Condi & O'Reilly: "safer than we were on 9/11 but we’re not yet safe"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,127847,00.html



CONDOLEEZZA RICE, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: Well, Americans should know that, as the president has said many times, the Al Qaeda network has been hurt, but not hurt badly enough to the point that they can’t attack again. This country is safer than we were on 9/11 but we’re not yet safe.

And there is no doubt that we have been receiving over the last really several weeks a lot of information that Al Qaeda might try and make an attack prior to the U.S. election. That information had been out before.

But what happened over the last few days is that that information has become more specific as to place and that is why Tom Ridge felt it necessary yesterday to go out and talk about rather the specific targets in New York and in New Jersey and in Washington, D.C.

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RICE: Well, Bill, I believe that Americans understand that anything worth doing is sometimes difficult. And it requires sacrifice. But this president is not one who just, when the going gets tough, decides that, well, we’re just going to give up. What we’re going to do is we’re going to stay the course. Iraqis every day are taking more and more responsibilities. They have a good interim government in place. They’re moving toward elections. This Iraqi government will hold elections. And the American people will have a good democratic partner in Iraq that will be stable and that will not be threat to this region. Because after all, to have Saddam Hussein, this terrible tyrant who used weapons of mass destruction, cavorted with terrorists, we’d gone to war against him before, that was a threat that you could not leave; the most dangerous man in the middle of the world’s most dangerous region.

[goclark]

1. Kissy Kissy

What a bitch. She can lie with real words vs. Bush who can not make a complete sentence.

That is why she is so dangerous.

The will both look wonderful at the Hague.

[erpowers]

2. What Bugs Me about This

We cannot be safer if we are not safe. It just does not make sense in the American language. We must be safe in order to be safer. Therefore, if we are not safe we are not safer.

[KharmaTrain]

6. I Keep Hearing "Safer"...Safer Than What?

Safer than last week, last month, a year ago? Surely we're not safer in this country than we were prior to 12/1/2000...and we're sure not getting safer with Bunnypants as a walking recruitment poster for all sorts of terrorist groups. This double-speak has gotta stop.

Yep, there's a major threat to our national security...we even isolated it to where they could attack...which just happens to be where we're holding our big drinkie-drinkie party and don't want no long-haired librul commies messing things up...it is so dangerous we had to raise the terror alert to Ernie Orange...but that's ok, brave Mrs. Pickles Stepford walked bravely right into one of those targets...sheesh. Safer? I feel a lot safer when I'm watching them in the dock in the Hague, too.

[Walt Starr]

3. It's the Chewbacca Defense!

OH NO, THEY ARE USING THE CHEWBACCA DEFENSE!!!

"Ladies and gentlemen of the supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider: (pulling down a diagram of Chewie) this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now, think about that. That does not make sense! (jury looks shocked)

Why would a Wookiee -- an eight foot tall Wookiee -- want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!

But more importantly, you have to ask yourself: what does that have to do with this case? (calmly) Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense!

Look at me, I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense.

And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the Emancipation Proclamation... does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense.

If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests."

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. Of course. It makes perfect sense............. Here's exhibit A:

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4. Cavorting with terrorists?!?

Well, I hope he had a good time.