Playing Politics With National Security A Bush-Cheney Specialty

[WillyT]

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." -- President George W. Bush, Aug. 5, 2004.

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DETROIT -- Sure it was a gaffe. He made a mistake and, if it were anyone else, we would just chuckle a bit and move on. But this quintessential Bushism, the political inversion of the Hippocratic Oath of physicians -- "First, do no harm" -- is the finest summation of his presidency ever uttered.

President George W. Bush fell into this lapse at a signing ceremony for the $417 billion defense spending bill. Flanked by the unflinching Field Marshall Rumsfeld, no one in Bush's audience of Pentagon politicians, military brass and White House staffers reacted, a tribute to the disciplined automatons the president feels comfortable surrounding himself with. He, of course, didn't have a clue and kept on reading. When Jay Leno showed the clip to his "Tonight Show" audience, people roared.

And...

Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney never hesitated in inflating, tailoring and distorting any information that would support their bogus claims of Saddam Hussein's weapons, his imminent threat to the United States and his alleged ties to al-Qaida. George W. and his terror alerts harm the national psyche but benefit his political fortunes.

You have to wonder whether Karl Rove has a little button on his desk, next to the "Collected Sermons of Rev. Bob Jones Sr.," that he presses every time he feels his boy's poll numbers need a jolt and a little "Orange Alert" might help. I don't put anything past these swine.

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Link: http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/gallagher175.html

Woo, Hoo!!! Tell It, Brother Gallagher!!!

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[WillyT]

1. *tap, tap, tap* Hello.... Is This Thing Working ???

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[WillyT]

2. Guess Not...

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[DeepModem Mom]

3. Yep, they are not only shameless, they put us all at risk...

and care nothing, really, for our country and its people.

[Bandit]

4. Even if we take his statement as he actually meant it

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
He is basically saying we never stop thinking of ways to harm their country and their people. I can get over the "harm our country" part as a slip but the entire jist of the statement is horrifying. I believe it is a true statement as well. With these thugs in power that is exactly how it is. We never stop thinking about how we can harm people instead of helping people like Americans for example.