This was a headline for another exciting news story on yahoo, but it left me puzzled for several minutes while I tried to figure out who the "Bush rejects" could be.
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
Posted by Human (Member # 2985) on :
So...basically he's saying 'Do it our way!'...but nicer.
Posted by Jeffrey Getzin (Member # 1972) on :
No big surprise. Thanks to Dumya, the United States is pretty much reviled worldwide.
Jeff
Posted by Human (Member # 2985) on :
Where is our President Bartlet? I'd vote for that man. INstead...we get...Mr. Needs-Speech-Classes.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Did I start a political thread? Crap.
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
Don't worry Annie, they are a bunch of rejects. They'll get it sooner or later.
Posted by rayne (Member # 5722) on :
bada ba, ch
[ September 24, 2003, 12:17 AM: Message edited by: rayne ]
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
See, folks, it the Bush rejects that are calling for "Quick Iraq Handover."
You know, those whom Bush rejected. Bush rejects.
This isn't a serious thread to discuss the speech or anything. It's a funny headline that can be read two ways. Get it?
Just laugh and move on.
Posted by rayne (Member # 5722) on :
ah, gotcha
Posted by Maccabeus (Member # 3051) on :
No, Human, he's trying to point out that the situation in Iraq is too unstable to turn over power quickly. What good would it do to hand everything to an interim government and have them declare themselves dictators, or be shot by one, a month later?
Posted by Sopwith (Member # 4640) on :
Macc, you're right on that one. Turning over the leadership of Iraq to the Iraqis right now would be a terrible thing.
1. They have no constitution yet.
2. They have set up no way to elect representatives.
3. They have already booted Al Jazeera out of the country, pointing at a possible lack of freedom of the press. And that means that they may want to squelch dissent rather than work to fix it.
4. The fighting is OBVIOUSLY not over. The Iraqi Army is being rebuilt as a security force, but it wouldn't take much to have a military coup and possible reinstatement of Saddam.
5. The current Iraqi leadership group hasn't shown much initiative in getting the country back on its feet. They're leaving it up to us. We leave now, they may never have a chance to improve.
This is one of the few Bush policies in Iraq that I'm agreeing with. Even a blind squirrel will find a nut now and then.
Posted by suntranafs (Member # 3318) on :
*Makes long and radical political statements, followed by a string of ad hominem attacks, then reports everybody else to the moderator, and reafirms all points previously made* Muwaahahahaha!
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
quote: Even a blind squirrel will find a nut now and then.
I think this one is fraught with peril. Especially for Papa Moose.
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
Ack!
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
In Afghanistan we got out early, turning the government over to the people very quickly.
The result was 20 years of warlord led civil war with a final victory of the Taliban.
Lets not make that mistake again no matter what some Euorpean Bush bashers seeking petty revenge say.
Posted by graywolfe (Member # 3852) on :
Yeah, cutting and running after European Colonial exploitation of Africa really worked so well for those manifold countries in Africa didn't it?
Good lord, whether you hate Bush or not, can't people see how thoroughly insane it would be to simply leave and let the U.N. take care of things, as they have so well, in so many other discontented hot spots the world over.
Anyway, sorry for being yet another poster who ignored the original intent of the thread, but I just felt like adding my 2 cents.
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Muwaahahahaha!