Fred Thompson, still clueless. Part II
Earlier today in Iowa, Fred Thompson justified his support for the war in Iraq by claiming that Iraq had a nuclear weapons program and had weapons of mass destruction, despite the fact that weapons inspectors have concluded that Iraq had no WMDs.
Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson said today he was certain former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction prior to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, a point of contention in the 4.5 years since the war began.
"We can't forget the fact that although at a particular point in time we never found any WMD down there, he clearly had had WMD. He clearly had had the beginnings of a nuclear program," the former Tennessee senator told an audience of about 60 at a Newton cafe.
Even George Bush has acknowledged that "Charles Duelfer has now issued a comprehensive report that confirms the earlier conclusion of David Kay that Iraq did not have the weapons that our intelligence believed were there."
It's good to see that Thompson is interested in making sure that the base is making informed, educated decisions, isn't it? /snark.
Fred is not worth a shivering piss.
Come to think of it, not many of the candidates are.
Also today, Freddie said that heck, we ought to do something about taxes, but of course exactly what we should do, well Freddie wasn't sure.
How folksy!
Fred Thompson...striving to be the best hack he can be.
I'm not so sure he's as clueless as you think:
“We can’t forget the fact that although at a particular point in time we never found any WMD down there [i.e., when we actually invaded the stinkin' place], he clearly had had WMD. He clearly had had the beginnings of a nuclear program [i.e., twenty years ago].”
Yes, the Republican Party is quickly becoming the party of the abominably stupid. That's the only constituency they have left. And Thompson knows full-well how to sweet talk his base.
Liberal AND Proud @ 3:
Well, at least he'll be successful at something. He'll never be President.
WMD! 9/11! Family Values!
Hey, and check out the rack on my younger then
my daughter Trophy-wife!
That's the kind of family values I'm talking about....
Fred, you're a walking SNL skit....
It is simply incomprehensible that anyone could have believed or even still believes that a third world country like Iraq could have possibly been a threat to the greatest superpower in the world, i.e. the United States. As Norman Solomon demonstrates in his documentary War Made Easy, the media were quite eager to be Bush's poodle in the runup to this most unnecessary war and occupation.
Nicole, are you sure this is only part two? Seems we should be on part eight or ten by now. Seems all those years of being a "big tv star" kept Fred so busy that he never read a newspaper or watched a news show on tv. Fred better take a speed reading course and catch up.
Who in the hell would even consider voting for this twit? Maybe those, who like him, haven't a clue.
Erroll @ 7:
Yeah...well...it took 6 years for a significant portion of the American public to figure that out.
pissed off patricia @ 8:
At least 25% of the American public would VOTE...not consider...but VOTE for this twit....that's who.
I doubt Fred will still be running when that 25% step into the voting booth next Nov. I imagine they will be voting for one of the other clowns in the race.
The childrens do learn, but not if they're thug-born and bred.
Old slow Fred is too far gone to learn anything at all.
I don't know why we even bothered to send inspectors to Iraq, when we could have just asked Fred Thompson or George Bush or Dick Cheney or Rumsfeld, who firmly knew that WMDs were there.
Inefficient & a waste of taxpayer money... Oops, oh well, easy come, easy go.
/snark
Can't we just dig up Reagan?
I mean...there's really no difference.
Freddie better just hang it up. He is so ignorant on issues and he cannot answer any questions that are asked of him. This guy is another empty suit--a very lazy emptpy suit.
Fred, just go back home to McLean, maybe you can get a role on Law and Order: SVU because you haven't seen the ball since the kickoff.
Thompson, the Republican candiates, Bush and Cheney
are all lying to the american citizens that support them.
Maybe someone can get to the bottom of this on the campaign trail..
Reason #1042 why Bush and Cheney and the complicit media
should be handcuffed and taken to Federal Prison:
--> U.S. labs mishandling deadly germs
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071002/ap_on_he_me/mishandling_germs_3
http://www.livescience.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=makingkillerflu...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3719990.stm
http://www.legitgov.org/DoD_to_augment_civilian_law.html
http://www.legitgov.org/flu_oddities.html
Rumsfeld said he knew where the weapons were. He never said how he knew and as I recall no one bothered to ask him either. I think once the war started some people just assumed there were weapons, that we found them and the war continued. That's that 25%.
At least he's a good actor. His character on Law and Order appears well grounded and intelligent. You'd never know from the show, what kind of person he is in real life.
So, you're implying that Fred's not in a coma. Tough to believe but I'll give it some consideration.
But 'Ole Fred still has one ace to play, as he ‘UNDERTAKES’ TO PLAY REAGAN
Worse than Thompson being clueless is that there were 60 people listening to him, and likely buying into everything that was spewing from his mouth. When the "savior" of the GOP is less informed than George W, we can only hope that the American people have been awakened from their slumber, and will make a sensible and educated decision the next time they are given an opportunity to choose who will lead this country.
Ladies and Gentlemen, President Fred Thompson.
My fellow ConservAmericans, when I was campaigning for this office, I reminded you all that although we never found any WMD down there in Iraq, Iraq clearly had had WMD. Because a minority of you voted for me, I am now your president.
And I speak to you today in the same spirit. I speak to you to talk of a grave threat to our country, and our world. I speak of the Liberals who live on Mars. Now, indeed, we have no evidence that there are Liberals on Mars. In fact, with every rover we have sent to Mars, we have found no life at all. But we must not forget the lessons of Iraq. Although we have never found any Liberals on Mars, clearly, there are Liberals on Mars. And they are an imminent threat that must be wiped off the face of the solar system.
So, I announce to you today, I will launch the entire U.S. military to the planet Mars, with a clear mission: Wipe out the Liberal Martians.
And I wish to thank Senator Joe Biden, who reached across the aisle of partisanship. He said that although he disagrees with what I am doing, he recognizes that I am the Commander in Chief. As long as I am sending the military to Mars, Sen. Biden will fund the mission.
May all Senators follow Biden's lead. And may the one true god, on whom our country was founded, bless ConservAmerica.
sconset @ 15:
Anybody doing a workup on CSI: The Hague. I can see him in some kind of support role.
"Nowhere Man"
Clearly if we keep repeating a lie it will clearly become true....clearly.
:lol: :lol: :lol: at Karen's comment (22)
You should be ashamed of your poor understanding of English. Didn't you notice the second "had": "he clearly had had WMD." This is a true statement, hopefully one that doesn't come as a shock to you.
The problem with this statement isn't that it says Thompson thought Iraq had WMD until just before the invasion (which he may or may not, but this statement doesn't prove it), but that it is a completely unacceptable and illegal justification for an invasion of another country. The fact that Iraq "had had" WMD and "had had" a rudimentary nuclear weapons program did not give the U.S. the right to invade," whereas what Thompson (and virtually every other Republican and Democrat) asserts is that that is sufficient justification for an invasion.
If Fred has listened to the weapons inspectors reports, just before the US invaded Iraq, he would have known that they had found nothing, zero, zilch in Iraq.
Fred forgot what he was doing and started reading the script for an upcoming television movie. What an embarassment! This is the best that America has to offer?????
Could they stop taking pictures of this guy, it's like watching the guy next door dying of cancer still yelling at the kids to get off his lawn.
Don Davis @ 20:
Present day Reagan?
Thompson knows he is lying. He also knows the dunces who are likely to vote for him believe those lies.
Eli Stephens @ 27:
This is entirely correct. Fred is telling the truth but being intellectually dishonest. He's using Saddam and WMD close enough in his sentences to imply that the WMD was there when we invaded but not actually saying that. He's tell the god's honest truth... Saddam HAD WMD at one point. We --- the US gave them to Saddam. Saddam HAD a nuclear program at one point --- Isreal bombed the facility and we did find a single centrifuge part and some old plans in a scientist's rose garden. Don't get too mad a Fred get mad at the media for not asking the right questions like "You say Saddam 'had' WMD's, at what point in time do you believe he had those WMD's and did he have WMD when we invaded?" That is what the media should be asking but instead Fred got a pass.
Good god -- change his diaper, give him his meds and strap him to a bed before he hurts himself.
Fred Thompson is a grumpy old man. He'll probably try Viagra commercials after his political-lobbying career is over. Only the brain-dead and those who would like to see the Republicans finish Newt Gingrich's Contract ON America would vote for this guy.
I am planning to vote for Fred to protest the political whore known as Hillary Clinton.
Go Fred Thompson.
What. A. Lazy. Old. Bastard.
Take a nap Fred. We'll wake you when supper's on the table.
How could anyone vote for that guy???
Freddie "Forrest Gump" Thompson. Clueless bastard.
Repeat after me: "No more Presidents with C averages."
Liberal AND Proud @ 31:
Interesting, this would be like a recursive presidency: Fred Thompson will play Reagan, and Reagan was himself playing president. So he will be playing the part of a guy who was playing president. Aaaaaawesome! This country is so done it is not even funny...
We all know Saddam HAD HAD WMDs -- because WE supplied them. We also know he destroyed them before the presidunce invaded a sovereign nation.
He's just playing dumb. The Repubs (and the Dems) are shaping their demographically-controlled field of candidates:
Here are the traits:
Thompson: Dubya the sequel
McCain: Extremist pandering
Giuliani: Authoritarianism
Romney: Wealth
Also:
Clinton: Establishment
Obama: Wimpy
Edwards: Touchy-feely
Consider poll numbers in this context and you see how the parties are shaping up their priorities.
Eli Stephens @ 27:
You give Thompson and the Republicans too much credit. You're correct, of course, about the grammatical repetition of the word "had." But neither Thompson nor the Republicans are arguing that the mere fact that that Hussein once had WMD in the distant past in and of itself justified deposing him. No, they imply and argue further. They argue that the mere fact that Hussein once had WMD justified inferring that he had them just before the invasion, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
They know that he didn't have them. They all look foolish, even in todays media, if they continue to assert that he had them just before the invasion. What they're arguing is that they were nevertheless correct to believe that he did have them in 2003, because he had them in prior decades.
And that is indeed CLUELESS!
You are 'clearly' delusional about that WMD contention there Fred....d.e.l.u.s.i.o.n.a.l..... And that says something significant to me about you as a president....and it ain't good.....Wouldn't count on my vote if I was you mister............JD
As much as I enjoy bitchslapping intellectually challenged GOP candidates, (sorry for the redundancy) I remember doing same to Bush, and he got elected! LOL,not. I beginning to push "uninformed electorate" and "voter fraud" at the top of my GWOT priorities list.
Stupid, intellectually lazy, and totall uniformed as to any number of issues and historical events = GOP front-runner.
An old, ill,grumpy, senile individual is what Thompson is and has been for years.
Man, he's looking worse each day from cancer. It looks like he's going to collapse under the weight of his suit in that picture.
Bill in Chicago @ 4:
We have to keep in mind that these people (Bush, Thompson, Cheney, etc) are trying to manufacture reality (i.e. repeat a lie long enough, often enough, that it actually becomes true). I come to this conclusion because these people cannot be as dense as they often seem. When you look at it that way, they are much less benign, and far more dangerous, than they would appear at first glance.
Fred Thompson is an old, pathetic buffoon. Soon he'll be doing Viagra commercials.
Unsean @49
good reminder, thx.
I wonder what skeletor-like freak Freddy will choose to be his running mate / replacement...
Freddy looks like he has one foot in the grave for the last few months, and he doesn't look like he's improving to me.
Hey, if Fred takes a dirt nap, can I call dibs on his wife? You know, just until the "new" wears off.
someone, anyone, should throw some preparation h on the hemmorid ....err head...of his and see what happens ...
Droopy McTrophywife strikes again!
Fred Thompson is not clueless because he's out there saying that Iraq had WMDs.
He's acutely aware that the majority of Americans are still asleep at the wheel.
He's not trying to tell the truth; he's just gaining the fear vote, which should make all of US afraid.
Legalize @ 46:
Fixed.
The righties are finally getting their wish - ol' Fred is more and more like Reagan every day.
Fred Thompson repeats Hannityisms from his mouth-breather flash cards
Ol' Fred, he smoking the same shit as McCain. And they're both going...NOWHERE FAST!
He is not even worth a comment.
At least he knows how to drive a pickup truck for a block or two.
Thompson looks older every week I see him. His candidacy, played back from the future where he will have been a complete and total LOSER, will look rather a lot like the last few seconds of Dr. Marcus Brody's life. Just string the stills together and he'll grow ancient before your eyes.
is there a deathwatch pool on him? Reagan looks healthier.
You know, when I was 10, I shoplifted a candy bar from a Walgreen's drug store. I'm not exactly what you'd call a shoplifting risk now (oddly enough, I worked undercover to prevent shoplifting at an amusement park for a couple of years). By Thompson's logic, Walgreens should still prosecute me to the full extent of the law.
Go tell Fred that we are the ones who gave him the WMD's they did not have. And those chemical weapons. And most of the other weapons for that matter.
What are you Fred, retarted?
Nixon was right: Thompson is stupid.
My Rep Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) still thinks we went to war over WMD, too. Guess the news hasn't reached Tennessee. Sigh!!
>>> Hey, and check out the rack on my younger then
my daughter Trophy-wife!
Hey, I know her! She cried all through the lap dance...wanted $100 from me for am operation for her brother or somethig....
could it be? someone lazier and stupider than gwb??
Fred Thompson=P-O-S-E-R
'Nuff said.
Still clueless after all these years.
Inside the brain of a Republican right wingnut voter.....on voting day Nov 08
"Hmmm....I don't want a treehugger, wo-man, or a black guy for president....oh, hey...there's Fred Thompson's name...he drives a Red 'Fire' Truck with a gun rack...wow...I can have a beer with a guy like that, I'm voting for him"
Yes...its an epidemic...
How old is this dickhead, 103? He looks like he could punch his ticket any second.
Hey Fred, guess where Saddam got the biological weapons he used in the Gulf War? That's right, from members of your party in the 1980s. Dickhead.
I am sure Fred, with the right amount of $$$ behind him could be elected president.
He's just the type of person a large segment of the American electorate love to vote for. He seems approachable and he doesn't use a lot of big words or talk about a lot of heavy issues that make folks uncomfortable. You know, like a better education for our kids, why all the good jobs are leaving America, how we are going to keep on spending on a never-ending series of wars without going bankrupt, that maybe we won't be #1 in the world in a few years.
There's just a whole lot of people who don't want anyone challenging them with the need for deep thoughts and actual planning for America's future. Ladies and Gentleman, I give you the perfect heir to George Bush, President Fred Thompson.
I just read through all the comments on this thread and was struck by the fact that no one seems to be pro-Fred. Usually, there are a few comments for the guy that's being skewered. I think this guy is toast, of a very deep hue.
Exactly right! Fred it the least open-minded candidate out there.
Vote Not Fred '08!
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