Bush Says Iraqis Not Grateful Enough
| Sun Jan. 14, 2007 8:08 PM PST
That's what he just said on 60 Minutes.
SCOTT PELLEY: Do you think you owe the Iraqi people an apology for not doing a better job?
BUSH: That we didn't do a better job or they didn't do a better job?
PELLEY: Well, that the United States did not do a better job in providing security after the invasion.
BUSH: Not at all. I am proud of the efforts we did. We liberated that country from a tyrant. I think the Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude, and I believe most Iraqis express that. I mean, the people understand that we've endured great sacrifice to help them. That's the problem here in America. They wonder whether or not there is a gratitude level that's significant enough in Iraq.
PELLEY: Americans wonder whether . . .
BUSH: Yeah, they wonder whether or not the Iraqis are willing to do hard work.
Here's a question for Emily Post: What level of gratitude is appropriate when your country has been invaded under false pretenses, tens of thousands of your fellow citizens have been killed, and hundreds of thousands have fled the country due to the very real fear of assasination? Will a muffin basket do it?
Bush then goes on to repeat a whole bunch of canards about Saddam "rushing to compete with Iran for a nuclear weapon" and that "everybody was wrong on weapons of mass destruction." (Uhhh, for the record, not everybody.)
After listening to Bush and Cheney (who seems raring to invade Iran, btw.) do the talk shows today, I'm left wondering: Do these guys really believe their own bullshit? Or is it all just cynical doublespeak? And which is worse? Morally, and for the future of the American and Iraqi people?
For the definitive chronology of the lies the Bush administration told to get us into the war see our our Iraq War timeline, "Lie By Lie: Chronicle of a War Foretold." For a timeline of Bush's own illustrious history of personal military service see "We Were Soliders Once?"
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I belive they really believe the party line, of course they only are acrors in the "SOAP OPERA" gov., they will say what they are told to say for the MONEY! I find it strange that thoese who get the most from the system are the ones to work the hardest to destroy it. It doesn't make sense for the ones getting the GOLDEN EGGS to kill the goose that lays the eggs!
That's right Vanderpoel, they are indeed in the satanic soap opera. A soap that has it's ratings going through the roof because most Americans just sit there with their thumbs up their ass's while they drool all over themselves like the brain dead shitheads that they are and do nothing but watch just to see what destruction will happen next in Iraq. Then they check the Net to see if there is any info on Paris Hilton and see if there's any shots of her licking out Mrs. Spears, smoke their dope, pound back a few beers, pray to God than go to bed and do it all over again until Jesus takes them to heaven.
Had enough?
I've been hearing this "ingratitude" thing from most of dick-swinging Republican males I work with. (Yes, I ACTUALLY know - and talk to - Republicans). There is no way ANY party can leave Iraq until the American males have a valid excuse for leaving. And "lack of gratitude" is as good a duplicitous excuse as any other. I'm sure my parent's generation used it on "those" Vietnamese when "they" lost that war too ('why aren't their boys dieing for THEIR country").
Submitted by g anton (not verified) on Mon Jan. 15, 2007 8:33 PM PST.
Bush is really getting it from all sides--from the congress,
the public, his own political party, etc. Put yourself in
the shoes of an Iraqi politicion. He knows and understands
all too well what's going on. Bush is politically weak,
and the continuing presence of US forces in Iraq is at best
uncertain.
The above described situation diminishes Bush's ability to
negotiate with the Iraqis and lessens his power to control
policy, planning, and the the course of events. Congress
does't like Bush's plan, nor do the Iraqis. Unlike the
congress, the Iraqis have their own plan that they want to
use instead of Bush's. Another point of contention is
whether certain key positions in the chain of command
should be filled by an Iraqi or by an American. It is
qustionable whether Bush's plan will ever see Iraqi
daylight!
Of course there are stark differences between the national
interests of the US and those of Iraq. For example, a key
feature of Bush's plan is to interrupt alleged support of
the Iraqi insurgents by Iran and Syria, and the US is
definitely hostil toward these countries (to the extent
that congressional figures have admonished the Bush
administration against commiting warlike acts without
the consent of congress). Unlike the US, the Iraqi Shiite
politicians want to be on very friendly terms with their
neighbors, and the Iraqi prime minister is presently on
a good will trip to Syria.
Other problem situations have recently plagued US-Iraqi
relations. Bush in his wisdom attacked an Iranian
embassy in the Kurdish sector of Iraq and kidnapped five
Iranian diplomats. This was done without notifying the
Kurds before the fact. As a result of Bush's folly, there
was an immediate armed standoff between American troops
(who wanted to go where the Kurds didn't want them to go)
and Kurdish troops, and Bush blinked! Also, the Iraqis
have demanded the the US release the Iranian hostages.
Is Bush going to have a war now with an army that he
created, equiped, and trained?
My point is that Iraq and the Iraqis have been too often
ignored by Us politicians and the press. For example,
Dr. Noam Chomsky has pointed out that the major defect of
the ISG (Iraq Study Group) report is that it completely
ignores Iraq and the Iraqis. I have tried to causatively
relate the current Bush/Iraq political circus in the
US to problems that Bush is currently facing in Iraq.
Now I can hardly wait to see what effect the developing
Iraqi situation has on the US political scene.
Bush this, Bush that, Bush, Bush, Bush, that's all America hears from it's proxy controlled media. Bush couldn't run a two-door outhouse, nevermind a country!
So while all the focus is on a closet President who has the I.Q. of a fence post, Mr. Cheney and the neo-con's play hide'n'seek in the shadows. Bush is the dumb diversion for even dumber Americans. And as he cheers like a paid for stand in comic releafer, he gives the real culprits time to make plans for more attacks and put more tax payers money into their own pockets.
What a hateful warmonger this Bushman is. (Poppy too, but he hides it better.) For families to come to grips with the fact that their child is insane is usually a very painful, sometimes intimidating process. Often times, families simply ignore, or pretend that there is no insanity running rampant in the family tree. The sooner the family recognizes the insanity and does something about it, the better the chances for healing and recovery, both for the insane and for the rest of the family. The Bushman is insane. Barbara and Poppy continue to protect him. So does Laura and so did the country for quite a while. The country has awakened to the fact that their resident in the white house is insane. Pelosi does not need to enable or protect Bush. Start Impeachment procedures now. The pain of not impeaching Bush will be many more times greater than the pain of doing so. Plese Impeach the Warmonger NOW!
