WP: Kerry Hits Bush Quote On Carrier Banner

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52627-2004Sep26?language=printer

John F. Kerry excoriated President Bush on Sunday for saying that he had no regrets about his declaration more than a year ago that the mission in Iraq was accomplished, when the country continues to be in a state of war.

"I will never be a president who just says, 'Mission Accomplished.' I will get the mission accomplished," Kerry told a couple of hundred supporters who gathered to greet him when he arrived here en route to a secluded resort to prepare for his first presidential debate Thursday.

Kerry was referring to an interview Bush gave Bill O'Reilly of Fox News in which O'Reilly asked Bush whether he would still do the carrier landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln beneath the "Mission Accomplished" banner. At the time, 16 months ago, Bush referred to Iraq as a "victory" and declared an end to major combat there.

"Absolutely," the president replied in the interview, to air on Monday's "O'Reilly Factor." O'Reilly, apparently surprised, replied, "You would?" "Of course," Bush continued. "I'm saying to the troops, on this carrier and elsewhere, 'Thanks for serving America.' Absolutely. And by the way, those sailors and airmen loved seeing the commander in chief. . . . You bet I'd do it again."

In April, White House senior adviser Karl Rove told an editorial board meeting with the Columbus Dispatch in Ohio that the "Mission Accomplished" sign had been a mistake. "I wish the banner was not up there," Rove said. "I'll acknowledge the fact that it has become one of those convenient symbols."

[fearnobush]

1. It's time we take the keys from Bush and let Kerry drive us safely.

End the nightmare.

[shraby]

2. Just another trip through the looking glass

for Bush.

[flordehinojos]

3. When ... reassuring a surprised Bill O'Reilly, that he, GWB, would

"absolutely" repeat the "Mission Accomplished" stint because, "I'm saying to the troops, on this carrier and elsewhere, 'Thanks for serving America.' Absolutely. And by the way, those sailors and airmen loved seeing the commander in chief ... You bet I'd do it again." .....

Bush's statement flies in the face of all maimed and wounded soldiers of the Iraq war, as well as in the face of all of those other soldiers who have been killed also in the Iraq war.

And for him to make the narcissistic statement that, "those sailors and airmen loved seeing the commander in chief", is comparable to his mother saying, "why should I worry my beautiful mind on body bags and things like that".

Bush is making himself the star at the cost of a river of blood and the many lives of soooooo many American soldiers and innocent Iraqi civilians and none of it faces him,when he, the narcissist exhibitionist says "those sailors and airmen loved seeing the commander in chief ... You bet I'd do it again."

The man has no shame, no compassion and is a fraud who is completely incompetent to serve as pResident of the U.S., and as commander in chief of the armed forces.

[TaleWgnDg]

5. I've come to the inevitable conclusion -- there's no where else . . .

to go -- that George Walker Bush is a fraud. And that he is dangerously rigid and closed-minded. A disaster. An incompetent, unfit for the Oval Office and Commander-in-Chief.

A huge fraud. He attracts like-minded people to his "cause" (his "crusade"). It's troublesome that they are so blinded, so closed to the world around them. They hide behind their religious self-righteous zeal, their demonetizations, casting their dispersions against others, psychologically projecting themselves upon others . . . frauds, all.

. . . .

[Voltaire99]

7. Yes, Bushism is the cult of the irrational (n/t)

[truthisfreedom]

4. thanks rove. it has become one of those "convenient symbols." an ever-

lasting symbol of your disgrace to this country. and your puppet-boy king.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Great observation from Edwards, that the only two people in the country

who think the war on Iraq is going well are _Bush and Cheney. How can they sleep at night, anyway? Do they see any of the same photos we see?

What happens, you wonder, when you bury consciences as deeply as they have? Is there a ferocious blow-back when they least expect it? Does it eventually drive them mad? They've passed the point of no return, and taken our country with them.

We're all connected to their carnage, involuntarily. How could ANYONE vote for them now?

[Moderator]

8. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=866807