Bush speaks of 'Soviet dinar' in speech about Iraq

[ksatriyakiller]

idiot.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1521&ncid=703&e=7&u=/afp/20040819/pl_afp/us_vote_bush_dinar

HUDSON, United States (AFP) - US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) spoke of "the Soviet dinar," even though dinars are the Iraqi currency.



Recalling a White House meeting last spring with an Iraqi man who had both of his arms amputated by the regime of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), the president said the man, who worked as a jeweller, was accused of illegal currency trading.


"And he had sold dinars on a particular day to buy another currency, euros or dollars, so he could buy gold to manufacture his product," Bush said.


"And because the Soviet dinar had devalued, Saddam Hussein plucked this guy out of society to punish him, and six other small merchants, for the devaluation of their currency. He just summarily said, you're it, come here -- and cut his hand off."

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. Please Mr. pResident, tell me more about these "Soviet Dinars".

bwahahahahahahahaha!

[IndianaGreen]

16. Soviet dinars are very valuable!

They are a rarity!

[radfringe]

46. time to send in the "Scottie dog" McClellan

he should just have a back-splash banner that says "the pResident mispoke...."

and there should be some sort of testing for performance 'dis-enchancing' drugs done before bush* is allowed to open his piehole

[VolcanoJen]

2. Another Day, Another Bushism for us to laugh about....

... after November 2.

But at this point, it's simply fucking embarrassing.

[fishface]

3. He's a gawddammned embarrassment...

sheesh!

[mr_hat]

4. Jeez. Isn't that one of his stock stories, too?

[JoFerret]

5. What an interesting and revealing Freudian slip

Dr. Frank - author of Bush on the Couch - what now? You diagnosed megalomania.... What does this latest detail reveal?

[markses]

21. Yes, the usual right-wing mania for the Soviets was easily displaced

on to Saddam Hussein.

Bush is living out a Reaganite fantasy, and it'll be a goddamn miracle if his imaginary doesn't get us all killed. Extremely disturbing slip. Talk about "frozen in amber," as Richard Clarke said. My my.

[Kinkistyle]

37. Soviet Dinar, Iraqi Won, Afghani Yuan. All the same.

Just a different "Villain Du Jour". Thats how Bush Evil Empire foreign policy works.

[NNN0LHI]

6. How many death warrants did Junior sign as Texas governor again? n/t

[VolcanoJen]

7. It does beg the question, doesn't it, Don?

:grr: :mad: :grr:

[sampsonblk]

8. Unlike most, this is an okay mistake

This is not a stupid mistake. On the contrary, this suggests Bush is smarter, not dumber than we say he is.

How many dunces confuse Iraqi dinar with Soviet dinar? This is a mistake knowledgeable people make. Maybe Condi was coaching him just before his speech and he caught her words but not their meaning.

Bush-addicts always claim he just "isn't the best speaker." That's garbage. But in this one case, I agree with them. This was a case of him having too much info in his head. In most cases, he has far too LITTLE info in his head.

[KamaAina]

13. Nonsense. There never was a "Soviet dinar".

The Soviet currency was, and the Russian currency is, the ruble.

What Bush* was confusing was (all-too-real) Iraq) with (imagined) evil Soviet empire.

[sampsonblk]

27. So much for MY analysis!

OK he's stupid. I forgot about the ruble.

[qanda]

17. Knowledgeable people would know...

There is no such thing as the Soviet dinar.

[markses]

22. You'd be right if the Soviets ever had such a currency!

Duh, indeed.

[BadGimp]

9. what kind of food Mr President, do they ahve at Soviet Dinners?

stfu W please

[truthisfreedom]

29. i can't imagine a Soviet diner. you have this greasy spoon, and you get a

shot of vodka when you come in. you can order boiled potatos, more vodka, more potatos, cabbage, more vodka, more cabbage... did i miss something? oh, yeah, borscht. and more vodka, please! hurry up with the vodka!

[delete_bush]

32. Then after you get toasted on vodka,

you get take-out, so you can go home and put some food on your family.

[NEOBuckeye]

10. The Cold War: In Bush's drug-addled brain it never ended.

Man, this explains everything, doesn't it?

[readmylips]

11. Gawd...what a shamless piece of shit....

even shit might have more dignity than bush.

[bluestateguy]

12. It took the Right a long time to realize the Cold War and USSR are gone

Rush Limbaugh was still speaking of the "Soviet Union" in the present tense as late as 1995, as did Bob Dole in a campaign speech in 1996.

They so desperately want a superpower enemy again they sometimes forget that the USSR does not exist anymore.

[Xipe Totec]

14. Somebody Pull The Crayon Out of His Nose!

What a Homer! :dunce:

Call Mo Sizlack!

[IndianaGreen]

18. I believe that crayon is stuck in another body orifice!

The man is a total embarrassment!

Homer and Mo are a lot smarter, and in Mo's case, more fun to be around.

Bartender, another Duff!

[Xipe Totec]

47. Oops! Reference Too Obscure

I gotta get out more often!

Episode Number 257, "HOMR"
First Aired January 7, 2001

"The Simpson family goes to an animation convention. Homer falls in love with a new product there and invests the family's life savings in a company that soon declares super-duper bankruptcy. To gain their life savings back, he sells his body for medical testing. The doctors find something odd in his head x-ray. Homer has a crayon lodged in his brain. This explains why he is such a moron. He thinks it is because he shoved crayons up his nose as a child. When the doctors remove the crayon, he gets smarter."



http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-146/epid-13119/


:hi:

[Malva Zebrina]

15. It's another Christian urban legend that these people like to circulate

around as a truth.

There was the one about the little boy who had a dead bird in his hand that miraculously came to life and flew away when the little boy picked it up and breathed on it and there is the one about the diver in a darkened pool area that was about to dive off the high platform into a pool that had no water in it only to see he shadow on the wall with arms outstretched,as he was ready to dive,that resembled the crucified Christ, warning him that there was no water in the pool :eyes:

People who are susceptable to suggestion, fraud and con games, eat that up, especially, it seems to me , those Christians, bereft of any ability to discern fraudulent claims and circulate these urban legends via e-mail.

Bush , in his willful ignorance, seems to like to cite these types of urban legends--

[truthisfreedom]

30. when he's not busy making up offensive, demeaning pet names like pooty

poot poot.

[Chovexani]

59. Argh I know exactly what you're talking about

My mom's a born again and she is constantly forwarding those silly emails to me. It's annoying as all get out.

I try to be rational about it and send her to Snopes, but it doesn't seem to work. :shrug:

[Raven]

19. You know, if Cheney really hated Bush

he could fill him full of wrong information and watch the guy explode. :eyes:

[allalone]

44. nyah ha ha

what a wonderful plan

[Beetwasher]

56. LOL! Reminds Me Of An Old Steve Martin Bit

about playing a practical joke on a toddler by teaching him to speak wrong.

[Minstrel Boy]

20. I wish the media would cut the poor guy some slack.

I mean, come on; it's not like he said - oh, I dunno - some gibberish like "peeance and freeance".

[DemoTex]

23. Israeli Mark? French Pound?

German Bhat? US Piaster?

Matters not to someone as rich as Bu$h and his BFEE. It all gets converted at the $wi$$ bank.

[Francine Frensky]

24. Even HE is bored of this dumb story... every time I hear it

(and he uses it all the time, even at the minority press conf), I want someone who lost an arm or hand in Iraq to stand up and say, "and what about me?".

Be it a vet returning home, or an Iraqi who was "smart bombed", that would be a great example of W's policy come home to roost.

[MO_Dem]

25. I don't think he should be excused for this

shit ANY MORE!! If they are going to take John Kerry's words and twist them into something false, I think this asshole's time is up! Make a BIG deal out of EVERY word that comes out of the moron's mouth, and never let up. He claims he means what he says, so let's hold him to it, on everything!! No matter how funny or ridiculous! They wouldn't excuse John Kerry or John Edwards, so, I say, no more excuses for Boosh!!

[bvar22]

26. Hey, george*

Could this be a picture of the man you were talking about? The man who had his hands cut off by the evil Saddam for breaking the law? How barbaric!!! Of course, in all your christian self righteousness, you condemn such evil.....

.......Oh wait. This is not the man you were talking about......

This is a 12 year old Iraqi boy, and YOU BLEW HIS ARMS AND LEGS OFF with a fucking bomb!!!
You also KILLED his family!

YOU, george bush*, and your insane friends are DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for the injuries to this sinless child who had broken no laws.
You DEMANDED your war, and LIED AND LIED AND LIED so you could have it.

So SPARE ME your folksie little stories about what an evil man Saddam was because your hand are covered in the blood of thousands innocents.

You claim to be a christian, and as such, you believe that one day you will stand before your creator. How are you going to explain this maimed child to your god?





bye bye, george. burn in HELL

[Dhalgren]

31. Thank you! Great, heart-felt post!

The next time anyone speaks to me about any "claimed" artrosities by Saddam, Osama or any "evil-doers", I will show them this picture. Americans who don't hang their heads in shame or clench their fists in anger share that Bushbastard's guilt!

[BeHereNow]

34. Isn't it the ultimate hypocrisy?

The swooning "true believers" convienently
block out all memory of this child, and thousands
like him, Iraqi and twenty-some old kids in Walter Reed
maimed for life, when they are worshipping the
moronic spewings of their X-tain cult leader?
What did Jesus consider the "sin that leads to death?"
The hypocritical FALSE teacher.
God! What an IDIOT.
And how surreal that the people who blindly
follow him must be even MORE ignorant than he is!
If that is not a reason to get the hell out of
this country, I don't know what is.
NO good shall come of any of this.
BHN

[allalone]

28. Damn

I knew that bank cheated me. They gave me Rubles!

[daleo]

33. Bush is back in the USSR

Those Moscow girls made him sing and shout and Georgia's always on his mind.

[NormanConquest]

35. Sounds like * has been spending too much time with Condi.

I'm sure she can tell quite a good bedtime story for * about the big, bad USSR, especially when she does all the voices.

[0007]

50. .....and along with all those facial expressions that Condi has, even Coli

Powell thinks it is hip to distort his face in ways that would make a decent dog jealous.

[sandnsea]

36. Bush liked the idea

That's why he remembers it so clearly. The money wasn't important, just plucking people out of society to blame his problems on.

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[greymattermom]

49. donate

Got my star. Isn't it pretty?

[gauguin57]

39. A kopeck for your

teenie weenie thoughts, Mister President.

[Swamp Rat]

40. Just more proof that George W. Bush is an imbecile

[pinniped]

41. I bet the jerk idiot can't name two G8 countries

Or even one for that matter.

[Tight_rope]

42. I can't believe this self-righteous hypocritical jackass...

How dare he try to use this bullshit to justify why he's off bombing more Iraqis. Fuck George W. Bush*. Moving along...nothing here but a jackass squatting to shit on more people.

[Fridays Child]

43. He really gets off on telling the story of the Iraqi hand amputees.

He's downright gleeful about it. Creepy.

[allalone]

45. ghoul

he likes talking about stuff like chopping off hands. at least it looks like he does. he gets that face on him. you know the one?

[llmart]

48. What a royal class asshole! n/t

[Ghetto_Boy]

51. What an ass

[phasev]

52. Proof!

This is proof that the Soviets are in on Saddam's regime.

[OKNancy]

53. Kick

Kick

[snippy]

54. Every bit as accurate as the WMD claims. n/t

[TheLastMohican]

55. Soviet Dinar?

Man, I have to see this currency in circulation! Where can I find this rare piece of numismatic wonder?

P.S. All you folks are just paying to much attention to the wording of an imbecile gorrilla, the guy is just a living proof Of Darwin theory only backwards.

[SoCalDem]

57. He probably heard "diner" in his earpiece, and thought it was lunchtime

:)

nothing he does surprises me anymore..

[opihimoimoi]

58. When Bush was a baby, someone dropped him??? OOps?

Like he dropped Barney? OOOOpps

Frontal Lobe damaged with lifetime consequences...looks normal.. but is not.

Damn....

[Cocoa]

60. "the terrorists know what he meant"

Scott McLellan's response. :-)

[tom_paine]

61. God, what a mean fool! What an Ultra-Maroon, as Bugs used to say

This guy is no Tiberius! Hell, Caligula might have been SMARTER than Bunnypants.