Bush Joke

[fritzmp]

Did anyone catch the media dinner speech last night with Bush?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,115160,00.html

"There was Bush looking under furniture in a fruitless, frustrating search. "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere," he said."

Bush was a roar. Poking fun at him self with candied slides from the White House. The guy has a personality and is quite funny. The end of his speech was a commemoration of the Spacial Forces guys that really put it on the line for us all.

I was moved and I love a person that can poke fun at him self.

[Stiofán]

Durning Rumsfelds media briefing today, in the middle of the questions about troop deployments, Zahawri questions and the like, a reporter asked if Bush took the war with Iraq seriously because of his jokes on WMD last night and wasn't he dishonoring those who died in Iraq, etc? Rummy told her he couldn't comment as he didn't hear or see it, but when she asked the question there seemed to be a stunned silence in the room over the fact she would ask something like that.

That's quite an accusation to make against a person. I guess she's not a Bush supporter, huh.

[bruzzes]

Yeah, I caught the video.

Rummy laughing was priceless!!!

[Stiofán]

Apparently some think it's not too crass to suggest the President is uncaring about any lives lost in Iraq. From our friends at the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3570845.stm) of course. I really like how they seem to be trying to manufacture a controversity as I didn't know this could be termed a "political row".

[IamZed]

I agree with fritz. I saw it and I was not offended. He’s going to pay hell for it though. That dinner is known for sharp and irreverent humor. Making self deprecating jokes is a good way to please the press. I don’t think Joe average will get that, and the democrats will take advantage.

[ethics]

David Corn (http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=1336) of The Nation, a far-left magazine, was there, and he was not amused:

Even if Bush does not believe he lied to or misled the public, how can he make fun of the rationale for a war that has killed and maimed thousands? Imagine if Lyndon Johnson had joked about the trumped-up Gulf of Tonkin incident that he deceitfully used as a rationale for U.S. military action in Vietnam: "Who knew that fish had torpedoes?" Or if Ronald Reagan appeared at a correspondents event following the truck-bombing at the Marines barracks in Beirut--which killed over 200 American servicemen--and said, "Guess we forgot to put in a stop light."

[Stiofán]

Well, it is David Corn. He'll find any excuse to launch a partisan attack. I think he's just jumping on the band wagon here...thinks there may be life in this story. I'm surprised he could choke down his dinner, what with being so close to the devil (GWB) and all.

[Copzilla]

I'm not sure anything Bush could ever say or do would please him, so what he says is nothing but a yapping chihuahua.

I like a fellow not afraid to display a sense of humor. Bush has been brilliant on the PR front on many occasions, especially of late, and the left really has to stretch to discredit him. Like the holiday jaunt to Iraq, the speech in England...

[Misu]

I guess I'm the only one on here who didn't think it was funny that he was making fun of not finding the weapons that just a year ago he used as the reasoning to send our soldiers over there to be used as cannon fodder.

So then what is Bush saying, exactly, with that joke? That the soldiers who were killed died because he made a mistake? How the hell is that funny? He's not laughing at himself - he's laughing at all the families who lost their sons and daughters and husbands and wives and brothers and sisters for this war. The fact he would he make a joke out of that is amazing to me, and the fact that people actually approve of that boggles my mind. To me, making light of the fact the WMD's he swore up and down were pointed right at us turn out to not exist is extremely offensive and insanely insensitive. What are we to him, pawns in his twisted game of chess, that can be sent to battle on a friggin' whim? I don't care if he's the President and Commander in Chief - making fun of that is insane and it's just turning more and more people against him. It's as if he doesn't view those who died as people.

[Frodo Lives]

Well, I guess you can see anything you want in anything said by Bush. It was a joke. He wasn't making fun of anything, especially the families of the slain soldiers. If anything, he was making fun of the anti-war protesters who can't get the WMD thing out of their heads.

Funny joke, stupid response.

[Misu]

The anti war protestors are right in one thing about not getting the WMD's out of their heads - it was the one thing Bush highlighted the most in his justification for invading Iraq.

He didn't highlight the fact that Saddam was throwing women and children head first into wood chippers. He didn't highlight the fact that Saddam had a history of torturing people. He didn't highlight the fact that thousands of Iraqi's have disappeared while under his reign. No - he insisted on convincing us that WMDs were pointed right at us.

[Frodo Lives]

Just like the Democrats did during the 8 years of Clinton. They have decided to try to make Bush a sacrificial goat to appease the impatient people. They (the anti-war group and the liberal media) need to get off his back and let him and the soldiers do there job. They need to stop making a mountain out of a molehill of everything Bush does.

[Copzilla]

He didn't highlight the fact that Saddam was throwing women and children head first into wood chippers. He didn't highlight the fact that Saddam had a history of torturing people. He didn't highlight the fact that thousands of Iraqi's have disappeared while under his reign.
Yes, he did. People have forgotten all that Bush highlighted, and focus on one thing because pundits tell them to. Pax Americana has a very short memory.

Want links to Bush speeches on all of it? Google is a marvelous tool.

[fritzmp]

The anti war protestors are right in one thing about not getting the WMD's out of their heads - it was the one thing Bush highlighted the most in his justification for invading Iraq.

He didn't highlight the fact that Saddam was throwing women and children head first into wood chippers. He didn't highlight the fact that Saddam had a history of torturing people. He didn't highlight the fact that thousands of Iraqi's have disappeared while under his reign. No - he insisted on convincing us that WMDs were pointed right at us.

Misu, he made fun of himself and the end of the speech was heart warming dedication to our troops. We didn't know the extent of Third Reich till it was over. What we did, needed to be done and long over due.

WMD's were and are a problem. That they are not found yet in Iraq, is still a mistery. The whole world thought he had them, even the French and Germans. You can only blame Sadam for what he did to his people and what he put them through and us. It's one thing to talk compatson, it's another to have it. Your Lib buddys were their laughing too, at the President. Humor to laugh is to hide our tears. Do you think Libia would be disarming their WMD program if we went along with the UN farce and turnd a blind eye to 17 denials to comply to resolutions? Now we also know that the UN and others were on the take with Sadam in the Oil for Food program. There will be more to come and we are all the better for it.

[hipifreq]

OK, I've been away a while, so don't shoot me if I'm not the first to post this:

Bush's WMD Joke (http://www.musicforamerica.org/bushjoke)

[ethics]

Threads merged.

[hipifreq]

Thanks Leon, I see that no one else picked up the movie I linked too...

[ethics]

Anytime. :)

[cdw]

I missed the original video. Anyone have a link to that?