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Bush comes clean...

demon

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Interesting post on Al Jazeera:

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Leaving before we complete our mission would create a terrorist state in the heart of the Middle East, a country with huge oil reserves that the terrorist network would be willing to use to extract economic pain from those of us who believe in freedom," Bush said at a fundraising event for the Republican candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, former football star Lynn Swann.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7EA5C385-98E4-47B8-83A9-86A73782E2A0.htm

Wow! Eventually, George came up clean on the reasons for the occupation of Iraq.

It's very easy to see where his reasoning is going. As he already accused Iran of being a "terrorist state", and being the case that the country has "huge oil reserves", shouldn't it be bombed to rubble and occupied by the Marines to prevent it from "extracting economic pain from us who believe in freedom"?

But what does "complete our mission" mean? What mission is he referring to?
 
It was all about oil. I was there at the project kickoff meeting. We got coffee mugs that look like oil barrels.
 
Not unlike killing your parents so you can go to the orphan's picnic ....

Charlie (off to Iran to find WMD's) Monoxide
 
demon said:
Interesting post on Al Jazeera:

quote:
Leaving before we complete our mission would create a terrorist state in the heart of the Middle East, a country with huge oil reserves that the terrorist network would be willing to use to extract economic pain from those of us who believe in freedom," Bush said at a fundraising event for the Republican candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, former football star Lynn Swann.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7EA5C385-98E4-47B8-83A9-86A73782E2A0.htm
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Dumbya saying he is a believer in freedom is like Osama Bin Laden saying he is a secularist.
 
Grammatron said:
Terrorism? How nefarius.
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Yes, terrorism nefarious. But fighting it is not the US mission there. It's simply the policy du jour onto which right-wing useful idiots have latched themselves.
 
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Tony said:
Dumbya saying he is a believer in freedom is like Osama Bin Laden saying he is a secularist.
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He didn't specify who he believed ought to have freedom, though.

Even Chairman Mao was strongly in favor of freedom. For Chairman Mao.
 
TragicMonkey said:
He didn't specify who he believed ought to have freedom, though.

Even Chairman Mao was strongly in favor of freedom. For Chairman Mao.
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Good point. The "freedom" for "those of us" he's talking about who the terrorists will "extract economic pain from" are clearly people like Bush, his cronies and his gaggle of corporatist buddies. He's certainly not talking about the American people.
 
Tony said:
Good point. The "freedom" for "those of us" he's talking about who the terrorists will "extract economic pain from" are clearly people like Bush, his cronies and his gaggle of corporatist buddies. He's certainly not talking about the American people.
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Don't be so cynical!

You really think Bush includes his cronies and buddies in the freedom circle? I figured it would just be him, and the cooler of his stuffed animals. The bear, the rabbit, and the Snoopy. But not the plush piglet. It looks too much like Cheney. Unnerving.
 
TragicMonkey:
"You really think Bush includes his cronies and buddies in the freedom circle? I figured it would just be him, and the cooler of his stuffed animals. The bear, the rabbit, and the Snoopy."

Goats too, I hear.
 
demon said:
Interesting post on Al Jazeera:

quote:
Leaving before we complete our mission would create a terrorist state in the heart of the Middle East, a country with huge oil reserves that the terrorist network would be willing to use to extract economic pain from those of us who believe in freedom," Bush said at a fundraising event for the Republican candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, former football star Lynn Swann.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7EA5C385-98E4-47B8-83A9-86A73782E2A0.htm

Wow! Eventually, George came up clean on the reasons for the occupation of Iraq.
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No, saying that you want to protect a resource from an enemy is not the same as saying that you went to war for that resource.

It's very easy to see where his reasoning is going. As he already accused Iran of being a "terrorist state", and being the case that the country has "huge oil reserves", shouldn't it be bombed to rubble and occupied by the Marines to prevent it from "extracting economic pain from us who believe in freedom"?

But what does "complete our mission" mean? What mission is he referring to?
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What history do you base this on? Iraq has not been bombed to rubble, at least not by US forces. Besides, you have yet to prove the first case to show some kind of trend.

The entire speech is here if you would like to read it in context.
 
Your are going out of the thread frames.

Can I ask you some indecent question?
I hope you'll forgive me for it.

What have you obtianed from the invasion in Iraq? More freedom or cheaper gas? IMO Dead people is a too huge price for it.

I mean if your government wanted simply to eliminate terrorists it would never bomb civilian blocks.
 
I didn't obtain anything.

But then, it wasn't my idea, or my decision.
I didn't vote for him.
 
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