Perino: We’re not occupiers in Iraq; we’re guests.»

[babylonsister]

:wow:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/16/perino-iraq-guests/



Perino: We’re not occupiers in Iraq; we’re guests.»

During today’s White House press briefing, spokesperson Dana Perino echoed President Bush’s claim that Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zaidi’s frustrations are not representative of the Iraqi public’s sentiments. She pointed out that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki apologized for the mistreatment of his guest. When reporter Helen Thomas pointed out that U.S. forces are actually “occupiers,” Perino bristled:

QUESTION: Why not worry about it? Does it reflect the feelings of the people?

PERINO: I don’t think that you can take one guy throwing his shoe as representative of the people of Iraq.

And I will tell you that Prime Minister Maliki and the journalists who were there in the room, who apologized on behalf of the Iraqis, saying this is not how they would treat a guest. <…>

QUESTION: But he wasn’t a guest. We’re occupiers.

PERINO: No, we’re not. We are absolutely a guest.

Watch it at link~

Perino later added, “If — if the Iraqis didn’t want us there, we wouldn’t have been signing that agreement that allows our troops to operate there for the next three years,” ignoring the fact that Iraqis primarily supported the agreement because it set a firm deadline for U.S. withdrawal.

[InternalDialogue]

1. Yeah, remember those gorgeous engraved invitations we received? nt

[WinkyDink]

2. We brought such lovely hostess gifts, too.

[BOSSHOG]

3. I'm not posting on a webpage, I'm on Saturn making Lemonade

[yurbud]

4. don't you hate it when your guests shoot your grandma, burn your baby to death, & rape your husband?

That's usually when I suggest it's time for them to go home.

[lonestarnot]

8. AND smoke your dogs and cats.

What a twit motherfucker.

[firedupdem]

9. yeah....you probably need to leave my home at that point.....

and go straight to fucking prison!

[rurallib]

5. 'spose this is how all republicans act when they are guests?

Just kind of move in, take over, throw the owner out and stay a few years?

[yurbud]

12. and then call you a socialist if you ever try to take it back

[2Design]

6. must be hard to live with your own lies - these people are delusional n/t

[firedupdem]

7. She needs to check to see if there was any more internal damage

done to her brain from the microphone to the eye incident.

Guests? She's fucking nuts.

[yurbud]

13. mic to eye? Did she forget which hole she talks out of?

[Beausoleil]

10. I know I love "guests" who barge into my home!

Especially those who weren't invited and who proceed to destroy the place and even an "act of Congress" can't get them to leave. Love 'em.

[benld74]

11. You're not the WH Spokesperson,,, you're the WH Ventriloquest Dummt!

[xxqqqzme]

14. a 'guest' who, upon entering

your home: tore your front door off its hinges; destroyed your treasured mementos from the past; ripped out your plumbing and electricity; shot out all your windows; broke all your plates & glasses; left to occupy the house next door because you house was such a mess and began building a 10 foot high, 4 foot thick, wall around the house next door because you're so dangerous.

[uppityperson]

15. I just posted this bit of press conference also, think it was Helen...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4662326&mesg_id=4662326

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/12/20081216-2.html

Q But he wasn't a guest. It was occupied.

MS. PERINO: No, we're not, Helen. We are absolutely a guest.

Q It was occupied.

MS. PERINO: We all went there and he signed the agreement, the status of forces agreement. If the Iraqis didn't want us there, we wouldn't have been signing that agreement that allows our troops to operate there for the next three years.

Q -- a bunch of people self-picked by us who run the country.

MS. PERINO: Are you suggesting that Prime Minister Maliki was not elected by the people of Iraq? That's preposterous.

Q Why?

MS. PERINO: Because there was an election and they -- he was elected.

Q When you have an occupation, can you really have a free election?

MS. PERINO: I have never once heard somebody suggest that that was not a free and fair election in Iraq. It was one of the highlights of the last several years that they were able to pull off an election like that, and how many people came out to vote. And absolutely, Prime Minister Maliki is their duly elected Prime Minister.

[Hubert Flottz]

16. My guests usually don't bring over the shock and awe and then

hang and torture my kinfolk and steal my oilwells.

Edit...There the Bushites go again...making up their own "reality"

[rocktivity]

17. Reminds me of the classic Saturday Night Live skit

"The Thing That Wouldn't Leave!"

:headbang:
rocknation

[sinkingfeeling]

18. I'll chip in to buy Dana and all the Bushes and Cheneys one-way tickets to Baghdad. Let them get a

sense of how the Iraqis really feel about them.

[Aristus]

19. Remember when the Manson Family were guests of the Tates and LaBiancas?

I'm just saying...

[NNN0LHI]

20. Yea my guests always strip me naked and stack me into human pyramids with chemical lights up my ass

Its all part of the fun. I bet Perino does that with her guests all the time.

Don

[billybob537]

21. CUE "The Twilight Zone Theme"

Believe what you want to Dana You and yours are totally irrelevant anyway!

[jazzjunkysue]

22. If we're guests, what were all those tanks for?

Last time I got an invitation, it didn't say flack jacket optional.