New What the F*** Statements
President Bush was at a Boeing defense plant today in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania. Besides talking about his support for the National Missile Defense system which is built at the plant (for my position on NMD, read my post Star Wars: Attack of the Rogue Nations)
During his speech, he said a few things which really confused me, and they are the Bush What the F*** Statements of Tuesday, August 17, 2004:
On NMD, the president said, "we say to those tyrants who believe they can blackmail America and the free world: 'you fire, we're going to shoot it down'."This last quote isn't quite a traditional what the f*** moment, but it is reveling:
"They're living in the past. We're living in the future." That is pretty impressive Mr. President considering you don't even own a Delorean.
First, the president said, "And as a result of some brave Americans and coalition troops, the Taliban no longer exists in Afghanistan." Then, two paragraphs later, he said, "They were voter registration people and they got drug off the bus by some remnants of the Taliban..." So the Taliban no longer exists yet the Taliban still kills people?
"I realize we didn't find the stockpiles we thought we would find. But I want you to remember, Saddam had the capability of making weapons..."So, 950 American servicemen/women deaths, 10,000+ Iraqi military deaths, 11,000+ Iraqi civilian deaths and $128 billion to stop Saddam's "capability?" Pardon me while I say WHAT THE F***!
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I apologize for deleting the previous comment. I meant to click on "Post a Comment" but accidentally hit the trash icon instead. Here is the comment from conservativesRgood:
conservativesRgood said...
You are losing it, along with your party.
So you don't give a rat's behind if Saddam had the capability to produce WMD.
Yes the Taliban no longer is in charge but there is still few of them running around killing our troops that is what Bush meant.I apologize once more.
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conservativesRgood,
I care that Saddam had the capability to develop and acquire weapons of mass destruction (WMD). I care a great deal. The proliferation of WMDs is something we should all be concerned about. On the issue of Iraq, however, I do not believe one's "capability" is justification for war, especially with the casualties we and the Iraqis have suffered.
If the president meant to say the Taliban is no longer in charge of Afghanistan, he should have said, "And as a result of some brave Americans and coalition troops, the Taliban no longer controls the government Afghanistan."
The president did not say that; he said that the Taliban no longer existed, which is untrue. The Taliban still controls several rural and remote areas of Afghanistan, and they still clash with American and Afghani forces.
I haven't lost a thing (and neither has my party).
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