March 26, 200422 yr Credit: BBC News Friday, 26 March, 2004, 13:15 GMT Bush's Iraq WMDs joke backfires US President George W Bush has sparked a political row by making a joke about the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. At a black-tie dinner for journalists, Mr Bush narrated a slide show poking fun at himself and other members of his administration. One pictured Mr Bush looking under a piece of furniture in the Oval Office, at which the president remarked: "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be here somewhere." After another one, showing him scouring the corner of a room, Mr Bush said: "No, no weapons over there," he said. And as a third picture, this time showing him leaning over, appeared on the screen the president was heard to say: "Maybe under here?" The audience at Wednesday's 60th annual dinner of the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association obviously thought the quips hilarious - there were laughs all round - but the next morning, in the cold light of day, things looked far less amusing. The joke about the fruitless search for Iraqi WMDs so far, Washington's prime justification for the US-led invasion, has been branded as tasteless and ill-judged. 'Undermining' sacrifices Mr Bush's election challenger Senator John Kerry described the president's attitude as "stunningly cavalier". "If George Bush thinks his deceptive rationale for going to war is a laughing matter, then he's even more out of touch than we thought," he said in a written statement. "Unfortunately for the president, this is not a joke." Mr Kerry's statement also included a comment from Iraq war veteran Brad Owens, who said: "War is the single most serious event that a president or government can carry its people into. "This cheapens the sacrifice that American soldiers and their families are dealing with every single day." More than 500 US soldiers have died in the war and thousands more have been injured. US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was asked what he thought of this incident at a press conference on Friday, but he dodged the issue, saying that he couldn't comment as he hadn't been at the event.
March 26, 200422 yr Yeah, fabricating evidence for a war is real funny you idiot (I'm talking to Bush.) I wonder if clinton ever did one of these things to raise money for gore, and clinton says "see this picture with the women's head between my legs? I'm getting head." Yeah, make light of the biggest embarassment of your administration.
March 27, 200422 yr I don't know, comedian Bush has won me over. Maybe now I'll vote for him. If he keeps making fun of himself he could for sure be the winner of "most hilarious Presidency" award! BUSH HAS GOT JOKEZ! BUSH HAS GOT JOKEZ! BUSH HAS GOT SO MANY JOKEZ! WHERE THEM WEAPONS AT, BUSH!? More people should learn not to take life and war so seriously. See ya'll later, keep it Bushy.
March 27, 200422 yr Stop playin' girl! Anyways, I was just kiddin'. I ain't votin' for no Bush!! My momma' didn't raise no dummy.
March 27, 200422 yr Yeah I know you were just playin' - well I was hoping you were. Well I'm glad yo momma didn't raise no dummy
March 27, 200422 yr You ever been with a college educated man? It's like no experience you've ever... Uh, experienced, momma'. As for Bush, who IS voting for this guy. See I'm ON-TOPIC!
March 27, 200422 yr Bush should run on this: Bush: Four more years of laughter then surround the slogan with Bushisms. http://maddox.xmission.com/limits_to_freedom.html I'm tired of people saying "just because he talks slow doesn't mean he's stupid." bulls***. There's talking slow, then there's just plain ineptitude. It's almost impossible to do a critical analysis of his speech because the man practically satirizes himself. Bush proponents have adopted a kinder word for inept: "Bushism." That's stupid. Why is it a screw up if anyone other than Bush makes a mistake, but a "Bushism" if he does it? When Clinton screwed up, nobody called it a "Clintonism." They called him a dumbass (and if they weren't, I sure as hell was). I mean, talking slow is one thing but to not know the difference between "hostile" and "hostage," or "prosecute" and "persecute" is not a "Bushism," it's extra-strength dumb... For some reason I trust him. Okay, so maybe I'm being too hard on the guy. After all, he was appointed as the leader of this country. So here are all the things that Bush has done to impress the hell out of me: He hasn't started World War III yet. He manages to mutilate the English language only every other speech. He cut taxes on dividends, because I'll be damned if those weren't putting me in the poor house. He made our civil liberties less cumbersome by taking away all that long-winded drivel about having the right to report on immigration hearings conducted by the Justice Department, the right to protection against unreasonable search and seizure with McCarthy's, er, Ashcroft's PATRIOT act, and the right to due process for US citizens suspected of being terrorists. He withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty. Good I say, global stability was getting to be a pain in the ass.
March 28, 200422 yr Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. "Misunderestimate" is the proper term here. Bush has said that a few times.
March 28, 200422 yr I like "Space Entrepuenuer (sp?)" instead of Astronaut. Everything's for sale with this guy....
March 28, 200422 yr I know. The guy is on something. Here's one of my favorite Bush quotes: "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." ?Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000
March 28, 200422 yr wow..thats just sad. I used to think it was propaganda that Bush was actually dumb. Im wondering about that now. Some funny ones: "And if you're interested in the quality of education and you're paying attention to what you hear at Laclede, why don't you volunteer? Why don't you mentor a child how to read?" ?George W. Bush, St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 5, 2004 "So thank you for reminding me about the importance of being a good mom and a great volunteer as well." ?George W. Bush, St. Louis, Mos., Jan. 5, 2004 "[T]he best way to find these terrorists who hide in holes is to get people coming forth to describe the location of the hole, is to give clues and data." ?George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Dec. 15, 2003 "Justice was being delivered to a man who defied that gift from the Almighty to the people of Iraq." ?George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Dec. 15, 2003 "[W]hether they be Christian, Jew, or Muslim, or Hindu, people have heard the universal call to love a neighbor just like they'd like to be called themselves." ?George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., October 8, 2003 "See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction." ?George W. Bush, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003 Amazing irony in this one... "[T]hat's just the nature of democracy. Sometimes pure politics enters into the rhetoric." ?George W. Bush, Crawford, Texas, Aug. 8, 2003 LOL! You have to visit this sight. Very funny stuff.
March 28, 200422 yr Had to include this one: "Our country puts $1 billion a year up to help feed the hungry. And we're by far the most generous nation in the world when it comes to that, and I'm proud to report that. This isn't a contest of who's the most generous. I'm just telling you as an aside. We're generous. We shouldn't be bragging about it. But we are. We're very generous." ?George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., July 16, 2003
March 28, 200422 yr The problem witht he Bushism crap is that it allows Bush to deflect is fu*k ups. Look how little of a hell storm resulted from bush making fun of the non-event of WMDs in Iraq. Everyone has slips of the toungue and Bush might be genuinely stupid (for a politician), but it gets to the point that we condone his screw ups because we just expect him to be stupid. I have said it before, I'll say it again: Bush gets away with murder because he's stupid Gore gets away with murder because he's a pathological liar Clinton gets away with murder because he's "slick" I have had it with these "cute little qurks(sp)."
March 28, 200422 yr Author "Our country puts $1 billion a year up to help feed the hungry. And we're by far the most generous nation in the world when it comes to that, and I'm proud to report that. This isn't a contest of who's the most generous. I'm just telling you as an aside. We're generous. We shouldn't be bragging about it. But we are. We're very generous." ?George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., July 16, 2003 :lol I can't stop laughing at that one...
March 28, 200422 yr If America re-elects this guy, then I'm completely convinced this nation is full of idiots *sigh*
March 28, 200422 yr Author "One of the most meaningful things that's happened to me since I've been the governor ? the president ? governor ? president. Oops. Ex-governor. I went to Bethesda Naval Hospital to give a fellow a Purple Heart, and at the same moment I watched him?get a Purple Heart for action in Iraq ? and at that same ? right after I gave him the Purple Heart, he was sworn in as a citizen of the United States ? a Mexican citizen, now a United States citizen." ?George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 9, 2004 :lol :lol :lol
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