Bush says Iraq War "America's Golden Moment"

[adigal]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,157853,00.html

Bush said that in 20 years time, when we look back, we will see the Iraq war as "America's Golden Moment."

At the Naval Academy graduation today, Bush made the following comments:

"ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The U.S. military is on the offensive in the War on Terror (search) to prevent terrorists from reaching America's shores, President Bush said Friday, adding that 20 years from now, historians will look back on the Iraq war as "America's golden moment."

"We are taking the fight to the enemy abroad so we do not have to face them here at home," Bush said in addressing the 2005 U.S. Naval Academy graduates."

More at the link.

[teenagebambam]

1. Yeah, just heard a soundbite

Sounded like there were about TWO people applauding.

[americanstranger]

114. The only point in that speech when he got applause

was when he mentioned the Navy football team.

Other than that, it didn't sound like anyone was buying a bit of it.

How pathetic is it when the preznit can't get applause at the friggin' Navy Academy??

-as

[bpilgrim]

196. he got plenty of laughs when he said 911 was his TRIFECTA ----> MP3

http://news.globalfreepress.com/mp3/trifecta.mp3


http://news.globalfreepress.com/trifecta

June 14, 2002
Remarks by the President in Texans for Rick Perry Reception
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Houston, Texas
6:09 P.M. CDT

<clip>
You know, when I was one time campaigning in Chicago, a reporter said, would you ever have a deficit? And I said, I can't imagine it, but there would be one if we had a war, or a national emergency, or a recession. (Laughter.) Never did I dream we'd get the trifecta. (Laughter.)
<clip>

source...
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020614-8.html

more quotes...
http://news.globalfreepress.com/trifecta

lucky him, eh...

peace

[Vincardog]

2. What world does he live in? In 20 years he may be up for parole.

[IChing]

12. Not in my history book

but books may be outlawed unless they are official.

[politicaholic]

17. Right on! Hmmm, it's 30 years after Vietnam...

I don't remember any "Golden Moments" from that perfect shitstorm.

[pokercat999]

73. Gee I remember two "Golden Moments"

Two famous and horrible pictures.
1. the gun shot to the head photo
2. the napalmed little girl running with all her clothes blown off and most of skin fried to a crisp.

I hope Johnson, Nixon and the rest are get'n theirs right now. How do we let our rotten, no good son of a bitch, bastard, politicians get away with it? We are fucking retarded as a country or is it just the "human condition" that allows this shit to happen? I swear there are many times when I ashamed to be human.

[daleo]

80. Don't forget the Kent State photo.

American students being shot by their own government - another golden moment of the Viet Nam era.

[JRob]

90. Unfortunately it is human nature...

and by no means am I belittling any suffering or death in todays world, but war and the suffering (as well as the "spoils" of war; rapping, pillaging, torture etc.) in previous centuries was pretty fucking brutal.

That said, you'd think we'd learn and that an "educated" society such as our (obviously debatable) would own it and stop these bastards from continuing the legacy. Especially in a "democracy".

America is hypnotized by Madison avenue and focused on what they want (cars, cloths, popularity, "the Jones"), pacified by the filtered news that tells them what the want to hear and vested in reality television (the death of any true entertainment for that medium)and religion.

As arrogant as these bastards are, they will eventually cross the line and be responsible for another wake up call. You'd think 9/11 would have accomplished something, it certainly did for me but BushCo hijacked (irony) that event and used it to bring us here (another overlooked wake up call).

America is asleep at the wheel because of self involvement and until we (as a country) are able to set aside that which is convenient to our material best interest it will continue to be manipulated.

This didn't start out as a rant, but oh well...

Have a great weekend

[politicaholic]

104. Rant schmant, I likey. You know why? 'Cause you're right...

but hey, it's not just them (other people) that have the American Syndrome, even the people who really care and daily realize that WE'RE IN A FUCKING WAR that aren't doing a damn thing.

I would love to take a few hours every Saturday or Sunday and hang out with a couple thousand of my closest friends in sayyyy, the middle of the I-5 freeway. My bullhorn is getting lonely and I have a pocket full of chants that have yet gone unchanted.

But here we are. Bitching and moaning, listening to the crappy white washed emo-punk-wanna-be pop-rock that says nothing about anything.

[pokercat999]

195. That is our collective shame to bear.

Capitalism has chained us to our possessions, with golden chains no less. Risk everything including our freedom (staying out of prison kind of freedom) for what. For doing what is morally right, for standing up against the evil and powerful, for following the basic teaching of JC (see "sermon on the mount"). Naw what we need is a good old threat to our prosperity, just like the founding fathers had then we'll move. As long as any administration is able to keep those golden chains strong they are safe to commit any atrocity, any crime just don't take away my SUV, house large enough for 4 families and ski boat.

[XemaSab]

103. My Lai

That's one that makes me Proud to be an American.

:puke:

[davekriss]

173. Images are powerful

Even more shameful is the film of that Viet Cong man being shot in the head, his life visibly withering as he fell to the ground.

And who can forget the horror or that girl running down the street, arms raised, in complete agony. But recall the boy, too, to the left in the photo (if I recall). His is such a picture of pure human grief, complete revulsion of experience.

To this day I am crushed by both.

Iraq too has it's photos. There's that photo of a man, perhaps the father, carrying a girl of perhaps 11 or 12, where her foot used to be there were just shreds of flesh.

Then that picture of that boy, maybe 3 or 4. No blood, just ribbons of flesh where his brain used to be.

Or that picture of a family running ahead of an American tank. Father, daughter, two brothers. Again, that look pr pure and absolute grief and horror for what we do to eachother.

Who can rest easy, not feel shamed. Did we do everything we could to avoid war? Of course not. It was a sham from the moment, in the SPring of 2002, when Condie Rice accusingly announced that Iraq might be (again that word, "might") -- might be holding a fighter pilot in some hellish hole, downed in the first days of the first Gulf War (fought, recall in anger, for "democracy" in Kuwait according to GHWB -- like father, like son).

These days are worse than Vietnam, in my opinion, because we no longer have the excuse of innocence.

[Democracy White]

3. My mom says

that in 20 years we will see Bush as being one of the greatest presidents ever. Oh barf! :puke:

Dee

[katty]

61. One Question: If bush is a Great Leader why is he the most hated

person on the world stage? Great leaders inspire and evoke
a natural admiration from their fellow human beings...bush INSPIRES Hatred, War and psychological dis-ease.

[Amonester]

174. The most admired Leaders in recent history were...

(in the world out there, that is...)

1. President John Kennedy
2. President Bill Clinton
3. President Jimmy Carter


I wonder where (if not at #1) President Al Gore would be ('cuz he would have prevented the new Pearl Harbor from happening by raising security at ALL airports, and by launching a deep investigation into ALL 'pilot schools' where that Massaoui bastard was arrested...)

Tens of thousands of innocent People would still be living in Peace today...

1. President Al Gore
2. President John Kennedy
3. President Bill Clinton
4. President Jimmy Carter

Yeah. All of them liked and admired in most of the world...

I'll leave the "list of the most hatered ones" to a DUer who's not feeling as depressed as moi, for now...

:hangover:

[Ilsa]

130. Only if Bush is writing the history books. eom

[Cha]

143. Dream on..

Mama Democracy White.

If I get my wish ..bush will be in prison before 20 years. And not ever will the worst resident in history be considered any thing but a damn liar to get us into a War on Iraq! As a matter of fact bush Never tells the truth..he doesn't know how.

FUCK bush and the Fucking Rogue Elephant he milks.

[Democracy White]

200. That's what I keep telling her

Maybe I should just refer her to the ACLU site where the torture documents are and see what she thinks then.
She'll probably say something like, "That ain't new, our soldiers did the same thing in Vietnam, I had a freind who took photographs during the war and there was picture of our soldiers putting heads on stakes." Turns out the photos were confiscated.
Umm... doesn't she see the similarities between Iraq and Vietnam?
Both are not true wars.

I can't believe that she is sooooooo blind.

Dee

[Miss Chybil]

He is so, so wrong.

How did this happen to us? Why is this man running our country? He should be committed.

[RaulGroom]

4. Soooooooooooooo Unintentionally Right

The "Golden Moment" is that 15-minute period after you've had too much to drink but before you start feeling sick...

[Ravenseye]

41. I thought it's when...

...you were getting pissed on by another person?

[calimary]

93. I think the "Golden Moment" is Fools Gold. Or maybe Golden Shower.

Especially when you consider what his policies have done to the rest of us not within his exalted inner circle.

[Xipe Totec]

152. Or Goliath Moment... n/t

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

5. The man is truly delusional.

Our "GOLDEN MOMENT?"

Shit, I think America's fall from grace is more apropos.

[IChing]

18. "Golden shower moment " is more like it

[AP]

34. ...when we pissed on the rest of the world.

[caledesi]

67. Yeah, it's a Golden Shower moment! nt

[hatrack]

38. Thank you, IChing, you read my mind!

:hi:

[OldLeftieLawyer]

62. My first thought

You're a damn genius, you are ...........

[IChing]

70. Just a little bit faster

I know perversion when
I hear it or see it.

And this guy is perverted.

:rofl: :rofl:

[OldLeftieLawyer]

72. Actually,

some of my favorite people are perverts. They're good people who like odd things.

He's not a pervert - I really don't think so.

He is, however, a perversion of the highest order. Every genetic misadventure that could be took place in that pathology and we are all paying for it.

But, I heard the middies dissed him somewhat at the graduation ceremony, so that's pretty good ...............

[soup]

92. A perversion, not a pervert. Well said, OLL.

Spot on.

[sellitman]

85. That was a real pisser!!

:applause:

[Fire Walk With Me]

89. Indeed. It shines out like a shaft of gold, when all around is dark

"The Iraq war is like a stream of bat's piss", to paraphrase Monty Python.

[Cha]

145. Touche!

It's a PISSER!

[aquart]

6. He's imagining what the history books will say.

Or, at least, what he's going to order them to say.

[NWHarkness]

7. The Jeebus for George

he staved off the looming Iraqi invasion of America!

[Swede]

8. 20 years from now peace will be just around the corner.

Bush will be remembered for the warmonger he is.

[Seabiscuit]

46. And bin Laden will still be "on the run"! And we'll recapture his #3 man!

[Cha]

146. 20 years from now

they will be on the verge of finding WMD in Iraq.

[Seabiscuit]

186. And all the duct tape in the world will be sold out.

[Demit]

9. Oh brother. I'll bet half the graduates were wondering if they'll be alive

in 20 years to look back and see anything. Yeah, the Golden Moment when a chickenhawk got to send all these young people to their deaths. Golden Moment for HIM.

[tinrobot]

10. Who's counting the gold?

I guess it is a golden moment when you're the one counting the gold and not the bodies.

[pilgrimsoul]

105. Yeah - golden for Halliburton, maybe

but Hell for our soldiers and innocent Iraqi civilians. There has got to be a special ring of hell for these people.

[VegasWolf]

11. More like "America's second Vietnam" n/t

[Parche]

13. gw bush

Are we all sick of hearing him say that day after day

We are taking the fight to "them" over there so we dont have to fight
them here at home"

Did he also say that on Sept 10th 2001?, thats right the CIA with
Dick Cheney was the mastermind of Sept 11th.

[Hand]

44. Maybe we could win at home... nt

[Alpharetta]

14. "golden moment"? I don't think it means what you think it means

Maybe he saw Abu Ghraib pictures of golden showers.

[Warpy]

23. It refers to the golden bonanza for

Halliburton, Bechtel, and all their subsidiaries.

Let's face it, if you're a corporate robber baron, it's definitely a golden opportunity. They've managed to "lose" $8,800,000,000 already.

If that aint golden, what is?

[Vincardog]

121. Guess what $8,800,000,000 was what some mysterious investor

paid to gain control of Russia's Oil Industry. :think:

[Me.]

15. So Glad He Said That

It just points out how delusional he is. Hopefully, people hearing that will be shaking their heads wondering what universe he's living in.

[tmooses]

16. The "Golden Moment" is when we take back the country from these

neo-fascists!

[katty]

45. Golden Moment happens when bush&co are escorted in handcuffs

from the WH premises-the world will witness crowds running into the streets cheering and crying with relief-THAT WILL BE THE GOLDEN MOMENT.

[calimary]

99. That will not be a Golden Moment. That'll be a PLATINUM, Gem-

Studded, Crown Jewel, Grand Duchess Vladimir Emerald Moment. I hope and pray.

[dbonds]

19. He skipped a word.

He was supposed to say, America's Golden Shower Moment. We are pissing on the world.

[IChing]

22. too late I already said it....... but that's what I thought too

:toast: :toast:

[dbonds]

26. Hehe, yes you beat me to it.

/bow

[MADem]

65. Not one of our servicemen, but this illustrates the world's opinion

...of wars of aggression...

[Bob3]

20. * is back to sniffing glue I see.

Golden moment? Oh yeah - Lies, torture and useless deaths have always parts of a countries golden moments.

:puke: :wtf: :spray:


On horrible thought just came to me - what if he means things will be so bad in 20 years that people will look back on 2005 as some kind of golden age.

[Orrex]

21. Self-delete because somebody was faster and more clever!

[donkeyotay]

24. He meant, "America's golden movement"

The part where they moved the wealth from America to their offshore accounts.

Welcome to the third world.

[Pithy Cherub]

25. Is he CONFUSED and think's America is at McDonald's?

He is beyond redemption as a leader and thinking person! A Moment, people did not give their lives for a moment...

[driver8]

27. "Fighting the enemy abroad so we don't have to fight them at home..."

...blah, blah, blah, cliche, cliche, cliche...

I wish these guys would get some more "trick phrases"...these are starting to get old!

This fucking idiot is so delusional it is sickening. How much more out of touch could he possibly get??

Our country does not deserve this...

[Qanisqineq]

82. If I hear that line one more time

I am going to blow up. Saddam didn't have any WMD's so why the hell would we be fighting them here in the first place? He wasn't going to attack us. Someone tell George that none of the 9/11 hijackers were Iraqis!!!

:banghead:
:argh:
:banghead:

[UpInArms]

28. yep! all that "gold" in his pockets will probably show up in 20 yrs

:rofl:

[TexasLawyer]

29. The day the Bush criminals get perp-walked

into jail will be America's true "golden moment."

[heidler1]

30. King Midas's wished that everything he touched would turn into gold.

Bush must have wished that everything he touched would turn to SHIT and God granted him his wish, God is good. Remember, "Its hard work" creating all of this shit. It'll be a lot harder cleaning it up.

[glitch]

31. The children will sings songs of our glory

We create the reality, you just watch what we do.
Watch my drive!

Jackasses, the lot of them.

[MadisonProgressive]

35. The Iraqis are running out of rose petals

They just mad a rush order to 1-800-FLOWERS.

[AlienGirl]

171. That kind of rhetoric is so effin' scary

I hope, for all our sakes, that they don't actually believe this shit. If they are so insane they buy into their own grandiose posturing, we are all screwed.

Tucker

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

32. Golden moment? Maybe for war profiteers.

[bling bling]

187. Exactly. That's who he was talking about.

Because that's the only "America" that exists to George W. Bush. Takes care of his good-ol-boy network, and screws everyone else.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

33. Golden moment? Maybe for war profiteers.

[SnowGoose]

36. He also said they'd be throwing flowers at us...

(though they seem to be throwing more mortars that floral arrangements) and that Saddam had huge stockpiles of WMD (which he didn't), and tried to buy uranium from Niger (based on a document the government already knew to be a forgery), and Iraqi oil money would pay for the invasion (even though we and our kids will be paying for it for decades), and that we'd be out quickly (while building permanent bases), and that invasion wasn't a forgone conclusion (even after it was) and that the prescription drug bill would come in under 400 billion (even though he knew that was a lie).

Why does anyone even *listen* to this fraud any more?

[flordehinojos]

37. more like the big bowl of bush feces moment.

geez. i must really be angry today. everything i can think of and anything that i can think of when bush is mentioned is, "bush feces".

On the other hand, Bush may be the guy with the anger and suffering from ENCOPRESIS.

The DSMIV Diagnosis for Encopresis states,

The child with ENCOPRESIS often feels ashamed and may wish to avoid situations which that might lead to embarrasment. "avoid situations that might lead to embarrasment". geez, don't you think the bush boy knows he is a failure, does not want to be criticized in his face about his incompetence and all, therefore, has to live in a bubble--and has to arrest terrible terrorists like the dissenter nun his nazified police arrested up in New York a couple of days ago.

The DSMIV further states, "smearing feces may be deliberate or accidental ..." "When the incontinence is clearly deliberate, features of Oppositional Defiant Disorder or Conduct Disorder may also be present."

and, hasn't bush had a previous history of CONDUCT DISORDER... and isn't he exhibiting OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER when he wants to have all of his judges and his united nations ambassador confirmed despite what the body called The Senate, which is supposed to advise and consent, says about said judges or said ambassador to the United Nations?

AND ... lastly, hasn't bush been smearing feces all over our Constitution, our Democracy, our Civil Liberties, our very own American way of life, and our very own American Values.

Yes... twenty years from now... we will not be looking at today as "Murricah's Golden Mohhhhmehnnt". We will be looking at it as "Bush's Bowl of Feces to our Beloved America".

[katty]

39. What is he (still) smoking and drinking? bush dementia

slapping a smiley face on his reign of terror.

[Hand]

40. Stark. Raving. Insane. Blind.Barking. Mad.

And full of shit to boot.
:grr:

[confludemocrat]

60. Few in his own camp truly believe Iraq is a success, so he sounds nuts

Maybe he believes what he says, maybe not, but nearly all on our side and most on his side know in their hearts this is a fucking disaster, but either way he is as you describe him and for those who truly believe his line, the same applies.

[Rainscents]

42. I can't stand the baster! Everytime I hear him talk, I just want to scream

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[katty]

49. I know-have to take breaks fr the Madness of King George

He is one massively messed up freak.

[bvar22]

43. What message does this send to the REST of the World?

"We are taking the fight to the enemy abroad so we do not have to face them here at home,"----george bush*


Its like: "We're teaching our dogs to SHIT in YOUR yard, so we don't have to clean up SHIT in OUR yard!!!"

[Az_lefty]

47. Is Boy George on drugs this week?

he has made the most asinine statements lately.

[katty]

51. georgie boy on drugs 24/7-observe the utter chaos he has incited

[Demeter]

48. Fool's Gold, Maybe

and Bush is the Perfect Fool.

[LibDemAlways]

50. Twenty years from now, long after the American death toll

in Iraq reaches 10,000, American public opinion finally forces a withdrawal from the blood-stained hellhole, and radical Islamists take over the country after a long civil war, anyone in his right mind will call these days America's darkest -- the time when the US lost its credibility, along with its way, and forever tarnished its image in the eyes of the world.

[katty]

57. Georgie has done everything possible to HARM AMERICA and the WORLD

and still he has not been stopped in his tracks.

[Greylyn58]

52. Personally I hope in 20 yrs, if we are all still here

that your ass will be sitting in a jail cell for crimes against you own country.

To me---that would be America's Golden Moment. I just pray I'll be around to see it. :evilgrin:

[UCLA Dem]

53. shit, shit, shit and more shit.

[DS1]

54. Try America's Golden Shower

:eyes:

[Protagoras]

157. Amazing how many of us immediately

read it that way.

[DS1]

165. I posted without reading

but I had the opposite thought, this is the point we will be able to trace back to as when the world pissing on all us began.

[daleo]

55. Sounds like Hitler, circa 1942

I know, I should keep away from the Hitler comparisons, but this guy makes it so you can't help it.

[Blue Belle]

164. I thought the same thing...

I wonder if the SS troops got the same "Golden Moment" lecture 60 years ago??

[mzmolly]

56. There's that "propaganda catapultation" again.

:puke:

[dxstone]

79. The mad little monkey's hurling feces again...

It was bad enough when it began... but ever since they got him that crap catapult, he's been endlessly fascinated with it...
I've said it before: They are in the process of perfecting the world's first perpetual shit-shooting machine! Launches in all directions at once! COVERS THE EARTH!



Golden moment my ass! America's having a Going-Out-Of-Business Sale Extravaganza! Everything is Now at LEAST Half-Off! Blue-Light Specials on Freedom, Democracy and Common Sense! Come on down NOW, before there's nothing left...
D

[mzmolly]

101. Love that metaphor.

[Pacifist Patriot]

58. He's a stupid idiot.

But that goes without saying.

[madrchsod]

59. the real war the united states will be fighting is with china.

the navy is really upset because bush is reducing the amount of new ships while china is ordering advance sea going ships. the focus of the future of the us navy is to protect our commerce/sea lanes and contain the growing chinese navy.at the current rate of expendutries on the "war on terror" the navy will not have enough ships to counter the growing chinese navy. is it any wonnder why the navy has no use for him.

[Chicago Democrat]

77. Navy has the most expensive toys

I dont get the China War. Please elaborate possible scenarios.


What good is a war with China? WHY? they make all our stuff. we need them they need us.

[underpants]

63. They already reached our shores ON YOUR WATCH!!!

Moron

[Catfight]

64. The American Moment was squandered by greedy power-hungry Bush.

After 9/11 Bush could have utilized those days to unite, bring together common causes, but no, he choose to divide and line the pockets of his cronies. This will not be the golden moment era...it will be the squandered moment era! Bush will most notoriously go down in history as the father of corruption and chaos.

[MN ChimpH8R]

110. If there's still

a United States in fifty years, the Chimperor will be remembered as a president who made Warren Harding look like a model of probity, honesty and wisdom. Bunnypants will be seen as the drooling imbecile who threw the match into the gas tank just to see what would happen. He is so far beneath anyone who has ever held the presidency as to be in a unique class of one.

Before that, it sure would be heart-warming to see the BFEE frog-marched to the Hague and sentenced appropriately (think von Ribbentrop).

[XNASA]

66. Um.....

"We are taking the fight to the enemy abroad so we do not have to face them here at home"

So why do we need the Homeland Security Advisory System, then?

[antonialee839]

68. This is the most dreadful creature on

the face of the earth. Words cannot begin to describe the absolute disgust I am feeling.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

69. He's either delusional or one of the worst sociopaths of our time

:puke:

[jayfish]

71. Not Either Or,..

he's both.

Jay

[Lydia Leftcoast]

138. I regret that I have to admit...

that you're right. :scared:

[Vincardog]

158. He is delusional and the worst sociopath of all time.

[Chicago Democrat]

74. GEORGE BUSH IS DELUSIONAL

Golden moment IF 'golden' means HEINOUS and 'moment' means HUGE WAR CRIME

[dave29]

75. He Needs to Stop Using the Presidential Magic 8 Ball

Bush: "Will Iraq Be America's Golden Moment?"

Presidential Magic 8 Ball: "Definitely Not"

Bush: "Damn thing is busted again!"

[Strawman]

76. Don't you get it?

If we libruls just ignored all the facts and had faith in our commander in chief, it would be so! Just assert this to be America's Golden Moment and it will happen by fiat. :sarcasm:

That's the way it has worked for Lil' Georgie his entire life.

Isn't it wonderful that a complete idiot living in a reassuring bubble is running the most powerful country in the world?

[Cha]

148. It's beyond "wonderful"!..It's

freakin' Orwellian!

[liveoaktx]

78. He was repeating Ed Slavis comment, not his own

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/05/20050527.html

Sitting in that crowd four years ago was Midshipman Edward Slavis. When I gave the order to liberate Iraq, he charged across the Kuwaiti border, leading a rifle platoon through 21 days of tough fighting into the heart of Baghdad. His battalion helped pull down the statue of Saddam Hussein. Ed says, "I will have time for myself later. Now I just feel privileged to spend my life doing something much larger than myself." He went on to say, "The mission will be a success, and 20 or 30 years from now historians will look back on the mission to Iraq as America's golden moment." Ed Slavis is serving his country with courage, and he's adding to the history of this Academy.

--------
Ed Slavis was a witness, apparently, to the Saddam propaganda statue toppling, so he's off base in the first place. Somebody, it wasn't Bush, decided to quote that guy's golden moment comment, but even though the words came out Idiot's mouth, it was somebody else who originated them.

[MN ChimpH8R]

112. Huh!!??

:wtf: is a Navy midshipman doing "charging with a battallion"? :shrug: A _Marine_, maybe but a Navy man, a sailor? Am I missing something here? I thought one served at sea if one was in the Navy, not as an infantryman?

Wait, this is the * WH, and they don't know the difference....

[muriel_volestrangler]

127. So, in fact, it's Fox News spinning it

(heh, what a surprise!) Because that was some poor misguided fool of a midshipman saying it two years ago, before the lies, the corruption, the mismanagement and the torture became apparent. It would be interesting to know if he still feels it was such a golden moment.

Dubya was talking to Marines, too, so quoting one isn't out of place in itself. Slavis' name turns up in Google under "Marine Corps marathon results", so it's reasonable to presume he is one.

[tk2kewl]

81. America's Cleveland Steamer

[sellitman]

83. In 20 years we will look back at a time when* wasn't behind bars

Because he will be in 20 years.

[truthisfreedom]

84. We are taking the fight to the enemy abroad so we do not have to face them

here at home.

he's gone and connected 9-11 to saddam again. he just can't stop piping that tune. f***ing liar.

[leftchick]

87. It certainly would be nice if ONCE

just this ONCE a newswhore would point that out tonight after re-playing that abominable piece of shit saying it.

:grr:

[NewWaveChick1981]

86. Maybe HE will...

...but the rest of us won't. And the rest of the world won't, either. They're tired of having him cram the George W. Bush Version of Democracy down their throats. A REAL democracy isn't like that.

I have this awful feeling that Bushies will engage in revisionist history (they're doing it now too) when it comes to this war---they'll probably prohibit the publishing of textbooks that show Bush in an unfavorable light and use their "spin doctors" to edit the text.

[JRob]

91. He's a legend in his own mind...

Hopefully he'll have an opportunity to continue developing his version of history while living out the remainder of his life is an institution for the criminally insane...

[NewWaveChick1981]

97. I second that!

:)

[Guckert]

88. More like "Golden Shower" for the middle east.

[derby378]

96. Uff-da!!

I was just thinking the same thing...

[leftchick]

94. This is just so Hitler like!

I hate when people say not to make the comparison. Granted he is no speaker like Hitler was but the content is the same. Same shit, different asshole. God I want to wretch. :puke:

[Cha]

150. bush has a lot

in common with hitler..it's a damn good thing he can't speak anything but monkey gibberish.

[VegasWolf]

95. Those anti-depressant pills Chimp takes sure work dandy don't they? n/t

[yorkiemommie1]

98. how obscene

n/t

[indepat]

100. Give W credit for holding to his belief that his actions are infallible,

just, reichous, holy, godly, ordained by the almighty, good for humanity, just good common sense, and the appropriate use of our national treasure and expenditure of human life, brains, and limbs. Oh ye of little faith can learn so much from his example.

[MN ChimpH8R]

113. If one aspires

to be a sociopathic, schizophrenic megalomaniac, that is. :)

[Nordmadr]

102. Golden shower moment maybe...because

we are all getting pissed on.

Olaf

Edit: :) It seems I wasn't the first brilliant mind with this thought after reading further.

[LeftCoast]

106. Oh that just makes me want to projectile vomit!

At least in my opinion, that may be the most disgusting thing this pResident has ever said...and that's quite an accomplishment!

a la Linda Blair in the Exorcist:

[davekriss]

176. Perfect!

Didn't need to read your words, just see the image -- it perfectly captures my visceral reaction to the Dumbya's words!!

[Ezlivin]

107. But won't the Rapture have "solved" everything?

I'll still be down here on the burning remains of Planet Earth, but all my good Christian brethren should be walking the Streets of Gold©.

Bush must have made a Freudian theological slip.

[NashVegas]

108. "Golden Moment" - Doesn't That Mean It's All Downhill From Here?

just askin'

[patricia92243]

109. He has gotten to the point he believes his own propaganda.

[Solly Mack]

111. That nobody wants to be a somebody so badly

you're a failure,George....that's all you are and all you'll ever be...a failure.

[Bryn]

115. Bush, the Peter Pan Syndrome

Bush:

He lacks integrity. He's very boastful, arrogant, doesn't care for us The People, chuckles easily at people who are misfortunate, like he did to that lady who told him she had to work three jobs to make ends meet, saying "that's the way you should be doing". Funny for someone who was born with silver spoon in his mouth to say. What an idiot!!

He war-cries, pow-wowing for democracy in Iraq, but wants no democracy for us American people. He's SOOOOOO proud to call himself "Wartime President" when in reality, he wants to be a dictator to have everything go his way, won't listen to people who disagree with him. Hey, he has NEVER been in any armed forces in his whole life so what does he know?? He's so damn immature that he's an embarassment to us good American people. I see him having "Peter Pan Syndrome" and is seeing Iraq War as his toy soldiers/forts.

America is no longer a Country, but is the Corporation now considering how Bush Administration is catering to the corporations, letting that bad bankruptcy reform bill pass that will hurt Americans who really need it, but benefits greatly to credit card companies/banks/predatory leaders plus the Bush Administration is allowing these companies to charge interests as high as they damn please and add extra bogus charges whatever they feel like, too.

Is trying to dismantle Social Security that has been a net for American people and to keep them out of poverty for so many years. Bush is trying to turn over Social Security to Wall Street People that could destroy it completely with greed and dishonesty thus leaving us middle class/poor people to fret for ourselves.

America not a Country to Bush and his Cronies = Bush Administration is pushing for drilling Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to turn it into OIL CORPORATION. Pretty soon America won't have any wildlife, no land to grow vegetables or have farms. America will be filled with more & more of those ugly tall block buildings and more of Wal-marts and more high-rise condos (Stinky Rich's beehives) along the beach so middle class/poor people will no longer enjoy beach.

Just for one man in Iraq, we have lost and injured thousands and thousands of US/Allied soldiers, US/Foreign civilians/constractors, Iraqi people/children, animals and assaulting Earth over there, too!

Golden Moment? What a BIG Joke!!

[Amonester]

179. All scary good points. Also, is there anything like

"Golden Depleted Uranium" that would not remain radio-active as long as the original (and illegal as in "War Criminal") stuff?

Degenerative particules for 4.5 billion years. x(

[Rambis]

116. I think he meant America's Golden Shower!

There is another old saying senator... don't piss down my back and tell me its rainin-

[KamaAina]

117. Yet another cool new outplacement idea for Bush**

although I still kind of like the one where he makes license plates... :evilgrin:

He could be the guy who comes up with sappy slogans like "America's Golden Moment" :puke: for Hallmark or whoever.

[Massacure]

118. Gold goes to the revolution. Silver to WWI. Bronze to Gulf War I, IMO.

This war is probably somewhere along the line of Mercury.

[K8-EEE]

119. America's Golden Moment Will Be When Bush Is In Jail

And Rummy, Cheney and all the other liars.

[applegrove]

120. Seems as if there is no-where in the world that man can go to get

support. Not outside the country. Not inside the country. Unless they do like a 'boxed' hunt and fill the seats with freepers and vet for anyone who thinks for themselves.

It will be a long 3.5 years.

Why didn't even the media refuse to show up for his last press conference?

[ourbluenation]

122. It's official - W is on crack! eom

[MaineDem]

123. I am so embarrassed

I wish I could apologize to the world. I hope they know he does NOT speak for all Americans.

What a fuckwit!

[bling bling]

188. I am embarrassed too. All the time. Like everytime he opens his mouth.

:blush:

[muriel_volestrangler]

124. Remember, it's not just Bush saying that, but his speechwriters

Several people have looked at that line, and either thought it was a good thing to say, or kept a straight face while saying "sounds great, doesn't it?" They are definitely in the non-reality-based world, one way or the other.

[DireStrike]

125. A sunset, maybe? -nt-

[Democrats_win]

126. Not EVEN golden showers. Its the Moron touch: everything turns to shite.

[warrens]

128. He's barking mad

Not just stupid, not just evil, not just spoiled, not just sociopathic, he drooling, tongue lolling insane.

[Ilsa]

129. More like blood red for soldiers, green for Halliburton et al, and

scarlet red as in the federal budget deficit.

[Ravy]

131. Funny he didn't say that about Afghanistan, where we really went

after those that attacked us (went after them to a point, at least).

[doubleplusgood]

132. yeah, golden as in "black gold"

[brettdale]

133. Where is Bin laden?

Where Is Bin Laden?

[Amonester]

175. He's probably busy right now...

Like in transfering his "golden" 'cut' of Halliburton's $72,000,000 of tax-payers' money 'BONUSES' from the Treasory's bank account to his Saudi's national bank account over the Internet...

:argh:

[LibertyorDeath]

134. Delusional sociopath n\t

[Roland99]

135. Bush: Money Wasted on Bases Needed for War

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/05/27/national/w123928D22.DTL

Speaking out for the first time in favor of controversial base closings, President Bush said Friday the nation is wasting billions of dollars on unnecessary military facilities and needs the money for the war on terrorism.

<...>

In a speech to graduates of the Naval Academy, he said the closings and realignments "will result in a military that is more efficient and better prepared so you can better protect the American people against the dangers of this new century."

When Bush last spoke at a Naval Academy commencement, it was four months before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and his focus was his administration's effort to reshape the military into a faster, lighter and more flexible — but not larger — fighting force.


Since the attacks, and amid a global anti-terror campaign and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, a top-to-bottom military transformation is even more necessary, Bush said. Keys to the success are new technology, repositioning of global forces, new weapons and realigned bases at home, he said.

I have but one thing to say to President PNAC Propagandist:






The exact quote:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/05/20050527.html

The military services have each done a review of their requirements, and they have concluded that we have more bases than we need. Supporting these facilities wastes billions of taxpayer dollars, money that can be better spent on giving you the tools to fight terrorists and confront 21st-century threats.

Hey, fuckwad? How about using that money to fix problems here at home instead of lining your asshole business partners' wallets?

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Deja Q]

136. Aren't troopers TRAINED AT BASES?

As the dept of homerland security is also involved in that star wars ep 3 movie sting, let alone this article:

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-5722835.html

they wouldn't care if 100,000 Americans died just as long as Microsoft gets their cut. (so why offshore jobs to these countries where 70-90% of the software is pirated then?!)

[DoYouEverWonder]

137. He needs the money to build all those new bases in Iraq

and Afghanistan.

That way we end up with no one around to protect the 'homeland' and all the military families split apart. Way to go assholes. So much for family values.

[Frederik]

139. Halliburton's golden moment, rather. n/t

[sweetheart]

140. 1.6180339887498

Golden section indeed, as the cost is divisible by 1, and produces a
perpetual copy of terrorism and world war in every generation.

It is the golden war phallusy.

The U.S. Military is offensive. The war of Terror to prevent
terriers from reaching american shores, Coocoo-bananas said Friday,
adding that 20 years from now, we'd see the golden ratio in Iraq,
that 100 billion dollars spent will cost 161 billion more to
clean up the mess... and 1.618 lives lost for every 100 million.

Bush also said: "Its proof that God spoke to us in ancient roman
architecture, predicting the excessive waste of my administration, and
the eventual decline of this nation i'm cynically destroying."

Asked for comment, Bush said: "I eat my shit every morning, because
i expect you to eat it too, and i tell YOU... it tastes GRREEAATT."

Scot Mclellan then got up and ate a warm steaming fresh bush-shit
in front of all assembled just to show how it is done. He smiled
afterwards with brown flecks on his teeth, looking happy as a clam.

:-)

[manly]

141. golden moment?

If Bush has the chutzpah to call this a golden moment, if he thinks anything about the Iraq war is wonderful, he is a sick man. He is seriously deluded, seriously enough to be committed to a mental institution, and I am not kidding one bit. It would be insane to put him in charge of hot-dog cart, let alone the most powerful country on earth. Now THAT'S truly insane!

[Cha]

142. Fuck you bush.

Ever been to one of those "golden moment" funerals?

You lyin' sack o' Shyte!

Rot in hell on Earth, bush.. for all the misery you caused with your fucking golden moments.

Did rove come up with that so the Dems could get even more United?

[Deja Q]

144. Try "America's Golden Shower"

[billyoc]

147. More like "Uranium Moment"

You genocidal maniac.

I will sell all my belongings if I have to, to attend your trial at the Hague, Chimpy.

[adigal]

149. Man, I'm glad to see

that I am not the only one who is still living in the real world. "Golden Moment" indeed!!!!

[Plaid Adder]

151. JESUS H TAP-DANCING CHRIST!!!!!!!!!!

"America's Golden Moment"?!?!?!!!

First of all, he wishes this damn war was only going to last a "moment." Second, the only way that sentence makes any sense is if you come from a planet where gold is the color of shit.

:banghead:

The Plaid Adder

[MisterP]

168. you mean "Christ on a Trailer Hitch!"

from the Schiavo-case clowns

[bling bling]

189. Right on.

The people who died for our shithead president's lying scandelous war aren't going to be looking back in 20 years. And I bet this won't be a "golden" time to their families either.

He needs to get some fucking tact and remember that war isn't a joyful god-damn event to pat yourself on the back about. His attitude is sick. People are suffering down here in reality BECAUSE OF HIM. He has completely distanced himself from the death, destruction, and pain he started. He's taunted the enemy to "bring it on" to America's children while hiding himself in his safe bunker. He's made crass and tasteless jokes about no WMD and now he's fantasizing about how wonderful he's going to look in hindsight.

Disgusting.

[K-W]

153. Well thank god he saved us from Iraqi nationalists trying to invade us.

I was REALLY worried.

[The_Casual_Observer]

154. Golden Brown moment.

[Miss Chybil]

155. This is going to make a great sound bite in a MoveOn commercial.

Anybody associated with this bastard is going to have hell to pay come 2008.

[CoffeeCat]

156. You stupid, moronic, evil, amoeba-like, parasitic ASSCLOWN!!

(sorry, I guess I needed to rant)

I don't know what's worse. *'s words. Or the fact that he thinks he can get away with them.

"We are taking the fight to the enemy abroad so we do not have to face them here at home."

I got news for you, Bub. The enemy was never *in* Iraq. We've taken a fight to a land that once housed no direct threats to the US. Thanks to you, now we've inflamed and enraged the people in Iraq--by killing 100,000+ of them--and destroying their infrastructure and taking away their sense of safety and security.

You. Total. Nimrod.

This country was never at risk of any Iraqis *coming here* to "face" us "here at home."

JUST WHAT IN THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT??????????

NO REALLY!!! WTF DO YOU MEAN BY THAT??? YOU THINK THE IRAQIS WERE COMING HERE TO SHOW UP ON OUR PORCHES AND TAKE US AWAY????

HELLOOOOOOO!

Damn! He enrages me!! He thinks he can read lofty soundbytes from a prepared speech--without a care in the world for the far-reaching depths of his lies. The man is such a bullshitter!!!

When will this farce of a presidency end????????

"Golden moment"? Excuse me, "GOLDEN MOMENT?" Don't get me started.

What a punk.

Yeah, yeah---Mr. "I don't walk about the White House thinking about my place in history." You don't obsess about your place in history (or so you say), but you WILL mull over the place in history your presidential actions will have. You believe in your own sick mind that your warmongering destructive behavior will be flagged as a "golden moment." For the LOVE of PETE!!!

Not even close, Junior!!

You are a complete idiot!!!

Let's see...Iraq went from bad to worse to horrible to catastrophic!!! It's now an obliterated country that is too unsafe for any corporation to enter or any humanitarian agency to operate. Where's the "Golden Moment" in any of that? I sure as hell don't see it? I see the death toll climbing. I see that the elections were a symbolic farce that meant NOTHING! I see Iraqi children dying and maimed. I see innocent Iraqi's dying daily. I see hatred for our country growing exponentially. I see our soldiers defecting to Canada. "Golden"??? WTF is "Golden" about any of that?

I can't WAIT...for your presidency to end and for the truth to unfold!! You'll sit on your Texas ranch--reading article after article about your failures and your abysmal place in history!! You're a disgrace to this country!!! I will relish the thought of you and Barney frolicking in the brush--as you mull over the fact that you are the biggest joke of a pResident that has EVER sat in the Oval Office!!

The only thing "Golden" about your pResidency is that YOU'RE A 14 KARAT FUCK UP!!!!!!!!!

You have disgraced our country's good name and you have tore apart our reputation and our standing in the world. Wake up, "Golden moment" boy and smell the cappuccino!! It's got crap in it because you crapped in it several times over. Take a big gulp, Junior--and take in the taste and smells of what you've done. I assure you--once you face the truth about your pResidency--you won't be using the words, "Golden Moment" anymore.

DAMN!!! How can you be so frickin stupid???? No seriously. How do you cross the street without getting flattened? How do you tie your shoes without confusing yourself into a coma? How do you eat a pretzel without...oh never mind.

You suck!!!! Ahhhh!!! AhHHHHHHH!!!

I can't take this any more!!!

Someone tell me it's all bad dream!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gyre]

159. What a maroon!!!!

Love it how he only speaks to pre-qualified audiences. Probably cuts down on the assasination attempts though.

Gyre

[SOS]

160. Look back?

Is he suggesting the US will be out of Iraq by 2025?
Not likely.

[sintax]

161. Gold is the Reason for the Wars we Wage

"The occupiers should leave immediately," he explains while sipping tea, "They only came with their own interests and we can manage Iraq for ourselves. We do not need them for any reason."

[killbotfactory]

162. A war based on lies and planned horribly

Yeah... that's golden.

What a fuck up.

[byronius]

163. The Golden Moment before the ShitStorm...

that sweeps you out of power, your assholiness.

[Barkley]

166. Bush does have a point: in 20 yrs we'll be well past peak oil.

We are missing the golden opportunity to get off middle eastern oil dependency and find alternative energy sources.

we are missing the golden opportunity to remedy social security now instead of privatizing it. In 20 years the baby-boomers will be retiring and we have missed the chance to ensure adequate funds for their retirement.

[anotherdrew]

167. a veritable golden shower of moments, from bush to world

[davekriss]

169. This is such a perversion

A perversion of all that is good and true and kind. GWB, the "worst pResident ever"!

The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.
-- Theodore Roosevelt, 1912

Join the 100,000 Voices demanding Truth! John Conyers

[ElectroPrincess]

172. I dare you to confront Tweety with that quote?

Tweety would promply implode, spew spit (and feathers?) while screeching, "You and all other American Citizens will refer to our Dear Leader * henceforth as OUR BELOVED KING." :puke:

http://www.everwonder.com/david/tweety/SOUNDS/badpudy2.wav

[bling bling]

190. That is good. I hadn't seen that before.

THAT is a patriotic American attitude I'd like to see more of these days.

[mmonk]

170. peace on earth

goodwill towards men (my "golden moment").

[Geo55]

177. Nooooooo.....piss brain ,

This ! , is a golden moment

[adigal]

178. What a good doggie you have there!!

Doing his dooty for his country!!

[Tahkcalb]

180. A slight problem with this item...

Sitting in that crowd four years ago was Midshipman Edward Slavis. When I gave the order to liberate Iraq, he charged across the Kuwaiti border, leading a rifle platoon through 21 days of tough fighting into the heart of Baghdad. His battalion helped pull down the statue of Saddam Hussein. Ed says, "I will have time for myself later. Now I just feel privileged to spend my life doing something much larger than myself." He went on to say, "The mission will be a success, and 20 or 30 years from now historians will look back on the mission to Iraq as America's golden moment." Ed Slavis is serving his country with courage, and he's adding to the history of this Academy.

FOX news is teh 5uck, of course.

Yahoo Fin ref for quote.

[no_to_war_economy]

181. dont piss on my back and tell

me its raining

[Hailtothechimp]

182. Prick. How many of these graduates will die for him??

I hope none do, but the way things are going it doesn't look good for them.

[mitchum]

183. What a grandiose, self-absorbed piece of shit

[holboz]

184. You can't polish a turd

Don't care who said Iraq will be viewed as a "Golden Moment". Wars do not provide "Golden Moments" in history.

[not systems]

185. Yep. We have been going down hill ever since he started it. n/t

[carpetbagger]

191. Like a sunset?

[Lindacooks]

192. Well, it certainly has been 'golden' for

Cheney, Halliburton, Bush*, military contractors, oil companies, and on and on and on. Golden as in more cash for them.

It's been 'red' for the rest of us - red rage, red blood, red ink.

[IndianaGreen]

193. File that one next to Humphrey calling Vietnam our "greatest adventure"

Vice President Hubert Humphrey once referred to the war in Vietnam as America's "greatest adventure." Then came Tet 1968, and all the lies the Pentagon and the White House told about how well the war was going became "inoperative," to use Pentagonese.

I am sure that there are millions of gullible Americans that go to bed every night in fear that Iraqis will row across the Atlantic and land on the New Jersey shores, but they are also the same people that believe that George Bush is a modern prophet.

In the end, Iraq will end like Vietnam, except that there will be no North Vietnamese army to impose law and order.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

194. "Gold'n stuff moment"-(lots of stuff)- one group steals uncountable wealth

Siphoning billions from the U.S Treasury while draining dry an entire conquered Country
-----All for Cheney,Halliburton, Carlyle,
--Chimp didn't get much, they ripped him off when they divyed the loot,
but he still delcares it Amerika's "Gold 'n (stuff) Moment"-or they'd give him even less.

[demo dutch]

197. Stupid and Color Blind! More like the "America's Black Moment"

[CRK7376]

198. IDIOT!!!!!!

Let this pompous jackass go finish out his National Guard service and then we can talk about "Golden Moments".....

[Media_Lies_Daily]

199. Historians will have a MUCH different view in ten to twenty years.

[Nancy Waterman]

201. I just complained to the ombudsman at the Wash Post

Not a word about this story in the paper today though they had an article about his Naval Academy speech.

Please write the ombudsman and complain.

[email protected]

Here is my letter:

How is it that George Bush can make such an outrageous statement so totally disconnected from reality in one of his speeches and there is not one word about it in the Washington Post. My husband has begun to call this paper the Washington Fish Wrap, and I am inclined to agree.

Here is the story on the most insensitive, out-of-touch statement ever from our Resident-in-Chief:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,157853,00.html

Here is the quote:

The U.S. military is on the offensive in the War on Terror to prevent terrorists from reaching America's shores, President Bush said Friday, adding that 20 years from now, historians will look back on the Iraq war as "America's golden moment."


At least half of the country is currently deeply distressed by this unnecessary and increasingly problematic war. To even think we could look back on this as a "golden moment" is evidence of incompetence and disconnectedness in a commander in chief. I wish you people would stop protecting him and start serving the public.