Bush:Americans learning Arabic will show the Middle East that "we care"

[rainbow4321]

AAARRGGGHHHHH....:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Get a President who stops invading their countries/killing their people and THEN the Middle East will say we care....

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3586962.html

Much of the instruction is intended to focus not on the traditional European and Latin American languages that Americans have tended to study most, but also on what the U.S. government has identified as languages "critical" for national security.

These include Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Hindi and Farsi, among others.

Bush intends to request $114 million in fiscal 2007 for the programs, which involve the departments of State, Education and Defense, as well as the director of national intelligence, according to officials who briefed reporters on details. The announcement came at a gathering early this month of more than 120 U.S. university presidents at the State Department.

"When Americans learn to speak a language, learn to speak Arabic, those in the Arabic region will say, 'Gosh, America's interested in us. They care enough to learn how we speak,'" Bush said.

[hobbit709]

1. This coming from somebody

who can't even speak English? Give me a break. Learning the language without learning/understanding the culture is no help at all.

[LiberalEsto]

2. "We care, and we want to bomb you to smithereens"

"And take your oil."

That's was B*sh and his evil empire CARE about.

[rainbow4321]

13. Chimp's way of breaking the news to us...

Start training your elementary school aged kids the local language now since when they turn 18, the GOP regime will still be sending them over to the ME to "spread democracy" a.k.a steal oil.
Guaranty you this new "program" of his will be geared towards inner city minorities..the ones most likely to end up in the military.

So teach the language, don't respect their religion or the culture, just speak the language so the toture sessions won't need a translator in the room...less witnesses to the war crimes...

[Maggie_May]

3. Does anyone know how to say

F you in Arabic?

[stray cat]

7. I think the hand signal is a thumb pointed up

Makes you wonder about the correct interpretation of some of the thumbs up Americans saw from Iraqis when we invaded.

[stray cat]

4. They will think we are planning to take over their country

and we are simply smart enough to make sure some of us know the language so we can communicate.

I agree fluency in languages other than english should be part of education and the more Americans who know Arabic the better.

However, once again Bush appears to be thinking rather too simplistically. Kind of like when he said we would be greeted as liberators and Iraq could pay for its own reconstruction and it would remake the mid east into an oasis of happy democratic countries who would no longer want to hurt anyone.

[Yoda Yada]

5. Care? They're still wondering why you can't speak ENGLISH, George. n/t

[notadmblnd]

6. I want to hear you speak it first Mr. bush

yeah, I didn't think so.

[rodeodance]

8. i would settle to hear him speak English at press conferences.

[SmokingJacket]

9. But if we buy a bunch of Arabic dictionaries and newspapers...

we'll end up on somebody's watchlist.

[otohara]

21. In A New York Minute

but officer, I was just trying to show the Arab's that "I care".

[blossomstar]

10. How nice... about FIVE YEARS late.... duh?

[rocktivity]

11. Arabs know what Americans care about, all right

That's the problem!

:rofl:
rocknation

[jimshoes]

12. It will be usefull when the arabs own the USA

sometime in the future. After chumpy breaks the bank and the arabs buy the debt for pennies on the dollar.

[madrchsod]

14. moran..i see why he wears an ear piece

no one with half a brain would say such a thing as that...

[Marr]

15. This is the fascist movement's idea of good education.

Teach those kids to do surveillance.

[More Than A Feeling]

16. They'll just get kicked out if they are gay...

:eyes:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/11/14/attack/main529418.shtml

[DoYouEverWonder]

17. Bush sure seems hellbent on giving bin Laden everything he wants

When do we start praying toward Mecca three times a day?

[malaise]

18. So his not learning English means????? n/t

[earth mom]

19. OH THIS IS SOOOOOOO EVIL! Obviously a military ploy!

Yup, gotta have soldiers that speak the language of the "enemy"! :puke:

[txindy]

20. You betcha

You can count on them monitoring the Arab language programs throughout the country. They'll be signing up graduates, one way or the other.

[Cha]

22. zidzi to bush..

learn English..it will be a step in showing Americans you give a shit.

[Autumn Colors]

23. Learn Arabic so we can draft you....

The military needs translators ... that's what that quote says to me.