President Bush Speaks at CPAC
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Watching President Bush deliver his speech at CPAC. People were lining up at 5 am to get in line to see him. The crowd is loving him, shouting “We love you, George!” and “Four more years!” Great speech so far, gonna continue watching.
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76 Responses to “President Bush Speaks at CPAC”
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Case in point re: Blackwater killing civilians and how this undermines our reputation as “liberators”…
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4256679&page=1
then what exactly does that little (r) next to his name in the senate rollcall represent?
I’d say “maverick”, but that starts with an “m”. How about Republicrat?
Spook, here’s where I thought you were glib in post 34: “SteaM, do you have a credible source that supports our liberation of Iraq as the primary reason oil has quadrupled.”
You used the word “liberation” as if this concept is a given.
And I note that you completely stepped around the questions I asked in post 38, diverted to a straw man argument and said you have to “break a few eggs” to defeat tyranny.
It’s clear those questions expose a dilemma for you. Mr. Bush’s war has created a worse tyranny than the one he thought to overthrow. And it’s looking less and less likely that will ever change.
You speak (also a bit glibly, in my esitmation) of Iraq being a mere speed bump – I am not sure it feels that way to the millions of refugees who will never be able to return home. We exacted terrible revenge for our three thousand killed on 9/11 – this war has killed many multiples that number.
Forgive my persistence, but could you please tell me, once we’re over this “speed bump” do you foresee a time when Christians in Iraq will enjoy the freedom to worship in their own churches, and operate businesses alongside Muslims, as they did before our war of liberation?
“I’d say “maverick”, but that starts with an “m”. How about Republicrat?”
stress on the RAT
How did the book signing go boys?
Did you guys enjot Ann Coulter calling Edwards a woman and saying that the best thing that happened to the “B. Hussein Obama” campaign was that he was born “half black”?
How sad. Maybe if she were actually funny it might be different. But to real people she just seems like a sad playground bully that has serious issues.
When you saw W, did you scream and wet your pants?
Ask ole “W” why he is cutting funding for low income education projects while increasing funding for the Defense department in the new budget!
What a good guy! I’d like to have a beer with him!
Bush and the neocons twisted a screwdriver into the conservative movement the past six years. CPAC shouldn’t even have let him in the door. Didn’t listen to the speech. What part where they cheering; the nation building, borrowing billions from China to spend in Iraq, illegal immigration reform, wire tapping of their phones without a warrant, the huge deficits, the recession bail out, increasing the size of government, the three trillion dollar budget?
I understand that he apologized to the true conservatives at CPAC on behalf of his administration and the late Republican Congressional Majority for, in his words, “presiding over an orgy of profligacy, an astounding amount of wasted spending that will cost Americans, not to mention their children and grandchildren, for years. We increased spending on earmarks by an order of magnitude (that’s ten times for those of you who aren’t math majors or maybe had too many martinis) in my first term alone. Geez, we’ve fiscally screwed the pooch…er…screwed the people…uh…screwed up, big time.”
You used the word “liberation” as if this concept is a given.
It is a given. I’m only using the terminology that was in the original 1998 Act by Congress – “The Iraq Liberation Act”, signed by Bill Clinton and overwhelmingly supported by Congressional Democrats. If you want to criticize some, criticize Slick.
And I note that you completely stepped around the questions I asked in post 38, diverted to a straw man argument and said you have to “break a few eggs” to defeat tyranny.
I “completely stepped around your questions because none of them was legitimate.
It’s clear those questions expose a dilemma for you.
No, because they are all bogus.
Mr. Bush’s war has created a worse tyranny than the one he thought (sic) to overthrow.
Not sure how you figure that. At best it’s your opinion.
And it’s looking less and less likely that will ever change.
Again, your opinion. Many people of varied political persuasions would disagree with you.
You speak (also a bit glibly, in my estimation) of Iraq being a mere speed bump – I am not sure it feels that way to the millions of refugees who will never be able to return home.
About 2 million Iraqi refugees according to the most recent news reports I could find. Conflicts result in refugees. Just in the recent past 4 million refugees fled the civil war in Sudan, 2.5 million were displaced by the civil strife in Angola, 1.6 million in the Congo and 1.5 million in Colombia. Over 1 million fled Vietnam after our Democrat-controlled Congress abandoned them, and scattered across the globe, never to return to their homes. Another million were imprisoned without charges in reeducation camps where 165,000 died. Over 2 million died next door in the killing fields of Cambodia. History will look at the liberation of Iraq as a minor speed bump — sorry if you don’t like that term.
We exacted terrible revenge for our three thousand killed on 9/11 – this war has killed many multiples that number.
That’s offensive — Iraq had virtually nothing to do with 9/11, other than Al Qaeda has made it the central front in their war with us.
Forgive my persistence,
Fu*k you!!
do you foresee a time when Christians in Iraq will enjoy the freedom to worship in their own churches, and operate businesses alongside Muslims, as they did before our war of liberation?
You mean like this
A vote for McCain is a vote for four more years of Bush. That is ALL we Dems need to repeat until November.
Case closed.
Matt or Mark, I know your blog software doesn’t like multiple embedded links, but have you disabled the link capability completely? I mess one up once in a while, but I’ve never messed the same one up three times in a row. Just curious.
Spook,
Kick back & have another glass on me. Love your responses as they are factual and to the point. The facts confuse the liberals, and the whining from the liberals about President Bush (who is not running) by both the trolls on this blog & the candidates prove that they are looking back while the rest of us are looking forward.
Don’t exactly agree with Sen. McCain; however, he is the closest by far to even being a moderate. I am waiting to see his VP pick. Nonetheless, I know who is getting the top of my ticket so far this year and it is neither the truly corrupt Sen. Clinton, nor Sen. “Chicago Politics” Obama. Left & farther Left that pair.
The liberals here remind me of waterboarding. More examples of waterboarding were done by the very people that oppose it than the CIA has done. Arguing about and “torturing their own” over something over five years gone.
Yeah things are going great in Iraq !!
When the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down,
That was my all time favorite slogan What’s yours ?
Geesh, right on cue…told Matt that “four more years” would unhinge the lefties…
Why do you guys hate so much? Its really rather sad…
Spook, thanks for the response. You used “liberation of Iraq” in a literal fashion and I wanted to understand how this concept applies literally to the Iraqi people.
I doubt the stats from other wars bring any comfort to the victims of the Iraq war. It seems a moral copout to take refuge in how much worse the Khmer Rouge was. Using similar logic Saddam Hussein could have argued his tyranny was employed to avert far greater chaos and bloodshed – I’m not buying it.
I know Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, yet 9/11 was used to sell the war to the public. Many US troops in the initial offensive carried 9/11 memorabilia with them to psyche them up for battle. Offensive perhaps – but many Americans saw the war as revenge. It seems Mr. Bush may have, as well.
The church denomination I was raised in had a thriving membership and infrastructure in Iraq before the war. I know this because I had relatives who lived for decades in the ME, some of whom worked for the church. All is gone now, and that denomination was just one of many.
From conservatives who preach accountability and “a culture of life” it seems strange to hear the excuse “someone else was worse” to justify what we’ve done to Iraq.
Of course as you said, that is all just my opinion.
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The liberals here remind me of waterboarding.
Good point, David. More people drowned in Ted Kennedy’s Oldsmobile than ever drowned being waterboarded.
it seems strange to hear the excuse “someone else was worse” to justify what we’ve done to Iraq.
I don’t believe I said that, Dennis. I merely made the point that displaced people are an inevitable byproduct of conflict. For what it’s worth, I am sorry for the people from your former church. Perhaps someday Iraq will welcome them back.
I hope McCain and President Bush campaign together.
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Dennis,
If we could just go back to the secular haven, free from terrorism days of Saddam right?
God bless you President George W. Bush, the greatest president in american history.
THIS JUST IN…The CPAC convention was apparently infiltrated by a large band of Islamic terrorists bent on the destruction of the United States! Unmistakable evidence of this is that, when Bush entered the hall a chant of “Four More Years” arose from some of the convention attendees. Since it is overwhelmingly clear that nothing would destroy the country more swiftly or surely than another four more years of a Bush administration, one can only conclude that this is the work of terrorists. BEWARE you CPAC attendees!