Think Progress: "Bush: If I Were Iraqi, I’d Be Saying, ‘God, I Love Freedom’"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Bush: If I Were Iraqi, I’d Be Saying, ‘God, I Love Freedom’



http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/07/bush-iraq-freedom/

This afternoon, President Bush held a joint press conference with French President Nicholas Sarkozy. A reporter asked Bush where he stood “on Iraq and your domestic debate on Iraq,” and whether he had a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops. In response, Bush insisted that “freedom’s happening” and Iraq isn’t in a “quagmire”:

I don’t — you know quagmire is an interesting word. If you lived in Iraq and had lived under a tyranny, you’d be saying: God, I love freedom, because that’s what’s happened.

And there are killers and radicals and murderers who kill the innocent to stop the advance of freedom. But freedom’s happening in Iraq. And we’re making progress.

In June, Gen. David Petraeus said that U.S. troops had been in Iraq “long enough to become liberators again,” echoing Vice President Cheney’s infamous pre-war prediction that the United States would “be greeted as liberators.”

Almost five years, 3857 U.S. troop deaths, and more than 76,000 Iraqi civilian deaths later, Bush can’t figure out why Iraqis aren’t jumping around rejoicing in their freedom. (Maybe it’s because they’ve all left the country.)

[liberal N proud]

1. I doubt they would call their current situation freedom

[SpiralHawk]

2. Put down those drugs and pretzels, Mr. AWOL Bush

And try for once in your life to get a grip on reality

[jimshoes]

3. Does anyone actually believe

anything this guy says anymore?:crazy:

[HughBeaumont]

4. Most Iraqis are too busy dodging bullets, explosives and mortars to say that, asshole.

Isn't there ANY way we can get rid of the Failure Fuhrer?

[Vickers]

5. He is easily the most dangerous doofus in history.

I mean, really...‘God, I Love Freedom.'

:wtf:

[NMMNG]

6. He's really lost his grip on reality

If he ever had one. :crazy: