"Learning to read is part of the war on terra."

[SeattleGirl]

Excuse me if this has been posted previously; I just heard this little tidbit on the news. Apparently, the Pretzeldent, in speaking to a literacy group today (yeah, I know), says that learning to read is part of the war on terror. If the suicide bombers had learned to read, then they would not have felt hopeless, and would not have killed themselves and others. WTF?

So, using Georgie's twisted logic, one conclusion I can come to is that he must be a terrorist, because we all know reading is not his forte.

Someone please, lock him away and save us from him!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

1. File that officially under...

"WHAT THE FUCK?!?!"

I guess I'm fighting the war on terra right now, since I'm quite literate.

[SeattleGirl]

2. That was my thought, exactly.

I guess if my name is on any "enemy list", they can remove it, as I, too, am quite literate.

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Being 'good citizens' is part of TWOT

Not littering is part of TWOT.

Looking both ways before you cross the street is part of TWOT.

Brushing your teeth after every meal is part of TWOT.

Being kind to your brothers and sisters is part of TWOT.

Putting away your toys...




Well... you get the idea.

:eyes:

[SeattleGirl]

5. LOL! Who knew it was so easy?

:)

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Well, see, that's just some of the stuff *all* of us can do

Y'know — clean our plates and obey traffic laws and stuff. Oh, and rat out neighbors who seem "suspicious."

It gets more complicated when you start talkin' bombs 'n' shit.

[QuestionAll...]

16. I just wiped myself properly

after having a good crap.

Where's my medal?

[Kutjara]

4. I'm guessing that most of the 'suicide bombers' Shrub refers...

...to can read very well. They read the Koran diligently and often write letters to their families before going about their grisly work.

To paraphrase Wolfgang Pauli, Bush's statement is so nonsensical, it's not even wrong.

[SeattleGirl]

6. Well, that pretty much sums it up.

Not only his statement, but his entire persona.

[jrw14125]

8. I learned to read My Pet Goat when we were attacked on 9/11! n/t

[SeattleGirl]

9. "Because after all, reading is THE most important thing I could

have done that day!"

[QuestionAll...]

10. good grief, the idiot actually said that?

what's he up to in his little printing shop of propaganda horrors?

[SeattleGirl]

11. Yep, he did.

I actually started muttering to myself when I heard that.

[QuestionAll...]

13. can Gorge read arabic? ha ha

'what's them squigglies tellin' me? hey, folks, this one looks like my old car after I rammed it into a tree in a drunkin' stupor, heh heh heh.'

do you remember the 'Freeance Peeance' thing, actual words that came out of that black gaping hole of destruction.

fucking slime on a shit biscuit.

[SeattleGirl]

15. ROFL!

"fucking slime on a shit biscuit"

That has got to be one of the BEST descriptions of him ever! :rofl:

[Taxloss]

12. Ironic that this should come at a time when Madrassas are being

blamed for spreading Islamic extremism - some may be, but a lot more are providing basic literacy for poor kids.

On edit: And, for freak's sakes, who were the 9/11 hijackers? Illiterate kids or middle-class college boys? Sheesh.

[SeattleGirl]

14. He's definitely getting more and more desperate, isn't he?

Trying to tie literacy to terrorism?? What's next? Having a low credit score makes you a terrorist? Oh wait, I remember now -- he said that poor people aren't necessarily killers. :crazy:

[Taxloss]

17. Definitely. It's like he thinks that attaching "terror" to something

turns it from crud to Policy Gold. Georgieboy, it's still crud.

[SeattleGirl]

25. Georgie, if it looks like sh*t and smells like sh*t,

it's a pretty damned good bet that it IS shit. And Georgie, most everything that comes out of your mouth is exactly that - shit.

[Taxloss]

27. As I once said to a colleague:

"Putting an olive in a glass of piss does not make it a Martini"

[SeattleGirl]

29. LOL!!!!

You owe me a keyboard!

[Book Lover]

18. Were there an emoticon for a frozen stare down one's nose

I would express it here.

Indeed, Mr. Bush, literacy is a mighty blow struck against a deadly enemy. Ignorance.

[SeattleGirl]

19. You are so right, Book Lover

And you and I both know that Bush is, and will remain, ignorant. Reading is apparently not for him, unless is The Pet Goat. (And no, I do not believe he's read Camus or anything else above the level of a child's book or comic book.)

[Book Lover]

26. Too true. Media-push reading lists or not,

I cannot imagine that he enjoys reading. And why should he? It does not make him richer, or more secure in his wealth. It does not feed any of his appetites nor does it does not flatter him. Why should he bother?

[SeattleGirl]

30. Besides, he has all those people around him who tell him what's

important, right? So, he's well edumacated, even if he doesn't read.

[lonestarnot]

20. So he just struck himself in the head with The Pet Goat.

:rofl:

[Book Lover]

23. Tee-hee!

:rofl:

[SammyWinstonJack]

21. Like he really gives a crap about literacy. And can't he talk about

anything without tying it to his failed WOT? Also, how does he know that the suicide bombers did not know how to read? He just makes shit up to support his ravings. The IDIOT!

[SeattleGirl]

24. Like I said, he is getting more and more desperate.

People are turning against him, so he's grabbing at anything he can to try and make his case.

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. Ironically he has a small point

not that he woudl understand why... by the way george, the boys who flew those planes into the WTC, they were well educated with College degrees, not that you would know that

But ironicvally, he has a point but would be hard pressed to undersatnd why

[SeattleGirl]

28. In what way?

Do you mean that illiteracy does have an impact on an individual, and on a society?

[jimshoes]

31. And tomorrow the pretzledent

will connect the reluctance of children to finish their vegetables with the global war on terror and why it leads to becoming terrorists later in life. :silly:

[SeattleGirl]

32. Honestly, I wouldn't put it past him.

:silly: is right!