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Olbermann's Special Comment on Bush's Iraq Visit: "Bush

Post by Shirleypal » 09-05-2007 09:59 AM

Olbermann's Special Comment on Bush's Iraq Visit: "Bush Is Just Playing Us" [VIDEO]
By Adam Howard
Posted on September 5, 2007, Printed on September 5, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/howard/61656/
The following transcript comes from MSNBC.com

And so he is back from his annual surprise gratuitous photo-op in Iraq, and what a sorry spectacle it was. But it was nothing compared to the spectacle of one unfiltered, unguarded, horrifying quotation in the new biography to which Mr. Bush has consented.

As he deceived the troops at Al-Asad Air Base yesterday with the tantalizing prospect that some of them might not have to risk being killed and might get to go home, Mr. Bush probably did not know that, with his own words, he had already proved that he had been lying, is lying and will be lying about Iraq.

He presumably did not know that there had already appeared those damning excerpts from Robert Draper's book “Dead Certain."

“I'm playing for October-November," Mr. Bush said to Draper. That, evidently, is the time during which, he thinks he can sell us the real plan, which is “to get us in a position where the presidential candidates will be comfortable about sustaining a presence."

Comfortable, that is, with saying about Iraq, again quoting the President, “stay... longer."

And there it is. We've caught you. Your goal is not to bring some troops home, maybe, if we let you have your way now. Your goal is not to set the stage for eventual withdrawal. You are, to use your own disrespectful, tone-deaf word, playing at getting the next Republican nominee to agree to jump into this bottomless pit with you, and take us with him, as we stay in Iraq for another year, and another, and another, and anon.

Everything you said about Iraq yesterday, and everything you will say, is a deception, for the purpose of this one cynical, unacceptable, brutal goal: perpetuating this war indefinitely.

War today, war tomorrow, war forever!

And you are playing at it! Playing!

Check out the video to your right for more.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/61656/

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Post by budeone » 09-06-2007 06:06 AM

That was great!!!.. wow!!!
"BUSH" The Worst President in History...

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Post by SETIsLady » 09-06-2007 07:25 AM

As he deceived the troops at Al-Asad Air Base yesterday with the tantalizing prospect that some of them might not have to risk being killed and might get to go home, Mr. Bush probably did not know that, with his own words, he had already proved that he had been lying, is lying and will be lying about Iraq.

He presumably did not know that there had already appeared those damning excerpts from Robert Draper's book “Dead Certain."

“I'm playing for October-November," Mr. Bush said to Draper. That, evidently, is the time during which, he thinks he can sell us the real plan, which is “to get us in a position where the presidential candidates will be comfortable about sustaining a presence."

Comfortable, that is, with saying about Iraq, again quoting the President, “stay... longer."

And there it is. We've caught you. Your goal is not to bring some troops home, maybe, if we let you have your way now. Your goal is not to set the stage for eventual withdrawal. You are, to use your own disrespectful, tone-deaf word, playing at getting the next Republican nominee to agree to jump into this bottomless pit with you, and take us with him, as we stay in Iraq for another year, and another, and another, and anon.
Wow, what a piece of crap !!! How can anyone still support this President ????? I can not believe that once AGAIN he is caught lying and still the nation is sleeping. !!!!

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Post by Shirleypal » 09-06-2007 09:36 AM

Wow, what a piece of crap !!! How can anyone still support this President ????? I can not believe that once AGAIN he is caught lying and still the nation is sleeping. !!!!


Piece of crap indeed, I would also like to know why the nation is still asleep, what is it going to take for them to wake up.

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