Irak: 76.000 burgerdoden, 2,2 miljoen ontheemden.
Bush: If I Were Iraqi, I’d Be Saying, ‘God, I Love Freedom’.
This afternoon, President Bush held a joint press conference with French President Nicholas Sarkozy. A reporter asked Bush where he stood “on Iraq and your domestic debate on Iraq,” and whether he had a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops. In response, Bush insisted that “freedom’s happening” and Iraq isn’t in a “quagmire”:
I don’t - you know quagmire is an interesting word. If you lived in Iraq and had lived under a tyranny, you’d be saying: God, I love freedom, because that’s what’s happened.
And there are killers and radicals and murderers who kill the innocent to stop the advance of freedom. But freedom’s happening in Iraq. And we’re making progress.
In June, Gen. David Petraeus said that U.S. troops had been in Iraq “long enough to become liberators again,” echoing Vice President Cheney’s infamous pre-war prediction that the United States would “be greeted as liberators.”
Almost five years, 3857 U.S. troop deaths, and more than 76,000 Iraqi civilian deaths later, Bush can’t figure out why Iraqis aren’t jumping around rejoicing in their freedom. (Maybe it’s because they’ve all left the country.)
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November 8th, 2007 at 8:11 am
I think he pictures himself as a doddering old man coming to Baghdad on George W Bush day, and being greeted by throngs of people in George W Bush square, having a brand new statue of himself being dedicated to him while the confetti flies around him.
November 8th, 2007 at 8:12 am
It’s like he is a broken record: ‘making progress, hard work’, ‘making progress, hard work’ Less than 14 months and hopefully we never have to hear his little-man, whiney voice again unless it is to say ‘Effective noon tomorrow, I shall resign the presidency and take my criminal Vice President with me.’
November 8th, 2007 at 8:14 am
Actually, if he were Iraqi, he’d probably be saying, ‘Allah, I wish I had electricity and clean water and a job.’ Unless perhaps, he was dumb as a post.
November 8th, 2007 at 8:15 am
United States of Moronica President: ‘If I Were Iraqi, I’d Be Saying, ‘God, I Love Freedom.’ Georgie is doing a heckva job promoting freedom and democracy in Iraq while stripping away the American people’s freedom and democracy, bankrupting this country, and treating the American people like second class citizen.
November 8th, 2007 at 8:16 am
How’s that economy humming along for ya?
November 8th, 2007 at 8:17 am
When you’re trapped in your house because of gunfire or car bombs exploding outside, if your kids can’t go out to school because it’s not safe, I imagine ‘freedom’ is not how you’d describe your existence.