Bush taking Iran threats 'very seriously'

[sabra]

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/breaking_news/14524713.htm

Bush taking Iran threats 'very seriously'
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - President Bush says he's paying close attention to threats made against Israel by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

"I think that it's very important for us to take his words very seriously," he told the German newspaper Bild. "When people speak, it is important that we listen carefully to what they say and take them seriously.

A transcript was released Sunday of the president's comments made in interviews at week's end.

"For example, when al Qaeda speaks, I take their words seriously," he told Bild. "When (Osama) bin Laden says we'll bring harm to the West, I take them seriously."

Bush said: "when Ahmadinejad speaks, we need to take it seriously, and when he says he wants to destroy Israel, the world needs to take that very seriously.

[tuvor]

1. Seriously?

[susu369]

8. Very

:evilgrin:

[VegasWolf]

35. "Now watch me make this drive!" nt

[Duer 157099]

36. LOL, that's what I thought too.

[Kutjara]

2. He's one seriouse mofo. Don't mess with him. He's serious. n/t

[bahrbearian]

3. Bwwhaha

"When (Osama) bin Laden says we'll bring harm to the West, I take them seriously."


Now back to clearing brush,, or is it fishing ?

[Kutjara]

5. I think 'seriously' is Bush's shorthand...

...for "It's too much for me, so I turn it over to Dick and Donald and forget all about it."

[arewenotdemo]

14. Americans SHOULD take terrorists' threats seriously.

Now watch this drive.

[0007]

23. In his cheevy peecup, junior thinks hard about whether to go fishing

or to clear some bushes .....

[grytpype]

4. He is so effing retarded. Seriously.

Someone said "serious" to him in his daily briefing and now that's all he can say.

[kestrel91316]

6. Are you series?

(I had to do it first)

[Malva Zebrina]

7. So what is Israel doing?

Same position they took on the invasion of Iraq? No Israelis were lost in that one, if I am reckoning right. Yet here we go again, with putting Aamericans at the jeapardy, in order to defend--who? Israel. WTF? We are taking threats against Israel as threats against the United States of America? That is not logical. We will send a nuke, and our young to die, because we take threats against Israel seriously? or what?

Israel must take a stand--and Israel has taken a stand. It has threatened to attack Iran and demolish it's nuclear faclitiles at least six times already.

So what are we to make of this? Many of us are sick and tired of this chest beating--if Iran is a threat to the United States of America, then let us prove that threat. If Iran is a threat to the oil conglomerates and the increasing depletions of oil as an energy source, then let us address that.

AS it is, I think there a quite a few Americans, who are NOT willing to have one more of our young troops sacrificed in order to protect Israel.

Israel can fight it's own battles--let Israel invade Iran and solve the dilemma. I am sick of it.

[bdamomma]

24. That is my question

too what is Isreal saying about all this??? they have their own nukes also. bush is just a shameless evil man, and just does give a shit about anything or anyone.

[shadowknows69]

9. There's the tie to Al-Qaida

I can't believe these monsters are going to win the game again with the same old playbook.

[teryang]

10. The neo-cons are desperate to start another war to avoid the...

...consequences of the war they are losing in Iraq. There is no greater political diaster than military defeat.

I don't think that it's any accident that Colbert targeted Bush or that McGovern was allowed to target Rumsfeld. There is dissent among the elites.

[babylonsister]

11. What a fucktard. I can just imagine him deflecting attention from Iraq

by starting something with Iran. He is THAT stupid! :grr: :grr:

[shadowknows69]

18. We are going to attack them from Iraq

that will provide its own distraction. Lots of Embedded reporters showing the armored push to Tehran.

[mom cat]

12. Ahmadinejad did NOT say that he wanted to destroy Israel. This is

a very bad translationJuan cole has this to say:
"
Bill Scher: The Importance of Cole v. Hitchens
And, a Suggestion

Bill Scher nails it.

He also points out the MEMRI's translation is close to my own.

So, I have a suggestion for my readers. Every time you see a newspaper article that alleges that Ahmadinejad said that Israel should be wiped off the face of the map, please write the editor. Say that this idiom does not exist in Persian, and that what Ahmadinejad actually said was, "This occupation regime over Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time." And you can cite me.

If enough people do this often enough, the press will get tired of the propaganda line they are carrying, which is intended to whip up a manufactured war, and drop it. And that would be the most fitting response to Hitchens and his Neocon puppeteers."

posted by Juan @ 5/04/2006 01:22:00 PM
http://www.juancole.com/

[truth2power]

26. Thanks, mom...

I was thinking I needed to go look for Juan's blog entry about this. One of his best, I would say! And there's even a link to the original Persian, for anyone here who can read it.

I think it's shameful that Bush waves his dick around and ramps up the fear when Ahmadinejad makes a speech, our supine, lazy press gives us crappy translations, and the PEOPLE have to research the truth from bloggers on the internet.

Bush - Leader of the Free World! Bah!! :puke:

[Cooley Hurd]

27. Thanks, MC - I was just about to post this...

...glad you did first!:hi:

[xchrom]

13. bush and ahmadinejad should get married.

then they could look into each others souls and take each other seriously.

[Rex]

15. Bush is now the Serious Decider.

It should be mandatory that he wear a sign that says 'imbecile'!

[leftyladyfrommo]

28. He has always seemed very serious to me. And he takes his

work seriously and you know he works very hard.

When he's not fishing and riding his stupid fucking bike.

[sarcasmo]

16. Get ready for $5.00 a gallon gas.

When the Idiot and chief invades Iran your gas budget will shoot through the roof.
Hopefully you will be able to use public transportation.

[Sterling]

31. That will happen anyway.

nt

[IndianaGreen]

17. Who elected Bush Prime Minister of Israel?

Or does this piece of shit think that Jesus has appointed him Divine Protector of the Holy Land? Anyone else not named Bush, would have found himself in a mental institution under strong anti-psychotic drugs.

How about Bush's threats to nuke Iran? Isn't that enough reason to lock up this dangerous man?

[truthisfreedom]

19. "When bin Laden says he'll bring harm, i take them seriously." them?

but, bushnut, you told us you weren't worried about him, and you even lied about that on national television during your rigged Kerry debate (mr. lumpy-back poopy pants.)


Bush 'Not Concerned' about Bin Laden in '02
By Maura Reynolds
The Los Angeles Times

Thursday 14 October 2004

WASHINGTON - Sen. John F. Kerry caught President Bush off guard during their final debate Wednesday night, asserting that the president once said he was "not concerned" about hunting down Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

In one of the testiest moments of the evening, Bush protested, "I don't think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden. That's kind of one of those exaggerations."

But during a news conference at the White House on March 13, 2002, Bush said something close to what Kerry quoted. "I truly am not that concerned about him," the president said, according to the official White House transcript.

The exchange between Bush and Kerry came during rebuttals to the first question of the debate, when moderator Bob Schieffer of CBS News asked Kerry whether the United States would regain the sense of security it had before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

"Six months after he said Osama bin Laden must be caught dead or alive, this president was asked, 'Where's Osama bin Laden?' " Kerry said. "He said, 'I don't know. I don't really think about him very much. I'm not that concerned.' We need a president who stays deadly focused on the real war on terror."

Bush's original comment came while U.S. forces in Afghanistan were searching for the Al Qaeda leader, who had eluded joint American-Afghan military operations designed to find him.

"We haven't heard much from him. And I wouldn't necessarily say he's at the center of any command structure. And, again, I don't know where he is," Bush said during the 2002 news conference. "I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him. I know he is on the run.

"I was concerned about him when he had taken over a country," Bush continued. "I was concerned about the fact that he was basically running Afghanistan and calling the shots for the Taliban. But once we set out the policy and started executing the plan, he became - we shoved him out more and more on the margins. He has no place to train his Al Qaeda killers anymore."

[Media_Lies_Daily]

20. Sounds like His Chimpness is talking about himself again.....

...because every time he threatens a country, he means it.

And tens of thousands of innocent people lose their lives because of a madman's ego.

[HuffleClaw]

21. 'when E.F. Hutton speaks, i listen!'

they spun what ahmadinejad said into an evil threat, one that was debunked here: http://www.juancole.com/2006/05/hitchens-hacker-and-hitchens.html just like they created a non-existant 'deadline' for iran just recently.

[habitual]

22. Well then why doesn't he listen and take him seriously

when he says that he is going to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes... asshat, you can't have it both ways... when he talks about nuclear tech. he can't be telling the truth, but when he talks about Israel he is telling the truth... Sounds like more CHERRY PICKING by the baby in the whitehouse.

[Sterling]

33. I really wish people here were less partisan on this issue.

It really is bad for all of us if Iran becomes an atomic power.

[sweetheart]

25. Should we take all the Iran threads very seriously?

Inconscionable authority says what?

[leesa]

29. Especially that threat to switch to Euros...got Iraq bombed after all.

[zann725]

30. OR to view from World perspective: "Iran takes Bush's threats seriously."

Takes two for a fight. And OUR Admin. reps certainly have all been out there verbally "swinging" a lot lately...like bullies in a school-yard who really WANT that 'fight'...then blame it on the victim for starting.

[Sterling]

32. Sure, the "World" wants Iran to have atomic weapons.

Sure.

[Az_lefty]

34. More seriously than a 7 pound perch?

:puke:

[Roland99]

37. Is he going to take Israel's threats seriously?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2270734


And, don't forget, Israel has DOZENS of UN Security Council Resolutions against it.

[VegasWolf]

38. Bush says this is HUGH and I'm series. nt