Al Qaeda's Best Publicist: George W. Bush
By Nicole Belle Wednesday Jul 25, 2007 5:45pm
Once again, Dan Froomkin nails it:
Like any terrorist organization, al-Qaeda wants attention. It wants to be perceived as powerful. And it particularly wants Americans to live in fear.
Could al-Qaeda possibly have found a better publicist than President Bush?
At a South Carolina Air Force base yesterday, Bush mentioned al-Qaeda and bin Laden 118 times in 29 minutes, arguing that the violence unleashed by the U.S. invasion in Iraq would somehow come to America's shores if U.S. troops were to withdraw.But the majority of that violence in Iraq is caused either by Iraqis murdering each other for religious reasons or by Iraqis trying to throw off the American occupation. The group that calls itself al-Qaeda in Iraq is only one of a multitude of factions creating chaos in that country, and the long-term goals of its Iraqi members are almost certainly not in line with those of al-Qaeda HQ (which is safely ensconced in Pakistan).
Furthermore, the administration's own intelligence community has concluded that the war in Iraq has helped rather than hurt al-Qaeda.
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My ass puckered with that picture.
With a face like that, who could say no?
I'll buy an al-Qaeda. Hell, I'll buy two.
now is the time to impeach
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fCutvXccFlA
And I thought it was a picture of your puckered.....
118 times in 29 minutes? That's almost four times a minute. Isn't this overkill even for the peabrained?
Salmineo @ 1:
Personally, I had to fight the urge, almost unsuccessfully, to punch my computer screen, real hard.
Ol' Preznit PieceO'Crap...
Didn't C&L have a post on how Bush was a lousy salesman recently?
Hell, he's quite a snake-oil salesman isn't he?
What is happening here is exactly what happened in the Soviet Union. A guerrilla war in Afghanistan decimated the treasury and depleted the military and helped speed the downfall of the Soviet Union. George Bush is the best recruitment tool OBL has ever had. He has to do nothing but sit back and let Bush send him all the recruits he can handle. That's what happens when the idiots in charge not only have no concept of world events and history, but cannot learn from the mistakes of others.
If George W. Bush were to say "rich Corinthian leather" as many times as he says "Al Qaeda", he'd be the Volare salesman of the decade, hands down.
I dislike that man...with great intensity.
I'm sure I dropped a hemroid on that one. A little warning would be a good ethic with these kinds of Pics. Sudden shock can kill.
He needs to follow Newt's advice and shut the fuck up. NOW.
BREAKING NEWS:
Al Qaeda mole found working in the White House. His name is George W. Bush.
Didn't he say, when asked by a reporter why OBL hasn't been caught yet, "I REALLY DON'T THINK ABOUT HIM MUCH" ?
war is peace
2 minute hate
live is hate
Jerry @ 14:
Mole? I thought those beaty eyes looked familiar.
Bush used Al Qaeda, to sell Fear so that he could achieve his agenda. His agenda, as revealed by his actions was to weaken government by spending it into bankruptcy while transferring ever greater wealth to the 'ruling class'. I think terror was used beginning with 'allowing' 9/11. There is no way those 3 towers came down clean in 10 seconds without an expert demolition crew( Bush's brother was in charge of the security company at WTC). America is set up for a fascist takeover that Bush's grandfather was so eager to achieve.
Mommy, mommy make it stop! Make those bad men go away!
concernedmom @ 9:
Totally agree.
Attack the US once, then sit back and watch this country unravel and bankrupt itself. That's quite a plan...and damn effective. OBL must be sitting back and laughing his ass off. All he has to do is send out a $1.50 videotape and the US immediately reacts by pumping $billions into a panic defense. He will bleed this country dry with a minimum of effort.
In a battle of brains, who would you choose: OBL or Chimpy???
The full text is available here http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070724-3.html
But I have taken the liberty of highlighting the important bits, Iraq, 9/11, al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden.
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Wow, anonymous, you've been staying up late. Do you suppose there is some kind of code to the enemy in there?
Someone will have to remind me who still believes anything he says. When everything he says is wrong, a lie, or a gross oversimplification that indicates complete ignorance, why do we care what he says anymore. Maybe if we ignore him he will go away.
Wayne@6 Says:
Personally, I had to fight the urge, almost unsuccessfully, to punch my computer screen, real hard.
I thought I was the only one with the urge to destroy my computer. I guess not.
This Al Qaeda in Iraq thing is so misleading, The claim alone is an impeachable offense. Personally, I have been shouting the president was positioning himself to make this claim since the surge begun. To see it unfold just like you envisioned is frustrating because there were no takers to my claims Al Qaeda in Iraq would lead to a modern day killing field.
Joseph
goatsage @ 22:
No, I'm sure it's just your run of the mill ding-a-ling.
As for Bush and Al Queda I would have to say OF COURSE THEY ARE WORKING TOGETHER!!! Do you really think Al Queda just happens to run their terror operations to coincide with our election cycle?!? Yes this is Osama Bin Goldberg (if you don't get it, read 1984 by Orwell) it is why I always say the Republicans are the most dangerous and aggressive enemy we have ever faced.
Yes, bush is obviously sending Morse code to the aliens, which unbeknownst to him occupy Roverer's brain.
If we pull out of Iraq, there will be genocide.
There is already genocide, and, as you can clearly see, more troops only slowed it down, but did not stop it.
More death and slaughter is inevitable and you caused all of it Dubya. YOU BUSH, ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR IT ALL!
Now do the "honorable" thing.
Anonymous, how many bells and whistles do you think you just set off at Homeland Security? They're gonna be pissed that they're having to cut their coffee break short...all the Krispy Kreme maple bars will be gone by the time they figure out that was snark.
[Deleted. Way off topic, Petey. ]
One question: Is my donation to Al Quaeda tax deductible? After all they are nonprofit. And how can a donation to a republic candidate be tax deductible when they are about nothing more than profit for themselves and their cronies...Democrats as well in most cases.
Strawberry @ 28:
ROTFLMAO------>INFINITY
Uh Petey, Ted Kennedy voted against the war, he said it was the best vote he ever cast.
Bush mentioned al-Qaeda and bin Laden 118 times in 29 minutes
DoktorN beat me to it, but seriously, 118 times in 29 minutes... is that even possible? That means Bush mentioned al-Qaeda or Bin Laden every 15 seconds. Quite the promotion for a guy who was "marginalized" not so long ago...
24 Joseph:
Al Queda period is misleading, if you really think we have any terrorists who work on their own threatening America you are fooling yourself. The same people who mailed Anthrax to our Senators and News Anchors are the same people who ordered 9/11 (or at least ordered NORAD to stand down that day) we are not fighting anyone anywhere, we are simply engaged in hostile take-overs around the world...that's right, our soldiers are dying for Dick Cheney's business deals, the threat from Al Queda is no more real then the Communist threat they used to spew about. it's a simple pattern to keep people in line: first it was the Indians are going to get you we have to kill them, then the n****rs were coming and we had to hang them, then the communists were comming and we had to building enough Nuclear weapons that would not only destroy our enemies, not only destroy America in the process of destroying our enemies but we could actually destory everyone like 20 times over...now here we are folks it's the Muslims and they are coming for your children...oh, wait, it's Bush and Cheney who are coming for your children, and they must be stopped at all costs!!!
Petey @ 29:
Dennis Kucinich, our next President, did not.
Thank You for the Heads up.
Boosh tells us that Al Qaeda is a clever bunch, wily in a way that used to be reserved for describing our enemies who were of Asian extraction. Well, if they're so clever, don't you think they would fight us where our Army wasn't? Duh. And yet, there are still people in this country who listen to him.
So our Preznit, Little Boots, is either stupid or cynically manipulating the stupid. Maybe both, the world is certainly large enough to contain both possibilities.
Saying those words every 15 seconds is the same type of mantra he used with "Weapons of Mass Destruction" and "Nine One One" which of course led us into the occupation of a totally innocent country regarding 9/11 and killing or helping to kill over a half million of them (the city the size of Tucson, AZ) gone, poof. 3600 Soldiers, more then the victim numbers of 9/11, poof. Gitmo, the American Shame.
The worst President in history, and the worst Congress in history, and perhaps the worst citizens in history if we don't get off our butts and stop this.
That's my nickle...
The next time you hear Bush tell us how if we leave Iraq al Qaeda will have a safe haven just like they did in Afghanistan.
"Stop and think"!!!!
In Afghanistan there where estimated 20,000 al Qaeda operatives which where supported by the Taliban the party in control before 9/11 In Iraq estimates of the number of al Qaeda range from a low of 800 to a high of 2000 If we leave today 80 % of the Iraqi population is made up of Kurds and Shia neither one of which support al Qaeda
Sorry, Petey, but this is patently untrue. It's amazing how you repugs believe your own bullshit so completely.
And Bill Clinton said he liked this guy. With no comment from Hillary.
That alone causes you to lose my vote Hillary.
Great picture.What a total nut sack.
Bush, Cheney, and Rove have turned the Presidency into an absolute monarchy that answers to no one - not Congress, not the courts, not the Constitution and certainly not the people.
What to do?
Wonder if he or his speech writers are getting some cash on the side from Al Q's publicity firm?
ej doyle @ 36:
...... and perhaps the worst citizens in history if we don't get off our butts and stop this.
Precisely the question posed to the surviving citizens of German after WWII and the
defeat of Germany, and the death of Hitler...and in fact, the question many asked
themselves..."why didn't I do something"?
Hillary "WILL NOT" talk with our adversaries because it may be used as "propaganda".
I guess she prefers 100 American soldiers dying each month to Bad Press.
You don't have what it takes to be president Hillary. You'll NEVER defeat any republican with that stupid stand.
Site Monitor: We've allowed you some leeway...but this thread is NOT about Hillary. Please comment on topic.
Snake oil.
As a Canadian, all I have to say is that after 9/11, TSP vs. FISA, Diebold, the death of Habeous Corpus, no-bid contracts, secret Big Oil energy policy dealings, FEMA/Katrina, Gonzo, outing a covert CIA agent, Lying the nation to war in Iraq, secret renditions, approval of torture, ignoring/firing Generals on the ground, contractors kidnapping workers to build the worlds biggest embassy in Iraq...
WHY THE FCUK ARE YOU PEOPLE NOT TAKiNG TO THE STREETS?
(what do you think the 26%ers hope to gain from all this?)
Salmineo @ 44:
I just cancelled out your vote..and I am willing to bet you that SHE is the next Dem
nominee...
Carrot & Shtick @ 45:
Carrot & Shtick @ 45:
Everyones glued to YouTube-Internet-TV.
Goooooooooooooooooooooo Surgeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Gollum @ 38:
LOL! Go see Youtube and watch the man in his own words say it.
You have heard of Youtube, right? LOL
Carrot & Shtick @ 45:
The Bush administration had NOTHING to do with the leaking of non-covert agent Plame's name.
It was Armitage.
Get your facts straight.
The Bush regime wants brain dead conservatives to forget all of the hijackers were Saudi, none were Iraqi. The House of Saud and the House of Bush are human rights abusing oil profiteers joined at the hip. Osama bin Laden and Al-Queda are basically offshoots of both houses. Americans who lost their lives on 911 and the innocent Iraqi civilians who have lost, and continue to loose their lives, in Iraq are due to the House of Saud and the House of Bush and their warmongering big oil adventures using innocents as pawns and expendable collateral damage for their own nefarious ends. Just like Al-Queda. Two sides of the same coin.
DoktorN @ 5:
Did he say anything else? He doesn't talk all that fast. Or was it 29 minutes of "Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda, etc." Seriously, those two, Bush and bin Laden, are the best thing that ever happened to each other.
scoobie @ 51:
So, of the many listed factual events attributable directly to bush-lite, you can
find only ONE wherein HE was not responsible...Lets see, that a batting average
of just under .067...one out of 15.
I can't imagine having to listen to him for 29 minutes.
that was great, anonymous...now please oh please, someone more accomplished, edit his speech on audio so we can hear anonymous's work?
scoobie @ 51:
I'll run with that for a sec... so Armitage was behind outing a covert CIA agent and is NOT charged with treason??
The true story will ha been effectively obscured due to Libby's efforts and now effectively buried due to his commutation. You "decider" and his unitary approach to operations has done more to hurt America's democratic principles that any other in history, but I see that it is sooo convenient for you to ignore the other debacles I mentioned in the previous post and rationalize them as good for America and the world.
The plain and apparent truth to all that has nothing invested in maintaining the status quo is that the current US government policies have made it and the world a LESS secure place. Even when it's own agencies report such information, it is ignored or marginalized by Bush et all - it is not their reality. Reality, as it turns out has a Liberal bias.
It seems clear to me why we have not been attacked again. Anything Al Qaeda could do would be anticlimactic compared to the fears that Bush generates on a daily basis. The chaos that happens across the country in airports and border crossings, the astronomic costs of maintaining an army of surly and threatening border agents, the disruption to tourism, all come at very low cost to Al Quaeda. All they have to do is let fear do its work. We have nothing to fear but fear itself? Bush wants us to taste fear, to live for fear. What a great leader.
jay severin has a small pen1s @ 55:
It's part of the Military Code of Ethics...if he comes to your facility/institution, you
are "required" to attend...and of course if not military personnel, then those attending
are promised that if "good and you smile and you applaud", they will get to vote in
the Nov. 08 Elections.; but only if you vote for this guy who has spoken directly to
God.
Anything Al Qaeda could do would be anticlimactic compared to the fears that Bush generates on a daily basis.
So let me get this straight.
Another attack of the WTC scale would be somehow less chaotic than attempts to stay vigilant against such a threat? I'm not saying AQ doesn't rely on fear to magnify their impact. That's the point of a terror strategy, so that's what terrorists do.
Salmineo @ 27:
Let's start it...they are saying we are a bunch of leftist keyboard commandos who are useless...let's start it. Septmeber 11th we meet up in DC without permits, no safe zones, with bull horns and signs, and the rest who can't go, don't go to work for the week we do it.
The week of September 11th...just millions of us organizing on the Internet, Marching in DC, and not going to work. Ever see the pictures of the bodies of the people killed in Iraq? What is a weeks pay compared to hideous death? The US already has the prison camps, FEMA, and more to get us. We better get them first.
Let's do it. September 11th let's meet in DC, it is a Tuesday. September 9-14 NO WORK, only activism. Let's take back our country from these New World Order bastards...Target the Eye of the Pyramid.
Bush mentioned al-Qaeda and bin Laden 118 times in 29 minutes.
I think he was asleep in that part of business class where it was said, "ANY publicity is good publicity."
I am not the greatest fan of Steven Harper, I am soooooooo glad that Bush is not my Prime Minister.
everythingisbushsfault @ 60:
scoobie @ 50:
Sorry to say but he's absolutely right. Just see for yourself. If you want to do what the repugs often do and just live in denial then go right ahead but at least have the temerity to admit that you want to deny. That, at least, puts you a step above the pondscum that currently run things.
This Guy @ 2:
I'm sorry sir, we're out, we've got 3,500 back ordered.
Sal Mango @ 34:
*sigh* Dammit! He's right about this, too.
Hmmm, so during WWII we should not use the names, Nazis, Facists, or Japs in any speech by the President or in newspapers, magazines, and radio. Otherwise, we'd give these evil SOBs too much attention.
koo koo.
I find this survey quite interesting. After all Bush might be bin Ladens biggest supporter.
A Rising Tide Lifts Mood in the Developing World
Sharp Decline in Support for Suicide Bombing in Muslim Countries
Released: 07.24.07
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Dwindling Muslim Support for Terrorism
Even as many people around the world express more positive views of their lives and countries than they did five years ago, opinions about regional issues and concerns are a mix of good and bad news.
Among the most striking trends in predominantly Muslim nations is the continuing decline in the number saying that suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilians are justifiable in the defense of Islam. In Lebanon, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Indonesia, the proportion of Muslims who view suicide bombing and other attacks against civilians as being often or sometimes justified has declined by half or more over the past five years.
Wide majorities say such attacks are, at most, rarely acceptable. However, this is decidedly not the case in the Palestinian territories. Fully 70% of Palestinians believe that suicide bombings against civilians can be often or sometimes justified, a position starkly at odds with Muslims in other Middle Eastern, Asian, and African nations.
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The decreasing acceptance of extremism among Muslims also is reflected in declining support for Osama bin Laden. Since 2003, Muslim confidence in bin Laden to do the right thing in world affairs has fallen; in Jordan, just 20% express a lot or some confidence in bin Laden, down from 56% four years ago. Yet confidence in bin Laden in the Palestinian territories, while lower than it was in 2003, remains relatively high (57%).
Opinion about Hezbollah and Hamas varies among Muslim publics. Views of both groups are favorable among most predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East and Asia. And Palestinians have strongly positive opinions of both militant groups. But majorities in Turkey have negative impressions of both Hezbollah and Hamas.
The survey also finds that, amid continuing sectarian strife in Iraq, there is broad concern among the Muslim publics surveyed that tensions between Sunnis and Shia are not limited to that country. Nearly nine-in-ten Lebanese (88%), and solid majorities in Kuwait (73%) and Pakistan (67%), say Sunni-Shia tensions are a growing problem for the Muslim world, and are not limited to Iraq.
http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=257
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Why does everyone keep ignoring the obvious?
Bush IS Bin Laden.
Proof: Have you ever seen the 'two' of them together? Of course not, they are one.
Al Qaeda has a good friend in George W. Bush. No one can bring Bin Laden's message like Bush. However, his effects on the American populace are dropping these days.
The terrorist and fascist relationship is a symbiotic one.
And the history of fascism in the Bush family a long one http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml
Poor President Bush. A while ago, we were lambasting him for not having mentioned "Osama Bin Laden" in almost a year. Now we are lambasting him for mentioning him too much.
Al Queda or Osama Bin Ladin was NOT known to the general public until the executive privilege President under the guidance of his top aide Vice President Cheney "leaked" it the the main-stream media. Since then the terrorist group had greater publicity than Congressman Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich combine for the 2008 Presidential Campaign.
As a matter of fact, it has been stated in several new media that Osama was military trained by U.S. authorized by REgan and Bush I and now the training has backfired.
BUSH/CHENEY/RICE/RUMSFELD and the republican political drummers did a great JOB doing PR work for the terrorist group..........paid for by the taxpayer and approved by BUSH II.
Sal Mango @ 34:
your own hypocritical accusations are tantamount to accusing a con-artist's victim of complicity with the criminal activities of the con-artist.... grab a brain petty, 'cause you've obviously mistaken yours for a drain...
...and back on topic, i've been thinking about this particular issue quite a bit recently... even calling those bloodthirsty criminals terrorists only elevates their cause... "terrorist" has been "sexified" by popular media (w/no apologies to ahnuld)... they are simply blood-thirsty, power-hungry criminal savages... period... we don't need to promote their cause by granting them the profile they seek in order to achieve their superstitiously driven goals...
I'm sure Bin Laden and his cohorts are deeply disappointed they won't have George W. Bush to take advantage of anymore. You see.. BushCo has done more to help Al Qaida's cause and recruitment than they could have possibly accomplished themselves. From mind-numbingly bad leadership to worse decision-making.. the amazingly miniscule mind of George W. Bush and his sidekick's Boy Rove and Dastardly Dick have create more major messes than one competent Administration could ever hope to fix.
Jil In Pattaya @ 74:
Could I ever start feeling for Bush's plight?
I remember reading one of James Herriot's stories, (All Creatures Great and Small, they're a good read) about a student veterinarian with a cocky attitiude and a predispostion for academia rather than fieldwork. Herriot didn't like him. Then during a vaccination run, this student grabbed onto a rope that was attached to a runaway bull. The bull dragged him through the field and into a line of cowpats. Herriot started to feel for him midway through the third cowpat.
Now maybe if THAT happened to Bush.....nah.....
No.
W is the Tony Robbins of Al Qaeda
What amazes me almost every day, is how so many people are so gullible.
Why do so many people actually buy into this blatant bullshit from Bush et. al. ?
I mean seriously, how in the name of god could any thinking reasonable person believe a single word that this habitual Liar comes up with?
Why do people even listen to him? I have to switch off because I cannot stand being Lied too.
And if more and more people SWITCHED OFF George Bush, the better off we would all be.
There would be Less income for the Mainstream media. There would be less people deluded into thinking that a terrorist is going to get them if they don't vote for Chimpy. And Chimpys numbers would continue to fall.
Switch him off, the guy isn't worth listening too.
The Republicans (and Wingnuts in general) are using the lowest common denominator.
The same tactics the United States Government (read Bush Cheney and Rove) use are the same that Jail inmates or animals in the jungle use. Bullying, Violence etc.
No grown up solutions for these scum.
No Truth,
no working with people as a solution to a problem,
no diplomacy....
Just Lying, Bullying, threats, cheating and every other pathetic childish, middle ages Bullshit.
And to be honest, I don't believe Chimpboy has the intellect to enable grown up diplomacy to happen. He is too emotionally immature and goddamn stupid to understand it.
And as far as Cheney and Rove go, well, they are just too damn corrupt and evil to even try. Those Two scumbags are just going to try and get away with whatever they can.
Like a child or an animal ,or anything else that just doesn't know any better.
That's why the Democrats need to FIGHT BACK !!!
They need to take the game to these primitive thinking Bullying Lying Scumbags and say OK, you wanna turn our country into the most hated (and destined for failure) Nation on Earth? Then you are going to have to fight tooth and nail for every single little piece of it because we are not going to let it happen!
Call them on their Lies.
Call them on every single illegal activity they do/doing.
Call them on their immoral activities.
Call them out, every single time.
Don't impeach...INDICT!
I'm not afraid of al-Qaeda and bin Laden. I am of Little Bush and Darth Vader. I'm all for impeachment and I think Pelosi was wrong to take it off the counter. These guy's need to be shown the door.
Wait a minute.. I distinctly remember GW saying that he just didn't think about bin laden all that much anymore...
I enjoy reading C&L, but the thing that kills me is how you continually post as though Al Qaeda weren't a creature of the American establishment itself. I mean, how incredibly naiive you seem. It is as though you really believe that it actually has an independent existence.
The other thing that kills me is how many people still don't get that the Dems are in on the whole thing. I mean, come on people. How long is it gonna take you to figure it out?
"Could al-Qaeda possibly have found a better publicist than President Bush?"
How about all the TV "news" shows that publicize and amplify BushCo's propaganda?
Bush is nothing more than a two-bit Texas pimp. He had LOTS of help doing his crimes.
Al Qaeda's Best Publicist: George W. Bush
Like any terrorist organization, al-Qaeda wants attention. It wants to be perceived as powerful. And it particularly wants Americans to live in fear.
Could al-Qaeda possibly have found a better publicist than President Bush?
bush's speech the other day was just the beginning of what will be a four week blitz of typical lies and misdirection from a white house that has lost all possible credibility. because congress will be out of town, the spin machine will be in full force setting to rachet up the fear, it has already begun with the "gut feeling" of one incompetant cabinet member, and with the president saying bin ladins name more times in one speech than he has in the past four years. and then there is the "dry run" scare on airplanes that was actually a year old and not exactly as described. and congress is still in town, watch for more bush bull to follow and make sure to tell your friends that what they are seeing and hearing is nothing more than administration propaganda aimed at americans to scare americans into believing that un american acts of the administration is all that will keep us safe. but will the administration mention that the iraqi government we are sending our tropps to defend will also be on vacation for a month. no f-ing way
Reality does not exist in Busholini's tiny mind .
Al Qaeda leader found in DC. His name? GW Bush.
scoobie @ 52:
Hey Scoobiedoobiedoo -- Armitage was Deputy Sec'y of State -- A PART OF THE BUSHOLINI ADMINISTRATION.
Get YOUR facts straight.
Each time da shrub mentions dem terrerrists,his, I guess, twins 'n Loora gotta drink. He tryin'
ta git dem upto his liverless cundition as fast as pussybull. Nex' be his snortin'.
TDoff @ 72:
I've never been photographed with Pamela Anderson, so by your reasoning I should be playing with my own boobs.
Petey @ 29:
The Little Rascals pet pit bull is online now?
I have never been photographed with God.
Impeach bush and cheney or I will smite thee and bring global warming upon the land.
I find it fascinating that people aren't seeing the forest for the trees here. Bush wouldn't so much as mention OBL or Al Quaeda up to and during 2004 in the election cycle, nor does he mention either until roughly 5 months ago. Now he can't seem to shut up about them. Every week we hear something new about how Al Quaeda has reconstituted their structure and are more dangerous than pre-2001 on FOX, CNN, even MSNBC.
This is media blitz for Al Quaeda, not with the intent to increase their publicity, and certainly not because we shouldn't be aware or conscientious of them, but because the Bush Junta is priming the American public for another catastrophe they have planned on par with 9-11. They need to be able to say "we told you so" and seem to have appeared vigilant prior to the next attack (which they desperately need in light of the scandals that are now shedding light on their attempts to consolidate power), so Rove & Cheney have their sock puppet ramp up his rhetoric about Al Quaeda. And true to form, Bush ad libs and over-blows the message in his read-the-script speeches.
pinkobait @ 41:
Actually that looks like classic Mad Magazine's Alfred E. Newman, "what? me worry??"
He used the phrase "al quaida in Iraq" 14 times
Bush sends National Guard out with equipment.....has a large group of mercenaries we know nothing about. ...Writes a law saying if you don't like the war WE can nab you. No longer a conspiracy theory. Only thing the govt. is the conspiracy. Oh...and congress passes laws to give our manufacturers tax breaks for going overseas. I would think the read movers and shakers of the world see US as a liability.
Bush=terror
This is hilarious! Bush has forgotten that he is a member of the Al Qaeda since he belongs to the house of Saud.....buddies. The 9/11 terrorists were Saudi nationals and Bush is in denial like a five year old who calls the black as white.
ysbaddaden @ 94:
According to my theory, you'd only be playing with one boob.
[...] on Friday. Eventually the news made its way to the internet:The war in Iraq is going downhill fast. The War on Terror has made things worse, not better. The Iraqi leader wants to kick General Petraeus out of Iraq and the whole country is falling apart. [...]
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