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He fed the UN declaration back to them in an enema. Go get em George!
no plan. Go get'em George.
ruler of the world!
...he read the UN declaration back to them, piece..by...piece. You can't imagine how the words must have stung. You can't imagine how far they have digressed. What a tragedy.
God, I love clarity.
Seems to be a reasonable request.
our lord and savior
No mention of Iraq? Good speech writer - can B really read!
Yeah. Good point Goerge. So let us set the example by starting from home
I could have swore heard him say it, at least twice, and I only watched 3 minutes of it!
Too bad this lame duck has no credibility at the UN or anywhere else, except maybe Crawford. It is to late to learn how to tell the truth.
Why is he reciting the U.N.'s own policies back to them, and what does he think is going to happen as a result? Headlines? Applause? Giuliani does it with 9/11, as well. It's a paucity of new ideas, and a rehash of what WAS, instead of looking forward. It's an appeal to his base, who love hearing this kind of pap, and forgive the ineptitude that accompanies it.
Why wasn't the President asking the U.N. to take a stand AGAINST TERRORISM at the end of 2001? Why is the President just noticing the problem in Myanmar now?
Those who cannot do, yak.
The latest from Bush:
'Bush confident al-Maliki can make progress in Iraq'
news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1359655.php/Bush_co nfident_al-Maliki_can_make_progress_in_Iraq
Based on WHAT?
This egomaniac really believes that what he says makes a difference. The U.N. will now snap to attention, and do his bidding.
Listen to ex-President Fox of Mexico, a Bush 'ally'
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/09/17/former-mexico-pres-calls-bush- cockiest-guy-ive-ever-met/
WASHINGTON (CNN) – The two leaders shared a border for six years, but former Mexico President Vicente Fox gives a tough assessment on President Bush in a new book out next month, according to U.S. News and World Report.
In 'Revolution of Hope,' set to hit book stores October 4, Fox calls Bush 'the cockiest guy I have ever met in my life,' and is sharply critical of the president's Iraq policy and his immigration stance, according to the magazine.
Though he describes warm relations with Bush, Fox in the book also calls the president's Spanish skills 'grade-school' level and says, 'I can't honestly say that I had ever seen George W. Bush getting to the White House.'
Yes indeed, Donald Trump, himself a disgrace, is right! The USA should fight its own government. What I fail to understand is that most Americans have still not understood that Cheney is one of the worst (war) criminals the world has ever produced. That man should be in jail...for the rest of his life, with his corrupt cronies in & out of the government. It is said in many books that 'Americans are the scum of all populations'. Bush and Cheney have definitely proved it.
Paul, please enlighten us all and advise which books reference 'Americans as the scum'? If that were true then I guess the US wouldn't have an immigration problem would we?
Hmmm???
Can somebody tell Bush that his whole hypocritical speech is just perceived as the usual brainwash .The reality of US politics was just another lame attempt at world domination,trying to discredit the UN and taking over it's role ,asking the rest of the world to bend over .Success guaranteed in Granada,the biggest military conquest until now.I guess only thje most frustrated mental impaired fringe of the population is still proud of him.
The UN needs no one to help them discredit themselves. The body has become next to useless and an engine for the extreemists. Bush is right, face it. No one has any better (or even an alternative) plan to try and attack the foundation of the extreemists.
The UN has soooo much credibiity now, with human rights abusers on human rights committees, rampant corruption, etc. that I'm just appalled at the nerve of Ol GW to dress them down!
'Though he describes warm relations with Bush, Fox in the book also calls the president's Spanish skills 'grade-school' level and says, 'I can't honestly say that I had ever seen George W. Bush getting to the White House.'
I wouldn't want Fox making odds for me, eh?
RE: 'I wouldn't want Fox making odds for me, eh?'
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He overestimated the intellect of the GOP voters. Many world leaders have deprecated Bush's abilities, while underestimating his raw stubbornness despite the facts. Cheney is the brain in this equation.
Gates' new request for $190 billion for the wars will be interesting to watch. The Democrats cound not effectively defund the war, since the GOP could have made their own funding resolutions, and nothing would have been accomplished except a public 'food fight' and the usual GOP name calling.
The worst Presidential mismatch was Bush vs. Putin, as we can judge today from Russia's resurgence thanks to oil revenue, and a President who really knows how to run a dictatorship. Putin will run again as President in 2012, and is busy stacking the deck with sycophants to make that happen.
The real tragedy of the past 7 years (soon to be 8) will be America's loss of prestige and influence, and it's a result of Bush's policies and persona. Hard to make a case with continuing high poll negatives, and an endless war sucking up money like the Dyson vacuum cleaner.
The next news will be our economic slowdown, with housing prices and higher mortgage interest rates a dominant factor in reducing public spending, as well as the end of the boom from cash from refi's. Bush takes credit for the economy, but it was really Greenspan's low interest rates, as well as cashouts from refi's, that put big spending money in the public's pockets, and enabled business to borrow cheaply to modernize and expand. Those days are largely over. Bush's vision of endless tax cuts in the face of endless deficits never made sense; but it did buy votes. Whether the public will ever be willing to accept the fact that they (or their children) will actually have to PAY for something is unknown.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aYDf3FLKGnH0&refer=home
Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Orders for American-made goods such as jetliners, automobiles and telephone network switches fell in August by the most in seven months, raising concern that businesses are losing confidence in the economy. Demand for durable goods, those made to last at least several years, fell a greater-than-forecast 4.9 percent, the Commerce Department said today in Washington. Excluding transportation equipment, orders declined 1.8 percent.
The report suggests that business investment, which economists predicted would cushion the expansion from a slowdown in consumer spending, may instead weaken. That would endanger the 2.2 percent growth rate that forecasters anticipate for the U.S. in the final three months of the year.
The pro-growth republicans are no longer in control of the congress. The lack of confidence is now showing up in the economy. Investors, smelling uncertainty, are boarding up the walls.
In business, we call that an indicator of confidence.
The anti-growth democrats, who can't seem to get one single vote done on this war, are supposedly in charge. The markets, raging under republican leadership, the kind of leadership that can actually pass something, is now gone.
While the republicans were there, we had record employment, record tax receipts, low inflation hand record household income. Stocks went though the ceiling.
Now, who knows. A pity there is no leadership within Congress.
Bush bent Libya to heel on their nuke program, got N. Korea to the table after Clintons disastrous treaty that enabled their nuke program, got Irans attention and has the rest of these petty strongmen crying for liberals to come back into office.
El Jeffe' Fox resides over the most disgraceful government in the western hemisphere, a wealthy nation that keeps it's citizens in poverty. The idea of him criticizing Bush is almost laughable. If you look up 'corrupt: in the Mexican dictionary, his picture should be there.
As for our 'prestige' I have, in 35 years, never seemed to see anything that this so-called 'prestige' bought us.
Prestige is the word used for sycophantic liberals who are fooled by foreign leaders into thinking they will 'like' the USA if we bend to their will. Carter was the gold standard, cow towing to the world while Iran rubbed his face in the dirt for 444 days. Take that prestige and try to buy a cup of coffee with it.
'respect is the coin of the realm' - Madelene Albright
And you do not have to be liked to get respect.
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