Bush Press Conference on now: "Over 230 million to Lebanon"

[Solly Mack]

"so school kids can start school on time this fall" (Yes, he really said that)

Aid to Israel
Team to clean up oil slick

More details in my other postings below in thread.

[goclark]

1. cube rat ~ details please

[Solly Mack]

6. See my post below for more details

[Breeze54]

101. Here's the video of the press conference

http://www.cspan.org/

RECENT PROGRAMS >> President Bush Press Conference on International Issues (8/21/2006)

[Solly Mack]

102. Thank you!!!!!!

[Breeze54]

103. No problem...it's playing very well on dial up too!

No rebuffering!! yeah!! ;)


IMPEACH BUSH.....NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :grr:
What a total moronic idiot!!!!

[wakeme2008]

2. How much to Israel to buy more bombs

:grr:

[Solly Mack]

5. He didn't say

[Nimrod2005]

18. They don't pay, we gift them the missiles...Your tax dollars in action...

[Kahuna]

3. Did he say, "....they want to live in fear...????"

:wtf:

[Solly Mack]

4. Taking questions...some remarks by Bush

Speaking on Iraq - "commanders on the ground" meaningless, too often repeated answer to everything

addressing civil war in Iraq..."Iraqis want an unified country...I hear a lot of talk about civil war...Iraqi people showing incredible courage...USA must understand it's in our interests that democracy in Iraq succeed... a failed Iraq will make America less secure"

"interesting debate we're having in America about Iraq"

[Nimrod2005]

8. That's what I call admitting defeat...Good to see!!!

Failed policy!!! He need to come out immediately, if not sooner....lol.

[DemReadingDU]

7. Bush seems frustrated and upset that

he has to keep explaining why we are still in Iraq

[Nimrod2005]

10. lol...Yes, he needs to answer to the people, no kings in America!!!

[Atman]

9. He starts a sentence, forgets what he was saying, makes the rest up.

It is stunning to watch. He begins to answer a question, and when it occurs to him that he's lost and doesn't have an answer, he falls back to the old "these insurgents are people who will do anything to stop the growing democracy!" He is just freakin' clueless.


This has been your Obvious Post Of The Day. Thank you very much.

[Kahuna]

11. Oh oh. He's starting to lose it..

:popcorn:

edited to spell "lose" correctly. Oops!

[Kahuna]

14. Now doing a Ross Perot with Helen Thomas.."let me finish...

let me finish, let me finish, let me finiah. :rofl: Had the nerve to say the loss of life bothered him. Gee I wish I had recorded this. :rofl:

[WinkyDink]

106. I repeat myself: Bush NEVER says "death" or "dead". It is ALWAYS

"loss of life", to subliminally suggest "life" is just another object to lose, like car-keys.

And if it DID "bother" him, I can believe that is true---because there hasn't been ENOUGH DEAD YET to SATE him.
Bush always says what he means.

[Supersedeas]

107. he wants more car keys from other people??

[peekaloo]

12. He's a rambling man.

hilarious and disturbing

[Kahuna]

24. Scarborough should be good tonight. Topic: CERTIFIED! Bush IS an idiot!!

:rofl:

[babylonsister]

13. He has nothing of substance to say, so hopes he can entertain.

I wish the journalists wouldn't laugh! They just encourage him! :mad:

[Solly Mack]

17. Exactly!!! The laughing undermines and covers for the problems

[SammyWinstonJack]

45. Maybe they're laughing at him and not with him? Of course, he

would never understand that. :evilgrin: He's The Great Entertainer!

[Solly Mack]

15. "Hezbollah rockets are a clarifying moment so the world can see

the threat to the world"

"Iran is 'part' of the problem"

"Imagine if Iran has a nuclear weapon"

"Will remind friends and allies the danger of a nuclear Iran"

"Failed states in ME are direct threats to America" (He means Iraq, Iran and Lebanon)

Asking Helen Thomas question

Helen asking - Israeli bombs that destroyed Lebanon and why does Bush always give Israel a pass

Bush says "the damage to innocent life that bothers me" - "this would have never happened had Hezbollah not launched attacks on a sovereign nation" (Hello!!! Iraq was a sovereign nation too)...time ot address root cause...a government within a government"

[Nimrod2005]

16. Will Lebanon get anti aircraft missiles to down Israeli planes

when they break ceasefire? did he say?

[librechik]

19. we ain't leavin as long as AHM prezident!

jeez

[babylonsister]

20. Yeah, we're really helping Iraq succeed. What a stubborn coot! nt

[debbierlus]

21. Bush = NUTS. I am SO sick of this lunatic....Giggle, giggle

Laugh....Chuckle goes the press.

SICK.

Nothing is funny.

Oh....he just said we aren't leaving Iraq as long as he is President....

Gross.

He is on a rant. He is Doozy Bots certifiable nuts.

Terrorist will follow us here, if we leave Iraq....

Good lord.

Sorry for the rant.

[babylonsister]

22. He's fucking delusional! LISTEN to the retired guys, you asshat! nt

[Solly Mack]

23. "we're not leaving as long as I'm President"

sounds like a dare to me...get rid of the war criminal!!!

"I agree with Gen Abizaid - we leave before mission is accomplished the terrorists will follow us to America"

"If I didn't think it would work, I would change my....the commanders strategy"

"The reason I decide (to stay in Iraq) is because that's what the Iraqi people want" "They want out help"

He's flustered by the way and agitated with people asking about pulling out of Iraq

[WinkyDink]

108. "...I would change my....the commanders strategy"

Bush NEVER changes his decisions, NEVER. And that is why he was PSYCHOLOGICALLY INCAPABLE of completing his original locution.

"Fool me twice.....won't get fooled again."

I learned a lot from "Bush on the Couch".

[Solly Mack]

111. His slip of "my ...the commanders strategy" shows his favorite talking

point of saying "I listen to the commanders on the ground" (on whether or not to withdraw) is bunk. Bush makes that decision regardless of anything those commanders on the ground say

He can blame the commanders for lying to him later when the truth is, he doesn't listen to them

just another case of getting "bad intel" and how can it be Bush's fault if the so-called pro's are giving him bad intelligence. And we've seen how he uses that bullshit lie (WMD).


For a man that likes to boast he surrounds himself with smart people, he sure does get a lot of "bad intel" from these smart people

[Mandate My Ass]

25. I had to stop watching

terrorists hate freedom

can't fail in Iraq, stay the course

robust security plan

sovereign nation

Israel must defend itself

Hezbollah wreaking havoc

must not embolden freedom-hating terrists

:grr:

[Solly Mack]

27. That pretty much sums it up

[Mandate My Ass]

32. and the constant giggling and trying to make jokes

he is so insufferable. The extremely high death count has him all giggly.

[wellstone dem]

26. The interchange with Helen Thomas was embarassing

He got so caught up with trying to make smart comebacks that he could not remember the question. The giggles from the press as he makes his stupid comments are also distracting from taking advantage of this chance to question the prez.

[Nimrod2005]

29. Did they laugh at him? I am not watching.They laughed becasue he is dumb?

[wellstone dem]

33. It was mostly just a few giggles or chuckles

either they are embarassed by him or they were laughing politely, at least that's my take.

[librechik]

37. they laughed because he tries to turn everything into a joke

he's uncomfortable with people and has nothing, so of course he's nervous and defensive.

[babylonsister]

28. Diplomacy can be frustrating? Does he even know the meaning

of the word?

[Kahuna]

Uh oh. He's doing the hula jaw thingy..

:rofl:

[debbierlus]

35. Just caught that......

He truly looks like a broken man.....

I have no sympathy whatsoever for him...just noting that he looks beaten down and crazier then ever.

[peekaloo]

30. good lord. chastising those who "thumb their noses at the UNSC.

:eyes:

[Solly Mack]

34. I know! The mind wobbles

[berner59]

36. Irony..........

Didn't HE thumb his nose at them when they voted AGAINST going into IRAQ????

OH MY GOD!!! Somebody call him on this...but no...they'll be all polite...what crap!!

[Solly Mack]

31. Question on Iran/"enrichment" program

"In order for the UN to effective there must be consequences for ignoring the security council"

(Hello!!! war crimes!!!!!!...is it ok for the UN to ignore America's war crimes? Guess they are effective if they ignore those)

[Solly Mack]

38. "defeat ideology in long term is with competing ideology"

Bush brings culture wars to the Middle East, in other words

[debbierlus]

39. Government responds to the will of the people...Yeah, right Mr. Bush

Appointed President who never won an election....

You care NOTHING about the people of America or ANY nation on earth.

You lying S.O.B.

God, I can't wait until you are gone.

[MoonRiver]

40. "War is not a time of joy."

:wtf: :crazy:

[WinkyDink]

109. "Are those WMD's under HERE? Nope!"

[Solly Mack]

41. "the iraqis will see to it that they succeed and we will help them"

"wars are not a time of joy" (yeah? then why does he giggle and laugh all the time when speaking about war?"

[babylonsister]

42. "Straining the psyche of our country". No, dimson, you're doing that. nt

[wellstone dem]

43. OMG

"Sometimes I'm frustrated
Sometimes I'm angry
Sometimes I'm happy."
Everyone thinks WTH

Then very presidentially, "But these are not joyous times."

[WinkyDink]

110. "...these are not joyous times."

Tell us about it.

[Solly Mack]

44. Question on not supporting a cease fire

do you demand that a peace keeping force disarm Hezbollah

Bush "1559, not enforced.... why we have this situation to begin with.... get rules of engagement clear.... so peace keeping force will be robust....over time Hezbollah will disarm"

(got that? "over time")

"...security zone created between lebanaon and israel"

[debbierlus]

53. Summary of press conference

Lie, distort, deny, manipulate, distract, rant, babble....

GROSS

[Solly Mack]

57. Yep...the usual

[wellstone dem]

46. Pardons wtf

Do you consider yourself stingy on granting pardons?

Don't have the criteria in front of me.

[debbierlus]

47. Anyone else ready to toss their cookies - Bush talking about democracy

How can they listen to this idiot, and take him seriously?

WTF?

He says NOTHING coherent.

Security zones.

Peace through war.

SURREAL.

[radfringe]

93. I'm at work, no boob-tube to watch him -- but

I'm ready to toss my cookies just reading about it

[Solly Mack]

48. asking about his philosophy on presidential pardons

"don't have strict criteria (for pardoning)"

[wellstone dem]

49. gas prices

I've been talking about gas prices ever since they got high. It's like a hidden tax, not hidden, taking money out of people's pocket. All the more reason to diversify. encouraged hybrids, ethanol, asked for congress to pass for requlatory relief so we can build more refinerys. dependency on crude oil affects us here at home. Need to diversify.

[debbierlus]

50. Oil Czar talking about gas prices....

Talking about his 'strategy'....

Diversifying away from crude oil....

The man has no shame.

GROSS.

[debbierlus]

51. Take awhile to recover from Katrina....We are STILL finding BODIES

In poor neighborhoods....

Unbelievable.

[Solly Mack]

52. Question on gas prices and people's frustration & Katrina

"we pass law that encourage through different purchasing habits...buy hybrids get a tax credit...we have asked Congress to pass regulatory relief...to take off the price.."

One year anniversary of Katrina...what have you done to help in the last year

"I made a promise to help the people there to recover...and they have to understand that it will take a while to recover...but it takes money...and the government has given 110 billion...and a lot of that went out the door to people for immediate help...we gave 1.8 billion to education and that money went out the door...we spent money on flood insurance...we got 17 billion dollars for direct housing grants..."

[WinkyDink]

112. they have to understand ~~~~A FAVORITE Bushco locution.

[babylonsister]

54. Seems to be throwing all responsibility for Katrina back on the

states, washing the govt's hands. Quelle surprise.

[Solly Mack]

55. "each state has a plan for hurricane recovery" - still on Katrina

"we are working and trying to be flexible with the rules we have to work with " (katrina recovery)

[WinkyDink]

113. AKA---"We are working to federalize the National Guards."

THAT is the plan.

[wellstone dem]

56. Katrina

first thing that is needed is money, 110 billion, a lot went out the door to help people adjust, and then there is rental assistance, infrastructure, Louisiana is slower than Mississippi. The money is available to remove that debree. 1.8 for ed. Schools are running, a lot are. Spending money on flood insurance. More work to be done. 17 billion for direct housing for people. I made the decision that each state should develop it's own plan. Same in Mississippi. I thought it best to have local plan. Each state developed its own plan. Area where people will see the most affect is CDBG. Was concerned at first about what would be appropriated, think $ is a strong commitment.

[babylonsister]

58. He's winding down; he's not even convinced about Iraq. He sounds

defeated to me. Chaos in Iraq would be 'very unsettling'? :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

[Neshanic]

59. Why not just put a tape recorder up there. "Leaving ..bla ...bla..."

[babylonsister]

61. That's about right. NO ONE is believing his tired old crap anymore. nt

[Lone_Star_Dem]

60. More hollow promises of aid? He must have thought it was a year ago.

I'd love to be able to remind him that of all the promises he made to the people who survived Katrina. I didn't see it but I'm willing to bet he wasn't called on those broken promises.

He better be careful what he promises to people. This time when he reneges they might just chase him with more than a FEMA trailer.

[Solly Mack]

62. on N. Korea and lack of involvement in 6 party talks/ Cheney remarks

"We are very much involved in the 6 party talks"

On Cheney - linking Democrats to terrorists if Democrats are elected

Bush stutters and stumbles and says "it's a honest debate" (leaving Iraq and how that will cause terrorists to come to the US) and that talking about electing Democrats who want to leave Iraq means the terrorists win

"I would never criticize the patriotism of those who want to leave Iraq"

"The courts opinion on NSA was a terrible mistake...and those who heralding the decision don't see the world the way we do" (you can say that one again Chucklenuts - I for damn sure don't see the world the way you do))

[Neshanic]

Meltdown starting...

[Solly Mack]

67. It is...he's stuttering, stumbling and getting pissed

[Neshanic]

70. Attacks dressing habits of reporter. His take on style.

[City Lights]

86. I caught that too.

Seersucker is back in. Or something like that. What an ass. Then his adoring fans crack-up laughing. :puke:

[rman]

63. A fraction of the yearly financial aid to Israel;

a couple of Billion/year.

[babylonsister]

64. Gettin' a bit strident there; and anti-war Dems are wrong, doncha know. nt

[City Lights]

65. The "Democrat" party?

Phuc yourself, asshole, and get a fuckin' clue!

[Solly Mack]

66. Back on Iraq: "We would lose our soul as a nation if we didn't

help those who desire to live in freedom"

(I guess torture doesn't cost America her soul)

[babylonsister]

68. Terra terra terra! Our enemies will be here if we're not in Iraq. Jeeze.

Who made them our enemies, Il Dunce?

[Occulus]

69. Our blood should be boiling

There is NO reason for Lebanon OR Israel to continue getting a dime from us.

Aren't our own schools falling apart?

Why can't I afford to go to college?

Why can't any of my coworkers- federal employees, all- afford an education on what they make?

Look, I'm trying very hard not to seem isolationist, but.... why the hell are we giving these places so much fucking cash? It seems, lately, that we're spending far more money on other nations that don't deserve it one little bit than we are on our own country. And people (even here) cheer it.

YAY for Israel! Let's throw some money to help 'em out!

YAY for Lebanon! Let's get the kids to school on time!

While we scatter residents of NOLA to the four winds, and do everything possible to see to it they're permenantly displaced. While our own schools fall apart. While our own borders and the security at those borders functions as well as a seive. And on and fucking on.......

:grr:

[Solly Mack]

71. He's pissed. LOL

Hates being questioned on leaving Iraq

[Neshanic]

72. Especially when his pet monkey got spanked in election.

[graywarrior]

73. He's spitting pissed.

[Solly Mack]

74. Now trying to joke about getting pissed and claiming "he's old"

and the reporters just need to let him finish his answers

"Tax cuts (to the wealthy) works and stimulates the economy"

[graywarrior]

75. This is SNL, right?

[Neshanic]

76. NOBODY can write comedy like this...

[Solly Mack]

77. "Presidents care if people support their policies" to the question

do you care if people like your policies or doe sit even matter what the people think

Bush uses terror to answer "people want quick results...but terror is real...people want us to succeed in Iraq...never heard me say, gosh I need to change positions because the polls say this...I'm going to do what I think is right and if people don't like me for it, then that's just the way it is"

back to fearmongering..."imagine a world where saddam hussein has nukes..."

[City Lights]

78. I HATE the White House Press Corpse.

Except for a few.

Ugh, it sickens me that they laugh at his lame jokes. :puke:

So many have died because of his policies, but they sit there and laugh. :argh:

[Supersedeas]

114. My sentiment exactly -- there is no seriousness about their job or the

WAR or the situation that this country is in.

It is all just a game to this pathetic shills.

[Solly Mack]

79. "Terrorists attacked us and killed 3000 of our citizens!"

[Solly Mack]

82. Bush "Nothing" to question, "what did iraq have to do w/ 911?"

and "we never tried to say they did"

[babylonsister]

80. Freedom Agenda?? Ask the Iraqis about that, and the widows. nt

[Neshanic]

88. "Absolutely you're coming back!" Riiiiight.

[graywarrior]

81. Holy shit, the Iraq question fucked him up!

[Solly Mack]

84. Yeah it did! LMAO

[Kahuna]

87. Rattled him so bad he's ending the conference.

:rofl:

[Kahuna]

83. Bingo! A reporter just asked the 64K question. The problems

you say would happen if we leave Iraq, would likely not be a problem if you had never gone to Iraq. Jr. blahs blahs about WMDs, freedom. Reporter asks, what does Iraq have to do with 9/11? Jr. says, what? Then blathers about freedom blah blah blah. This reporter rawks.

[librechik]

85. Did everybody else just see that?NAILED ON IRAQ 9/11!

that reporter needs a medal!

[Solly Mack]

89. It was great! Got him flustered then BAM!

[Neshanic]

91. That was excellent....from his own lips.

[Kahuna]

92. That's right! Sadly, * and cheney are right. If we leave Iraq now

the terrorists probably will follow us over here. But if we had never attacked Iraq and stirred up and created more terrorists, this wouldn't be an issue.

[leesa]

100. Do you hear yourself?? Why would you believe such nonsense?

If a terrorists has some desire to come here and do something, there is nothing to stop them. It is doubtful they would however because it means some Muslim country gets its ass kicked as punishment.

[Subdivisions]

117. I think that if the US and

Israel would quit trying to impose themselves and their policies on these people with differing cultures and beliefs than those of the West, they'd keep to themselves and there is no reason to think that they wouldn't take full advantage of the UN in handling differences by diplomacy, rather than terror.

[Kahuna]

119. Because I believe it's true. I do believe that some insurgents will

be freed up from fighting us over there and join up with Al Qaeda. If you don't believe it that's your right. But don't you dare lecture me like I'm five years old.

Think about us genious. The invasion certainly did create more terrorists. Right? Right. They are very happy to set roadside bombs to kill our servicepeople over there. So what if we leave? Do you think all will be forgiven or that some of them will find their way over here to continue the fight? Try not to be so certain and close-minded. REmember, Al Qaeda used to actually be our allies until we gave them reasons to be otherwise. Same thingt applies now.

[WinkyDink]

116. Now the United States of America is a frickin' MOUSE

in the face of some Islamic peasants?

For some reason, we and our Allies weathered the Red Brigades, Baader-Meinhof, Black September, the Weathermen, Symbionese Liberation Army, Timothy McVeigh, and various and sundry attacks~~~without waging a WAR on SOVEREIGN nations.

What? Bush is going to rid the world of MURDER? HE IS NUTS. CERTIFIABLY INSANE. He thinks he's GOD.

[Dinger]

104. Martha Radatz?

I don't knolw if Martha was the one, but I did notice him going off the deep end when she asked her question, but I missed her question.

[librechik]

120. no, it was some guy after martha--it was Ken Herman of Cox News

he did the follow up too ("What does iraq have to do with 9/11?")

[butterfly77]

121. She is always on his ass and she always asks the right ..

questions she goes back and forth to iraq.

[librechik]

90. BAM!~ and he's outa there!

[graywarrior]

94. He's purging in the men's room.

[Neshanic]

95. Tweets doing damage control with replaceable blond head softballs.

[Solly Mack]

98. and explaining why the reasons for going in don't matter -that it's

about leaving behind a failed state now

grrrrr

[WinkyDink]

118. How conVEEEEEnient!

[Nikki Stone 1]

96. ANd a shitload of loan guarantees to Israel

Lots of taxpayer money for Chimpy's war....

[Solly Mack]

97. Thank you everyone!!!!!

for being here! :)

[Nimrod2005]

99. Thank you Solly...

[LSK]

105. so you can be sure 1% of it might actually to get to Lebanon

Or none of it. Whenever * says something, believe the opposite!

[Subdivisions]

115. Quest just asked Malveaux

about the weinie's testiness and she spun it like a top. Sheesh!

[Dinger]

122. Can't Stand That Bitch, or That Blond Skeleton-Faced Woman,

dana ba$h.

[ComerPerro]

123. So now its BushCo policy to give money to states that endorse terrorism?

Not that I agree with that assessment of Lebanon, but isn't that what conservatives always say?

So, using their logic, why would we give money to Lebanon?