What The President Really Meant To Say

[mdpm99]

My Fellow Americans,

The events of September 11th brought fear to this Country. I am proposing a War that will allow us to extend that fear. It is now time to Lock and Load, you are either With Us or Against Us, and we will Take Him Either Dead or Alive regardless of what the rest of the World thinks. Fear is an important element to my Administration. Promoting Fear has allowed my Party to gain significant seats both in the House and the Senate during this past year. Spreading fear has also taken our minds off of this dreadful economy.
I regret that my administration and its policies has caused the lost of over 2.3 million jobs, this after the previous administration created 10 times that many. But for those of you who will qualify for my tax cuts, help is on the way. In fact, I am very happy to announce that my Vice President will get over $325,000 in help this year alone. As for myself, I am looking forward to my $120,000 dollar benefit from this plan. This is like getting a 30% raise in one year alone. As for my Dad, he will benefit also under my tax plan and well he should. His name got me into Yale even with my 'C' average. He and his friends helped buy that Baseball team for me years ago even knowing that I had poor business skills. He helped me become Governor of the great state of Texas, and God knows without my Dad, I would not be standing here before you tonight.

I am also very happy to announce that for our loyal Civil Service workers throughout our Country your pay will remain the same. This will allow me to increase the salaries of our Supreme Court Justices and pay back a real big favor that they gave me in the 2000 election. Also for all of you Poor Minimum Wage earners out there, keep up the good work with those 'Burgers' and maybe within a couple of years or so we will be able to raise your wages by as much as .25 cents per hour. You can use that increase any way you want... Help pay for insurance, child care, rent, a overdue utility bill, or even food for your Children.

Major challenges continue to face this great Nation. We must take away the right for women to choose, We must keep African Americans in check by doing away with Affirmative Action and we must seal our boarders from those evil foreign people. My Attorney General will continue to detain without cause and merit those people who look like they may do evil to this country based on the color of their skin and their religion. My administration however, will continue to solicit the support and votes of those in the South who support the flying of a flag that many on the 'Left' simply have problems with.

In Closing, 2003 will be an exciting year. We will have done away with the man that tried to kill my daddy and we will have filled our Courts with Justices that will help me and my administration limit any additional Civil Rights or 'Hate' legislation and overturn that thing called 'Roe vs. Wade'. We will continue to help Big Business with Tax breaks while driving the message forward that the Low and Middle Class must contribute more for the well being of this great Nation.

May God Bless Me and My Country
Good Night

W

[Mah'chew]

If only everyone could read into it like this..

Thanks once again David for giving us some kind of balance in this crazy time.

I hope you're well. graemlins/beerchug.gif

[Digiman]

The British satirist, Chris Morris does a technically excellent series of Bush speech edits as mp3s. Here's a link for them.

Bushwhacked (http://downloads.warprecords.com/morris/bushwhacked.mp3)

[Mah'chew]

BUMPED ^^^^^^ GREAT AUDIO LINK !!!!

Listen, we can all do with a bit of laughter at the mo, cheers Alb!

[Digiman]

Thanks Mathius, there is a 'Bushwhacked 2' mp3 by the same guy, I'll try and find it on the net and then link it.

[Digiman]

Here's Bushwahcked 2, it comes in video as well.

Bushwhacked 2 (http://www.thesmokehammer.com)

[mdpm99]

thank you all 4 the links...

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[beemoe44]

I dig your satire Mancuso. About your previous post about the striking musicians. What do you think about the "live vs. electronic" argument?
I dug your post "black America".It was very good.

[doolz]

A letter to the London Observer newspaper from Terry Jones (of Monty Python fame)
>>Letters
>>Sunday January 26, 2003
>>The Observer
>>
>>I'm really excited by George Bush's latest reason for bombing Iraq:
>>he's running out of patience. And so am I! For some time now I've
>>been really pissed off with Mr Johnson, who lives a couple of doors
>>down the street.
>>
>>Well, him and Mr Patel, who runs the health food shop. They both
>>give me queer looks, and I'm sure Mr Johnson is planning something
>>nasty for me, but so far I haven't been able to discover what.
>>
>>I've been round to his place a few times to see what he's up to,
>>but he's got everything well hidden. That's how devious he is. As
>>for Mr Patel, don't ask me how I know, I just know - from very good
>>sources - that he is, in reality, a Mass Murderer. I have sent
>>leaflets around the street telling them that if we don't act first,
>>he'll pick us off one by one.
>>
>>Some of my neighbours say, if I've got proof, why don't I go to the
>>police? But that's simply ridiculous. The police will say that they
>>need evidence of a crime with which to charge my neighbours.
>>They'll come up with endless red tape and quibbling about the
>>rights and wrongs of a pre-emptive strike and all the while Mr
>>Johnson will be finalising his plans to do terrible things to me,
>>while Mr Patel will be secretly murdering people.
>>
>>Since I'm the only one in the street with a decent range of
>>automatic firearms, I reckon it's up to me to keep the peace. But
>>until recently that's been a little difficult. Now, however, George
>>W. Bush has made it clear that all I need to do is run out of
>>patience, and then I can wade in and do whatever I want!
>>
>>And let's face it, Mr Bush's carefully thought-out policy towards
>>Iraq is the only way to bring about international peace and
>>security. The one certain way to stop Muslim fundamentalist fanatic
>>suicide bombers targeting the US or the UK is to bomb a few Muslim
>>countries that have never threatened us!
>>
>>That's why I want to blow up Mr. Johnson's garage and kill his wife
>>and children. Strike first! That'll teach him a lesson. Then he'll
>>leave us in peace and stop peering at me in that totally
>>unacceptable way.
>>
>>Mr. Bush makes it clear that all he needs to know before bombing
>>Iraq is that Saddam is a really nasty man and that he has weapons
>>of mass destruction - even if no one can find them. I'm certain
>>I've just as much justification for killing Mr Johnson's wife and
>>children as Mr Bush has for bombing Iraq.
>>
>>Mr Bush's long-term aim is to make the world a safer place by
>>eliminating 'rogue states' and 'terrorism'. It's such a clever
>>long-term aim because how can you ever know when you've achieved
>>it?
>>
>>How will Mr Bush know when he's wiped out all terrorists? When
>>every single terrorist is dead? But then a terrorist is only a
>>terrorist once he's committed an act of terror.
>>
>>What about would-be terrorists? These are the ones you really want
>>to eliminate, since most of the known terrorists, being suicide
>>bombers, have already eliminated themselves.
>>
>>Perhaps Mr Bush needs to wipe out everyone who could possibly be a
>>future terrorist? Maybe he can't be sure he's achieved his
>>objective until every Muslim fundamentalist is dead?
>>
>>But then some moderate Muslims might convert to fundamentalism.
>>Maybe the only really safe thing to do would be for Mr. Bush to
>>eliminate all Muslims?
>>
>>It's the same in my street. Mr Johnson and Mr Patel are just the
>>tip of the iceberg. There are dozens of other people in the street
>>who I don't like and who - quite frankly - look at me in odd ways.
>>No one will be really safe until I've wiped them all out. My wife
>>says I might be going too far but I tell her I'm simply using the
>>same logic as the President of the United States. That shuts her
>>up.
>>
>>Like Mr Bush, I've run out of patience, and if that's a good enough
>>reason for the President, it's good enough for me.
>>
>>I'm going to give the whole street two weeks - no, 10 days - to
>>come out in the open and hand over all aliens and interplanetary
>>hijackers, galactic outlaws and interstellar terrorist masterminds,
>>and if they don't hand them over nicely and say 'Thank you', I'm
>>going to bomb the entire street to kingdom come.
>>
>>It's just as sane as what George W. Bush is proposing - and, in
>>contrast to what he's intending, my policy will destroy only one
>>street.
>>
>>Sincerely,
>>Terry Jones

[Mah'chew]

This is a great post ^^^^^^ funny as ^^^^^ bump :D

[Digiman]

Here's a WAV file from the speech where Bush says "wait your turn, this is scripted" to a journalist.

What Bush Said (http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/03/03/07_bush-scripted.wav)

And then here's the CNN transcript of the speech - note the 'scripted' reference is absent

What CNN said Bush said (http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/06/bush.speech.transcript/index.html)

[surreal]

In a sick way, Bush whacked was too funny.


Originally posted by Albert Square:
Here's Bushwahcked 2, it comes in video as well.

Bushwhacked 2 (http://www.thesmokehammer.com)

[mdpm99]

HOW HEAVY WAS THE MEDICATION BUSH WAS ON?

"George W. Bush kept seeming to lose interest in his own remarks last night as the president did that rarest of rare things -- for him -- and held a prime-time news conference... He spoke with little urgency and no perceptible passion... There were times when it appeared his train of thought had jumped the tracks. Occasionally he would stare blankly into space during lengthy pauses between statements -- pauses that once or twice threatened to be endless... Watching him was like counting sheep... The contrast between the foggy Bush of last night and the gung-ho Bush who delivered a persuasive State of the Union message to Congress not so long ago was considerable... Bush may have been ever so slightly medicated. He would hardly be the first president ever to take a pill. " --Tom Shales, WP, 03.07.03

[mdpm99]

Originally posted by beemoe44:
I dig your satire Mancuso. About your previous post about the striking musicians. What do you think about the "live vs. electronic" argument?
I dug your post "black America".It was very good.Greetings beemoe44:

IMHO:

Given that all things are in place, Live Musicians (using organic instruments) have the ability to raise the "life energy of the music,."...more so than one can with a machine.

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[mdpm99]

Greetings doolz:
Thank you for a great post

ps.

AGAINST WORLD'S OBJECTIONS, U.S. PREPARES FOR WAR

WASHINGTON -- So there you have it, the inevitable result of all the recent months of jockeying and bullying by this administration: America alone in the world!
On the eve of what promises to be a nasty pre-emptive war, the traditional talk about "united we stand" and "no man is an island" has been summarily tossed out the window. As President Bush said in his strange press conference Thursday evening, "We don't need anyone's permission" to do, in effect, almost anything.

Meanwhile, the small waves of naysayers at the United Nations and elsewhere on the international scene have become a veritable river of anti-American fervor. First the Turkish parliament rejected an agreement to allow U.S. troops to invade Iraq from that American ally. Then France, Germany and Russia welded together in the Security Council to defeat the United States in a potential second vote on attacking Iraq. Pope John Paul II sent a respected envoy to urge President Bush: Please, do not go ahead with this unnecessary war. And a good friend of mine, a top political analyst, just returned from Australia and told me how the Australians are prefacing all their conversations with, "Of course, we don't hate the Americans, but ..."

But these attitudes are found not only in Europe and countries of European heritage. From faraway Indonesia this week came the story of how even moderates in the Islamic camp, people who condemned the 9/11 attacks, are turning against the U.S. The Financial Times outlined how Hasyim Muzadi, the leader of 60 million (yes, that is SIXTY MILLION!) Indonesian Muslims in the Nahdlatul Ulama, who supported the United States in Afghanistan and has been a constant voice for moderation, refused to come to Washington to give his imprimatur to the war.

"When the U.S. attacked Afghanistan, it was still logical, because of al-Qaida," he said. "But if the U.S. attacks Iraq it will be illogical."

Words such as "logical" and "illogical" -- or "rational" and "irrational" -- seem to be having little effect on the administration as, probably around the Ides of March, it will lead us into a war that few Americans want or understand. Those are not operative concepts anymore.

If you examined President Bush's demeanor Thursday night, you saw a new expression on his face that characterizes this dangerous moment. From the happy camper he seemed when he was governor of Texas, to the traumatized leader at the ruins of 9/11, to the increasingly pugnacious war president of the last 10 months, the president has come to have the look of the slightly stunned and sacrificial martyr.

To every question during his press conference, he gave almost the same answer: Saddam Hussein is evil, he tortured his people. But what he suggested with his expression was a disturbingly long-suffering and imprecise "I'm your leader. I know better than you. I am suffering for you. I wish you could understand. And I will tell you what to do."

A man in the throes of this kind of transformation, under the threat of a war he is choosing to wage, cannot be expected to display reverence for international institutions, collaborative schemes or negotiation, nor respect for his counterparts in other countries or, indeed, for anything that might thwart his inspired intention.

Beyond anger from other world leaders over the way the Bush administration has treated them, there is deep concern that the administration is out to scrap the international system built up so carefully and responsibly by the United States in the many years since World War II.

As scholar Zbigniew Brzezinski put it recently, "At stake is not Iraq. At stake is our global role."

Yet in the name of supposedly having total power and (a word used often within the administration) "primacy" in world affairs, the administration pushes ahead. But you can't be a leader if you're not going to be in the boat with the others. Clearly, the administration foresees a world that mirrors its current style: tossing away traditional alliances based on common value systems and history, buying off new allies at skyrocketing prices, and telling the world that we will do what we will, regardless of anyone.

Historian William S. Lind of the Free Congress Foundation, one of the world's most respected military historians, points out the uncomfortable truth that always intrudes at this point in the story. In the international state system, he says, "whenever one nation attempts to attain world dominance, it pushes everyone else into a coalition against it. That dynamic, not any love for Saddam, is what is behind German and French opposition to the Bush administration's plan for war with Iraq. That is what is drawing others, including Russia, into supporting the French and the Germans."

The real question Lind and other historians see from history "is not whether the American drive for world hegemony will succeed; it will not. The question is why we are attempting it in the first place."

COPYRIGHT 2003 UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE
Originally Published on March-07-2003

[Mah'chew]

o Bush = puppet on Rumsfeld's string...

[mdpm99]

Originally posted by Mathius:
o Bush = puppet on Rumsfeld's string...Greetings Mathius:

Sad, and true....

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