War on Iraq
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War with Iraq
Dubya had actually been planning to go after Saddam Hussein for years. As a matter of fact, almost two years before the Pentagon/WTC attacks, George gave an interview to the BBC in November 1999 which laid out his plans for his father's antagonist during the Gulf War:
REPORTER:
Would Saddam Hussein outlive a second President Bush?
GOVERNOR BUSH:
[Laughs] Very good question. Uh, I think the interesting thing -- [laughs] -- um, uh -- Saddam Hussein, uh -- really did last longer than anybody envisioned. He did.
REPORTER:
Including your father.
GOVERNOR BUSH:
Including my father, absolutely right.[...]My father made the right decision, though.
REPORTER:
To end the war when he did?
GOVERNOR BUSH:
Yeah, he did. For several reasons. One: the military commanders on the ground said we've accomplished our --
REPORTER:
Not all of them.
GOVERNOR BUSH:
Most of 'em. The ones that counted did. The ones that had the President's ear. I'm sure maybe there are some now trying to rewrite history. Secondly, the mission, as clearly stated by the President, was to free Kuwait. And Kuwait was free. And thirdly, the coalition that had been put together -- so adeptly by a great foreign leader, I might add -- would have fallen apart.
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No one envisioned Saddam, at least at that point in history, no one envisioned him still standing. It's time to finish the task.
Aside from providing a convenient pretext, the invasion had little or nothing to do with the 9-11 attacks. Bush's motive was strictly personal. Saddam Hussein had attempted to assassinate his father. Or, as he put it: "After all, this is the guy that tried to kill my dad at one time."
at present
Now that Iraq has been conquered and everybody's forgotten about the administration's ties to the Enron scandal, life in Washington has returned to normal. Bush is spending more and more time on his ranch in Crawford while Vice President Cheney and others manage day-to-day operations.
And although Dubya is gearing up for the 2004 campaign cycle, you can bet he's spending more and more time thinking about how he's going to snag the commissioner's post in major league baseball. Now there's a job a guy could really sink his teeth into.
Divinity
Aug 1999
During a campaign appearance in New Orleans, presidential candidate George W Bush expresses doubts about teaching evolution in schools: "I believe children ought to be exposed to different theories about how the world started."
Sep 2000
George W Bush tells a George magazine interviewer: "I've heard the call. I believe God wants me to run for President."
4 Jun 2003
Palestinian Prime Minister Abu Mazen meets with President George W Bush at a summit in Aqaba, Jordan. According to an article in the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, Bush informs Mazen: "God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."
2 Nov 2003
According to an article in the London Observer, then-governor George W Bush told Fort Worth, Texas televangelist James Robison in 2000: "I feel like God wants me to run for President. I can't explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen[...] I know it won't be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it."
9 Jul 2004
While meeting with a group of 60 Old Order Amish at the Lapp Electric Service offices in Smoketown, Pennsylvania, President George W Bush declares: "I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job."
9 Oct 2004
CNN airs an interview with First Lady Laura Bush, in which she denies reports of the President's divine commission: "You know, it's just a very important part of our life. My husband has never said -- I think this is some extrapolation from his critics, maybe -- that he felt like he was called to this. He's never said such a thing."
Valerie Plame leak
7 Oct 2003
President George W Bush, regarding the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity to Robert Novak: "I don't know if we're going to find out the senior administration official. I don't have any idea."
9 Oct 2003
G. Gordon Liddy on President George W Bush's attitude toward the Valerie Plame scandal: "I don't think he wants to find out who did the leaking."
3 Jun 2004
Regarding the Valerie Plame leak, President Bush declares: "I've told our administration that we'll fully cooperate with their investigation. I want to know the truth, and I'm willing to cooperate myself."
Saddam Hussein
2 Dec 1999
During a debate in New Hampshire, presidential candidate George W Bush declares: "If I found in any way, shape or form that he ( Saddam Hussein) was developing weapons of mass destruction, I'd take 'em out. I'm surprised he's still there." Asked if that meant he would overthrow Saddam, Bush clarified: "The weapons of mass destruction."
22 Feb 2001
During his first press conference, President George W Bush declares: "The Secretary of State is going to go listen to our allies as to how best to effect a policy, the primary goal of which will be to say to Saddam Hussein: we won't tolerate you developing weapons of mass destruction and we expect you to leave your neighbors alone."
7 Aug 2001
President George W Bush declares: "He's ( Saddam Hussein) been a menace forever, and we will do -- he needs to open his country up for inspection, so we can see whether or not he's developing weapons of mass destruction."
26 Sep 2002
President George W Bush explains to a Texas audience that although Saddam Hussein poses a threat to many countries, America has first dibs. "There's no doubt his hatred is mainly directed at us. There's no doubt he can't stand us. After all, this is the guy that tried to kill my dad at one time."
7 Oct 2002
During a speech in Cincinnati, President George W Bush declares: "Iraq could decide on any given day to provide a biological or chemical weapon to a terrorist group or individual terrorists."
14 Oct 2002
During a speech in Dearborn, Michigan, President George W Bush declares that Saddam Hussein maintains active ties to al Qaeda: "This is a man that we know has had connections with al Qaeda. This is a man who, in my judgment, would like to use al Qaeda as a forward army."
7 Nov 2002
During a press conference, President George W Bush declares: "Some people say, 'Oh, we must leave Saddam alone, otherwise, if we did something against him, he might attack us.' Well, if we don't do something he might attack us, and he might attack us with a more serious weapon. The man is a threat... He's a threat because he is dealing with al Qaeda... And we're going to deal with him."
8 Feb 2003
During a radio address, President George W Bush declares: "We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons - the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have."
6 Mar 2003
During his second press conference in two years, President George W Bush declares: " Saddam Hussein and his weapons are a direct threat to this country, to our people, and to all free people.... I will not leave the American people at the mercy of the Iraqi dictator and his weapons."
17 Mar 2003
During an address to the nation, President George W Bush declares: "We cannot live under the threat of blackmail. The terrorist threat to America and the world will be diminished the moment that Saddam Hussein is disarmed."
17 Mar 2003
During an address to the nation, President George W Bush declares: "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised."
19 Mar 2003
During an address to the nation, President George W Bush declares: "The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder."
10 Apr 2003
In a message to the Iraqi people, President George W Bush declares: "The goals of our coalition are clear and limited. We will end a brutal regime, whose aggression and weapons of mass destruction make it a unique threat to the world."
24 Apr 2003
President George W Bush declares: "We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will find them."
30 May 2003
President George W Bush remarks on Polish TV: "We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories... we’ve so far discovered two. And we’ll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven’t found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they’re wrong, we found them."
17 Sep 2003
President George W Bush: "No, we've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th."
24 Mar 2004
At the annual Radio and Television News Correspondents Association dinner, President George W Bush shows slides of himself searching clumsily behind furniture in the Oval Office, joking: "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere [...] nope, no weapons over there [...] maybe under here?"
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What the freaking hell is wrong with this man? agh. Just makes me want to barf... I never thought I would see a man who would put himself before the world and the welfare of this country.
How can somebody actually support Bush? Don't say it's because of religion. BS. Kerry is also against gay marriage, he unlike Bush isn't trying to change the CONSTIUTION because of it. Kerry isn't the person who I would pick for president, but he is surly the lesser of the two evils. Oh and by the way, any one who says that they are a Republican, and that they love the president and all his "excllence" better be able to defend it better then "religion" or "because my parents support him". It good to follow your parents, unless they are wrong. If some one can give me 1 GOOD reason, with FACTS to back up their love of President Bush, then I would Surly LOVE to see it. So far, no one has succeded to show me anything good. All they can show me is opinions, No facts. I value everyones opinions, but they will not sway my own. People. Just open your eyes, you have been so brainwashed it's not even sain anymore. War, Terrorism, it's all a bunch of Horse shit. If you want to go over their in Iraq and fight, due to the damn draft, then why don't you go and sign up for the army in the first place. Looking at the state of this country is an extream travisty. It saddens me to know that all of this shit is going on and no one cares. The all are like Bush rocks. agh. How to make you people SEE?! What about North Korea? They are actually more of a threat to us then Iraq will ever be. What about them? Why aren't we over there? killing 37,000 of their civilians? one word. OIL. nothing else. Bush you freaking son of a bitch. you with your constant shit. War on Iraq? More like war on oil, with a personal battle thrown in. agh! If Bush gets re-elected it is the first sure sign that the world is ending. I wonder if my parents will send me back to India... I can live there, I love india... agh. whatever.
-Sarah*
War with Iraq
Dubya had actually been planning to go after Saddam Hussein for years. As a matter of fact, almost two years before the Pentagon/WTC attacks, George gave an interview to the BBC in November 1999 which laid out his plans for his father's antagonist during the Gulf War:
REPORTER:
Would Saddam Hussein outlive a second President Bush?
GOVERNOR BUSH:
[Laughs] Very good question. Uh, I think the interesting thing -- [laughs] -- um, uh -- Saddam Hussein, uh -- really did last longer than anybody envisioned. He did.
REPORTER:
Including your father.
GOVERNOR BUSH:
Including my father, absolutely right.[...]My father made the right decision, though.
REPORTER:
To end the war when he did?
GOVERNOR BUSH:
Yeah, he did. For several reasons. One: the military commanders on the ground said we've accomplished our --
REPORTER:
Not all of them.
GOVERNOR BUSH:
Most of 'em. The ones that counted did. The ones that had the President's ear. I'm sure maybe there are some now trying to rewrite history. Secondly, the mission, as clearly stated by the President, was to free Kuwait. And Kuwait was free. And thirdly, the coalition that had been put together -- so adeptly by a great foreign leader, I might add -- would have fallen apart.
-->
No one envisioned Saddam, at least at that point in history, no one envisioned him still standing. It's time to finish the task.
Aside from providing a convenient pretext, the invasion had little or nothing to do with the 9-11 attacks. Bush's motive was strictly personal. Saddam Hussein had attempted to assassinate his father. Or, as he put it: "After all, this is the guy that tried to kill my dad at one time."
at present
Now that Iraq has been conquered and everybody's forgotten about the administration's ties to the Enron scandal, life in Washington has returned to normal. Bush is spending more and more time on his ranch in Crawford while Vice President Cheney and others manage day-to-day operations.
And although Dubya is gearing up for the 2004 campaign cycle, you can bet he's spending more and more time thinking about how he's going to snag the commissioner's post in major league baseball. Now there's a job a guy could really sink his teeth into.
Divinity
Aug 1999
During a campaign appearance in New Orleans, presidential candidate George W Bush expresses doubts about teaching evolution in schools: "I believe children ought to be exposed to different theories about how the world started."
Sep 2000
George W Bush tells a George magazine interviewer: "I've heard the call. I believe God wants me to run for President."
4 Jun 2003
Palestinian Prime Minister Abu Mazen meets with President George W Bush at a summit in Aqaba, Jordan. According to an article in the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, Bush informs Mazen: "God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."
2 Nov 2003
According to an article in the London Observer, then-governor George W Bush told Fort Worth, Texas televangelist James Robison in 2000: "I feel like God wants me to run for President. I can't explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen[...] I know it won't be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it."
9 Jul 2004
While meeting with a group of 60 Old Order Amish at the Lapp Electric Service offices in Smoketown, Pennsylvania, President George W Bush declares: "I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job."
9 Oct 2004
CNN airs an interview with First Lady Laura Bush, in which she denies reports of the President's divine commission: "You know, it's just a very important part of our life. My husband has never said -- I think this is some extrapolation from his critics, maybe -- that he felt like he was called to this. He's never said such a thing."
Valerie Plame leak
7 Oct 2003
President George W Bush, regarding the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity to Robert Novak: "I don't know if we're going to find out the senior administration official. I don't have any idea."
9 Oct 2003
G. Gordon Liddy on President George W Bush's attitude toward the Valerie Plame scandal: "I don't think he wants to find out who did the leaking."
3 Jun 2004
Regarding the Valerie Plame leak, President Bush declares: "I've told our administration that we'll fully cooperate with their investigation. I want to know the truth, and I'm willing to cooperate myself."
Saddam Hussein
2 Dec 1999
During a debate in New Hampshire, presidential candidate George W Bush declares: "If I found in any way, shape or form that he ( Saddam Hussein) was developing weapons of mass destruction, I'd take 'em out. I'm surprised he's still there." Asked if that meant he would overthrow Saddam, Bush clarified: "The weapons of mass destruction."
22 Feb 2001
During his first press conference, President George W Bush declares: "The Secretary of State is going to go listen to our allies as to how best to effect a policy, the primary goal of which will be to say to Saddam Hussein: we won't tolerate you developing weapons of mass destruction and we expect you to leave your neighbors alone."
7 Aug 2001
President George W Bush declares: "He's ( Saddam Hussein) been a menace forever, and we will do -- he needs to open his country up for inspection, so we can see whether or not he's developing weapons of mass destruction."
26 Sep 2002
President George W Bush explains to a Texas audience that although Saddam Hussein poses a threat to many countries, America has first dibs. "There's no doubt his hatred is mainly directed at us. There's no doubt he can't stand us. After all, this is the guy that tried to kill my dad at one time."
7 Oct 2002
During a speech in Cincinnati, President George W Bush declares: "Iraq could decide on any given day to provide a biological or chemical weapon to a terrorist group or individual terrorists."
14 Oct 2002
During a speech in Dearborn, Michigan, President George W Bush declares that Saddam Hussein maintains active ties to al Qaeda: "This is a man that we know has had connections with al Qaeda. This is a man who, in my judgment, would like to use al Qaeda as a forward army."
7 Nov 2002
During a press conference, President George W Bush declares: "Some people say, 'Oh, we must leave Saddam alone, otherwise, if we did something against him, he might attack us.' Well, if we don't do something he might attack us, and he might attack us with a more serious weapon. The man is a threat... He's a threat because he is dealing with al Qaeda... And we're going to deal with him."
8 Feb 2003
During a radio address, President George W Bush declares: "We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons - the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have."
6 Mar 2003
During his second press conference in two years, President George W Bush declares: " Saddam Hussein and his weapons are a direct threat to this country, to our people, and to all free people.... I will not leave the American people at the mercy of the Iraqi dictator and his weapons."
17 Mar 2003
During an address to the nation, President George W Bush declares: "We cannot live under the threat of blackmail. The terrorist threat to America and the world will be diminished the moment that Saddam Hussein is disarmed."
17 Mar 2003
During an address to the nation, President George W Bush declares: "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised."
19 Mar 2003
During an address to the nation, President George W Bush declares: "The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder."
10 Apr 2003
In a message to the Iraqi people, President George W Bush declares: "The goals of our coalition are clear and limited. We will end a brutal regime, whose aggression and weapons of mass destruction make it a unique threat to the world."
24 Apr 2003
President George W Bush declares: "We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will find them."
30 May 2003
President George W Bush remarks on Polish TV: "We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories... we’ve so far discovered two. And we’ll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven’t found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they’re wrong, we found them."
17 Sep 2003
President George W Bush: "No, we've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th."
24 Mar 2004
At the annual Radio and Television News Correspondents Association dinner, President George W Bush shows slides of himself searching clumsily behind furniture in the Oval Office, joking: "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere [...] nope, no weapons over there [...] maybe under here?"
---
What the freaking hell is wrong with this man? agh. Just makes me want to barf... I never thought I would see a man who would put himself before the world and the welfare of this country.
How can somebody actually support Bush? Don't say it's because of religion. BS. Kerry is also against gay marriage, he unlike Bush isn't trying to change the CONSTIUTION because of it. Kerry isn't the person who I would pick for president, but he is surly the lesser of the two evils. Oh and by the way, any one who says that they are a Republican, and that they love the president and all his "excllence" better be able to defend it better then "religion" or "because my parents support him". It good to follow your parents, unless they are wrong. If some one can give me 1 GOOD reason, with FACTS to back up their love of President Bush, then I would Surly LOVE to see it. So far, no one has succeded to show me anything good. All they can show me is opinions, No facts. I value everyones opinions, but they will not sway my own. People. Just open your eyes, you have been so brainwashed it's not even sain anymore. War, Terrorism, it's all a bunch of Horse shit. If you want to go over their in Iraq and fight, due to the damn draft, then why don't you go and sign up for the army in the first place. Looking at the state of this country is an extream travisty. It saddens me to know that all of this shit is going on and no one cares. The all are like Bush rocks. agh. How to make you people SEE?! What about North Korea? They are actually more of a threat to us then Iraq will ever be. What about them? Why aren't we over there? killing 37,000 of their civilians? one word. OIL. nothing else. Bush you freaking son of a bitch. you with your constant shit. War on Iraq? More like war on oil, with a personal battle thrown in. agh! If Bush gets re-elected it is the first sure sign that the world is ending. I wonder if my parents will send me back to India... I can live there, I love india... agh. whatever.
-Sarah*