Bush: 'Who the Heck Wants to Be Wartime President?

[Nambe]

(CNSNews.com)

In a speech to minority journalists in Washington on Friday, President Bush said he'd rather not be a "war president."

"This is a dangerous time," Bush told the Unity convention. "I wish it wasn't this way. I wish I wasn't the war president. Who in heck wants to be a war president? I don't. But this is what came our way. And this is our duty -- to protect our people. And I'll continue to do that to the best of my ability." ...

[Myrina]

1. Flip n/t

:evilgrin:

[Beetwasher]

3. FLOP!

:evilgrin:

[cthrumatrix]

29. well let's get somebody who will accept it ..... this guy is insane

HE starts a war but doesn't want to be a war president?

[Name removed]

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[GCP]

65. He started the war in Iraq

the terrorists were in Afghanistan.

[Charlie Brown]

76. "The terrorists" are in a variety of places

Including Pakistan, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, Europe, and even right here in the U. S. Afghanistan and Iraq were both easy targets for Bush to take on while consolidating power here at home. They were both Muslim countries with hard-line rulers, and in many ways, they both still are (the Taliban still has a power-base and Iraq is becoming a fundamentalist state). Neither war has gained credibility since we "won."

[leesa]

79. We just wanted to steal their resources. Nothing personal

Too bad those 50000+ civilians got in the way.

[mahina]

66. We are the big tent party and all BUT

Check your atlas Brah...
Afghanistan isn't Iraq
even back home in Freeperville.

[leftchick]

70. dumbface* started the war in Iraq...

which is now an impossible quagmire much like Vietnam. The "war on terra" is a totaly different conflict.

[saigon68]

90. THE CHIMPANZEE

[Myrina]

2. Flop n/t

:evilgrin:

[Mokito]

6. Flip

Hey! It also goes in reverse! Who knew?

[Myrina]

14. Protesters should bring fish to Bush rallies ...

you know, the disgusting way a fish out of water flops all over the place ?

Hmmm ... wave some plastic/rubber fish at George ....


flip.flop
flip.flop
flip.flop
flip.flop

:evilgrin:

[maxsolomon]

26. they take your fish away when you sign the loyalty oath

they taught me that on my first day in the bush youth corps. jeez!

[Sequoia]

30. Flip: War Flop: Peace

I want some flip flops with the chimp on it that says war on the right one, and peace on the left one and I can walk around flip flop, flip flop, flip flop.

[Zhade]

54. People should wear flip-flops to a b*sh rally.

Then, in a coordinated move, everyone who despises the man's policies takes them off and starts clapping them together in unison.

It ain't Kruschev, but it'd be hilarious to see! At least, until the goon squad took the protesters to the ground...

[Myrina]

55. The brownshirts have been doing that to Kerry already ...

We should be more innovative ~ I mean, we ARE smarter, after all ...

[Lizzie Borden]

74. That's priceless!

It made me laugh out loud.

[calimary]

81. Or how 'bout pancake turners?

[Skidmore]

27. Stop it , you guys.

I'm getting dizzy.

[Connie_Corleone]

4. FLIPPETY

FLOPPETY!!

[Karenina]

25. "FLOPPETY"

FLIPPITY!!!!!

[HarveyBriggs]

46. Flippety

[Tight_rope]

88. "Floppety" fits him better!

[skooooo]

5. Franken should be a hoot today..

...so much material to choose from.

[amber dog democrat]

7. Flip Flip

flop flop

[Wickerman]

8. waffle

[Tuttle]

32. more waffle stuff

Tut-tut

[louis-t]

35. I'm getting hungry

for waffles.

[AspenRose]

63. Leggo my eggo!

Someone should make a design of the White House with one of those huge "WAFFLE HOUSE" restaurant signs in the front.

And what's up with this? Does Bush honestly think only MINORITIES are against the war? Is this why he chose to say this to MINORITY journalists:

"In a speech to minority journalists in Washington on Friday, President Bush said he'd rather not be a "war president."

What a maroon...

[fortyfeetunder]

84. I've got Bush I's Waffle House menu

I was in DC just before the Big Dog's inauguration in 1992, and went, to the Clinton-Gore inauguration store and found this laminated menu called George Bush's Waffle House. I thought it was such a hoot, I bought it....

"Welcome. George Bush will be happy to serve you...whatever you want. The management of the Bush Waffle House has changed many times, and so has the menu...Say anything to bring you in, do nothing to serve you and stick you with the bill."

Among the menu offerings are, along with famous Bush I quotes on the topics:

Read my Lips Service
Jobs - On the Short Side
Pay Raise Souffle
Iraq of Lamb
Deep Voodoo Pie
Half-Baked Head Start


Hey DU'ers, maybe we can come up with one for Dubya's Waffle House...

[Wickerman]

49. excellent!

[RobertSeattle]

9. Flippity Flippity Flop

If you want to be a war president, you better have a successful war.

If you want to be a peace president, you better keep the peace.

If you want don't want to be a called a miserable failure, you better not run a miserable failure of a Presidency.

[Tom Kitten]

85. my feelings exactly!

The man is French toast! Batter him up, lay him on the griddle and watch him sautee his way out of our consciousness!

[Nambe]

10. Then you'll be voting for Kerry !!!!

A flop vote counts too.

[CarolynEC]

11. And besides the flip-flop...

... Being a "war president" is kind of like being cool.

If you have to tell people you are... you aren't.

[Elidor]

93. "I'm a war president"

"I sit here in the oval office, making decisions, with war on my mind."

My god, he actually said that.

[Melsky]

12. MMM waffles

Now I am hungry.

[LittleApple81]

28. Hmmmm.... with raspberry sauce.... hmmmmmm...

[RobertSeattle]

13. Philip Floppe

Bush's name in FRENCH.

[Mokito]

17. LOL! That's hilarious!

[bemildred]

15. So, don't run again. Take a hint from LBJ. nt

[madrchsod]

16. hey george

you are the one who attacked saddam so you could show your dad and mom you were a man..kind`a fuck`d up again didn`t you? to bad all those people are being killed and maimed isn`t it? it didn`t come our way george it`s all yours....

[Geo55]

18. "I wish it wasn't this way. I wish I wasn't the war president"

I JUS' WANNA BE A DICTATOR !....JEEZ

[Karenina]

44. Where are the grammar police

when you need 'em? :evilgrin:

Remember *dauphin's reply to the Cattlemen's "future mom" ice skating diva teenie strategically seated next to him during the Olympics? Sascha was it? She asked him if he would stay to watch the event (after squealing and calling her mom on the cell phone) and he replied, "Sorry little lady, I got a WAR to run..." :puke: :puke: :puke:

[AdrianInOcala]

19. I wish I wasn't the war president. Who in heck wants to be a war president

No problem George, you won't be a war or peace president come November, you'll be a UHaul driving moving back home to Texas/Connecticut/Maine EX pResident. Get out of John's house.

[louis-t]

36. 'Get out of John's house.'

Nice battle cry. I hope it sticks.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

42. Even better: "Get out of *our* house"

[UpInArms]

20. the warp resident

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3470139.stm

from the Russert interview on Feb 8 2004

excerpt:

Mr Bush defended the invasion of Iraq, saying it was a "war of necessity".

He said he had not called Saddam Hussein an "imminent threat" but said it would have been too late if the US had waited until the danger was that close.

"I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind," he said.

full transcript at:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4179618/

[MidwestTransplant]

21. Ooooh the reluctant warrior! Yeah right.

[Jacobin]

22. He tried sooooooooooooo hard not to invade Iraq!!!!!!!!!!

It was all CNN's fault!!!!!!!!!!! They made me do it !!!!!!!!!!!!

[louis-t]

37. Nawwww, Clinton & the Democrats

made him do it. edit: And Hillary, especially Hillary.

[0007]

23. I'm sure the American people will relieve you of your God awful

duties that you have failed in miserably as being a war president.

[Ravy]

24. We have the power to make him the war president no longer.

... lets be sure we encourage everyone to exercise the power to grant his wish on November 2.

[Dhalgren]

34. Breaking News!

George Bush says, "I don't want to be...president." Aides won't say when exactly Bush will withdraw from race.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

31. Good god, they wrote the script and cast the characters

too bad Bush forgot that.

[BrotherBuzz]

33. Bush* soundbits are improving

Five, six, seven, eight, two, seven, five, four, and a twelve words strung together. Is he trying to impress minority journalists or is he really getting better? Now, if he could just say something. Oh my, how I pass my time these days....

[tom_paine]

38. What a Crazy as a Shithouse Rat Socipath and LIAR!

You fucking LIAR Bunnypants*!

[Swamp Rat]

69. Hey man! Don't talk about shithouse rats like that.

You be talkin' 'bout my cousins brah! ;)

They told me that they climb through the White House sewer and POOP on GW's ugly face at night... Now if we can get the dog to take a dump in his shoes.

[tabasco]

39. Too late, George.

The ghosts of the dead will haunt you until your dying day. With your greed and your incompetence, you have caused much needless suffering and death. There was no need to invade and occupy Iraq, George. The time to be reluctant is before you start a war.

[flordehinojos]

40. For Bush the end justifies the means--he doesn't give a toot about anythin

just as long as he gets his way ...:puke:

[Az_lefty]

41. Apparently you do, you dumb fuck!

you started this war with Iraq now your (and us) are stuck with it.
:grr:

[NewYorkerfromMass]

43. Well his handlers certainly did

too bad he forgot.

[Lorien]

45. Let's take him at his word

He doesn't want to be "war presiden"? Whoever occupies the office WILL be a "war president" because Dimson has us involved in two wars, so obviously he doesn't want the job. Fine by us!

[grasswire]

47. PEGGY NOONAN

This is a direct result of a Peggy Noonan column of last month, where she implores Bush to present himself as the "reluctant warrior" and said that he appears to enjoy war too much.

PEGGY NOONAN. Her thoughts, her advice.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

50. Yep gotta change mourning in America

to Morning again.

[Chimpeach]

48. What is WRONG with this guy?

I seriously think he needs to UP his medication.

[CarolynEC]

51. Babelfish me

Hey... if you cycle this through Babelfish to Dutch and back again, it actually refers to Bush as "shrub."

"This is a dangerous time," The shrub told the agreement of the entity. "I wish this manner it wasn't. I wish I wasn't the war President. Who in heck does a war President want be? I don't. But this is what our manner came. And this is our duty -- our protect people. And I'll remain that to the bests of my ability to do."

Yeah, you're right. I do have some work to do.

[Neshanic]

52. I am a "weace" president.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

53. Bush was laughed at this morning at that Unity Conference

I believe it was a member of the Native American press who asked him a question about sovereignty. After hesitating, Bush gave some kind of a roundabout answer about sovereignty being the condition when you are sovereign and he also said something to the effect that "we have given you sovereignty". He was saying this to a crowd of Americans. I heard loud laughter from the crowd in the background right through Bush's microphone (so it must have been pretty loud in the room). Does anyone have a transcript or, better yet, an actual audio record of that speech? I doubt that open laughter will be noted on a transcript.

[luaneryder]

58. Gawd, that was the height of hilarity

He used the word "sovereignity" at least six times trying to answer the question and went around in a circle. Buffoon!

[Canuckistanian]

56. Right, like he had to be dragged into war

Kicking and screaming all the way. Oh, the humanity.

[truthisfreedom]

57. he left off 3 words. "who the heck wants to be wartime president when

we're losing?"

[richp0469]

61. Losing?

I admit there are serious problems in Iraq, but there is no way you can convince any sane minded person that the war effort is a losing one.

Do you think that the end of World War II was a cake walk when the Germans surrendered? It took almost eight (8) years for civility to resume.

Admit it, the job done by the troops was incredible and the problems in the after math are isolated to Islamic Fanatics.

[truthisfreedom]

67. it's 'Nam all over again. stop kidding yourself.

your 9 posts give you away.

[They_LIHOP]

77. What the hell are you smoking?

Once the Germans surrendered, there was NO INSURGENCY. What the hell are you talking about '8 years for civility to resume'? It took like DAYS, not years.

After WWII, in Germany, there were NO SUICIDE BOMBINGS, MORTAR ATTACKS, nor DEAD AND MAIMED US SOLDIERS! What history books are YOU reading?

Sure, maybe we 'technically' Won in Iraq. If you are talking about the War. But we've most certainly lost the Peace. And are not likely to ever achieve it. And the Peace was BY FAR the more important piece, at least according to Chimpy now that he realizes there are no WMDS and NO AL-QAEDA LINKS.

[calimary]

82. Um, friend, I beg to differ.

Nothing isolated about it. And frankly, there weren't hoards of "Islamic Fanatics" to have to deal with over there in the first place, until bush took a baseball bat to the hornet's nest (against MANY people's urgings). He's nothing but the dream poster-child for al Qaeda recruitment. Perhaps you'll consider the latest account from highly-respected British journalist Robert Fisk -

it's called "Can't Blair See that this country is about to explode? Can't Bush?"

http://www.robert-fisk.com/articles427.htm

Afghanistan is coming undone, in the meantime, too.

[TankLV]

60. THEN WHY'D YOU START THE CHENEYING THING IN THE 1ST PLACE GEORGE?

YOU KICKED the inspectors out!

YOU invaded in spite of the overwhelming evidence presented to you that your hoped-for reasons for invading didn't exist!

Saddam complied with your every whim - constantly changing the terms of what he should do, short of just walking out of HIS country!

IT'S YOUR HARD-ON FOR THE WAR THAT GOT US IN THIS MESS AND HAS UNNECESSARILY KILLED OUR YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN AND THEIRS!

It's yours alone bunkerboy!

You and your sorry-ass syncophantic repukes are the ones who would listen to no disenting opinions - in spite of MILLIONS of "focus groups" who loudly demanded we NOT go!

[The_Casual_Observer]

62. dickless sang another toon during "mission accomplished"

in that stupid flight suit. The country is now having to come to grips with the fact that the president of the united states is an idiot.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

64. Flip-flop, flip-flop, flippity-flop, flippity-flop, flippity-floppity,....

...zzzzooooooooommmmmm!!!

"Mommy, why is that silly man's head spinning like a top??"

[Disturbed]

68. A msg. from Dumbass to the Loony Left.

[minkyboodle]

71. Flizip Flop

Snoop Dog weighs in...

[Piperay]

72. Chimp, you don't have to be

a war time president, Kerry will take over the job.

[freethought]

73. On one hand

this could make you laugh out loud. On the other you just want to cry! What and asshole!

[sandraj]

75. Who in heck wants Bush to be president?

I don't. But this is what came our way. And this is our duty - to protect our people.

So vote Kerry. :)

[leesa]

78. The sweet sound of Freepers heads exploding...

Cognitive dissonitis.

[calimary]

80. "...but this is what came our way" ??!?!?!?!?!??!???!??!??!?

Excuse me?????????????

NOTHING "came our way," ASSHOLE! YOU MADE it happen!!! YOU forced it on us!! YOU were the one with the big, fat jones to go to war!!! YOU were the one who ARRIVED in Washington eager to pick a fight. You were actively LOOKING for ANY EXCUSE to START one!!!

"...But this is what came our way."

ASSHOLE!!!!

[Tight_rope]

87. "ASSHOLE" is a great name for him...At least it's a start...there are many

more!

[absolutezero]

83. then don't run

refuse your party's nomination and get ready to leave in January.

Kery needs to use this in an ad

[True_Blue]

86. I want a REAL War President

one that served in war time with Distinction, Patriotism & Honor....not a deserter that shirked his responsibilities and couldn't even report for duty because he was too busy snorting coke.

[struggle4progress]

89. Oh? Didn't * bomb Iraq because it had better targets? eom

[TaleWgnDg]

91. another flip, flop ???? which way to bury the seeds this time?

Isn't it the truth, huh?

GWBush does, yet, another flip-flop when the seeds he has sown reap a shallow bitter harvest . . . his war isn't working well . . . so GWBush wants to plow it asunder and sow, yet, at another 180 degree angle . . . revisionism as harvest

:wtf:

[devinsgram]

92. Who wants to be a wartime resident?

BUSH - BUSH - BUSH