HEADLINE: Bush Says Learning to Read Can Help Stop Terror

[Bluebear]

I recommend My Pet Goat and three Shakespeares to start.


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NEW YORK, NY September 18, 2006 —Fighting terrorism and fighting illiteracy, the agendas of President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush merged today at an event at the New York Public Library.

REPORTER: Speaking at the White House conference on Global Literacy, the president says nations will never defeat terrorism unless their citizens can read.

BUSH: Good trade agreements and tearing down the barriers that prevent people from free flow of goods will help enhance prosperty, but you can't be a prosperous nation if you don't have people who can read.

REPORTER: The president is in town until Wednesday; he'll address the UN's general assembly tomorrow. Hear the speech tomorrow on WNYC.

http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/64362

[JHB]

1. Then he should have learned to read BEFORE Sept. 11, 2001!

n/t

[arcane1]

2. "Bin Laden determined to strike the US"

read THAT, motherfucker!!!!!!! :grr::mad::grr:

[Bluebear]

3. Sing it. nt

[Rex]

5. Nice!

Yeah! Read THAT you fucking war criminal!

[MessiahRp]

4. So we've gone from "Reading is Fundamental"

to "Reading stops Islamic Fundamentalists".... right.

Bush should learn to read first. Then he can bitch about literacy.

Rp

[AspenRose]

13. "Is our children learning?"

Maybe he could start with scrapping that DREADFUL No Child's Behind's Left and teach OUR kids in THIS country to read, for a change....

[Virginia Dare]

6. He's like a trained seal...

somebody's probably back stage throwing treats to him every time he says the word "terrorism".

[MindPilot]

7. I hate to say it, but he's right.

A literate person can read Bertrand Russell & Nietzsche, study science and realize that absolute faith in an imaginary friend is a problem. Atheism is the most effective cure for religious terrorism, and literacy is the first step.

[etherealtruth]

15. Very true

Ah, if only the Chimp had learned to read.

[verse18]

8. No wonder * has done such a piss-poor job.

[Mandate My Ass]

9. He's pimping Neil's worthless "educational software"

which everyone with half a brain has figured out is a safe way of filling the Bush family coffers without appearing to do so.

[Botany]

10. he beenz reading rite good

K-moo
and
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

736 pages :rofl:

[shain from kane]

11. What about those terrorists that read the Koran, and decided to attack us?

Well, how do you answer that?
Another theory shot to hell.

[QuestionAll...]

12. Then read this asshole:

Turn yourself into the authorities right now.
They'll be a lot less terrorism in the world.

thankyou.

[RandiRhodesArchives]

14. And this from someone who can't read!

But somehow read 60 BOOKS on his vacation! Didn't anyone point out to him that BOOKS ON TAPE do NOT count??????

[napi21]

16. He's probably right. So when is he going to start learning???

It sure seems to me that his brain waves just don't function fast enough to comprehend ANYTHING. I don't know if there's a cure for that!

[LTR]

17. Does that include "The Fart Book"?

http://dir.salon.com/story/books/int/2004/09/14/kelley/index.html