by Roedy Green ©2000-2008 Canadian Mind Products
“What do we need intelligence for? My answer to that is we have plenty of enemies. Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism. These and more. Many more. To combat them we need more intelligence, not less. We need more human intelligence. That means we need more protection for the methods we use to gather intelligence and more protection for our sources, particularly our human sources, people that are risking their lives for their country. I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors…”
~ George W. Bush, speech at the Dedication Ceremony for the George Bush Center for Intelligence, 1999-04-26
He forgot to mention this contempt does not apply if the leaker is Cheney or Libby. Their high rank gives them to right to out any agent they please.
“The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself.”
~ George W. Bush, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2003-01-29
“I’m honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein.”
~ George W. Bush, 2004-05-25, Washington, DC.
“In Iraq, no doubt about it, it’s tough. It’s hard work. It’s incredibly hard.”
~ George W. Bush, 2004-09-30 in the first Kerry-Bush debate.
If ever there was a man who understood hard work, it is W. His former chief of staff, Clay Johnson, stated that as Governor of Texas, Bush’s workweek consisted of “two hard half-days” broken only by his two-hour midday break.
“We’re not going to have any casualties [in the Iraq war].”
~ George W. Bush, 2003-03, to Pat Robertson.
“We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories.”
~ George W. Bush, Interview of the President by TVP, Poland, 2003-05-29, If he found them, what happened to them?
“We know where they [the weapons of mass destruction] are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.”
~ Donald Rumsfeld, 2003-03-30, apparently not.
“We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators… I think it will go relatively quickly… [in] weeks rather than months.”
~ Dick Cheney, 2003-03-16, oops.
“The streets in Basra and Baghdad are sure to erupt in joy in the same way the throngs in Kabul greeted the Americans.”
Dick Cheney, 2002-08, oops.
“The war could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.”
~ Donald Rumsfeld, 2003-02-07, apparently not.
“It’s hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and secure the surrender of Saddam’s security forces and his army. Hard to imagine.”
~ Paul Wolfowitz, 2003-02-27
“Our country is one that safeguards human rights and human dignity… I live in a transparent country… where decisions made by government are wide-open.”
~ George W. Bush, in Slovakia, 2005-02-24
“I think the president ought to get on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say, ‘We expect you to open your spigots.’ The president of the United States must jawbone OPEC members to lower the price.”
~ George W. Bush, 2000-02-02, Financial Times
“I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy — but that could change.”
~ George W. Bush, 1998-05-22
“But for those who say we haven’t found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they’re wrong, we found them.”
~ George W. Bush, Interview of the President by TVP, Poland, 2003-05-29
“The problem with the French is they don’t even have a word for ‘entrepreneur’.”
~ George W. Bush, shooting from the hip, never having studied French unaware the word comes to English from French. Snopes, a right wing site, claims this is an urban legend.
“We gave Hussein a chance to allow inspectors in, and he wouldn’t let them in.”
~ George W. Bush, lying on 2003-07-14
“Major combat operations in Iraq have ended.”
~ George W. Bush, on 2003-05-01.
“We gave Hussein a chance to allow inspectors in, and he wouldn’t let them in.”
~ George W. Bush, on 2003-07-14 (forgetting about the U.N. inspector team lead by Hans Blix)
“At this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly outta Ronald Reagan Airport.”
~ George W. Bush
“My trip to Asia begins here in Japan for an important reason. It begins here because for a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times.”
~ George W. Bush
Except of course for that minor misunderstanding otherwise known as WW II and the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
“He [Saddam] tried to kill my dad.”
~ George W. Bush, 2002-09-27, reported by CNN
Funny, I could have sworn it was Bush Sr. dropping bombs on Saddam not the other way around.
“That SOB [Saddam] tried to kill my dad.”
~ George W. Bush reported 2003-03-29 by New York Daily News
“And, most importantly, Alma Powell, secretary of Colin Powell, is with us.”
~ George W. Bush
introducing Alma Powell, wife of Secretary of State Colin Powell
Source: Federal News Service, Remarks by President George W. Bush on First Anniversary of the USA Freedom Corps, 2003-01-30
“Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.”
~ George W. Bush, on noting it coming out of his stove.
“We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations; their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure there’s not this kind of federal cufflink.”
~ George W. Bush
“I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn’t here.”
~ George W. Bush
Source: PR Newswire, Remarks by the President at the Economic Forum Health Care Security Session, 2002-08-13
“I was proud the other day when both Republicans and Democrats stood with me in the Rose Garden to announce their support for a clear statement of purpose,
“You disarm, or we will.’”
~ George W. Bush
speaking about Saddam Hussein Source: FDCH Political Transcripts, George W. Bush Delivers Remarks at a Sununu for Senate Fundraiser, Manchester, N.H., 2002-10-05
“They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it’s some kind of federal program.”
~ George W. Bush, 2000-11-02
“Social security is not a federal program.”
~ George W. Bush
“We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.”
~ George W. Bush
at a news conference in Europe, 2001-06-14
“There is no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.”
~ George W. Bush
Washington, 2001-05-11
“There’s no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I’ll never see it.”
~ George W. Bush
White House, 2001-01-29
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