Bush: "I'm a High-Value Target for Some"

[Philosoraptor]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060615/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

He defended the decision not to tell the prime minister that the U.S. president was in his country until five minutes before they met and denied that it was because of any concern about al-Maliki's inner circle.

"I'm a high-value target for some," Bush said. "I think if there was ample notification that I was coming, perhaps it would have given somebody a chance to plan, and we just didn't want to take that risk."

-------------------------

"we just didn't want to take that risk" he says. And then he allowed that it was an extremely dangerous situation to put himself in, seeing how air force one is a giant flying target around Baghdad.

Then all the talking glamor heads fawned about how brave he was to fly to the green zone by chopper under heavy guard wearing body armor. And they all agreed that it was a very dangerous thing for our president to do.

He truly IS a high value target now, of his own making, HE painted the big target on his forehead, not us. He has to sneak around under cover of secrecy and appear only before adoring crowds, in fear of his own citizens. But the problem is he's made our whole nation a high value target, not just the Arab world, the whole world hates us now.

And all the soldiers he's sacrificed were and still are high value targets. Bush has made every damn one of us into high value targets.

[monarch]

1. Target is his ONLY value n/t

[peekaloo]

2. *swoon* Our Hero. *fans the vapors*

what a fucking asshole.

[Binka]

9. He Belongs In The Everything Is Two Cents Dump Bin

Even that is too much to spend for that fuckwittage! High Value Potus = High Value Piece Of Totally Useless Shit.

BARF MAN

[Minnesota Libra]

3. "I'm a high-value target for some," apparently not high level enough.....

....the puppet and puppet master are still around.:banghead: By the way, anyone know how to contact these people that would consider Idiot Boy and his Master "high-value targets"??:bounce:

[Ganja Ninja]

4. If the war is such a success why does he have to sneak in ..

unannounced? With so much progress being made in Iraq why did he scurry away after less than 5 hours? If he's the great liberator of Iraq why do so many consider him a high value target? What happened to all the flowers and happy Iraqi's and when the hell is this war going to start paying for itself?

[KyuzoGator]

5. You'd think he'd wonder why so many people want to kill him.

You know, maybe act in a way that makes people around the world like him.

[flordehinojos]

6. buush is boooooooolllllshitting america ..."high value target"?bullshit!

ted bohne thinks so, and so do i!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_tedbohne_060613_incredibly_stupid_fa.htm


(snip)"Air Force 28000 landing in Baghdad would be more conspicuous than the Goodyear Blimp.


Now, the Arabs still have US Stinger missiles and Russian shoulder fired missiles, and they have RPGs. Now just for shits and grins, lets say this isn’t another attempt to keep the Bush Regime’s threadbare“straw man” standing, and the George actually did go to the capital city of a country presently engaged in a HOT war.


The Iraqi’s may not have known the arrival time of this white elephant, but they’d damned sure know of the departure time if by no other means than waiting with some sort of armament capable of relieving the US and the World of some fascist dictator.


Clearly, a rationally directed tanker, or attack helicopter pilot could have done the same. Sadly no one did. (snip)

[Hubert Flottz]

7. From Lincoln To Baghdad...what a calamity!

LINCOLN VISITS FALLEN RICHMOND

On April 4th, after visiting Petersburg briefly, President
Lincoln decided to visit the fallen city of Richmond. He arrived by
boat with his son, Tad, and was led ashore by no more than 12 armed
sailors. The city had not yet been secured by Federal forces.
Lincoln had no more than taken his first step when former slaves
started forming around him singing praises. Lincoln proceeded to join
with General Godfrey Weitzel who had been place in charge of the
occupation of Richmond and taken his headquarters in Jefferson Davis'
old residence. When he arrived there, he and Tad took an extensive
tour of the house after discovering Weitzel was out and some of the
soldiers remarked that Lincoln seemed to have a boyish expression as
he did so. No one can be sure what Lincoln was thinking as he sat in
Davis' office. When Weitzel arrived, he asked the President what
to do with the conquered people. Lincoln replied that he no longer
gave direction in military manners but went on to say: "If I were in
your place, I'd let 'em up easy, let 'em up easy" (Johnson, Robert
Underwood, and Clarence Clough Buel, eds., Battles and Leaders of the
Civil War, Vol 4. New York: The Century Co., 1887).

http://www.cyberessays.com/History/59.htm

The GOP and America has been cheapened to the very core, by the SCOTUS's 4 to 5 decision, to ignore the will of the people, in 2000. Bush and his crony corps is without a doubt, the long predicted world calamity of the millennium. Abe would be sadder still, if he could see what we are seeing unfold before out eyes today, in America and the world.

[Hubert Flottz]

13. April 4 - President Lincoln in Richmond

April 4 - President Lincoln in Richmond

President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital a day after Union forces capture it. Lincoln had been in the area for nearly two weeks. He left Washington at the invitation of general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant to visit Grant's headquarters at City Point, near the lines at Petersburg south of Richmond. The trip was exhilarating for the exhausted president. Worn out by four years of war and stifled by the pressures of Washington, Lincoln enjoyed himself immensely. He conferred with Grant and General William T. Sherman, who took a break from his campaign in North Carolina. He visited soldiers, and even picked up an axe to chop logs in front of the troops.

He stayed at City Point, sensing that the final push was near. Grant's forces overran the Petersburg line on April 2, and the Confederate government fled the capital later that day. Union forces occupied Richmond on April 3, and Lincoln sailed up the James River to see the spoils of war. His ship could not pass some obstructions that had been placed in the river by the Confederates so 12 soldiers rowed him to shore. He landed without fanfare but was soon recognized by some black workmen who ran to him and bowed. The modest Lincoln told them to "...kneel to God only, and thank him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy."

Lincoln, accompanied by a small group of soldiers and a growing entourage of freed slaves, walked to the Confederate White House and sat in President Jefferson Davis's chair. He walked to the Virginia statehouse and saw the chambers of the Confederate Congress. Lincoln even visited Libby Prison, where thousands of Union officers were held during the war. Lincoln remained a few more days in hopes that Robert E. Lee's army would surrender, but on April 8 he headed back to Washington. Six days later, Lincoln was shot as he watched a play at Ford's Theater.

http://www.historychannel.com/civilwar/?page=timeline1

[DemonFighterLives]

8. High value in his mind

Life would go on well here without him.
:dem:

[lpbk2713]

10. More than you can imagine, Dumbya.

More than you can imagine.

[Flubadubya]

11. A legend in his own mind...

It's the narcissism speaking again. I don't doubt that MANY, MANY, MANY would like to see him taken out, but this idiot wears that like a badge of honor (and in his convoluted mind, courage even - Blech!).

No, Dimson, it is not an honor to be the most hated man in the world and, yes, more hated than your old, conveneniently forgotten nemesis, OBL! :argh:

[sinkingfeeling]

12. Maybe the sovereign government of Iraq will start guarding their own

airspace and shoot down un-authorized flights.

[Secular Agent Man]

14. Then let Cheney take him hunting.

;-)

[niyad]

15. I don't think anybody actually wants to make him into a martyr.

[Fleshdancer]

16. I would be incredibly pissed if anyone did anything to Bush...

Could you imagine having Cheney as POTUS? The man shoots people in the face for cryin' out loud. I wonder what PNACer would become VP if that happened.