Throwback thread: Baghdad Bob

Please let me know what comments are necessary in advance, and I'll do my best to steer clear.

Seriously, though -- it wasn't even a joke. Cheney, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld all have track records of saying things just as preposterous -- and detached from reality -- as Baghdad Bob. At least Bob provided some comic value.

 

I don't like the administration, either. But I don't make a living off sixth-grade insults. No blind faith, here, either. Sorry to disappoint.

 

Ahem...

 

Make a living? Ain't seen the first check. That's why Fen left. Made enough slagging Bush to retire, I guess.

 

Bush Slagging would be an excellent name for a porno

 

I urge you to read the 2002 State of Union address and tell me if there is anything that President Bush failed to point out when he layed out his blue print for taking on the axis of evil.

Where was the disagreement then?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/01/20020129-11.html

"Our war on terror is well begun, but it is only begun. This campaign may not be finished on our watch -- yet it must be and it will be waged on our watch."

The last time I spoke here, I expressed the hope that life would return to normal. In some ways, it has. In others, it never will. Those of us who have lived through these challenging times have been changed by them. We've come to know truths that we will never question: evil is real, and it must be opposed. (Applause.) Beyond all differences of race or creed, we are one country, mourning together and facing danger together. Deep in the American character, there is honor, and it is stronger than cynicism. And many have discovered again that even in tragedy -- especially in tragedy -- God is near.

In a single instant, we realized that this will be a decisive decade in the history of liberty, that we've been called to a unique role in human events. Rarely has the world faced a choice more clear or consequential.

Our enemies send other people's children on missions of suicide and murder. They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed. We stand for a different choice, made long ago, on the day of our founding. We affirm it again today. We choose freedom and the dignity of every life.

Steadfast in our purpose, we now press on. We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, my fellow Americans, we will see freedom's victory.

Thank you all. May God bless.

 

Plenty of folks disagreed with him then.

And I'll ask that you now defend the implementation of the rhetoric from that speech. How are we doin' in Iraq? How we doin' in Afghanistan? When do we see Osama bin Laden - the engineer of that "single instant", that "decisive decade" - held accountable for what he did?

 

I don't think it was a joke. I think it was completely serious...and accurate.

 

Actually the principle architect of 9/11 was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - OBL as the head of Al Qaeda gave the go ahead.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is in custody at Guantanamo Bay but many on the left are against holding prisoners there and for giving animals like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed the rights of US citizens appearing in our courts of law. People like you on the left crying crocodile tears for people like KSM while thinking of George Bush as the monster. I just can't take people like you serious.

Now I know you will probably take umbrage at my post but I really don't care. Instead of wasting your time whining about how you won't stay silent the next time or won't get fooled again - why don't you bring down some donuts to the local Code Pinkers protesting outside some VA hospital or something.

Now I'll go put my poking stick back in my golf bag.

 

"People like you?"

Take us "serious"?

Where did I say anything about empathy or sympathy for Al Queda? Or its operatives? Or breathe a word about Guantanamo? Or call Bush a "monster"?

Crocodile tears?

Whining?

Won't get fooled again?

I wasn't fooled the first time.

Wasn't Osama made Public Enemy #1 by the very administration you seek to defend? And if Khalid Mohammed was the man responsible for September 11th, and we've captured him, why can't we bring everyone home from Afghanistan? Or are you trying to argue a sidebar on the use of the word 'engineeer'?

I asked someone else to defend the implementation of the rhetoric in the 2002 State of the Union address. Nothing you just posted answers the question I asked. Nor does it defend the murderous stupidity and historic uselessness of the implementation in question.

 

Oh come on jgmacg.

Every time there's a Bush thread you get all whiny and self righteous. You are so predictable because you take yourself so serious. Every time. It's silly.

Oh and since Bush gave that speech - Iraq was liberated from the clutches of a murderous tyrant, the tyrant was himself subjected to justice, the nation of Iraq held a number of national elections, and full autonomy has been achieved in a majority of the provinces of Iraq. Freedom for 26 million people in a historically unprecedented timeframe but you call that a failure all because people like you are demented by hatred of George W. Bush.

Stick to catchphrases like Bush lied! Or No blood for oil! And go get those donuts.