Pissypants and Blair presser transcript... get before they whitewash it further

[radfringe]

Remarks by President Bush and Prime Minister Blair of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Joint Press Availability
Thursday December 7, 2006
Transcript
http://www.standardnewswire.com/news/547378.html

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Q Mr. President, the Iraq Study Group described the situation in Iraq as grave and deteriorating. You said that the increase in attacks is unsettling. That won't convince many people that you're still in denial about how bad things are in Iraq, and question your sincerity about changing course.

PRESIDENT BUSH: It's bad in Iraq. Does that help? (Laughter.)

Q Why did it take others to say it before you've been willing to acknowledge for the world --

PRESIDENT BUSH: In all due respect, I've been saying it a lot. I understand how tough it is. And I've been telling the American people how tough it is. And they know how tough it is. And the fundamental question is, do we have a plan to achieve our objective. Are we willing to change as the enemy has changed? And what the Baker-Hamilton study has done is it shows good ideas as to how to go forward. What our Pentagon is doing is figuring out ways to go forward, all aiming to achieve our objective.

Make no mistake about it, I understand how tough it is, sir. I talk to families who die. I understand there's sectarian violence. I also understand that we're hunting down al Qaeda on a regular basis and we're bringing them to justice. I understand how hard our troops are working. I know how brave the men and women who wear the uniform are, and therefore, they'll have the full support of this government. I understand what long deployments mean to wives and husbands, and mothers and fathers, particularly as we come into a holiday season. I understand. And I have made it abundantly clear how tough it is.

I also believe we're going to succeed. I believe we'll prevail. Not only do I know how important it is to prevail, I believe we will prevail. I understand how hard it is to prevail. But I also want the American people to understand that if we were to fail -- and one way to assure failure is just to quit, is not to adjust, and say it's just not worth it -- if we were to fail, that failed policy will come to hurt generations of Americans in the future.

And as I said in my opening statement, I believe we're in an ideological struggle between forces that are reasonable and want to live in peace, and radicals and extremists. And when you throw into the mix radical Shia and radical Sunni trying to gain power and topple moderate governments, with energy which they could use to blackmail Great Britain or America, or anybody else who doesn't kowtow to them, and a nuclear weapon in the hands of a government that is -- would be using that nuclear weapon to blackmail to achieve political objectives -- historians will look back and say, how come Bush and Blair couldn't see the threat? That's what they'll be asking. And I want to tell you, I see the threat and I believe it is up to our governments to help lead the forces of moderation to prevail. It's in our interests.

And one of the things that has changed for American foreign policy is a threat overseas can now come home to hurt us, and September the 11th should be a wake-up call for the American people to understand what happens if there is violence and safe havens in a part of the world. And what happens is people can die here at home.

So, no, I appreciate your question. As you can tell, I feel strongly about making sure you understand that I understand it's tough. But I want you to know, sir, that I believe we'll prevail. I know we have to adjust to prevail, but I wouldn't have our troops in harm's way if I didn't believe that, one, it was important, and, two, we'll succeed. Thank you.

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he understands how tough it is, he believes alot, there's alot of prevailing going on and DING! DING! DING! he managed to slip in SEPTEMBER 11

[hatrack]

1. Key words for George's Big Thursday - "tough", "prevail", "understand", "believe"

Good job, George!!

:puke:

[QuestionAll...]

8. I wonder what 'resolve' did to be dumped so unceremoniously. nt

[whistle]

2. There has to be a photo of Tony Blair pissing his pants from laughter

....at this response from Dubya

[maddezmom]

3. WP has the transcript, too

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/07/AR2006120700836.html

[tularetom]

4. I thought I picked up a couple of "hard works" in there also

A perennial favorite. Also at least one "bring 'em to justice". And although I was only half paying attention I detected a definite stress in his voice when the BBC guy asked him that question. He got real screechy for about 5 minutes.

[Amonester]

5. PNAC criminals. Their Goal: The neoconservative agenda

FROM: http://www.oldamericancentury.org/pnac.htm

Established in the spring of 1997 and funded largely by the energy and arms industries, the Project for the New American Century was founded as the neoconservative think tank whose stated goal was to usher in a "new American century". Having won the cold war and no military threat to speak of, this group of ideologues created a blueprint for the future whose agenda was to capitalize upon our surplus of military forces and funds and forcing American hegemony and corporate privatization throughout the world. In their statement of principles they outline a fourfold agenda:

1) Increase an already enormous military budget at the expense of domestic social programs

Must see video: best documentary I've seen to date exposing the PNAC

2) Toppling of regimes resistant to our corporate interests

3) Forcing democracy at the barrel of a gun in regions that have no history of the democratic process

4) Replacing the UN’s role of preserving and extending international order

(This all can be read in their own words at www.newamericancentury.org)

Their Method

According to their own document, Rebuilding America’s Defenses ( .pdf format ) their stated goals would never be realized "absent some catastrophic catalyzing event –like a new Pearl Harbor". (page 52).

(...)

George W Bush, whose political career has been nearly fully funded by the energy and defense industries was appointed by the Supreme Court after the disputed election of 2000. Immediately he appointed signatories of PNAC documents to the top levels of the Whitehouse and Pentagon.

It has now been proven that once Bush had all of his top levels filled by the PNAC, that our guard against terrorist attacks was let down.

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Richard Clarke, whose position as terrorism czar was promoted to a cabinet level position under Clinton, was subsequently demoted from the cabinet and reassigned by Bush to other projects. Dick Cheney himself, has said that Clarke was kept "out of the loop".

Paul O’Neil, former Secretary of Treasury, has stated that the Bush administration did not treat Al-qaeda as an imminent threat.

The Bush administration ignored and denied the existence of a presidential briefing entitled "Bin Laden determined to attack inside the United Sates" until it was revealed to the public. Testifying before the 9-11 commission, Rice referred to this as an "historical document". We were led to believe that this was the only warning. It has since come out to the public, that she was lying. Lying 52 times over. It has now been learned that Condi didn't disclose that they had, in fact, received 52 warnings in the months leading up to September 11th.

The Bush administration needed a “new Pearl Harbor” to implement the PNAC agenda and they let down their guard until it occurred.

The Aftermath

Knowing what we know today, the invasion of Iraq was based on falsehoods and was an unnecessary and dangerous diversion from the effort to reduce terrorist attacks on the United States. Muslim anger at the United States is at an all time high. Iraq posed no threat to us and the process of containment was working. Most importantly, Iraq is in chaos, on the brink of civil war, and now a breeding ground for a hundred new Bin Ladens.

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The PNAC members of our government told us that it would be “a cake walk”. That we would be greeted as “liberators”. That we’d see parades in the streets.

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The museums, the hospitals, the munitions depots, the nuclear facilities were left unprotected at the onset of the invasion. The ministry of oil was securely guarded.

Who has benefited from all of this at the expense of over a thousand US soldiers lives and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilian lives? The very arms and energy industries that funded the PNAC:

http://www.oldamericancentury.org/pnac.htm

[atreides1]

6. So not only Senator Sesions can talk to the dead???

So can Numbnuts, only he talks to entire families!

"I talk to families who die."

[QuestionAll...]

7. he talks like I used to answer questions I didn't know in grade school...

Q: if a train were leaving Pittsburgh at 4:13 am at the speed of 96 miles per hour and if another train were leaving Boston at the same time going at the speed of 74 miles per hour how long would it take for the conductor to eat his lunch?

My answer: if a train were leaving Pittsburgh at 4:13 am at the speed of 96 miles per hour and if another train were leaving Boston at the same time going at the speed of 74 miles per hour, the conductor would eat his lunch in 14 minutes if he were on the Boston train, but if a train were leaving Pittsburgh at 4:13 am at the speed of 96 miles per hour and if another train were leaving Boston at the same time going at the speed of 74 miles per hour if the conductor was on the Pittsburgh train it would take him more time because of the speed of light and trains theories.

-as long as my answer was longer than the question, I felt smarter.

[jannyk]

9. I guess they retired 'foment' already ? nt

[roamer65]

10. I am getting so sick of Raisinbrain's obstructionism on talks...

with Iran and Syria. Raisinbrain, you have to sit down and talk in order to get them to stop doing what you don't want them to do. Geez, even that numbskull Baker sees that we have to sit down and talk. Raisinbrain is such a petulant moron. Ugh.:mad: