Bush Diplomacy: IRANIANS ARE "ASSHOLES"

[kpete]

Bush: Iranians Are ‘Assholes

While serving as CentCom commander between March 2007 and March 2008, Adm. William Fallon consistently pressed the Bush administration for more engagement with Iran and criticized the calls for another war. “This constant drumbeat of conflict is what strikes me which is not helpful and not useful,” Fallon told al Jazeera last year.

In his new book “The War Within,” Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward details a telling White House meeting on Iran in spring 2007 (p. 334):

“I think we need to do something to get engaged with these guys,” Fallon said. Iraq shared a 900-mile border with Iran, and he needed guidance and a strategy for dealing with the Iranians.

“Well,” Bush said, “these are assholes.”

Fallon was stunned. Declaring them “assholes” was not a strategy. Lots of words and ideas were thrown around at the meeting, especially about the Iranian leaders. They were bad, evil, out of touch with their people. But no one offered a real approach

more at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/11/bush-iran-assholes/

[KansDem]

1. Yeah, welcome to the United States of America Junior High...

Like, you know...wow!

[marylanddem]

2. Well, they don't call him Dumya for nothing.

[ElboRuum]

3. The sphincter calling the anus a rectum.

They're assholes, huh?

That's your foreign policy, Mr. Bush? They're assholes?

Jesus H. Fucking Christ on a Fucking Pu-Pu Platter. THIS is why you don't let some remedial Richie Rich at the controls of the ship of state.

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. Well bu$h should be an authority on assholes since he is one.

Or is he simply using the repug tool of projection?