Meet The Press Transcript: George is @#$! Unintelligible!

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I missed George's appearance on MTP this Sunday, so I'm looking at the transcript. Tell me, now, folks--did this bullshit make _any_ more sense when you saw it delivered live, I mean taped?

I'm particularly baffled by the end of his response to the question about why the crap he told us about weapons in Iraq wasn't true:

"By the way, quoting a lot of their data in other words, this is unaccounted for stockpiles that you thought he had because I don't think America can stand by and hope for the best from a madman, and I believe it is essential I believe it is essential that when we see a threat, we deal with those threats before they become imminent. It's too late if they become imminent. It's too late in this new kind of war, and so that's why I made the decision I made."

OK...let's just take that first sentence.

"By the way, quoting a lot of their data..." Whose data? Who's quoting it? He never goes back to hook up that participle to anything. He just crashes on through to "this is unaccounted for stockpiles that you thought he had"--what does 'this' refer to? And what the hell is an "unaccounted for stockpile that you thought he had?" You mean those stockpiles that you told us were there but aren't? Those are now "unaccounted for stockpiles"? How exactly were you expecting him to account for something that DOESN'T EXIST? Anyway, what do you mean 'you thought he had'? *I* never thought he had 'em. I don't think you were asking Tim Russert or the folks in TVland if they thought he had 'em. So if by 'you' you mean 'I,' or 'we,' why don't you just say that? Especially since you're back to 'I' in the enxt phrase: "because I don't think America can just stand by and hope for the best from a madman." No, I don't think America can either George, and that's why we should start impeachment proceedings now instead of waiting for November 2004...oh, wait, that's not what you meant?

And then, finally, he blunders his way to the end of what you can't even call a sentence any more with "I believe it is essential that when we see a threat, we deal with those threats before they become imminent."

Holy Christ. Say, George, leaving aside the question of whether really following this policy would ever allow us to *stop* being at war with the entire world, should we really be acting on threats that you can only 'see' knowing as we now do that you are seeing shit that DOESN'T EXIST?

I don't know if I can read any further. I think my head is already bleeding.

Argh,

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