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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 03:06 AM
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HEADLINE: Bush Urges U.S. to See Progress in Iraq
You see, gentle reader, the problem is with YOUR perception! You just are NOT paying attention to the BUZZWORD, namely "progress"! Kindly look beyond the violence and carnage, would you please? :crazy:

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WASHINGTON - After three years of war in Iraq, President Bush is trying to get Americans to look beyond the unrelenting violence that dominates news reports and see progress.

Progress is the buzzword at the White House as Bush headlines a campaign tied to the war's anniversary to buck up public support of the mission.

The president continues yet another series of speeches on Iraq — there have been several similar blitzes in the last year — Monday at the City Club of Cleveland. He planned to take questions about his war policy and other topics from the audience in the heavily Democratic city.

White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Bush would update Americans on his vision for Iraq — highlighting the progress being made while acknowledging that not everything has gone perfectly....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060320/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 03:08 AM
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1. I don't think I've ever wanted to hit a person more...
Pow! Right in the kisser!
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 03:13 AM
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4. To the moon, Alice!
Oops, forgot, Chimpolini said we were going to MARS! :rofl:
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LouisianaLiberal Donating Member (848 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 03:24 AM
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9. And even THAT (going to Mars)
is nothing more than an attempt to maintain military dominance of space. It galls me to be so cynical, but these cretins have done nothing to promote the general welfare. They never will. We've become so accustomed to looking for the worst in these people that it seems impossible that they could do anything positive or selfless.
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 03:12 AM
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2. Smug-faced bastard!
It's too late, you asshat! More and more people "get it" now. Talk all you want. Ain't gonna do you any good!
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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 03:12 AM
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3. I don't think there's enough acid in the world to alter my perception of
reality THAT much.
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 03:20 AM
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5. Yep. Slap the bastard
and ask why none of his kin are serving in Iraq.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 03:23 AM
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7. ESPECIALLY that nauseating nephew Pierce.
19 years old, prime age to enlist. Yeah, that could happen.
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JohnnyRingo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 03:22 AM
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6. Another fake "town meeting"
He planned to take questions about his war policy and other topics from the audience in the heavily Democratic city.

Except every Republican organization in Lake County will be in the audience.
"Mr Buxh...please tell us more about the rug in the Oval office."
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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 03:24 AM
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8. sorry, * some of us read the papers
and I don't see sucess.
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heirs_of_liberty Donating Member (114 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 03:24 AM
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10. Democracy What? It's about LIBERTY - Stupid!!!
Edited on Mon Mar-20-06 04:21 AM by heirs_of_liberty
Iran and South Carolina are 'democracies' Germany was a 'democracy' that elected a Christian Conservative Fascist called Hitler, Great Britain has been a lame Anglican Tory-Conservative Fascist 'democracy' that has caused and started dozens of selfish, criminal wars of aggression all over the world and in it's own land over the years, and until Neo-Nazi Christian Conservative George W Bush 'democratically' came along, America was a Liberal Democratic Nation based upon the fundamentals of secular Republican Liberty that had never initiated a completely unprovoked war under totally false pretenses.

Liberating people is about giving them permanent individual rights and religious freedom, and never ever about giving them any kind of a 'democratic' opportunity to vote in and establish some sort of hateful, dogmatic conservative religious-socialist fascist tyranny of their 'choosing'!

Sadly Saddam's Ba'athists only had to fight two enemies in Iraq to maintain good order, but this new Haliburton-CIA regime now has to fight no less than four different enemies, hows that for progress?
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file83 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 04:05 AM
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11. And in other news: DHS ordered 300 million Rose Colored Glasses
to be distributed across the country Monday. It's part of Bush's new "See the War My Way" initiative and is expected to have promising results. The glasses will be arriving from China in 150, non-inspected shipping containers.
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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 04:13 AM
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12. K&R For Hilarious Mid-Smirk Chimp Face!
CLASSIC BUSH!! OMG -- I still can't believe that smirking chimp is POTUS! It's all been like a bad dream, but at least he does do comic relief with the assclowning. I gotta admit that pic made me LOL!
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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 04:30 AM
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13. define "progress"
what are the "milestones" which define "progress"? bush* won't set any

instead he points to the generals and says he follows their advice and requests. basically, bush* has shifted responsibility (again) - anything going wrong is/will be some "general's" fault.

It's leadership through blameability
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 04:46 AM
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14. It does drive one crazy that every one tells their own story
You could read one side and all is good and other all is wrong. I have ended up with the people of Iraq are very happy Saddam is gone and that is all I can be sure of. The country from here looks a mess with some type of fighting going on so that few can get to these so called new schools were seem to have painted all over the country.The lady that blogs from Iraq is still saying the same thing she was saying years ago. It is a mess.
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Donkeykick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 06:06 AM
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15. Ha!
I don't know what to tell you; I dearly love it! You just love watching this guy look lonelier and lonelier all the time! His ratings just keep spiraling downward all the time! Down!
Down!
Down! :applause: :woohoo:
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 06:17 AM
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16. Instead of reading these phony speeches...
the Sock Puppet only needs to recite one sentence of the truth.


"The terrorists want to control the oil. Our way of life will be at risk". George W. Bush (Nov. 2005)
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 06:24 AM
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17. If I look REAL hard I can find a picture of the virgin mary in a pile of
dog poo too.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 11:26 AM
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20. And someone would buy it on ebay.
:crazy:
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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 06:33 AM
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18. Is it like one of those magic pictures? I never could see
anything in those either. You had to twist your eyeballs or something and I never could do it. Moran!
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 10:17 AM
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19. Sorry, I can't see what's not there! ABC news had an Iraqi who's
working for them, in secret, explain how his views have changed over the past 3 years. With the invasion, he was happy and excited, now he believes his life and Iraq are worse off. I really don't care what the Pentagon or administration says...the only ones whose views count are the Iraqis.
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Dr. Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 11:31 AM
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22. Ha, great minds think alike!
Didn't even look at your post until I posted a new comment to the OP - wow, great minds think alike!
:)
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Dr. Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 11:29 AM
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21. How can you see what is NOT THERE?
What an IDIOT!

He might has well just trot out and say, "Folks, civil war is imminent. But let's all just all play make believe and say it's going well! Why not? Maybe it'll make us feel like kids again, Weeeeeeeeeee!!"

:eyes:
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