Bush: "go on offensive" best way to protect US

[Judi Lynn]

Bush: "go on offensive" best way to protect US

www.chinaview.cn 2005-07-21 01:23:27


WASHINGTON, July 20 (Xinhuanet) -- US President George W. Bush on Wednesday told the public that the best way to protect the US homeland is to "go on offensive."

"I want you to remember, as we work to secure the homeland, we have to be right 100 percent of the time, and the enemy only has to be right one time," Bush said during a televised speech delivered in the Port of Baltimore, Maryland.

"Therefore, the best way to protect the homeland is to go on the offensive, is to find these people in foreign lands and bring them to justice before they come here to hurt us," he said.

To that end, Bush said, the US government is adopting a two-pronged strategy, including intelligence-sharing with allies and hunting for terrorists around the world.
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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-07/21/content_32...

[Mythsaje]

1. When HASN'T Bush been offensive?

Oh, wait...that wasn't quite what he meant, was it?

[Lisa]

38. yeah, it's just about the only thing he can do consistently

Offend people.

[Erika]

2. How about Christ's Golden Rule?

Bush's interpretation of Christianity is very weird and menacing.

[louis-t]

3. "We have to be right 100% of the time"

Well, let's see, starting from being right 0% of the time, smirk's got a long way to go.

[rfranklin]

4. Yes, it's the best way to provide cover for the Neocon....

program of imperialism around the world. Sorry, George, that fig leaf has dried up and shriveled under the hot glare of the video lights.

[Nostradammit]

5. We must go to the wasps' nest and find all the ones

who might someday sting us. Then we must whack the nest with a stick until they are all dead.


Great thinking, George.

[LiberalFighter]

21. How many escape to later sting another time?

[snippy]

6. He must think it worked well for Spain and Britain. n/t

[xxqqqzme]

7. 'we have to be right 100 percent of the time'

he might want to set his sights a bit lower since he hasn't managed ANYthing right so far.

[rocktivity]

8. You've been on the offensive since 9/11, commander in chump

and the only mission you've accomplished is making your friends richer.


rocknation

[Roland99]

9. And screw the defenses in the meantime. What a MORAN!

[DemoTex]

10. Bu$h needs to read the Nuremberg Indictments.

1. Conspiracy to commit crimes against peace
2. Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression
3. War-Crimes
4. Crimes against humanity

Bu$h is certainly two-for-four (#1 & #2), if not four-for-four, right now.

[MGKrebs]

11. Even if I agreed with the idea,

there would be an underlying assumption in my statement that we would go on the offensive AGAINST THOSE WHO ARE A THREAT TO US, not just randomly be on the offensive.

edited for clarity

[rodeodance]

14. I listened to most of the speech. Jr was is high post 9/11 mode.

[meti57b]

12. going on offensive means the opponent figure their best defense is offense

[Marthe48]

13. These liars and thieves are losing in the polls

so they will go start killing people somewhere else to take the spotlight off their high crimes and misdemeanors? I wonder if the public will go for it this time? And how many times they'll whip this dead horse?

[FormerOstrich]

15. Do they have the authority to do this?

Where is Congress?

I act like this is new or something....sigh

[PurityOfEssence]

16. No more Mr. Nice Guy

The swagger is sickening.

Too bad Ninny-boy just doesn't have enough legions to trample everyone who's got it coming to 'em; it must keep him in a smoldering rage.

This also sounds like coded hints at an operation in Syria, but that's just me...

[wookie294]

17. Huh ?

"the US government is adopting a two-pronged strategy, including intelligence-sharing with allies and hunting for terrorists around the world."

Yo, Bush! That's the strategy all presidents have used. You're adopting that strategy today instead of yesterday?? WTF??

[pfitz59]

18. Army has 15,000 more potential recruits........

Courtesy of Hewlitt-Packard and the Bush* economy!

[obxhead]

19. ",as we work to secure the homeland"

Didn't they just cut transportation (rail and subway) security by 50 million. Way to go shrub.

[barb162]

20. He still can't find Bin Laden, still doesn't have enough troops,

he's bankrupting the country on Iraq, and he's talking about offense?

[KansDem]

22. When I played football, the best offensive was giving our playbook...

...to the other team.

Now, I know that sounds silly, but that's what Bush did when he exposed Plame.

What a stupid shit. Did he really think his sixth-grade bullying tactics would work on grownups in international affairs?

[goclark]

23. He said, "we are on the HUNT"

What a horrible expression for the head of the USA to use.


How much more can we take!

[bspence]

24. Same crappy lines we've heard a million times n/t

[quiet.american]

25. This is news???? n/t :)

[Rebellious Republican]

26. So what was the date on this LBN? Sounds very familar to me!

[billyoc]

27. Well, OK then!

Since I'm still only 42, I guess I'll be among those doing the "finding in foreign lands" part, while you strut around like a rooster threatening the next country you want me to protect you from, eh Georgie?

[fob]

28. How does Saudi Arabia fit in with the "two-pronged strategy" of

intelligence sharing with "allies" and hunting for terrorists around the world?

Even fromthe "official" report of 9/11 15 of the 19 "hijackers" were Saudis.

We don't seem to be "hunting for terrorists" there so I guess they're allies?

[daleo]

29. Was Bush 100% right when tens of thousands of Iraqi

and Afghanistan civilians were killed in his invasions and subsequent occupations?

[teryang]

30. Candid assessments of the coming denouement in Iraq

...draw bully pulpit counterpropaganda. Organizationally, the Army can carry this on for 12 to 18 months more tops. As Col. Cordesman, who is a conservative military analyst says, "they're eating the seedcorn."

[VegasWolf]

31. I think it's working! I find Bush very offensive! nt

[tabasco]

32. Bush went on the offensive during Vietnam.

Straight to a champagne unit with obsolete planes. Couldn't even maintain flight status and refused to take a flight physical.

Now he wants to wage neverending war with YOU AND YOUR KIDS. The ruling elite will never bear the suffering of fighting "on the offensive." That is for the serfs.

[wli]

33. I thought Patriot Act extension by 10 years was fait accompli

I saw it somewhere, anyway. Maybe it was just one branch of legislature.

[Enraged_Ape]

34. What a coincidence. Hitler thought the same thing!

Hence the 'Ardennes Offensive', AKA 'The Battle of the Bulge', the beginning of the end of the Nazi war machine.

And this idiot monkey was supposedly a history major?

[Gregorian]

35. It hasn't worked yet. And it never will.

George came out of the womb and punched the doctor who delivered him, I bet.

[DawgHouse]

36. All I hear anymore is blah blah blah blah

It's the same old line, same old rhetoric.

[Deja Q]

37. what's to protect anymore? The jobless masses and idiot commuters?

[Rex]

39. So who do we invade next?