It's a number

[jgraz]

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
June 15, 2006

Press Briefing by Tony Snow
James S. Brady Briefing Room


Q Tony, American deaths in Iraq have reached 2,500. Is there any response or reaction from the President on that?


MR. SNOW: It's a number




And every time there's one of these 500 benchmarks people want something.




The President would like the war to be over now.




Everybody would like the war to be over now.




And the one thing that we saw in Iraq this week is further testimony to the quality of the men and the women who are doing that,




and the dedication and determination




to try to ensure that the people of Iraq really do live in a free, effective democracy of their own creation and design.






MR. SNOW: This job has really been a dream for me, and a blast.

[TwilightGardener]

1. Moving photos. Yeah, I'm not one who feels real bad for old Tony.

I don't wish him ill, just don't have any real feelings for him at all.

[jgraz]

2. Yeah, I don't quite understand the handwringing from DU over his departure

[Cabcere]

3. "A number"?!?!

A fucking NUMBER??!?! :grr: :mad: :nuke:

No, Mr. Snow, Mr. Bush...these are not "numbers." They are PEOPLE. Every single person who has been killed in this war was somebody's child. How on earth can you be so callous? :( Many were parents, brothers, sisters, friends, neighbors, lovers who meant the world to those who knew them. How can you dismiss their lives as "numbers," you who claim to "support our troops"? Please, tell me how reducing lives, deeds, and sacrifices to mere "numbers" is "supporting our troops!"

"And every time there's one of those 500 benchmarks people want something"?!?! Fuck that. I want something every damn day, and that is for people to stop getting killed. I want my friend and the thousands of others like him back. I want the nightmares of endless war and of having to pick out a coffin for my sixteen-year-old brother as a result to stop. That's what I want. Not every time there's a "benchmark" - charming use of that term, by the way - but EVERY SINGLE DAY.

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

[SoCalDem]

4. George called them "commas"..

war dead are reduced to grade school elements....numbers....punctuation marks

[Cabcere]

5. I remember that now...

...disgusting. :puke: :cry: :nuke:

I don't even know what to say anymore. :( There are no words.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

6. SCD -- for once I have an issue with a statement of yours,

you pay too much respect to the shit-for-brains pResident by calling him by his given name... but I am willing to forgive such transgressions for access to this>

http://socaldem.smugmug.com/popular/18/66214059#66214059

[SoCalDem]

8. I accept the scorn

I was too lazy to type out my usual appellation for him :hi:

Should have called him the usual

*²/stupid *³

[SoCalDem]

9. When you have time to kill, check out the other galleries

http://socaldem.smugmug.com


I love to cruise the net, finding delicious pics..

[HCE SuiGeneris]

10. I have traveled the Louvre, it has nothing on your gallery...

;-)

[jgraz]

13. Those three words will be Snow's legacy

So much for leaving the world better than you found it, eh Tony?

[HCE SuiGeneris]

7. No sympathy for those in league with

tyrants. Good riddance to rubbish...

We have a lot of cleaning to do before I will feel comfortable with this country's leadership.

[PurityOfEssence]

11. Back to private sector lying, where it pays much, much more.

As pure as the shoveled slush, he slinks back to Fox so he can deceive bigger for better cash.

Death only matters for how it impacts earnings.

Great post.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

12. Pretty much sums it up

:cry: :cry: :cry:

sick lying murdering scum speaking untruths

[here_is_to_hope]

14. I will k/r this because....

I find him to be a nasty human being. I understand that others here want to express sympathy for this devil but...I cannot.
That crack of his about 'going to the poorhouse on 168k a year', well fuck him.

[jgraz]

17. I still can't believe he said that with a straight face -- $168k isn't enough for him

Just shows how completely removed from reality these people are.

[Solly Mack]

15. ...

[Colorado Progressive]

16. what a sick bastard...oh wait!!!! nt