how dare Bush call our recent disasters "distractions"

[dajoki]

i'd like him to answer how many American lives are a "distraction"?
how many poor and homeless people are a "distraction"?
he needs to be called on this because he is the true "distraction".
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NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/07/politics/07prexy.html?th&emc=th

10 Plots Foiled Since Sept. 11, Bush Declares
By DAVID E. SANGER
Published: October 7, 2005

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A senior White House official said Thursday evening that the president's 40-minute speech arose from Mr. Bush's desire to remind Americans, after "a lot of distractions" in recent months, that the country was still under threat, and had no choice but to remain in Iraq so Al Qaeda did not use it as a base to train for attacks on the United States and its allies.

<<snip>>

Mr. Bush's warnings about the need for renewed American attention to "this global struggle," and the release of information on past plots that the White House had previously been reluctant to discuss on security grounds, comes at a moment of heightened criticism of the president's handling of the Iraq war and the broader effort against terrorism. It also comes as he is trying to heal fractures in his own party about his selection of a nominee for the Supreme Court, and as he has faced complaints about the government's response to Hurricane Katrina.

A poll released by CBS News on Thursday evening indicated that Mr. Bush's approval rating had dropped to 37 percent, and that disapproval of his handling of terrorism was at an all-time high.

Democrats were quick to answer Mr. Bush, saying that he was gliding past major errors of tactics and strategy in Iraq, and that Al Qaeda began operating there only after the American invasion.

[chelsea0011]

1. I cringed when I read that in the NYT.

[Mist]

2. They prefer the distractions to be orchestrated by them. How dare

those hurricanes infringe on their right to create distractions?

[PatrioticLeftie]

3. He's a heartless bastard

What do you expect?

[dajoki]

7. you think he could fake it...

no because he's to damn stupid, and his underlings are too afraid to open their mouths.

[Arkansas Granny]

13. It's hard to fake something you have never felt, like compassion.

[Neocondriac]

4. He's being honest...

That's all they are to him. His base unaffected. No harm-no foul.

[dajoki]

17. for the first time in his life n/t

[colbushwhacker_2000]

5. The "dimson" is a fuckin idiot

..and needs to be removed from office ...we must win the Congressional elections next year and the begin the impeachment of this crazy fucker..

[txaslftist]

6. That's all they are to him.

Bummers that break up his vacations and his PNAC dreams...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Terror is a distraction from real life or else the terrorists have won.

Since Bush believes real life is a distraction from his terra fixation, he has capitulated to the terrorists. In fact he has gone so far that he is a terrorist. He has brought more terror to the middle east than there ever was and he has dropped a lot of it from the sky or driven it in on humvees. If he were a real president, the Abu Ghraib buck and the rest of them would stop on his desk.

[dajoki]

9. the place wouldn't...

be such a mess if we never went in. yet * claims we can't leave because it will be a breeding ground for terrorists, WELL HE MADE IT THAT WAY!!

[IntravenousDemilo]

10. They WERE distractions, though not in the way * meant.

They were meant to distract the American public and media from his government's criminal activity -- sleight of hand, and so much patter.

[dajoki]

11. and the mess in iraq and afghanistan n/t

[bigbrother05]

12. Said the same thing about

Osama Bin Laden. he was a distraction. Same speil covers so many topics.

[dajoki]

15. from "wanted...

dead or alive" to a distraction.

[win_in_06]

14. This from the "Compassionate Conservative"

[dajoki]

16. one of many phony slogans n/t