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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-18-07 04:39 PM
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(Tony) Snow disputes claim that Iraq is blunder

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070218/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq_148

Snow disputes claim that Iraq is blunder Sun Feb 18, 11:28 AM ET

WASHINGTON - The White House on Sunday disagreed with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (news, bio, voting record)'s claim that the Iraq war was "the worst foreign policy mistake" in U.S. history.

White House press secretary Tony Snow said it was important to remove Saddam Hussein from power and noted that a majority of senators voted in 2002 to authorize the use of force in Iraq.

He said President Bush should not see votes in Congress in opposition of his new Iraqi strategy as a rebuke.

"The strategy has barely had a chance to begin working," Snow said.

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"What I would say to members of Congress is: Calm down and take a look at what's going on, and ask yourself a simple question: If you support the troops, would you deny them the reinforcements they think are necessary to complete the mission?'"

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Submariner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-18-07 04:44 PM
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1. Complete the mission?
Removing the strongman Saddam opened up a world of sh!t for the U.S. Who the hell would believe a Fox Noise White House Press Secretary anyway? Who does he think he is kidding. Just another diaper load from chickenhawk Tony Snowjob. Gawd...I hate the lot of them!
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0rganism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-18-07 06:37 PM
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7. don't you see? the mission is "incomplete":
We may have "opened up a world of shit", but we haven't shoveled it all over ourselves and contaminated every available well with it yet. Then, and only then, will the mission be complete.
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lizerdbits Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-18-07 04:45 PM
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2. Snow disputes claim that sky is blue
If Bush really supported the troops he'd bring them home and give the saved $ to the VA.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-18-07 05:10 PM
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3. He is sorry excuse for a journalist!
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-18-07 05:18 PM
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4. Phony Snow: White House shill and #1 cheerleader
He is a joke.
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-19-07 05:12 AM
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19. He really owes it to the country to stay in his office like the others before him,
and speak when there's a press briefing. My God. He just won't shut the #### UP!

Apparently this strange, strange person believes he has been elected Perpetual, Eternal, Non-Stop Spokesman on Every Subject, Forever.

If people can't stand his idiot boss, why on earth do we want to hear his publicity man every single day at least once scolding everyone for not supporting this murderous clown? I hate the sneer, smirk, leer, the sugary voice, the supercilious attitude. Bring back good old sinister Ari Fleisher!



Or how about Bette Davis Scotty McClellan?

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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-18-07 06:09 PM
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5. I'd hate to see what his idea of a big fat mess is !!!!
it's a dog's breakfast.
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sarcasmo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-18-07 06:19 PM
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6. Tony Snow says Pigs do fly. I have the memo in my hand that says Pigs do Fly
Snow said earlier today. Dick Cheney handed me the memo and he never lies.
Why can't these lunatics admit the truth. Blunder is to nice of a word. Kick and Nom.
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-18-07 06:42 PM
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8. This "mission" is obviously to drain the Treasury completely, and reduce our ability to defend
ourselves and eliminate our ability to recover from any major natural or man-made disaster as a result of National Guard force reduction.

The "mission" is to destroy America as we once knew it.
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Metta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-18-07 06:42 PM
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9. As Lenny Bruce said, "Lie. Even if they have pictures."
I figure as a matter of course that whatever he says, the opposite is true.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-18-07 06:47 PM
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10. $2,267,000,000,000 (yes, trillion!) to make the Middle East UNSAFE for America...
regional peace, world peace, the global struggle against internatioal terrorism, democracy, and freedom?

Yeah, I'd consider that something of a foreign policy blunder.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12855294/national_affairs_the_2_trillion_dollar_war

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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-18-07 07:02 PM
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11. I dispute that Tony Snow has his head up his ass
His head is up so many other asses, he hasn't the time to stick it up his own.
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Thor_MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-18-07 07:46 PM
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12. Blunder? no. Colossal and Criminal Fuckup?? You bet.
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pfitz59 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-18-07 08:10 PM
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13. Hear! Hear!
I second that assertion!
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ninkasi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-18-07 08:17 PM
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14. About that "supporting the troops" thing
Hey, Tony, do you really think that your boss is supporting the troops by slashing funding for the VA? Is it really supporting them by making already exhausted men and women stay longer, or redeploy sooner, because your boss is an idiot? What about your boss saying time and again that his war of choice in Iraq is going to determine the future of civilization, yet slashing taxes on the wealthy, instead of properly outfitting the troops of the equipment and resources they need to fight?

Tony, your boss has a very, very strange way of showing support for the troops. Badly wounded troops are denied full disability, because that might mean that the ones largely benefiting from waging war might have to contribute a few bucks to take care of them, if their taxes were raised. So Tony, ask yourself this question "if you support the troops, would you deny them the medical care they need and deserve, in order to heal after they have contributed to this rich man's war?" I mean, they profit, yet do not contribute anything, not money, nor their children, in order to fight it. Ok, Tony, what's your answer, you sickening piece of shit?
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NastyRiffraff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-18-07 08:35 PM
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15. Complete WHAT mission?
The so-called "mission" was originally "regime change." They never had a plan, viable or not, for anything beyond that (except to put money in certain contractors' pockets). They don't have a plan, OR a mission, now. They're just throwing away more lives, American and Iraqi, so they don't have to admit defeat. This is all about Dumbass's ego and nothing else. Our troops, and innocent Iraqis will be sacrificed for that meglomaniac.

I could SCREAM every time I hear these idiots say "support the troops." They don't CARE about the troops, or anything but themselves.

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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-18-07 10:06 PM
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16. God disputes that he created Tony Snow.
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-19-07 04:04 AM
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17. he's right . . . it's not a blunder . . . it's a CRIME ! ! ! . . . n/t
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pinniped Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-19-07 04:11 AM
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18. Snowjob knows he's preaching to their sub 30% base.
30% is all they have left.

This BS is not meant to be digested by the rest of us.
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-19-07 06:03 AM
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flyarm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-19-07 09:53 AM
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21. AND HE WHOULD KNOW WHY????????? HE IS A TV COMMENTATOR!!
HE IS NOTHING MORE OR LESS THAN A TALKING HEAD...end of story!!

he is not a jouranlist..he is nothing but a manufactured talking head..

he is an expert on nothing but being a bullshit artist!!

he is not a historical scholar..he is not an academic..neither military nor otherwise..

his opinion is not an educated opinion..

his opinion is not worth a damn ..it isn't worth the toilet paper it would need to wipe the bullshit off his face!!

fly
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