1. "The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th, and that's why what happens in Iraq matters to the security here at home."
Oh right, I thought the tirrirrisss (terrorists) were Saudi, but I guess they were Iraqi. Surely we wouldn't move the largest American defense contractor to Dubai if that was true.
2. "Because of the actions we've taken, al-Qaida is weaker today than they would have been." - Yesterday when asked about the new threat assessment from U.S. counterterrorism analysts saying al-Qaida has used its safe haven along the Afghan-Pakistan border to restore operating capabilities to a level unseen since the months before Sept. 11, 2001 - but of course, that assessment was based on a "gut feeling."
3. On planning somehow to leave Iraq... "It would mean that we'd be risking mass killings on a horrific scale."
4. On Congress' vote to pull troops out by April '08 "I don't think Congress ought to be running the war." Let's see, he doesn't decide what happens with the war, that's for the generals on the ground But I thought he was the decider? Doesn't the military report to the Commander in Chief or is he like Dick's office and no longer a part of the executive branch?
5. "I believe we can succeed in Iraq and I know we must." - Again, yesterday. WTF?!? Succeed??? He lied to us about going there in the first place! LIED! And the talk is of victory and success? At what cost and for what end? It's mass murder...it never should have been a war in the first place.
6. I love Helen Thomas...I also love catching Bush in a lie...
Q Mr. President, you started this war, a war of your choosing, and you can end it alone, today, at this point -- bring in peacekeepers, U.N. peacekeepers. Two million Iraqis have fled their country as refugees. Two million more are displaced. Thousands and thousands are dead. Don't you understand, you brought the al Qaeda into Iraq.
THE PRESIDENT: Actually, I was hoping to solve the Iraqi issue diplomatically. That's why I went to the United Nations and worked with the United Nations Security Council, which unanimously passed a resolution that said disclose, disarm or face serious consequences. That was the message, the clear message to Saddam Hussein. He chose the course.
The fun part about this is that inspectors WERE there and Hussein DID let them in and they reported back that there was no evidence of anything to disarm. Obviously, Saddam was not put to death for WMDs or for not complying with orders to disarm himself of weapons he did not have. He was killed as a result of a weapon he used in the 80s against a rebellion. That weapon was indirectly provided by the US. Note image below - December, 1983
Anybody pissed yet?
