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Bush: "My administration is not to blame for Iraq ... Why? Cuz you voted for me!!!"
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| occrider |
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Bush Says Voters Ratified Iraq Policy
Sat Jan 15,11:25 PM ET
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WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) says there is no need to hold anyone in his administration accountable for what has happened in Iraq (news - web sites) because the voters have already spoken.
"We had an accountability moment, and that's called the 2004 elections," Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post for Sunday's editions. "The American people listened to different assessments made about what was taking place in Iraq, and they looked at the two candidates, and chose me."
In the interview, conducted Friday aboard Air Force One, Bush set no schedule for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq and said he will not ask Congress to expand the size of the National Guard or regular Army.
The session with the Post was one of a series of media interviews the president has held leading up to his inauguration to a second term on Thursday.
Bush said he will not press for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and has no plans to cut benefits for the approximately 40 percent of Social Security (news - web sites) recipients who collect monthly disability and survivor payments.
He urged Americans to be patient as Iraq moves toward creating a democratic nation in place of a dictatorship.
"On a complicated matter such as removing a dictator from power and trying to help achieve democracy, sometimes the unexpected will happen, both good and bad," he said. "I am realistic about how quickly a society that has been dominated by a tyrant can become a democracy ... I am more patient than some."
He declined to second recent remarks by Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) that troop levels in Iraq could be reduced this year.
"The sooner the Iraqis are ... better prepared, better equipped to fight, the sooner our troops can start coming home," he said.
Rather than propose an expansion of the National Guard and regular army, the president said, "What we're going to do is make sure that the missions of the National Guard and the reserves closely dovetail with active army units, so that the pressure ... is eased."
Bush said he was pleased with the pursuit of Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), blamed for the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. "I will be more pleased when he's brought to justice, and I think he will be," he said.
He acknowledged that U.S. standing has diminished in the eyes of some countries and said he has asked Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites), his nominee to replace Powell, to launch a diplomacy campaign that "explains our motives and explains our intentions."
He predicted most Muslims will eventually see America as a beacon of freedom and democracy, but said: "There's no question we've got to continue to do a better job of explaining what America is all about."
The Post reported that after saying in the interview he probably would not lobby for passage of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, White House spokesman Scott McClellan telephoned the paper on Saturday to say the president wanted to clarify his position.
The spokesman said Bush was "willing to spend political capital" but believes it will be virtually impossible to overcome Senate resistance until the courts render a verdict on the Defense of Marriage Act that attempts to block gay marriage by federal statute rather than a constitutional amendment.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm.../bush_interview
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In other news, Milosevic acquitted due to the love and adoration of the Serbs, and Hitler's justification for WW2 has been reaffirmed by solid approval ratings of the German people.
/Accountability lives on in the Bush administration |
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| ResonantDrag |
funny, i had i dream about that last night. but in my dream i was in an internment camp when he gave his speach.
thank god it was just a dream. |
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| Fir3start3r |
| quote: | Originally posted by occrider
In other news, Milosevic acquitted due to the love and adoration of the Serbs, and Hitler's justification for WW2 has been reaffirmed by solid approval ratings of the German people.
/Accountability lives on in the Bush administration |
Ahhh yes..the ole' Bush is a Nazi arguement...*sigh
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| zig |
"We had an accountability moment,and thats called the 2004 elections"
Definatly the best line in the interview...aaww the fleeting moment of accountability..hehe..ye right |
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| Dervish |
| It's a bit like saying I let the horse out of the stable but since your scared about losing the horse you don't want to change the farm hand. So in conclusion just so long as the mistakes I make are so bad they make you scared then my mistakes are ok :happy2: . |
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| josh4 |
| I think hes right. The American people voted for him, the American people are to blame. |
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| Dervish |
What your saying is slightly differnt to the origonal post (about voting for him rather than, revoting for him). But anyway no way, what about this?
BUSH: "I want to premitively start WW3 by blowing up the USSR(intentional btw). It it goes arse over tit it's your fault... you voted for me." |
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| josh4 |
Yeah that's what I meant, revoted. The first time around was a little different because the cercimstances changed after he was already in office. But the second time around, we damn well knew what we were getting into. Ignorance is never an excuse anyways.
Besides, if this is such a horrible war that only the Bush Administration is to blame for and the American people are just being pulled along for the ride against their will, then that is even worse. Damn to hell a population of my country men that would allow such to be done to them. Where are the riots? Where are the marches on Washington? Where are the END WAR NOW signs? There aren't any. We're turning a blind ear to the war, even becoming bored of hearing about it. Shrugging our shoulders at the rest of the world and saying "sorry, nothing we can do, hes the boss" is an atrocity. |
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| Dervish |
| To be honest I wouldn't even say the war was that bad......... the management of the war however maybe called into question. But even the it's a big operation. |
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| josh4 |
| Well I agree there. If people want to point fingers then specifying management would probably stick. |
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| wolverine16 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fir3start3r
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:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:
I think that Occrider's point wasn't meant to compare Bush to Hitler, it was to show that using the Bush administration's argument, you could essentially justify more extreme cases as well as being the fault of the citizens for voting their leaders in, rather than the leaders holding any accountablitiy.
That comic is the first time I've ever heard an accusation that the left deny the Holocaust, especialy considring there's so many Jewish Democrats. What kind of drugs were the cartoonists on who did that? |
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| Dervish |
| quote: | | Originally posted by wolverine16 What kind of drugs were the cartoonists on who did that? |
Good ones...... :toothless |
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