someone who can and will ultimately feel more loyalty to the country rather the gops.
I was thinking that he said people desire freedom, yeah among the things they want to free of,(according to the grand Idiot), is freedom from arms, legs, eyes, breathing and leave us not forget, that pesky heartbeat. :sarcasm:

[Orion The Hunter]

137. Funny I remember the Almighty saying something....

...about caring and supporting our downtrodden brothers and sisters. Where does torture fit into that?

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

139. I remember "blessed are the peacemakers"

I must be confused.

Repugnant-goon christians seem to read it as "blessed are the war makers, for the create obscene profits for their friends."

[mdmc]

140. Kool aid Americania

[Virginia Dare]

143. He's justifying war, and he's putting it into a religious context....

VERY scary shit. He's going further over the bend with his messiah complex, and trying to gird support for his crusade.

[snappyturtle]

144. K&R Unf****n believable!

That entire speech on Editor and Publisher is delusional......he sees things differently than the rest of us......just a tad! :sarcasm: His keepers need to put him in a little rubber room.....and leave him out of public view.

[Sivafae]

145. Like, gag me with a spoon dude. N/T

[Ignis]

148. Fer shur, dude! Diplomacizing is totally grody! (nt)

[AnneD]

149. I am a religious person...

I tithe regularly and attend services when ever I am not working. The topic of Bush and his 'religion' comes up frequently. Most of us have never bought his spiritually (you can tell them by their actions), BUT, some of us now have a better understanding as to how the antichrist could fool so many people for so long. At least that the thoughts in our adult Sunday school class.

[Sparkly]

150. "democracies do not war with each other" -- really?

Oh wait, he said "democracies"... nevermind...

[emald]

151. this idiot liar will use nukes

because "God" told him to. How scarry is that? This foolish man, who I believe is the anti-christ if there is ever to be one, will nuke Iran. It almost seems written in stone already, what with his comments lately that future presidents won't have the balls to use them. Can we really not stop this cretin?

[WinkyDink]

152. ""I believe liberty is universal. I believe people want to be free."

First of all, if "liberty" were "universal", WE WOULD ALL BE FREE ALREADY, you IMBECILE!!
However, people DO "want to be free":
Free of YOU.
Free to speak Truth to the Chinese Power.
Free to live in their native land without American invaders.
Free to.....the list is infinite.

DANGEROUS PSYCHOPATH.

TO THE MAX.

[KansDem]

153. This is embarassing...

He lies soooo much that I just shake my head whenever he opens his mouth.

[Rocknrule]

154. Right, and Homer Simpson tries to avoid drinking to the max

:eyes:

[fshrink]

156. That's what you get when

he speaks without 5 people writing up the note/speech. The trick only works with a very narrow proportion of his true idiotic self. Just enough to give the fabrication an appearance of spontaneity. This man would never have been elected to any position, if he had written himself a mere third of his statements.

[Jose Diablo]

157. I am reminded of a scene from the Fahrenheit 9/11 docudrama

The scene is of junior as he is preening before he announced the 'shock and awe' bombardment of Iraq in a broadcast to America.

He is smiling, happy, making faces into the camera, acting like a schoolboy playing with his 'tin soldiers'. Very far from being somber and burdened with the task ahead. He was unencumbered by any thoughts about the magnitude of what he was doing. To that schoolboy war was a big game, for he has never had to face-up for any responsibility. His father got him a cushy job with the Texas Air National Guard, junior couldn't even finish this cushy assignment given to him to keep him from seeing first had what war is all about. His entire life is a failure.

He is still a little boy as now he is saying he didn't want war? I would suggest a showing of his actions in front of the camera, but before going 'on the air' and matching this visual with what he said in the article in the OP. And today, his only worry is that he has been found-out and politically he is done, as are his enablers. Seeking an escape from responsibility for what he has done.

He and this whole bunch belong in the Hague answering for their war crimes. For once in his worthless life he should be made to accept responsibility for his actions. We owe this to him in that maybe a few minutes before his end, he can be made to look into himself, before he faces the abyss.

[Penndems]

158. Ambassador Joe Wilson, Richard Clarke and Larry Johnson are

"diplomatically to the max".

George W. Bush is a delusional megalomaniac with a Messianic complex.

Big difference.

[madmark]

162. "diplomatically to the max". . . .the falsity of the representation stands

for itself. The other quote that got me was. "And I know that democracies do not war with each other." Democracies fight each other. The Germans elected the Nazis to power and we ended up fighting them. The Greek City States (most of them democracies) beat the shit out of each other. Rome and Carthage both had elected senates and they beat the shit out of each other. England (representative parliamentary government) and America (republic) fought in 1812 (and before in 1776 when US was a loose representative confederation). France (republic) and Britain (representative parliamentary government) fought before Napoleon became emperor. Turkey and Greece fought over Cyprus (both have representative forms of gov). Serbia fought Croatia and Bosnia and everyone had a representative form of government. Israel (a democracy) invaded Lebanon (a country with a representative government at the time). I am sure I have missed many. The point is if Bush meant that the G7 nations post WWII have not fought each other then he should have said it. He is a sloppy imprecise idiot.

[2QT2BSTR8]

163. Do we have an agnostic & dyslexic President?

"Bush Says He Tried to Avoid War 'To The Max,' Explains How God Shapes His Foreign Policy"

Bush has a dog, maybe his dog tried to avoid the war?? Bad idea Georgie! Bad Idea.

If Bush TRULY believes his statement, then wouldn't God be telling him to get the #$*% out of the middle east or otherwise? Hmmmmmm otherwise! ! ! ! I mean get real - God tells me "bad idea", oh screw you God, I own you, oh.....wait....he does....doesn't he?:)

Peace out!

2QT