A few weeks ago Bush was at some type of event where they make jokes about themselves and things they have said. I've seen them before and watched the one with Gore back in 2000 or around that time. Aparently Bush made a joke about not finding any WMD's. Did anyone find that not in good taste? I'd expect people to show a bit more compassion for what is going on in Iraq right now and if our mission was to find and disarm Sadam's WMD's, making a joke about it is arrogant and stupid IMO, especially when hundreds of our soldiers have been killed. I'm usually not sensative to any jokes, and I'm a huge George Carlin fan which proves that point, but I thought Bush f upped on that one....that is if it's true.
Anyone hear about this?
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One more time. He made a joke at his expense about himself, and his looking for WMD. He has been castigated by everyone because they have not been found, and he was pretending to look for them in his office. Nowhere did he joke about the WMD, or their affect on the population, or the troops fighting over there, or their parents and families.
If you had a hunch there were no WMD there, you would have been very lonely. The entire world knew there were WMD, and now are blaming Bush for everything that ever happened. He was laughing at himself, and the image portrayed of hom by the press. If you had actually seen it, you would know, and not rehash this BS.
By the way, if you did not know if it was true or not, why the whole diatribe about Dubya, and then the disclaimer at the end.
If you had a hunch there were no WMD there, you would have been very lonely. The entire world knew there were WMD, and now are blaming Bush for everything that ever happened. He was laughing at himself, and the image portrayed of hom by the press. If you had actually seen it, you would know, and not rehash this BS.
By the way, if you did not know if it was true or not, why the whole diatribe about Dubya, and then the disclaimer at the end.
FOX News showed some of these jokes that Bush told. I thought it was kind of funny myself. Whether or not it was in good taste I don't really know, but people criticize Bush for everything he does and says.
Personally I am not convinced that there were not WMD in Iraq. Too many threads and I am not going to list all of them here.
One thing that really stands out in my mind was watching TV before the war and seeing fairly large missiles that had been discovered in Iraq by the UN inspectors. The missiles had a range exceeding limits and the UN inspectors were ordering the weapons destroyed. The Iraqis were putting on a display of destroying some of the missiles-at a very slow rate. There were some 100-200 of these missiles. The missiles were large but smaller then SCUD missiles.
Then the war took place, and I never heard anything ever again about these missiles. I don't believe that they were ever accounted for. I figure if 100-200 fairly large missiles can disappear, it would be easy for biological weapons (that don't take up much space) to disappear also. And chemical weapons could probably disappear in a single convoy of trucks. Dirty bombs would not take up a great deal of space either.
There are hints that Iraqi WMD went into either Syria or Iran, or both. One Syrian news journalist who was supposed to be dying of a terminal illness (he left Syria) claimed that Iraqi WMD were located in three places in Syria. And outside terrorists have been found in Iraq from Iran, Syria, and even the Sudan.
There are just too many strange hints and whispers of something. Perhaps there were no WMD. But I trust very few Middle Eastern governments. I would not be surprised if WMD someday show up. And if this happens, some people may be very embarrassed.
It has been my experience in life that when there are so many hints and whispers of something having occurred, something probably did occur.
Personally I am not convinced that there were not WMD in Iraq. Too many threads and I am not going to list all of them here.
One thing that really stands out in my mind was watching TV before the war and seeing fairly large missiles that had been discovered in Iraq by the UN inspectors. The missiles had a range exceeding limits and the UN inspectors were ordering the weapons destroyed. The Iraqis were putting on a display of destroying some of the missiles-at a very slow rate. There were some 100-200 of these missiles. The missiles were large but smaller then SCUD missiles.
Then the war took place, and I never heard anything ever again about these missiles. I don't believe that they were ever accounted for. I figure if 100-200 fairly large missiles can disappear, it would be easy for biological weapons (that don't take up much space) to disappear also. And chemical weapons could probably disappear in a single convoy of trucks. Dirty bombs would not take up a great deal of space either.
There are hints that Iraqi WMD went into either Syria or Iran, or both. One Syrian news journalist who was supposed to be dying of a terminal illness (he left Syria) claimed that Iraqi WMD were located in three places in Syria. And outside terrorists have been found in Iraq from Iran, Syria, and even the Sudan.
There are just too many strange hints and whispers of something. Perhaps there were no WMD. But I trust very few Middle Eastern governments. I would not be surprised if WMD someday show up. And if this happens, some people may be very embarrassed.
It has been my experience in life that when there are so many hints and whispers of something having occurred, something probably did occur.
The jokes were in bad taste and unpresidential. He should have said nucular and laughed.
I was dissappointed.
I was dissappointed.
Sheeesh lighten up. The way I remember it, George and everybody else thought Saddam had WMD including the French, Germans and the highly thought of Israel intelligence. The big debate was what we should do, if anything.
Labman, I know in the big picture it wasn't a big deal. I was still dissapponted.
If this had occurred when the war in Iraq was a distant memory, I would have accepted the humor. Right now it ranks up there with Hillary's gaffe about Ghandi.
JMO
If this had occurred when the war in Iraq was a distant memory, I would have accepted the humor. Right now it ranks up there with Hillary's gaffe about Ghandi.
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