Bush regrets using the phrases, "Bring em' on", & "Dead or Alive"

[franksumatra]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20050114/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_regrets

During a round-table interview with reporters from 14 newspapers, the president, who not long ago declined to identify any mistakes he'd made during his first term, expressed misgivings for two of his most famous expressions: "Bring 'em on," in reference to Iraqis attacking U.S. troops, and his vow to get Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) "dead or alive."


"Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean," Bush said Thursday. "'Bring 'em on' is the classic example, when I was really trying to rally the troops and make it clear to them that I fully understood, you know, what a great job they were doing. And those words had an unintended consequence. It kind of, some interpreted it to be defiance in the face of danger. That certainly wasn't the case."

......Duhhh!....no shit Sherlock...words have consequences. My favorite part is where Laura told him, "Why did you say that for?"

[meegbear]

1. Stupid move saying you'd get Bin Laden ...

considering you never were going to in the first place, you turd.

[JordanTO]

2. He mistook himself for John Wayne.

What a complete doofus!

:eyes:

[SweetLeftFoot]

3. Becoming human

perhaps.

[gnofg]

5. fat chance

This is just a ruse. Do you really think he has any guilt with killing people. This is the guy who mocked that women who was executed in Texas.

[SweetLeftFoot]

10. True enough

[Darth_Kitten]

4. You cannot regret anything if you don't have a conscience....

but Bush's "apology", shallow and phony as it is, will most certainly be enough to appease his simple-minded followers. :D

[kikiek]

6. I wonder if all those papers endorsed him. It would be so typical to only

invite his loyal followers.

[readmylips]

7. Iraq has Weapons of Mass Distruction....

Little bush, how much have the American people paid, in life and money, for your phrase 'Iraq has Weapons of Mass Destruction?'

We know, you don't give a shit.

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. Too stupid to represent the interests of 300,000,000 people.

[tinanator]

9. oops

told the wrong lie.

[franksumatra]

11. more: 'Bush will watch what he says in 2nd term'.......yeah right....

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Inauguration/story?id=406639&page=1

Bush told Walters that the first lady criticized him for pledging after Sept. 11 to get al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden "dead or alive."


"I'll be more disciplined in how I say things," the president, adding, "I have to be cautious about conveying thoughts in a way that doesn't send wrong impressions about our country."


Bush repeated that his administration will continue to make the war on terror a priority and continue its pursuit of bin Laden, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

.....Speaking with Barbara Walters, airs tonight. I wonder if I can stand to watch it?

[PA Democrat]

20. Bush is just NOW realizing he needs to make an effort to weigh his words!

That's a lesson he should have learned as a CHILD. It makes you crazy doesn't it?

Welcome to DU franksumatra!

[deutsey]

12. Gosh, you mean swaggering, simple-minded jingoism ain't good?

What ever are we to do now for a foreign policy?

:eyes:

[franksumatra]

13. 'our foreign policy will be humble'...'we are not into nation building'

I remember things for more than a few months, like most tuned out Americans. Bush also claims to be a compassionate conservative, but he's niether.

[deutsey]

15. Hey, reality is whatever the Bush Administration says it is

Haven't you heard?

[Dees]

14. Sure ..Failure*.. says he's sorry now.

That's as close as he's ever going to get to saying...I have screwed up everything.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. It's like having a six year old in charge of a superpower

"Oh mummy, I mean Laura, I never thought that people wouldn't get what I meant".

"It kind of, some interpreted it to be defiance in the face of danger. That certainly wasn't the case."
How the fuck else can you interpret 'Bring them on'? If he'd said now "Some interpreted it to be recklessness in the face of danger", his excuses would make sense (I still regard it as reckless, but at least it would be an arguable point). If he wanted to tell the troops he liked the job they were doing, then he would have said "You're doing a great job". What an arsehole.

[TabulaRasa]

17. Hey Fuckwad

"Bring 'em on" isn't undiplomatic. Inviting people to attack our troops isn't undiplomatic. Encouraging death and destruction, in order to look tough, isn't undiplomatic. Your statement is a crowning example of what a despicable piece of garbage you are, the absolute worst of the worst. Other monsters of history (Hitler, Hussein, etc.) at least had the courage to fight themselves. You hide behind a podium, and incite attacks against poor, working-class kids. Every ancestor of yours should hang their head in shame over the fact that they contributed to your existence.

The thing that pisses me off the most about this is that Kerry totally gave him a pass on this. Every word that Kerry uttered, Bushco twisted in order to attack him, cementing it in the public mind. And here you have the President of the United States encouraging attacks against our soldiers, and the only thing Kerry, a former soldier, can think of is to work it into a lame stump speech punchline: "We have three words for him we know he understands: BRING IT ON." It makes me cringe just thinking about it. Could that campaign have been more incompetent?

[franksumatra]

19. Like a bull in a china shop

I'm enraged that he's even referred to as our leader. Never before in history has there been a more incompetent, unqualified boor in the office of president. Historic times indeed.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

18. not defiance, but IGNORANCE in the face of danger

after all, this is the silver spoon boy who never got a champagne guard unit's length closer to actual combat.
Bush is an idiot and a danger to our troops, not to mention the other 250 million of us.

[MsTryska]

21. so now he regrets saying it because

it's been "broughten"?


he's an asshat.

[Rapcw]

22. LOL n/t