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giddygeekI don't have a lot of time this morning but there was this article on the AOL welcome screen about the protests, so I had to read it. And there were some truly choice quotes that I just had to share!
'But in an interview with Time Magazine, the president suggested he had underestimated the struggle of the postwar period in Iraq.
'Had we to do it over again, we would look at the consequences of catastrophic success, being so successful so fast that an enemy that should have surrendered or been done in escaped and lived to fight another day,'' Bush said.
I just really really want to know how you can be so successful so fast the enemy...runs away and lives to fight another day. Wouldn't that ordinarily mean you...failed? You won the battle and not the war? I mean, my extensive experience with, oh, Saturday morning cartoons leads me to believe that if your enemy comes back and starts beating you up pretty bad...you weren't entirely successful.
Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani likened Bush in speech excerpts to Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan in his ability to perceive a threat and show a willingness to confront it.
Man, I can't even think of anything to say about that other than Winston Churchill. Who in their right mind compares George W. Bush, a fraudulent president leading a largely unwilling country into a 'catastrophic success' of a war...to Winston Churchill?
In Wheeling, W.Va., Bush described Kerry as ''a fellow who is kind of shifting'' on coal issues. ''A while ago he said coal is a dirty source of energy. Then he decided he wanted to come to your state, and knock on your door. And then he said, now, well, I am for legislation that is supporting clean coal technology,'' Bush said.
I would like to know how it is 'kind of shifting' to not support the traditional and instead support a cleaner, more efficient use of coal. Are we against the cleaner, more efficient production of energy? Oh! Oh, that's right, we are, because our family has made a fortune in oil! *smacks forehead*
Police gave no official crowd estimate of the day's protest. One official put the size at 120,000, although it took nearly five hours for the procession to pass Madison Square Garden. Organizers claimed they had turned out roughly 500,000 protesters.
The real number being somewhere in the middle of those two, probably. Man, I wish I'd been there. The photos look fabulous! Thousands of people! T-shirts! Signs! Peacefully protesting! Good for them, man. I want to hug 'em all.
Also I want the phrase 'catastrophic success' on a bumper sticker. Right next to the phrase 'jumbo shrimp'.
Okay, going to work now. :)
'But in an interview with Time Magazine, the president suggested he had underestimated the struggle of the postwar period in Iraq.
'Had we to do it over again, we would look at the consequences of catastrophic success, being so successful so fast that an enemy that should have surrendered or been done in escaped and lived to fight another day,'' Bush said.
I just really really want to know how you can be so successful so fast the enemy...runs away and lives to fight another day. Wouldn't that ordinarily mean you...failed? You won the battle and not the war? I mean, my extensive experience with, oh, Saturday morning cartoons leads me to believe that if your enemy comes back and starts beating you up pretty bad...you weren't entirely successful.
Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani likened Bush in speech excerpts to Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan in his ability to perceive a threat and show a willingness to confront it.
Man, I can't even think of anything to say about that other than Winston Churchill. Who in their right mind compares George W. Bush, a fraudulent president leading a largely unwilling country into a 'catastrophic success' of a war...to Winston Churchill?
In Wheeling, W.Va., Bush described Kerry as ''a fellow who is kind of shifting'' on coal issues. ''A while ago he said coal is a dirty source of energy. Then he decided he wanted to come to your state, and knock on your door. And then he said, now, well, I am for legislation that is supporting clean coal technology,'' Bush said.
I would like to know how it is 'kind of shifting' to not support the traditional and instead support a cleaner, more efficient use of coal. Are we against the cleaner, more efficient production of energy? Oh! Oh, that's right, we are, because our family has made a fortune in oil! *smacks forehead*
Police gave no official crowd estimate of the day's protest. One official put the size at 120,000, although it took nearly five hours for the procession to pass Madison Square Garden. Organizers claimed they had turned out roughly 500,000 protesters.
The real number being somewhere in the middle of those two, probably. Man, I wish I'd been there. The photos look fabulous! Thousands of people! T-shirts! Signs! Peacefully protesting! Good for them, man. I want to hug 'em all.
Also I want the phrase 'catastrophic success' on a bumper sticker. Right next to the phrase 'jumbo shrimp'.
Okay, going to work now. :)
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Date: 2004-08-30 05:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-30 03:59 pm (UTC)Also I'd like to see him try to spell it. ;-)
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Date: 2004-08-30 09:48 am (UTC)Catastrophic success-did he come up with that one all by himself?
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Date: 2004-08-30 04:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-30 04:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-30 05:37 pm (UTC)