Bush Attacks Critics Of ‘War On Terror’ As ‘Naïve’

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/24/bush-war-terrorism/

Bush Attacks Critics Of ‘War On Terror’ As ‘Naïve’

Former senator John Edwards (D-NC) said yesterday that the “war on terrorism” is a “slogan designed only for politics, not a strategy to make America safe.”

By framing this as a “war,” we have walked straight into the trap that the terrorists have set — that we are engaged in some kind of clash of civilizations and a war against Islam.

Edwards is not alone. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-MO) has stopped using the phrase “global war on terror” in committee budget documents, and the British government has banned the phrase “because it gives militant groups a shared identity.”

During a press conference today, President Bush attacked these critics of the phrase. “This notion about how this isn’t a war on terror in my view is naïve. It doesn’t reflect the true nature of the world in which we live, you know?”

Watch it at link, if you can stomach it~

The “true nature of the world” is that global terrorism has exploded under Bush’s watch, and his statement today is pure hypocrisy. In August 2004, President Bush said, “We actually misnamed the war on terror,” acknowledging it was more accurate to describe it as a struggle against “ideological extremists” who “happen to use terror as a weapon.”

Transcript:

BUSH: And they will fight us. And the fundamental question is will we fight them?

I have made the decision to do so. I believe that the best way to protect us in this war on terror is to fight them. And so, we’re fighting them in Iraq; we’re fighting them in Afghanistan; we’ve helped the Philippines fight — Philippine government fight them. We’re fighting them.

And this notion about how this isn’t a war on terror in my view is naïve. It doesn’t reflect the true nature of the world in which we live, you know?

The lessons of September the 11th are these: We’ve got to stay on the offense. We’ve got to bring these people to justice before they hurt again.

[Critters2]

1. Meh. If I had a dime for every time I've been called naive,

the Bushies would think me wealthy enough to actually matter.

[mmonk]

2. Yes Mr. bush.

We sure took care of those Iraqis for it. They got justice like an wrongly convicted innocent man gets the electric chair.

[porphyrian]

3. Ask him to spell it. - n/t

[aquart]

9. LOL! Perfect.

Even better, ask him what it means.

[porphyrian]

19. That would certainly generate a Moment of Zen for Stewart et al. - n/t

[zbdent]

15. Bush: N I E V

MSM: I guess it's in the dictionary ...

[porphyrian]

20. I shudder to think how many wouldn't notice or wouldn't know it was wrong. - n/t

[Bryan Buchan]

4. Keep it up Bush

Keep it up chimp, you'll guarantee a dem holding your office for quite some time come November 2008 :dunce:

[zbdent]

25. Not necessarily ... that little "presidential directive" which gives him "wide powers"

may just have him declare the 2008 Presidential election null and void, given some "terrorist attack" ...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html

[rodeodance]

5. ha ha

[EFerrari]

6. Dems are going to take a beating today. From the hawks,

from the doves and over the Ethics bill.

It's going to be ugly.

[babylonsister]

11. Make that a 'well-deserved' beating. nt

[EFerrari]

12. But I'm a pacifist!

lol

:hi:

[babylonsister]

13. I thought I was, too, but am having

second thoughts after yesterday. :mad:


:hi:

[Donnachaidh]

7. Then we should address his CONTEMPT for the American Public

WHEN is his utter CONTEMPT for the wishes of the public going to be spotlighted and discussed?

This is the same sort of arrogance his white trash wealthy family uses on the hired help. We need to force people to see that he doesn't give a rat's ass for anyone other than his own Corporate Cronies.

[magellan]

8. If "staying on the offense" is what it's about, Bush** wins hands down

He's the most offensive piece of shit to stain the Oval Office. EVER.

[kenny blankenship]

10. No. "Naive" was ignoring those reports of "Bin Laden Determined To Strike In United States"

and going on vacation. That was YOU, President Usurping-Mass-Murdering-Traitor.

[CJCRANE]

14. * is helping to create more terrorists.

Reagan-Bush helped create the Mujahideen in Afghanistan (which became the Taliban and al-Qaeda).
Bushco allies are also implicated in wire transfers of funds to the 9/11 hijackers (as well as long list of other complicity).

Bush is like an arsonist who burns a house a down then turns up later in a fireman's uniform and says he's here to save the day. He is a psychopathic narcissist living out his war-hero fantasy on a global scale.

[Fresh_Start]

16. LOL - not as naive as "greeted with flowers and candy"

at least we remember what happened

[Johonny]

17. naïve?

Flowers and chocolates naïve? or war will pay for itself naïve? or is it not knowing the difference between Sunni and Shiite naïve? or is it WMD in Iraq threatening to attack America naïve? Is it capping the amount you can sue for will solve health care crisis in the US naïve?

"We’re fighting them"

Who's them? The giant ants?

[Parche]

18. BRAVO EDWARDS

He said something that is true and to the point
Slogan :war on terror
This administration is nothing but slogans

'Fighting them over there so they wont come here blah blah blah......

'They work at the 'pleasure' of the President....:puke: :puke: :puke:

'Cut and run'

Their 'talking points' and slogans are really getting old and tired, and ignorant

[EFerrari]

21. I caught him on Tavis Smiley last night. He was very good.

:)

[Rosa Luxemburg]

22. Coming from someone who started terrorism in Iraq when there wasn't any beforehand?

Terrorists didn't get much chance under Saddam. Until Curious George came along.....

[Bob3]

23. proving that he's going to say bad things about democrats

no matter how nice to him they are.

there is no point in it. Might as well be hung for a lion as a lamb yes?

[Solly Mack]

24. Yeah...pie in the sky people calling others naive

Wheeee

America's government is infected with corruption and those inside the hot zone call others naive for wanting to cut the necrotic parts out. Primarily because they ARE the necrotic flesh that needs to be removed.

Those afraid of the needed cure want so desperately to believe the cure is an election way...and then the next election when that doesn't work...and then the next election when that doesn't work...

Oh, I laugh - but it's not a happy laugh

[sinkingfeeling]

26. Who do I want to see brought to justice? Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice,Gonzo, Perle, Wolfie, and all

the rest of the war-mongering, empire-obsessed, PNAC idiots!!