Report: Bush Understands Iraqi Opposition

[Kadie]

Report: Bush Understands Iraqi Opposition

1 hour, 7 minutes ago


PARIS - President Bush (news - web sites) said in a published interview that Iraqis fighting American troops weren't all terrorists and insisted he can understand their distaste for occupation.

In an interview with Paris Match magazine, that will go on sale Thursday, Bush said "no one would want to be in the place" of Iraqis under occupation.

"They are not all terrorists," Bush said in the interview, conducted last week in the Oval Office. "The suicide bombers are, but other fighters aren't. They can't stand being occupied."

"That's why we are giving them back their sovereignty," he added, a reference to U.S. plans to give control of the country to an interim Iraqi government on June 30. Bush said "complete sovereignty" would be given to the Iraqi leadership.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040602/ap_on_go_pr_wh/france_bush_iraq_1

I have to say that this headline really made me laugh.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

1. Lord preserve me from such unadulterated double-speak.

[bif]

2. "Report: Bush Doesn't Understand Squat."

is more like it.

[Ganja Ninja]

3. He understands the Iraqi opposition but he doesn't understand ...

why you shouldn't open an umbrella while standing in the wind blast from a helicopter. Somehow I'm not convinced.

[MallRat]

4. They're not all terrorists? Then why did we GITMO-ize Abu Ghraib?

"They are not all terrorists," Bush said in the interview, conducted last week in the Oval Office.

Amazingly, for the first time, Bush is differentiating here between legal and illegal combatants in the eyes of the Geneva Conventions.

With this one statement, he and his administration can no longer claim ignorance on this issue. THEY KNEW THAT THEY WERE TORTURING POWs.

-MR

[KissMyAsscroft]

5. Pandering to the French...

while talking like a war mongering asshole to the neanderthals at home...

[BeFree]

6. Awhile back he said:

"I wouldn't want to be occupied" when speaking on the matter.

Well, when the Iraqi government asks the US to leave Iraq he's gonna say that Iraq is now a peaceful nation. Let's hope he's right. Let's hope our troops didn't die in vain. Thing is, we shoulda left 6 months ago. Hell, we never should have invaded!

[gratuitous]

7. Report: Bush understands how to ride a bike

Correction: Yesterday, we reported that the president of the United States, George W. Bush, understands how to ride a bicycle. That report was a mistake. Mr. Bush no more understands how to ride a bicycle than he knows how to ride a Segway. gratuitous Times regrets the error.

[dae]

8. Yeah, and I understand women! n/t