Bush AGAIN confuses IDs of two terrorists

[Bluebear]

OK at what point does this stop being "cute" and "plain spoken" and considered dangerously unaware?


WASHINGTON - President Bush might have been able to say it was simply a slip of the tongue when he confused two terrorists in a campaign speech Monday in New Hampshire. Trouble is, he's made the same misstatement at least 10 times before.

During remarks in Derry, N.H., Bush said the late terrorist Abu Nidal killed Leon Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old Jewish American who died after being tossed — along with his wheelchair — off a hijacked cruise liner named Achille Lauro in 1985.

"Do you remember Abu Nidal?" Bush asked the crowd. "He's the guy that killed Leon Klinghoffer. Leon Klinghoffer was murdered because of his religion. Abu Nidal was in Baghdad, as was his organization."

He repeated the mistake Monday evening at a campaign event in New York City: "Abu Nidal was a cold-blooded terrorist killer who killed Leon Klinghoffer."

Actually, it was Abul Abbas, the leader of a violent Palestinian group, who killed Klinghoffer.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040921/ap_on_el_pr/bush_wrong_terrorist_1

[liveoaktx]

1. Not a mistake if he's done it ten times....

It can only mean one of three things
1. Once he has memorized the speech he's supposed to give, he can't deviate from it or his head will explode.
2. He's trying to deliberately make a connection between Iraq terrorism and any other event in the world.
3. He, as Jon Stewart says "doesn't give a f*ck!"

[unblock]

4. he wants to confuse the masses, 'til they say, "ehh, kill 'em all!"

[whistle]

2. If Shrub says it, then it's true, even when it's not true....

....this is a test of loyalty which shows you are with him and if anyone disagrees then they are against him, and we all know what that means, wink, wink, eh Dan Rather.

[ogsball]

3. These people don't make mistakes.

This is an intentional ploy to court the Jewish vote.

[LynnTheDem]

5. Not a "mistake".

It's written in his speeches. That ain't a mistake; that's making political hay off a corpse. Something bush does a lot.

[Norquist Nemesis]

6. I'm telling you...it's the FLIM-FLAM man!!!

This entire adminstration is FLIM-FLAM!!! They know exactly what they are doing!

FLIM = Force Level Information Management
FLAM = n. Informal; A lie or hoax; a deception.
Nonsense; drivel.

[Riddler]

7. Regardless of who it was

if it happened in 1985, then he's in effect telling the world what a loser poppy was for not completing the job of ousting Saddam in the first Gulf War. So if it didn't matter enough in 1991, it doesn't matter at all in 2004.