Oops! Chimpy admits that Nov. 2003 trip to Baghdad was fake.

[MilesColtrane]

Just like the turkey he was serving up.

"Asked by an ABC reporter whether he thought Iraq was roiled by civil war, Bush said, "It's hard for me living in this beautiful White House to give you an assessment, a first hand assessment. I haven't been there. You have, I haven't."

http://www.rawstory.com//news/2007/Bush_says_Iran_supplying_weapons_to_0214.html

Alternate explanation: The trip was real, but he drank away the memory of it.

[malaise]

1. I haven't been there. You have, I haven't."

Does KO know this?

[Midlodemocrat]

3. My first thought. This has to go to KO.

[MilesColtrane]

11. I'm relatively new here.

Who or what is KO?

[Nothing Without Hope]

14. KO = Keith Olbermann, one of the few voices for truth on TV n/t

[MilesColtrane]

15. Of course...

Don't know why the initials didn't snap. Maybe cause I don't have cable, and only get to watch him when somebody posts it.

[Blue Belle]

47. I hear ya, Miles...

When I first started blogging here, I had a problem with the abbreviations and acronyms too - hell, I still do. Perhaps we are all just too busy and important to actually type out words anymore. :)

[malaise]

27. AKA Knock Out

since he knocks out Bush as effectively as DUers reached that 'KO' findraising drive :D

[myrna minx]

45. Hello MilesColtrane.

Here is a link to our DU glossary, which may help with some of the shorthand that's used here. :hi:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_oet&address=358x190

[allalone]

2. that was my first thought

Hey I thought you went there. You said you did. You wouldn't lie, would ya George?

[CrazyOrangeCat]

4. I like the alternate explanation.

The guy is clearly stoned out of his mind most of the time. He probably has no memory of it at all.

[twilight_sailing]

7. "Not neccessarily stoned but...

beautiful." Jimi Hendrix

[semillama]

12. "Not necessarily beautiful but...

MUTATED!" Devo

[intaglio]

44. Hey it's a disease

Scooter has it too

[Kadie]

5. oh jeez...

You are probably correct with your explanation...

Alternate explanation: The trip was real, but he drank away the memory of it.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

6. The snideness of the retort is disgusting!

And he says shit like this in public... :wtf:

[unblock]

8. in all fairness, i'm sure he meant "recently"

then again, as i said in another thread, f@$k that noise. they don't deserve fairness.

[Oilwellian]

9. What are you trying to tell us George?

The fake turkey scene wasn't real? :rofl:

[terisan]

10. Does Bush use a double--like they told us Saddam Hussein did? n/t

[smomfr]

49. I see a perfect double of bush every time I check ......

my hemorrhoids with a mirror.

[sakabatou]

13. Anythgng else, *, that you want to admit that was fake?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

22. You mean like an election or two?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

31. It could have been the video equivalent of photoshopping

After Katrina, I saw some supposed footage of him in a displaced persons' center, and what struck me was that while the center was full of people, everyone in the background was totally ignoring his entourage.

Now that was just unnatural. There should have been people clamoring to get close to him, either to cheer or, more likely, to curse. But just walking non-chalantly behind him and not even looking?

No way.

Remember that when Oprah Winfrey visited one of those centers, the whole place erupted in cheers within seconds.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

33. I remember several instances of fakery during the Katrina fiasco

I believe that about 50 firefighters were called up allegedly to work on the disaster, but Bush officials wouldn't put them to work. Instead, they were assigned to follow Bush around to his photo-ops and pose behind him in firefighter's garb while Bush rolled up his sleeves, mussed his hair and removed his tie to look like he was working. And I think Bush's photo-op on the outskirts of New Orleans was like a movie set, with earth moving equipment brought in to look like it was being used but actually consisting of props for another Bush drama. And then there's his phoney ranch which allegedly has fake movie set buildings near the entrance and might as well be on the set of Paramount pictures.

[niyad]

35. anybody here remember, or, better yet, HAVE--that picture of him with all those soldiers--only it

turns out the whole thing was photoshopped--the same guys were shown over and over.

[KansDem]

51. This one?

Daily Kos

[KansDem]

52. He has (or his handlers have) used this technique before. Remember these?

From 2000
FIRST THE AUTOPEN, NOW THE AUTOPHOTO

Looks Like Our First Illegitimate President Is Now Using Illegitimate Pictures Of Himself
Why do pictures of Bush and his nominees, taken on various days, look the same--exactly the same. It happened with photographs of Bush with nominees Condi Rice, Al Gonzalez, Ann Veneman, Christine Todd Whitman, and Paul O'Neil. Same exact look, different days, different newspapers. Inquiring reporters want to know. We've been told that Bush plans to have others do his work for him while he sleeps, does photo-ops, and makes decisions that only the President can make on the basis of uninformed whims and prejudices, but is he planning to even streamline his photo-ops so he'll have more sleep time to cover his ADD symptoms? There must be an explanation, but it may not be pretty. Cardboard cutout? Robot? --Politex, 12/27/00 MORE

http://www.bushwatch.com/bushdec30.htm">Bush Watch

I'd almost forgotten about this! Thanks for reminding me...:hi:


edited to correct subject/verb agreement

[rebel with a cause]

37. the sock in the flight suit?

B-) It's late/early (whichever way you want to look at it) and I am trying to keep my mind off the way I feel. So my humor goes to the dirty or dark side. In this case it is both the dirty and dark side. :puke:

[knitter4democracy]

46. Poor sock.

:(

[sabra]

16. "I never met Jack Abramoff" "I never made the Saddam-911 connection"

[Marr]

17. You mean he FORGOT the troops?! What a disrespectful traitor!!!

I mean really- how do you suppose such a memory loss would be described if the person doing the forgetting was named Gore, Dean, Obama, etc.?

[ohioINC]

19. What a beautiful turkey

I wasn't there but I do remember how perfect the turkey that he served was. He must have meant that he has not been there since the insurgency became a civil war.

[Usrename]

36. Gobble, gobble.

[wizstars]

41. Which one's the plastic turkey?

The one on the platter roasted to a golden brown, or the one wearing the jacket?

[Hubert Flottz]

18. Another tax cut for the Have Mores would help the troops!

Ask George if you don't believe me!

[magellan]

20. "Selective Memory and a Dishonest Doctrine"

Noam Chomsky
The Toronto Star, December 21, 2003

All people who have any concern for human rights, justice and integrity should be overjoyed by the capture of Saddam Hussein, and should be awaiting a fair trial for him by an international tribunal.

An indictment of Saddam's atrocities would include not only his slaughter and gassing of Kurds in 1988 but also, rather crucially, his massacre of the Shiite rebels who might have overthrown him in 1991.

At the time, Washington and its allies held the "strikingly unanimous view (that) whatever the sins of the Iraqi leader, he offered the West and the region a better hope for his country's stability than did those who have suffered his repression," reported Alan Cowell in the New York Times.

Last December, Jack Straw, Britain's foreign secretary, released a dossier of Saddam's crimes drawn almost entirely from the period of firm U.S.-British support of Saddam.

With the usual display of moral integrity, Straw's report and Washington's reaction overlooked that
support.

more.... http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20031222.htm

[Richard Steele]

21. One more example of his complete UNFITNESS for office. Recommended.

[Felinity]

23. I have another take on it.

Since when does the Chimp in Chief have to personally visit a war zone to make an assessment? How could he not have an opinion of whether Iraq is experiencing a civil war? And what about that general who said, (paraphrase)'It's not really a civil war, it's way more complex and WORSE than standard civil war.

I am so confused, when did * stop listening to the Generals?

:sarcasm:

[dennisnyc]

24. He is so like his mother! Remember that she's not interested in

bothering her beautiful mind with the thought of our dead in Iraq.

I'll look for the real quote...

here we go:

Former First Lady Barbara Bush said of the war in Iraq: "Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"

[progressoid]

25. Ok, that's creepy on a few levels.

Is it the usual Bush inability to express himself?

or

Does he even remember that he's been to Baghdad?

or

Did his brain just mush his memories of the whirlwind trips there with his usual photo-ops and think he was at Edwards AFB?

or

Did he, in a moment of amazing lucidity, realize that he is so insulated from reality, that he discounted his experiences there as a sham?

NOT!

[Initech]

26. So if he was lying about that, who knows what else he was lying about?

[demrabble]

28. Everything

Q: How can you tell when Bush is lying?

A: When his lips are moving.

[malaise]

30. Bush has lied about everything

Everyfucking thing. I'm tempted to call him Sealy :D

[JohnyCanuck]

29. Maybe Dubya's trip to Iraq with the plastic turkey

was filmed in the same studio Nasa used to film the moon landing :rofl:

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

32. What a weird quote

Did it sound better in context? It just sounds awful the way it's stated.

[Glimmer of Hope]

34. It did not sound better in context. It was one of his weird random statements.

[pinniped]

38. They filmed monkeyboy's fake trip in the same studio the fake moon landing was shot.

.

[leveymg]

39. Plastic turkey memory failure

[Bobbie Jo]

40. This man has told so many lies...

He can't keep them straight. I'm surprised he doesn't screw them up on a daily basis. :eyes:

[Canuckistanian]

42. So he finally admits he's an elitist, out of touch with reality

"It's hard for me living in this beautiful White House to give you an assessment...."

[dogday]

43. I don't bother my beautiful mind in the beautiful White House

I just keep feeding you as much bullshit as you will take... That is all....

[erpowers]

48. He Went

He went to Iraq, but did not leave the base where he landed. In addition, even though many in the media have always pointed out that the trip to and from Iraq lasted 24 hours or longer the media fails to give one bit of information. Bush's time in Iraq only lasted about 2 and a half hours. furthermore, most of that time was spent talking to Iraq offficials. I heard one report that claimed that Bush only spent a few minutes with the troops.

[Carni]

50. He's so stupid he probably has no clue eom

[samsingh]

53. what an absolute idiot

[Ikonoklast]

54. Actually, Bush was in a war zone, and this picture proves it

Closest thing to real action this coward ever saw. Gave him nightmares for years.