B*sh: '' We Spent 15 Billion Dollars to Help People Suffer".

[Karenca]

B*sh, just now on CNN---on being questioned if his father would agree with him:

"The war came to our shores...we were attacked. Iraq is part of the struggle against the terrorists. We're safer without Saddam Hussein in power. I do what is good for America. I wouldn't sign the Kyoto agreement because it's not good for the U.S. We're getting crushed in the PR, and people don't like my policies, but when you ask people from other countries where they want to live
they always say the United States. We're a generous country --- We gave millions to the tsunami....HIV-AIDS; WE SPENT 15 BILLION DOLLARS TO HELP PEOPLE SUFFER!
America is a respected country!.

My dad says 'I love you, son".


B*sh, being interviewed on Katrina.

[Crankie Avalon]

1. NO, HE DIDN'T...did he really???

Did he at least correct himself?

[Karenca]

3. He did, and

he did NOT correct himself either.

[calimary]

17. Is this from the Brian Williams interview? Because he also said

Americans have INDEED made sacrifices since 9/11. How? Well, we paid taxes! And airline schedules were delayed! Yeah. We sacrificed, alright.

:eyes:

Criminy!!!

Perhaps he was being sincere when he stated this particular "fact," because in his narrow, limited, selfish, stingey little mind, that IS making a sacrifice. And it's probably as far as his "sacrificing" has ever gone. Having to pay taxes is a sacrifice.

You know, we do need to start working on that. REFRAMING it. I don't like paying lots of taxes either, but I recognize it as my duty as an American. It's a responsibility and an obligation that goes with the territory of living in this most-blessed and privileged land. My taxes, and everyone else's, go toward everything that makes this country what it is - we underwrite, or sponsor, this country and everything it offers to us in terms of our freedom (even while severely compromised) and our privileges and consumer protections and upkeep and maintenance of all our facilities from Army installations to public libraries to national forests. We are America's patrons, her share-holders, her investors, her benefactors. It's the ultimate in the so-called "ownership society" that the republi-CONS like to yammer on about (besides, it might be fun to hijack one of their new fave-rave buzz phrases and turn it to OUR advantage!). It's sponsorship. It's tuition. It's dues. As though we belonged to the best country club in the world. You do NOT belong to a club without paying dues to support it. Even the richest of the haves and have mores can understand THAT - because they live with THAT particular obligation year to year. If indeed "this land is your land and this land is my land," ANY landowner knows he/she has financial obligations to the maintenance and upkeep of that land, to support it at the level of standards that are set and approved, and that the landowner expects to enjoy as a reasonable return on investment, to keep it safe, protected, and flourishing in the many ways required to do that. It costs money. In a national sense, that means tax money that we all chip in, because as its citizens, we're all owners of America - and obligated accordingly.

And remember this, too: even the dreaded grover norquist expects his trash to be picked up on schedule every week, and he'd squeal like a pig if it weren't. And HE certainly isn't personally schlepping it off to the city dump every week in the back of HIS SUV! Freedom, indeed, is NOT free. There actually IS a price tag. It costs money. Which comes from the taxes we pay.

And yes, if it's from the same Brian Williams interview, bush DID say the "sacrifice" comment, and everything else described in the OP.

[The Blue Flower]

2. Well, at least SOMETHING'S finally working

Poll numbers on suffering thanks to his government are way up!

[kiki]

4. "When you ask people from other countries..."

"...where they want to live, they always say the United States."

Yeah, might've been true before 2001 George, but you've put paid to that.

I think a more likely answer to that question would be "The United States, once you've gotten rid of the fascist scum running your country and the mouth-breathing retards that support them."

[Karenca]

5. I couldn't get over that one.

Yeah, everyone loves and respects us.

[rock]

6. I believe the popular answer these days is

not Iraq.

[kiki]

9. Indeed, or Afghanistan...

...apart from Ann the Man, who thinks Afghanistan is going "swimmingly". I expect she'll be jumping on a plane any moment so she can get over there and show the world she has faith in her own demented rantings, erm, I mean, "convictions".

[Tuesday_Morning]

7. Sounds eerily familiar...

Kinda like:

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/08/20040805-3.html

[CraigHinTenn]

14. One of my favorites, although hard to choose.

[gatorboy]

8. Yesterday he did the same thing.

“The Army Corps of Engineers have been working non-stop — and I mean non-stop — to damage … to repair the damage...”

He wants to destroy the planet. It's pretty obvious these days. :rofl:

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. I heard him say that.

:wow: Surprised he corrected himself, bet he really didn't want too. Sometimes with Pinhead, the truth does slip out.

[bvar22]

10. His father does NOT agree.

This is what his father, George HW Bush said in 1998 about invading Iraq:

"Trying to eliminate Saddam ... would have incurred incalculable human and political costs...We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq ... there was no viable 'exit strategy' we could see, violating another of our principles... Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land." (1998)

Source: A World Transformed---George HW “Poppy” Bush 1998

Poppy Bush (and others) KNEW EXACTLY what would happen!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

12. Ahhh, truth at last from an American President

that is a first!

[Mira]

13. How loud does the Big Dog howl when he sees a thing like that

I would give my forture, albeit small, if I could be a fly on the wall when Bill Clinton sees an interview like that.

[Karenca]

15. "I'm the adoring son. My father understands I have information he doesn't

have.
You ask anyone in the world where they want to live and most of them will say America.
Our policies may not be beloved...but this country is a country that is doing the world alot of good. Thank goodness America took the lead in fighting this war against terror.
i said we have a problem, we're addicted to oil---that's a pretty strong statement for a fellow from
Texas to make"

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. !

:puke: He absolutely makes me ill! Self serving and self absorbed POS!

[w4rma]

18. "Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over."

"Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over." - Miserable Failure (Bush) on January 17, 2001,

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

20. Now, now. Let's be fair. He did not. That is from

the Onion.

Show me a link that he actually said that.

[w4rma]

22. Yes, it is from the Onion.

It had been a while since I had thought about that "quote". I could have sworn, though, that Bush said something remarkably similar. I'll have to look through some of his post November 2000 Bushisms to verify.

[Karenca]

19. I've got an epilectic reading list

He really just said this!!

[Jawja]

21. The "I love you, son"

is yet another line that was used by Bush in his interview with Brian Williams. The other was about the "eclectic" reading list.

Sounds like the Jackass has had these interviews lined up for him and the script has been written.

[samsingh]

23. he's screaming to tell the truth -