"I am the commander, see? I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation."

[seafan]

2002: Bush to Bob Woodward:

"I am the commander, see?

I do not need to explain why I say things. — That's the interesting thing about being the President. — Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/11/17/60minutes/main529657.shtml


Turn around, Mr. Bush.

You owe the Congress and the American people an explanation.

Stop your cowardly darting around the globe and face the American people to account for what you have done.

You lied to the American people and their elected representatives about your justifications for invading Iraq.

You sent more than 2,050 American servicemen and women to their deaths because of this lie.

You are directly responsible for the tens of thousands of American servicemen and women who are now permanently injured and handicapped because of this lie.

You are directly responsible for the the deaths of more than 100,000 innocent Iraqi citizens because of this lie.

You are responsible for the desecration of the cradle of civilization, its ancient history, its people, its resources and its honor, because of this lie.

You are responsible for pouring hundreds of billions of Americans' dollars into a futile, illegal, aggressive invasion of another country, that will forever haunt our nation, because of this lie.

You have directly endangered America by inciting increasing numbers of terrorists worldwide, who would now set out to destroy us because of your cowardly aggression against innocent people around the world.


You turned your back on the brave people of New Orleans as they screamed for help in the toxic floods of Hurricane Katrina. That one horrific act will haunt you for eternity.

You turned your back on the families of those killed in your dirty invasion of Iraq, as they sought you out for why their loved ones died.

You turned your back on all the flag draped caskets streaming back from Iraq, in the dark of nights, and under photographic ban.

You turned your back on the voters of this country, laughing all the way to Bush v. Gore, Diebold, caging lists, voter disenfranchisement and lying about your opponents.


You turned your back on our environment, caring not a whit about preserving it for our children. You only wanted to exploit it for its riches you could steal for yourself and your friends.

You turned your back on our children, stealing the means for their education, their health care and the preservation of their homes and families.

You turned your back on our elderly citizens, cynically tampering with Social Security, Medicare benefits, prescription medicine affordability and availability when it didn't suit your pharmaceutical donors.

You turned your back on struggling middle class workers and families, seeing to it that most of the increasing financial burdens in our society are borne by them.


You turned your back on your oath of office of the President of the United States, to protect and defend us from all enemies, foreign and domestic, when you allowed those responsible for exposing the identity of a valuable American secret agent, to remain in power.

You turned your back on us when you consistently cover up investigations into terrorist acts in our country. You must be "with the terrorists", because you certainly have never been with US.

You have so tainted the high office of President of the United States that it has become unrecognizable.


We deserve answers from you. Turn around, Mr. Bush. Come and face us.

We, the people, are coming.

[LearnedHand]

1. Exactly!

Great post. Nominated.

[Karenina]

44. The visuals

[EuroObserver]

51. ROFL/Crying nice visuals n/t

:loveya:

[texpatriot2004]

2. The American people are bringing ACCOUNTABILITY and

we are bringing HELL with us too.

[madeline_con]

3. Kicked and nominated! AWESOME!!!

:kick:

[merbex]

4. Exquisite in its simple indictment and recitation of facts

Nominated

[givemebackmycountry]

5. We, the people, are coming. (and we got sticks!)

Freaking kicked and Freaking nominated BIG TIME!

[tblue37]

27. Sticks? Pitchforks and torches! (eom)

[Quakerfriend]

6. Well done!

"We, the people, are coming." I love it!

[young_at_heart]

7. Doesn't everyone need to explain themselves occasionally?

I can't imagine a person whose salary comes from the taxpayers not having to "explain" himself/herself every once-in-awhile!

[Hissyspit]

10. Totalitarians don't need to explain themselves occassionally.

His quote is the very definition of totalitarian ruler.

They don't need to explain themselves, they just need to have their power taken away from them.

[EuroObserver]

52. Just do it n/t

[Catchawave]

8. Very nice!

:toast:

[undergroundpanther]

11. Bush

Has no explanations or excuses that's why he refuses to EXPLAIN Anything to us. He thinks he is entitled to do what he wants with OUR country . He is a tyrant. And we have a constitutional duty to over throw him and the neocons and the theocracts and all the shady ugly toady people who do business with them and fund them ,give them "aid and comfort" and ally themselves with these traitors.

[alittlelark]

9. b*sh KNOWS we are coming for him.

He is craven. He will hide as long as possible then engage in some deploable act of war or domestic terrorism out of sheer desperation.

We, The People, are ready.

[Imagevision]

39. Right now Bush has no clue which way is up, especially with some

GOP'ers jumping ship on there still not being any agenda -- Bush wants to stay the course...President Johnson said those exact words about Viet Nam!

[Angry Girl]

12. Remember these quotes? "We're an Empire now...."

As an unnamed Bush official told reporter Ron Suskind, "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality--judiciously, as you will--we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." For those who didn't like it, another Bush adviser explained, "Let me clue you in. We don't care. You see, you're outnumbered two to one by folks in the big, wide middle of America, busy working people who don't read the New York Times or Washington Post or the LA Times."
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050509/alterman

[Freedom_from_Chains]

13. Busy working people

who don't have a clue as to how their country is being raped.

[AndyTiedye]

20. No, It's the Bushbots Who Are Outnumbered Almost 2-1

according to all the lastest polls.

What he would have said if he were being honest:

"Let me clue you in. We don't care. We own the news,
INCLUDING the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the LA Times.
We own the voting machinez too, so we can turn a 2-1 loss into a 2-1
win with a click of the mouse."

[EuroObserver]

53. Do it. Clue these anonymous teat-suckers in n/t

(With apologies to breast-feeders all over the world).

[nickyt]

14. He speaks like the mobster he is. Thanks for the post, a keeper. n/t

[seafan]

15. Wow, thanks, you guys!

I really think it's all coming to a thunderous head around us.

Are we ready?

[EuroObserver]

54. Enormous thunderheads building where I live

(In Catalonia) - sky-searing ligthning and fantastically torrential rains provoking occasionally lethal flash-floods...

I smell catharsis (ozone). What about you (metaphorically-speaking)?

[jwirr]

16. We are the taxpayers, see and you, bushie work for us, see.

You owe us an explanation, see?

[RobertSeattle]

17. He's so "Errorgant"...

[Garbo 2004]

18. What Geo doesn't get, the American people are his bosses, see?

The executive branch is not a dictatorship nor was ever intended to be. Hopefully Congress is finally beginning to wake up especially with elections just around the corner. What they lack in courage they make up for in pure self interest and they can read the polls too.

[Laelth]

19. Excellent.

Recommended.

You need to send that to your local paper (and every other paper you can think of, for that matter). Nice work.

-Laelth

[PretzelWarrior]

21. Ich bin der Diktator! Hören Sie auf mich!

President! YOU ANSWER TO US, you little SHIT! Get it through your head. You f*cked up and in this country that means you have to pay the price.

ACCOUNTABILITY even came to Mousselini, Hitler, and so many others.

[Burried News]

22. Commander and Chief is a trust. You betrayed the trust.

We no longer listen to you George except to build the case for impeachment.

[struggle4progress]

23. His world tour doesn't seem to be helping much. Of course, he stays ..

.. hardly anywhere more than a few hours: he's burning a lot of gas carrying his personal army around the world, just so he can get off the plane here and there, take a quick look around, say "Huh!" and leave again. I'm guessing that this sort of diplomacy isn't repairing the damage he's done so far ...

[Fridays Child]

24. May his arrogant intransigence be his downfall.

[gratuitous]

25. You don't need to explain anything, Chimpy?

Fine. Then finance and fight your own fucking war, because we're calling our sons and our daughters home.

[young_at_heart]

26. Shouldn't GOP leaders find this statement just a little "over-the-top"?

It's really hard to imagine the senators and reps thinking such a statement is perfectly OK. It makes me shudder to hear such "in your face" arrogance from a president.

[snappyturtle]

28. Exquisite! Kick and nominated! nt

[Marie26]

29. You know what's interesting?

What George Bush thinks is interesting. Let's take a couple quotes:

"I am the commander, see? I do not need to explain why I say things. — That's the interesting thing about being the President."

Post-Katrina -
"MATT LAUER: Who would take the lead in that? Would it be a military situation? Would it be homeland security?
THE PRESIDENT: It's a really interesting question, and it's one that I raised that has created a little bit of consternation among some. I have said that there may be a catastrophic event such that the federal government has got the - it's only the federal government that has got the capacity to move in quickly with a lot of resources, which would require law changes. For example, the military cannot become police without a special proclamation."

Bush on Meet the Press, 2004
"President Bush: I think that's an interesting question. Please elaborate on that a little bit. A war of choice or a war of necessity? It's a war of necessity."

1999 interview w/Gov. Bush:
QUESTION: Would Saddam Hussein outlive a second President Bush?
GOVERNOR BUSH: Very good question. Uh, I think the interesting thing -- -- um, uh -- Saddam Hussein, uh -- really did last longer than anybody envisioned. He did.


Power is interesting to him; the use of power in war, or against enemies, or to silence critics. The expansion of power is interesting to him - and really not much else. This isn't a man who is interested in English literature, or Chinese history, or astronomy. He's quickly bored by almost any topic. But power is always interesting to him - the subject keeps his attention, and the use of it is a major concern to him. I've paid attention lately, and when Bush thinks something is "interesting," it's probably a good time to start running for the hills. And it's quotes like this that really make me see how Bush could want to have absolute power. It interests him.

[Olney Blue]

48. Interesting post!

:toast:

[EuroObserver]

56. Alexander the Great n/t

Hahahahaha

[Marie26]

58. Well actually...

You might think you're kidding, but Bush was reading a big serious book while he was vactioning in Crawford this summer. The title? "Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar" by Edvard Radzinsky. I kid you not.

[laugle]

30. That creature is one sick, sociopathic,

murderous criminal.

But of course this is no surprise since he bascially THUMBED HIS NOSE AT THE WHOLE FRICKEN PLANET!!

He is soooo hated around the world, but you wait, the devil will get his do.......of this I have no doubt.......divine arrogance beyond belief!

[Clarkie1]

31. Nice one. nominated. eom

[chat_noir]

32. "I'm the person that gets to decide, not you." - Bush

http://www.the-gnosis.com/bush/bush-decidesnotyou.wav




"No, that's your question." - Bush blowing off a reporter

http://www.the-gnosis.com/bush/page3.htm

There is a video of this as well. Can't find it.

Arrogant little bastard.

[ComerPerro]

33. I remember that quote, and I wish I had seen it more in 2004

[HughBeaumont]

34. Gotta love the stench of a dying empire in the morning

"Just study what we do", huh? Didn't the Romans once say something along those lines? The Nazis?

[burythehatchet]

35. That line will forever be in my memory

the "see, I'm the preznit". The other one is when a reporter called him "Sir" instead of Mr. President, dim bulb responded "You know who you're talkin to?"

[No Exit]

36. Excellent post! Memo to Junior: have your mommy read you

the stories of some past KINGS and how they met their fates.

[sofa king]

37. Since he's channeling Edward G. Robinson...

Maybe he should try this quote on for size:

You'd give your left arm to nail me wouldn't you? I could see the headlines now, 'Local Deputy Captures Johnny Rocco'. Your picture'd be in all the papers. You might even get to tell on the newsreels how you pulled if off, yeah. Listen hick, I was too much for any big city police force to handle. It took the United States Government to pin a rap on me. And they won't make it stick. You hick, I'll be back pulling strings to get guys elected mayor and governor before you get a ten buck raise.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040506/quotes

[Imagevision]

38. Bush is living in the past - that shit doesn't fly anymore!

I believe Bush will be impeached sometime next year after we win back one or both of the houses.

It's only appropriate for a character like Bush, so many dead for a moron!

[Clyde39]

40. Is there a psychological profile of what this statement means?

It just sounds so weird!

[understandinglife]

41. "It IS Tribunal Time in the United States of America."

Peace.

[Imagevision]

45. Bush shouldn't be impeached he should be indicted for treason!

Stay the course? -- that's what Johnson said about Viet Nam --To spread democracy and freedom? -- and farm out more contracts to Haliburton as US. troops get picked off daily, for what? this is insanity from an insane president.

[donkeyotay]

42. That covers it

:toast:
Kicked, nonimated, emailed, printed... Thank you seafan!

[Miss Chybil]

43. "We, the people, are coming."

Amen. Amen. Amen.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

46. Anybody, except

for the people that you're supposed to be serving Mr Chuckle Nuts.

[AirAmFan]

47. Spoken just like a mobster in a 30s gangster movie. The "see?"

at the end of the sentence is the giveaway, reminiscent of Edward G. Robinson as 'Little Caesar (1931)'.

[Olney Blue]

49. Indeed, we are coming.

[EuroObserver]

57. ...All over the world (en todo el mundo):

[Lefty48197]

50. GWB, just leave.

you're not doing anybody any good.

[pstans]

55. That statement goes right along with Lakoff's Strict Father thinking

Republcians believe in the Strict Father thinking, while Democrats believe in the Nurturant Parent thinking. That quote by Bu$h is right on with the Strict Father thinking. He is the strict father, so he can abuse his spouse, rape his children, and no one should say anything abou it.