BUSH: "Have I really been so bad?"

[lame54]

http://thenationalprotrusion.com/2008/03/25/bush-asks-history-to-preemptively-pardon-him/
Bush said from the South Lawn of the White House. “Some may say in the future, as they say now, that I have made many mistakes during my time as president. That may be true. But maybe a better way to look at it is to look at negative things I could have done, but didn’t. I never murdered anyone in the Oval Office itself, for example. I never hurt any old ladies, unless they were really getting in my face, and then I may have had a Secret Service agent do something or other. No, but what I’m trying to say is, relatively speaking, have I really been so bad?”

[El Pinko]

1. So the fact that he murdered 100,000 Iraqis is okay because they aren't in the oval office?

WTF?

[lakeguy]

2. i think you are missing

a zero in that number

[El Pinko]

4. Maybe - 100K I feel I can say with certainty.

1 mil is possible, but there is a lot of debate about that and I'd rather not go there.

[leftchick]

24. at least a million

and four million displaced. But why quibble?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/us-media-ignores-estima_b_60396.html

Yesterday a radio interviewer in South Africa asked me what had been the response of the "mainstream media in the United States" to Just Foreign Policy's ongoing estimate of the Iraqi death toll from the U.S. invasion and occupation, which on Thursday crossed the one million mark.

Sadly, I had to report that it has been ignored by mainstream media, even the wire services. But this is hardly surprising. A main motivation for constructing the web counter was to keep the "Lancet study" alive. The "Lancet study," you'll recall, was a study published last fall in the British medical journal The Lancet, which estimated that more than 600,000 Iraqis had had been killed as a result of the invasion as of July 2006. The media largely buried the Lancet study when it was published - and have largely ignored the question of the overall death toll from the U.S. invasion - so it's little surprise that they have ignored our attempt to shine a light on this question.

The Lancet study is the only existing study that uses the method accepted all over the world for estimating deaths due to large-scale violent conflict: a cluster survey. Its principal deficit for understanding the current situation is that the survey it was based on is now a year old, so that when people want to invoke the Lancet study to describe the death toll, they are likely to say, "a year ago the death toll was over 600,000" - leaving out what has happened since. Since the Lancet study is "old news," it's progressively easier to ignore it over time. It was this problem that gave us the idea of constructing an ongoing, rough update.

The tally of deaths reported in the Western media by Iraq Body Count, although it gives an inaccurate picture of the overall death toll, does have the advantage that it is regularly updated. So while the Iraq Body Count tally, by itself, doesn't help us understand the overall death toll, it does give us some information about the trend over time, because one can compare, for example, the Iraq Body Count tally today with the Iraq Body Count tally from July 2006.

[Arkana]

3. The answer, Mr. Bush, is a resounding "YES, DAMMIT!"

[tyne]

5. That has to be satire.

[benld74]

6. Does a bear SH*T in the woods?

[Uncle Joe]

14. Not if it's last name is Stearns. n/t

[calimary]

42. No kidding! In that case it shits all over wherever the hell it wants.

Good one, Uncle Joe!

DUzy-deserving!

[helderheid]

7. please tell me this is satire... he SAID THAT?

[FredStembottom]

15. Clearly "satire".

It's so ham-handed.

[fishwax]

16. check out the other headlines

"Clinton points up fighter pilot experience" and "CIA inadvertently destroys two senators"

:rofl:

Thankfully, satire :hi:

[helderheid]

27. !

:spray:

Thanks!

:hi:

[nancyr]

8. What a buffoon.

Relatively speaking, yes.

[rocktivity]

9. Rocknation: "If you will allow me to quote The Beatles, Mr. President,

YEAH, YEAH, YEAH!!!"

:headbang:
rocknation

[stellanoir]

10. never mind the overt genocide in Iraq which certainly included more than a few old ladies.

What about Katrina? No old ladies died there. Right.

Yes he's been worse than bad.

[hobbit709]

11. I wish he was ONLY that bad

The reality is much worse than that.

[Warren DeMontague]

12. Ask Larry Craig.

He'll tell you you've been a "naughty, nasty boy".

[dazzlerazzle]

13. funny satire site

Like the Onion, they lay out the stories pretty well. I like the one where Bernanke is cutting his kid's allowance.

[Richardo]

17. Would everybody please look at the link before going off the deep end?

Yes, it's satire. Very Onion-like.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

18. The arrogance of the POS that disguises itself as

* is astounding. Not only are hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead and maimed for life, but what about the 4,000 or so dead American soldiers and the thousands that are maimed for life.

He makes me sick. It's all about him, never anyone else.

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[sarge43]

19. Has to be satire

This creature doesn't give a rodent's behind about other people. Remember this creep snickered about a woman's begging for her life.

(typo)

[IntravenousDemilo]

20. Well, yes.

Here's another one that I liked, from the same page.

http://thenationalprotrusion.com/2008/03/21/bin-laden-you-will-pay-for-the-terrible-garfield-from-last-monday/

[Clear Blue Sky]

21. Don't ask a question that you don't want answered...

[rock]

22. Satire

In reality, * is not prone to understatement.

[elizfeelinggreat]

23. it sounds like him

I can see why people believe that he said it, it sounds like something he'd come up with himself.

[sarge43]

26. True.

It does sound like his standard rationalizing.

[alarimer]

25. Yes, you have.

worse than any other President AT LEAST. And probably worse than most petty dictators.

It sure sounds like something he would say.

[Blue_In_AK]

28. Never mind.

[hyphenate]

29. Yes, George, you have

But let's not forget the others who contributed to the fucking mess that is now the U.S.A.


Cheney,
Rove,
Gonzales,
Ashcroft,
Rice,
Scalia,
Alito,
Roberts,
Norquist,
Wolfowitz,
Perle,
Hannity,
Limbaugh,
Robertson,
Falwell,
Haggard,
Dobson,
Wildmon,
Coulter,
Novak,
Malkin,
Scaife-Mellon,
and every other
nasty and sleazy
politician out there,
the reporters,
the religious leaders,
the media gurus,
the millionaires,
billionaires,
and so many
others it's just
disgusting what has
happened every day for the past 7+ years.

Give us a fucking break, George,
and leave us alone. Soon.

[Octafish]

30. 'Satanic' is about as bad as it gets, Bush.

Bush Family Evil Empire.

[AzDar]

31. You were the fucking WORST.

Ever.:puke:

[Wizard777]

32. Uhhhhh

:wow: I mean, just.......dayum! :banghead:

[bdamomma]

33. OMG, this guy is really a sick SOB.

delusional beyond words. He is unfit to hold such an office. What a sick fuck.

he would never hurt old ladies??? what a sick remark is that, but he will screw the elderly and kids. He needs to be arrested. PERIOD.

[lpbk2713]

34. Dipshit.

Maybe a life sentence at hard labor might convince you.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

35. Was it necessary to post yet another satire that just pisses me off scale?

:shrug:

[riverdeep]

36. I knew it was satire because

he's engaging in self examination. His way of thinking (such as it is) says self examination is for wussies.

[The Backlash Cometh]

37. This is a joke, right?

[Brigid]

39. God, I hope so.

If not, then we're in even bigger trouble than we knew. :scared:

[rateyes]

38. No, George, you haven't been that bad.

You've been a helluva lot worse. Worst.pResident.ever.

[Jack Rabbit]

40. Gee, you mean we should think you a great president because . . .

. . . you didn't drop a nuke on Paris.

. . . you didn't put an end to social security by decree.

. . . you didn't actually crown yourself emperor.

. . . you didn't jail the political opposition, except maybe for Governor Siegelman.

[Matariki]

41. Heh - funny site. I think this should have given it away that it's parody:

Bernanke Cuts Children's Allowance .75%
Washington – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke cut the amount his children receive in ...

[eppur_se_muova]

43. It's *obviously* satire -- it would never cross Bu**sh**'s little mind to wonder. nt

[treestar]

44. Yes

Yes, Dubya, you have been so bad.

[The Gunslinger]

45. "I never murdered anyone in the Oval Office itself,"

Thats a pretty scary quote. You would just think he would say he never murdered anyone period.


Ok I just discovered it was satire. Not too far from the truth though I bet.

[lonestarnot]

46. HE even KNOWS he's a serial killer!

[uppityperson]

47. Satire, but simply answered: Yes.