The Lunatic in Chief - that BBC interview with Bush - video and transcript

[malaise]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7245670.stm
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Frei: Can you honestly say, Mr President, that today America still occupies the moral high ground?

Mr Bush: Absolutely - absolutely. We believe in human rights and human dignity. We believe in the human condition. We believe in freedom. And we're willing to take the lead. We're willing to ask nations to do hard things. We're willing to accept responsibilities. And - yeah, no question in my mind. It's a nation that's a force for good. And history will judge - the decisions made during this period of time as necessary decisions. And I believe that we are laying the foundation for peace. People have written off the Middle East. It's impossible to change the conditions there. Let's just ignore it. Or let's promote stability, which was part of the foreign policy of the past. I chose a different course. Stability didn't work. Stability created the conditions that were right for these terrorists to emerge and recruit. I happen to believe free societies provide hope. And I would hope that people in Europe, for example, understand that freedom has led to peace, and ought to be supporting the freedom movements and not shy away from the responsibility of the comfortable to help those who long for freedom. And it's hard work.

----------The BBC news reporter played this excerpt up to '...and we're willing to take the lead' a few minutes ago and then added Mr. Bush has 48 weeks left in office..the question is who is willing to follow. I was spitting coffee with laughter. :rofl:

[chelsea0011]

1. "stability didn't work"? I think somehwere in his brain he was searching for

the phrase "staus quo"? Stability? As Martha says,"that's a good thing".

[malaise]

2. Bush in incoherent

Psychiatrists will study video tapes of this lunatic speaking for centuries to come

[bluerum]

3. Only in the sense that the tapes present classic delusional ramblings.

[malaise]

4. Precisely for that reason n/t

[PA Democrat]

5. The same thing jumped out at me. I guess chaos is SOOOO much better, huh?

[malaise]

6. All the same Frei let him get away with that

I would have asked him how many Iraqis had been slaughtered in the name of his so called peace aka chaos.

[PA Democrat]

7. Friedman has a long-standing habit of engaging in delusional optimism.

He absolutely REFUSES to realistically look at the down-side of any issue he supports. I read From Beirut to Jerusalem years ago and remember thinking that I would like some of whatever drug he took that enabled him to see the Israel/ Palestine conflict in such a rosy light. I was not surprised when he saw the invasion of Iraq as such a golden opportunity. He has a fatal habit (fatal for the innocent people involved) of refusing to see the negatives in ANY policy he supports.