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- fairley7, on 11/10/2007, -5/+226Those freedom-loving Iraqis:
The freedom to die in bomb attacks;
The freedom to abandon your home and become of the 2.4 million Iraqi refugees;
The freedom to swelter without electricity in 115 degree heat;
The freedom to be unemployed;
The freedom to die without health care as most doctors have left the country. - notque, on 11/10/2007, -10/+178A poll in Baghdad, Anbar, and Najaf on the invasion and its consequences. “About 90 percent of Iraqis feel the situation in the country was better before the U.S.-led invasion than it is today,” United Press International reported on the survey, which was conducted in November 2006 by the Baghdad-based Iraq Center for Research and Strategic Studies. “Nearly half of the respondents favored an immediate withdrawal of U.S.-led troops,” reported the Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon. Another 20 percent favored a phased withdrawal starting right away. (A U.S. State Department poll, also ignored, found that two-thirds of Baghdadis want immediate withdrawal.)
- SoyJames, on 11/09/2007, -4/+148Destroyed infrastructure, suicide bombers, IEDs, burning oil pipelines, no water, no electricity, 70000 mimimum dead, god-only-knows how many maimed, hurt, tortured, imprisoned...
"I Love the Smell of Freedom in the Morning" - hawkeye17, on 11/10/2007, -6/+123Bush is crossing over from scary stupid to delusional. I have never seen an American politician so completely out of touch with reality.
- SheilaNoya, on 11/09/2007, -6/+86Kucinich was right. It's time to seriously question Bush's mental health.
- Stuart750, on 11/09/2007, -4/+74If he were Iraqi, he'd be saying, أنا أكره هذا ظروف
- inactive, on 11/09/2007, -11/+66►BUSH IS A BORDERLINE PSYCHOPATH!!
No real human of even a remotely reality based conscious level could preside over the worse atrocities and still lie to the American public so feverishly.
HOW TO TELL LIBERATION FROM IMPERIALISM
How troops are greeted in the country in question tells us how their victory is perceived by the natives.
When US Forces liberated and occupied Iraq, they were greeted by a growing insurgency of violence and foreign terrorists. strong indication of IMPERIALISM.
When US Forces liberated and occupied France in 1944, they were greeted in droves by open-armed french chicks. strong indication of LIBERATION.
Republicans are worse than the Terrorists. They attack our country from within. - Humptydank, on 11/08/2007, -2/+52The statistic I'll add is that if you take these statements with the recent poll numbers that say 75 percent of citizens think the Bush Administration has taken this country in the wrong direction, you're left with one disturbing reality:
Our President is obviously clinically insane and 25 percent of the country still thinks he's great. - lemur, on 11/09/2007, -4/+53I think they're saying, "God, I hate US occupation." Except many of them don't speak English, so the statement sounds more like gunfire.
- shawnfassett, on 11/10/2007, -8/+54when did 'freedom' include ethnic cleansing?? i can't wait for my 'thank you' card for the depleted uranium.
- kooft, on 11/09/2007, -7/+53More realistically: "God, I love... KABOOM!!! OH GOD, OH GOD!!!"
- inactive, on 11/09/2007, -3/+46Saying it does not make it so..........
- notque, on 11/08/2007, -4/+47To save you we may have to kill you.
For freedom you may have to die. - SlipstreamLucas, on 11/09/2007, -1/+36It's really getting to the point of sounding like satire isn't it.
- JT114881, on 11/09/2007, -1/+36Rough translation:
"I hate the circumstances" - rocket777, on 11/08/2007, -2/+32God but I wish Bush would just go to Iraq and walk around Bagdad, by himself.
- SiNN4R, on 11/08/2007, -5/+34Honestly. All those reporters and nobody shouts anything at him? I actually told my computer screen ***** you when I heard that.
- thedarkrabbit, on 11/08/2007, -4/+30If I were Iraqi, I'd be saying, 'God, I hate Bush'
- zachshmack, on 11/08/2007, -0/+25You can't reason with someone who's already convinced himself that history will view him favorably 100 years from now.
- monkeyrun, on 11/08/2007, -2/+27Can we officially certify him as insane, and remove him from White House?
He really is crazy. - trer, on 11/08/2007, -2/+27Wow. This writer's strike is hitting hard. Whoever is scabbing for Bush's regular speech writer is doing an absolutely piss poor job. Usually Bush sounds stupid but rarely outright delusional.
- notque, on 11/08/2007, -2/+26Rough Translation:
"Please remove your government from our country so that we may profit off the oil wealth and start rebuilding our country. While you occupy and control us, killing and torturing our population, we sit here hoping beyond hope that someone will stop this catastrophe. Help us get your brutal government out of our country. If you do this for us, we will not hold any grudges. Just get them out, and let us try to put together some sort of coalition that might be able to run the place."
But my Arabic is rusty. - LouisEdith, on 11/08/2007, -3/+27If current day Iraq is Freedom - I don't want any.... Come on with the New World Order!
- WolverineBlue, on 11/08/2007, -0/+22Wow, when I saw the headline, I had expected satire news. Truth is dumber than fiction I guess.
- spyd3rweb, on 11/08/2007, -2/+2470,000 or 1,000,000 does it really matter? 100 is too many.
- john2kx, on 11/08/2007, -1/+23but educated enough not to use the number 2 in place of "to" or "too", most likely.
- theNazz, on 11/08/2007, -2/+22Words from a 'man' who has a 24/7 private army guarding his sorry ass... George Bush has never known freedom or else his career would have ended when he failed to find oil in Texas. Silver spoon fed manchild and nothing more.
- oreonblade, on 11/08/2007, -6/+25Mouth: "Uhh...I don't - you know quagmire is an interesting word...uh..."
Brain: What in tarnation does quagmire mean? Oh that Quagmire...such a pimp...giggity, heheheh - dasdef, on 11/08/2007, -1/+19i think every country hates bush.
- rspeed, on 11/09/2007, -0/+18Actually, I doubt they'd be speaking english at all.
- TheWorm, on 11/08/2007, -7/+25Anyone else see the irony in him beginning that statement with "god"?
- natedouglas, on 11/08/2007, -5/+21"God, I'm sure glad that Shrub decided to help us Get Our Freedom On!"
"Yeah, Freedom Is Really in the House Now!"
"Hey Dave, would you like a nice pipin' hot cup of Freedom?"
"I don't think I could stand any more Freedom right now, Ahmed! I'd simply burst with all this Love of God and Country and Freedom!" - skyshock1, on 11/09/2007, -0/+15Freedom's just another word for 'nothing left to lose'.
Ah Janis, if only you knew how true those words would be one day.... - pintomp3, on 11/08/2007, -0/+14help these people? can i help you by dropping a bomb on your house and paying mercenaries to shoot your family? you can shower me with flowers later.
- pintomp3, on 11/09/2007, -0/+13redstatepride is a child left behind.
- carpespasm, on 11/08/2007, -0/+13especially america.
- ricree, on 11/10/2007, -2/+14Honestly, I kind of think that he does. If you look at his little inner circle of advisors, he has increasingly isolated himself from anyone who is actually going to stand up and tell him flat out that he is wrong. When you're told over and over again that everything you do is great, it's pretty hard not to start believing in it. From what I can see, he looks like he's just managed to completely and utterly cut himself off from reality.
- xtc46, on 11/08/2007, -7/+19no, it would be "oh, allah, oh allah..."
- novask, on 11/08/2007, -0/+12No, its "too many "- 1.
- leo78, on 11/09/2007, -0/+12I think your keyboard is broken.
- hfx392, on 11/08/2007, -7/+18***** you, Bush.
- N3M3515, on 11/08/2007, -4/+15LOL, When I read the title I literately broke out in laughter.
- Gerz1219, on 11/08/2007, -0/+11Well, you've brought up a good point, because once we start talking about "all of Iraq" we're getting into very subjective territory. Iraq is and always has been a bunch of squiggly lines drawn on a map. Sure, the Kurds might have a different opinion of things than the residents of Baghdad, but in the real world they are part of a separate country, and they are subject to completely different geopolitical realities. If you want to give the wishes of these separate countries equal weight, then we must weigh against competing ideals -- i.e., take sides in an ongoing civil war.
The bottom line is, Bush can't make any broad statements about what his opinions might be if he were an Iraqi. His statement is approximately like saying, "If I were Asian, I would be pleased with North Korea's nuclear agenda" -- true in some cases, but demonstrably false is most others, and irrelevant regardless because of its inclusiveness. Some ethnic groups might be happier with the current situation, and some might be more displeased, but who are we to judge which factions are right? - ZenMojo, on 11/08/2007, -3/+14Translation: "Could be worse. I could be their president! Hehehe."
- inactive, on 11/08/2007, -1/+12you are obviously living in your own little world of "what ifs and what nots"
- sotopheavy, on 11/08/2007, -0/+11Our troops, the "liberators," have been serving so much time in Iraq that they need liberators of their own. That's us. Lets get behind them and help pull them out because our leaders are doing nothing.
- Quidam, on 11/08/2007, -2/+13what a ***** moron
- barandon0D9, on 11/09/2007, -4/+14p0s3r. Buried as retarded.
- pintomp3, on 11/09/2007, -4/+14Head. Buried in sand.
- carpespasm, on 11/08/2007, -1/+11same difference.
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