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Bush: "I'm Sure People View Me As A War Monger"

ABC   |   January 15, 2008 01:39 PM


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In Riyadh today, the president danced a traditional sword dance with one of the princes of the royal family. It was a public -- and a little awkward -- display of affection, all part of Bush's first visit to Saudi Arabia aimed at repairing strained relations between the world's biggest oil producer and the world' s biggest oil consumer.

The president sat down with "Nightline" co-anchor Terry Moran at one of the vast royal palaces, and it became clear who holds the cards right now in the oil markets, with the price up near $100 a barrel...

..."I have talked to these leaders face to face," he said. "I have asked them point blank, 'Do you understand how difficult these issues are?' Yes. 'Are you prepared to make the painful political compromises?' They say they are."

Despite that optimism, the president also said that he does feel misunderstood in the Middle East.

"My image [is] 'Bush wants to fight Muslims.' And, yes, I'm concerned about it. Not because of me, personally. I'm concerned because I want most people to understand the great generosity and compassion of Americans," he said.

"I'm sure people view me as a war monger and I view myself as peacemaker," the president said. "They view me as so pro-Israeli I can't be open-minded about Palestinian peace, and yet I'm the only president ever to have articulated a two-state solution. And you just have to fight through stereotypes by actions."

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And may we have your responses please, Mr. pResiDunce, on the descriptive terms, War Criminal, and Traitor?? (preferably during impeachment or other trials)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:47 PM on 01/19/2008
- LeftLeaner I'm a Fan of LeftLeaner 24 fans permalink
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and THAT's just for starters

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:40 PM on 01/19/2008
- ultomatt I'm a Fan of ultomatt 13 fans permalink

IMPEACHMENT NOW

JAIL TO THE CHIEF

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:00 PM on 01/19/2008
- VivaZapata I'm a Fan of VivaZapata 63 fans permalink
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anybody notice how he slips in and out of his phony texas accent more and more? i think he's melting.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:21 AM on 01/19/2008
- filmunas I'm a Fan of filmunas 2 fans permalink

An international tribunal should indict and try Bush and his cabal for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:15 PM on 01/18/2008
- Drewkowski I'm a Fan of Drewkowski 4 fans permalink

Starting wars for no good reason tends to do that, genius! Just leave the world alone, go have a few drinks and eat some pretzels.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:35 PM on 01/18/2008
- Lib2daBone I'm a Fan of Lib2daBone 3 fans permalink

I view you as: a complete scum-sucking, pedophile raping, shit-eating, enabler. But those are your good traits. You are a fuck-head , simple minded, spoiled rich moran (sic) . (sorry I had to post such a positive snapshot of this asshole....he really deserves less..

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:45 PM on 01/18/2008
- zenhead I'm a Fan of zenhead 4 fans permalink

Well, shithead finally got something right. Only about 3/4s of the world considers Bush a war monger. I think that this dolt will deserve to have every negative aspect of his Presidency nailed to him for all time.
What a loser.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:45 PM on 01/18/2008

I think we need to start planning the Bush memorial - a bottomless hole in the ground.

What scares me is that this idiot was (sort of) elected - half of the half of eligible voters that put the remote down long enough to vote must take hallucinogens - that's what scares me about Hillary - it seems so obvious that she's without principle - but Bush was what he was and got re-elected!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:14 PM on 01/18/2008
- conned I'm a Fan of conned 5 fans permalink

My gawd, he really believes that he's a peacemaker. He must mean between the twins.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:53 PM on 01/18/2008
- NickOhio I'm a Fan of NickOhio 2 fans permalink

Obviously, Bush has no clue. He is without any idea of his world position. When he leaves office in a year, he has no idea as to how many millions of people the world over, will celebrate. And, what is really sad for him, is that they will still celebrate no matter who wins!! (Although, it really DOES matter, especially to us here in the states.)

The past 7 years have been horrible and very tumultuous with no good times on the horizon. We are within the throes of a recession, have been riddled with incredible national debt, have seen unscrupulous lenders and naive borrowers (who may have been greedy, as well) take down our economy. We have been embroiled in a war that is more nonsense and greed and generally immoral than anything in my life, including 'Nam. We have seen the "war on terror" and the rise of "homeland security". I cringe every time I see or hear that word "homeland" as it conjures up relationships (obviously, not literally) to the Hitler era. Our health care system is in disarray and the social strife between classes is about to burst. And, Bush is clueless (as are many others.)

War monger is only one of the sordid terms that are accurate in portraying the worst president in our history. He will not have a legacy that his grandkids or their kids can proudly associate with. He will be remembered as a greedy egomaniac with visions of grandeur, wrapping it all up as a Christian in the name of God. While I wish him no harm, we will all be much better off without his presence in the White House. Somehow, since he's really screwed it up so badly, I believe he will be coming back for many lifetimes to try and do better.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:25 PM on 01/18/2008
- GayGrandpa I'm a Fan of GayGrandpa 64 fans permalink

Sir you attacked a sovereign nation without cause! You and your buddy Dicky trumped up all kinds of B.S. in the White House basements and then fed it to the nation and the U.N. Neither of your kids are there! I mean yours or Cheney's. Duh, no more than you would be...the rich don't go to wars but they make are happy to make them! You sold this war to war profiteers. You sold America's integrity as a genuine peace loving country. You sold us out. Just like you did on global warming. You can call or think of yourself as whatever you want but you will be what you are, a liar, a killer, a their and surely most of all a warmonger!

I like what Skippy Jones said, "The national mood now is one of crashing down - unbearable weight - whether the stupendous national debt, the melting icecaps, a nuclearized middle-east, DNA slicing, dicing, cloning, glowing cats!, god only knows what bio weapons lay in store - fear, fear, fear which is the very realistic result of greed, greed, greed all pushing the world to the brink. Dishonest politicians, I mean, my God in heaven, the contempt the Bush administration has shown for any semblance of truthfulness - we have watched one long train-wreck for seven years - from powers that stole our national election in a state run by the President's brother. Oh good golly, who couldn't go on and on? Who can have any idealism when our countrymen have shown themselves capable of such self dishonesty? I remember that British newspaper after the 2004 election - how could 62,000,000 people be so stupid? I mean, 51% of our country - who cannot say we got what we deserved? The country as a whole needs penance - for the hell we have unleashed by invading another country for its resources - not idealism. The right wing of this country has shamed us all."

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:51 PM on 01/18/2008
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I don't see chimpy as a war monger. He's a coward and definitely a fear monger.

Actually, he's many things, chicken hawk, weakling, liar, scum, thief, soulless immediately came to mind although I'm sure there are many more ways to describe him in two words or less.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:11 AM on 01/18/2008
- VivaZapata I'm a Fan of VivaZapata 63 fans permalink
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hey! give him credit for pronouncing monger correctly; i would have loved to see him say war "mongrel." maybe next time.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:28 AM on 01/18/2008

Bush will be remembered as the idiot that fucked america for 8 long stupid years.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:27 AM on 01/18/2008
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