Posted by Bling Bling on December 5, 2004, at 7:34:17
In reply to Re: Quiz: Who said this?, posted by jakeman on December 4, 2004, at 13:24:38
> > "I just don't think it's the role of the United States to walk into a country and say,
> > 'This is the way we do it — so should you.'"
> > Answer: George W. Bush, in September 2000.
> >
> > It seems that, at the same time that "Bush's Brain" Karl Rove was planning the occupation of Iraq, he was briefing his protege to reassure American voters with sound-bites like the above.
> >
> > The third and final part of a BBC TV documentary "The Power of Nightmares"
> >
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/3755686.stm
> >
> > includes a video clip of Bush saying these exact words. My memory isn't *that* good: I copied the exact words from a newspaper review published the next day, which unfortunately is not on the newspaper's web site. It was broadcast here in the UK five to seven weeks ago; if you get the chance to see it, I think you'll both find it interesting — much more so than the BBC's rather superficial web pages suggest.
> >
> > For online evidence that Bush has expressed the same opinion on more than one occasion:
> >
> > http://joshw.org/mod/diary/discuss.php?entry_id=765
> > http://www.fareedzakaria.com/articles/newsweek/070703.html
>
> > Jonathan.
>
> Here's a another quote along those lines:
>
> "I will work hard to find political solutions that allow an orderly and timely withdrawal from places like Kosovo and Bosnia. We will encourage our allies to take a broader role. We will not be hasty, but we will not be permanent peacekeepers dividing warring parties."
> George Bush, September 23, 1999
>
> As a Texas resident, I know that Bush has a long history of saying one thing and doing another. (In the old days that practice was called lying).
> What is shocking to me is that people don't seem to care.
>
> Here is a link to the PBS program, "The War Behind Closed Doors," in which interviewees talk about the neo-conservatives priming Bush for a war with Iraq prior to his election.
> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq
>
> How ironic is it Bush's close circle of hawkish advisers-- K. Rove, R. Perl, C. Rice, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz (and Bush himself) never served in a war? Yet the Bush campaign smeared Kerry's military service record...
>
>What I find worrisome is the deciding factor that got Bush back was his stance on same sex marriages.
I put up an anti-Bush link, http://sorryeverybody.com/ , so here is a pro-Bush link to balance it out: http://yourewelcomeverybody.com/
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