Alaska and Hawaii were two of the 36 coalition nations referred to by Bush.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

The lists of nations utilized by the WH to count the coalition allies with troops in Iraq included older historical lists which named Hawaii and Alaska as separate national entities of sorts. The WH is working on other alternative views and descriptions to adequately explain the number "36" as referred to by Bush. Older lists were approved by WH aides because the problems in Iraq are historical and therefore allow for flexibly alternative historical explanations of references in public statements and numberments.

[Blue_In_AK]

1. Good grief...

Alaska's been part of the United States for almost 50 years. Even before that we were a territory since Seward's Folly. This CAN'T be for real, can it?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

12. Anything is possible with ...

"flexibly alternative historical explanations of references in public statements and numberments."

[tsuki]

67. Nobody told George. It isn't his fault. n/t

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

2. So, who gets outed from the CIA for calling out this BS?

Or, do they just throw another RW, acting out under sexual repression, politician under the bus for distraction purposes? :shrug: MKJ

[madrchsod]

3. ok, that`s funny...i wonder if bush knows

[MadMaddie]

4. That reminds me of a couple of years ago when I was..

flying through the Minneapolis airport and I was riding an escalator and standing between two recent HS graduates, I heard one say...and I kid you not.....

Wait for it...

"Do they accept American Currency in Hawaii"? Future Rethug supporters...

it never fails...I was the only one that heard it.


In my mind the below text sums up this administration....they will lie to make their message fit their story. Apparently no one has told them that History is not Flexible....

<snip>
the problems in Iraq are historical and therefore allow for flexibly alternative historical explanations of references in public statements and numberments.
<snip>

[hisownpetard]

41. Umm, did you say the...Minneapolis Airport? Did you happen to see Larry Craig rush by?

[treestar]

5. Miss South Carolina would be proud

Of her clever pretzeldent.

[SoCalDem]

17. and such.. for the people of the Iraq.. n/t

[hisownpetard]

39. Is it true she wanted to be an intern under Bush but when she faxed her resume,

all the White House got was a blank piece of paper?

[Mrs. Overall]

6. Also part of the 36 coalition countries: Prussia, Ottoman Empire, Gaul, and Siam.

[KharmaTrain]

7. Don't Forget Poland...

Ooops...they left in '05...ok forget Poland.

So how about Freedonia, Canabeer and the Grand Duchy of Fenwick. I'm sure they were included.

:rofl:

[DFW]

15. Hey, that's Duchy of Grand Fenwick if you please!

What are you trying to do? Get us invaded by them again?

[hisownpetard]

8. That's ludicrous!!!! How about Bloomingdale's and Macy's?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

10. Macy's was never a nation.

Don't know about Bloomingdale's.

[hisownpetard]

18. I stand corrected. But how 'bout Macy's and Narnia?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

28. Your suggestions have been taken under unofficial advisement by aides to aides.

[hisownpetard]

38. Great! I happen to have an "in" with an aide to one of the aides - I lived in the same

hemisphere - so maybe that will give me some clout.

[tyedyeto]

9. This surprises me!!! NOT!! n/t

[Ghost in the Machine]

11. He counted each National Guard Unit too. What?! It says *Nation* right in the name!

:rofl:

That's our President chucklenuts!

[Rageneau]

13. New Amusement Park: 36 Flags Over Iraq

I hear the HumVee-through-Sadr-City ride is a can't-miss.

[EFerrari]

14. Maybe he's counting Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Morocco.

That's three more right there!

[malaise]

16. What about American Samoa and Puerto Rico? n/t

[madinmaryland]

19. Does it refer to Delaware as a coalition nation?

:rofl:

[warren pease]

20. "...flexibly alternative historical explanations..."

I recognize each of those words individually, but when placed together in a sentence I really don't have any idea what the hell they mean.

Are the "alternatives" flexible? Are they advocating alternative history? (In which case, I'd direct them to Howard Zinn.) Or are the "explanations" "historical" in nature? Meaning I guess that this line of imbecilic bullshit would have worked back before the invention of globes, maps, atlases and so forth.

Or maybe it's all true and countries like Troy, Canaan, Ceylon, Easter Island, Hispaniola and the Mayan Empire have all risen from history to share the honor of fighting at the side of the US as it conquers the evil doers and makes the world safe for imperialism.

Good fucking god... doesn't anybody in this administration speak English? I can almost hear them at the dinner table: "Please pass the 8" tall clear glass bottle with the white screw-on cap containing the reddish, pureed tomato-like vegetable matter so that I can enhance the flavor of my freedom fries, please."


wp

[A-Schwarzenegger]

29. Ketchup is not a nation.

[warren pease]

32. Since when? I used to really like the place. n/t

[A-Schwarzenegger]

33. The nation of Ketchup was annexed by the nation of Toast.

It's very soggy these days.

[warren pease]

34. Hence the expression, "we're all toast" or "the car's toast?"

I guess it would be if it had a permanent coating of sticky red slime covering the whole place. And what of the Toasters or Tostitos or Toastosteronites? How do they handle it? Must be a pretty shitty place to commute, sliding through pulverized tomatoes (is that a Quayleism?) every morning and afternoon.

And so much for the tourist trade.


wp

[A-Schwarzenegger]

37. But it's cheap!

In fact, it's free in those those little packets at Norm's,
although Norm's is not a nation with ground troops in Iraq, yet.

[hisownpetard]

43. That's because the waitress is in the ladies; room. When she comes out, she's gonna sign up. n/t

[warren pease]

51. It's tawdry, too, but if you frequent Norm's, you're already aware of that

:toast:

wp

[hisownpetard]

53. No more free doughnuts for you, Mister! n/t

[riderinthestorm]

46. Look, Ronald Reagan said ketchup is a vegetable!

The Rethugs have already defined it and they can't just suddenly change it into a nation over St. Ronnie's grave! Put some water in the ketchup and you have instant soup which can feed a poor family of five for a week! The best kind of ketchup is the one that McDonald's gives out in small take home packets (see! even the poor get take-out food once in a while!)

[hisownpetard]

61. Must be a Republican vegetable. Remember, Nixon used to eat it with cottage cheese (blecccch!)

for lunch, while sitting in front of a blazing fire, in the summer, with the air-conditioning on
full blast, during an energy crisis.

Gotta love those crazy Repug Prezzies, right?

[donheld]

69. Look, ketchup said Ronald Reagan is a vegetable!

Turns out Ketchup was right :D

[hisownpetard]

42. Hilarious post! But you left out Pompeii...

[warren pease]

50. I was considering Herculaneum; does that count? n/t

[hisownpetard]

52. Mmmm - sure, why not? Thanks for the laugh! It really cracked me up.

[warren pease]

59. OK, Sparta -- and that's my final offer n/t

[hisownpetard]

60. All right. Fine. But don't blame me if you're red-faced once someone else thinks of

Gilligan's Island.

[warren pease]

63. OK Smarty Pants...

...I can see your knowledge of current events is a little light. Or hadn't you heard that Gilligans Island had been overrun by the very same Cuban construction squads that the mighty US kicked out of Grenada in the '80s? They had to go somewhere; they were disgraced in Cuba and couldn't return home. So they found an island that even a low-tech construction unit could conquer and evicted the former occupants. The whole damn TV crew, too.

Then they dug up Juan Peron and installed him as dictator, figuring that one dead Peron was worth at least 20 live Reagans on the global scale of murderous wingnuts.

I'm amazed you didn't know this.


wp

[hisownpetard]

66. Listen, Buster - what's more amazing than you being amazed is the idea that

you can evidently talk freely about Juan Peron, yet never once did you mention
Madonna.

Incredible. And you think MY knowledge of current events is a little light?
Oof!




Edit:sp

[eppur_se_muova]

62. "I recognize each of those words individually, but ..."

Bu**sh**'s reality pre-empts parody. Your remark reminded of a Lisa Simpson line ("Each of those words makes sense...") when referring to a sign saying "Yahoo Serious Film Festival".

[maveric]

21. Around 1970, Spiro Agnew was in Hawaii, taking questions from the press...

When he was asked about something he had to do in DC. Ole Spiro made a statement saying something like "When I get back to The United States I'll deal with it...".
This pissed off some Hawaiian Americans.

Are all repugs totally clueless?

[Blue_In_AK]

23. Not to defend old Spiro

and I don't know how Hawaiians refer to the 48 contiguous states, but we call everything other than Alaska "Outside," or, of course, "the Lower 48." And I myself have occasionally said something like "I'm going down to the States."

But even given that, we're certainly not a separate "nation." :rofl:

[semillama]

22. Is there a link to this, because in this day and age, I can't tell what's a joke anymore. n/t

[Fierce]

25. Heh. You and me both.

It sounds crazy enough to be true.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

30. It's not a joke, it's a re-description of reality into post-interdimensional status.

[hisownpetard]

44. With this administration, all of life is a joke. n/t

[KamaAina]

24. Breaking: Bush supports Hawaiian sovereignty!

Remember, we actually were a nation for most of the 19th century. Many in the islands support a return to sovereign status, in forms ranging from a "nation within a nation" similar to the status already enjoyed by 550 or so Indian tribal nations, to full independence, with the currency, the seat at the U.N., etc.

Perhaps this is why Bush** has threatened to veto the "Akaka bill" that would recognize a Hawaiian entity within the U.S. Like many hardcore sovereignty activists, he doesn't think it goes far enough!

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

What a :dunce: !

edit: when calling Bush** a :dunce: , check spelling :-)

[hisownpetard]

47. You forget, Bush is a Republican. He will veto the bill unless there's an "M" put in front of it.

[LeftishBrit]

26. Wow. How stupid can you get!

'flexibly alternative historical explanations of references in public statements and numberments.'

Is this the latest version of 'I misspoke' or 'economical with the truth'?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

49. Why do you hate the economy?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

27. "Numberments."

These are different than numbers. Numbers are numbers as such, while numberments are the brief mention of numbers in a public address which then require post-research and coalescement in order clarify and establish them as relationally applicable and situationally relevant.

[Quixote1818]

31. How about the Navajo nation?

Was it included?

[donkeyotay]

35. Before bush morphed into the Emperor, he used to mangle syllables

He doesn't seem to have much trouble dictating to us as late, but I'm guessing that he misspoke and this thread has solved the puzzle. He meant to say 3 to 6, which would appropriately include Britain, Alaska, Hawaii, Poland, Macy's and Narnia. These are the numberments.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

36. I like the way you thimk.

We're up to 71 nations, so let's just round it off to 80.

[hisownpetard]

40. WAIT, WAIT - !!!! - he meant 36 "nationals," based on a group of guys he saw hanging around

when they were setting the lights up for his midnight Twilight Zone photo op.
I think they ran the catering wagon.

[rodeodance]

45. ha ha You almost had me.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

48. If I had you 51% worth, then you qualify as a nation.

No man is an island, but a woman is a nation.

[onenote]

54. This sounds bogus. Do you have a link?

Here is a list that identifies 36 nations that doesn't include Alaska or Hawaii.

http://www.usiraqprocon.org/pop/coalitionmembers.html

additional info here: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_orbat_coalition.htm

If this was a joke, I consider myself "gotten"

[A-Schwarzenegger]

58. We are searching for a flexibly explanatory historical alternative to a link.

[bbgrunt]

55. ha ha ha ha!!!

[HowHasItComeToThis]

56. WHAT AN AWESOME GROUP

Countries with troops on ground in Iraq


1. Albania
2. Armenia
3. Austrailia
4. Azerbaijan
5. Bosnia and Herzegovina
6. Bulgaria
7. Czech Republic
8. Denmark
9. El Salvador
10. Estonia
11. Georgia
12. Japan
13. Kazakhstan
14. South Korea
15. Latvia
16. Lithuania
17. Macedonia
18. Moldova
19. Mongolia
20. Poland
21. Romania
22. Singapore
23. Slovakia
24. Ukraine
25. United Kingdom
26. Tonga

United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (Not listed are countries that are providing forces in other categories)

1. Canada
2. Fiji
3. New Zealand

NATO Training NTM-I

1. Hungary
2. Iceland
3. Italy
4. Netherlands
5. Portugal
6. Slovenia
7. Turkey

[Felinity]

57. Error: you've already recommended this thread

:rofl:

You are funny. Had me going for a while. Of course, reality as a concept has been so redefined by the Lying Thugs from the country of Heads-up-our-asses-stan, I don't know who the face in the mirror is anymore.

[Mnemosyne]

64. And don't forget

WALMART.

[BringEmOn]

65. Aryan Nation....motto: Violence Solves Everything.

http://www.aryan-nations.org/

[A-Schwarzenegger]

68. 36 plus the 47 nominated in this thread = 94

That is only a preliminary numberment.