Reid: Bush Used "Bring 'Em On" Line Again In Private Meeting

Via ThinkProgress: "[A]s Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) reveals in his new book, Bush again used that infamous phrase as recently as 2007. Last night on MSNBC, Reid said that on the anniversary of 9/11 last year, he was 'complaining' to Bush about the situation in Iraq. Bush replied, 'Bring 'em on. We're killing them. We're killing them.'" Read more here.

Reid discussed the revelation with MSNBC's Keith Olbermann. Watch it:

Comments

[Midnightrain]

Who's to blame here? It's sort of like the chicken and the egg conundrum.

[helonias]

I thought the fellow that GB accepted as hid own personal savior said turn the other cheek and love thine enemies.

Not bring them on.

[lungfish]

And it all happens with the complicity of Congress..­.. at least the senators in Rome had the honor and the balls to bring the reign of Julius Ceasar to a screeching halt. Our Congressional reps have no sense of honor nor do they have the will to bring these criminals to heel. America isn't a great democracy, it isn't even a pretty good one. We are owned by corporations and old money. Decadent, greedy, self-righteous and arrogant "leaders" ignoring the fate of the those Pebians who allegedly elected them.... very sad and in need of a change that probably will not come. Is everyone ready for $8 per gallon gas? Won't be long. Wanna see inflation decimate your access to food? Just keep watching and letting your leaders continue on this path to their enrichment at the cost of your basic standard of living. I am sure all those vets who fought for the "American Way" will appreciate their sacrifice in a new light when their mortgages fail and they are bankrupt..­..

[KQuarksSuperKollider]

Face it McSame has the same attitude toward foreign policy. If they disagree with us kill them. McSame will make Bush look like a pacifist.

[rosal]

McSame is really McWorse.

[KQuarksSuperKollider]

Great interview by Olberman. He really had some good questions for Reid. Bush's "bring 'em on" comment just shows he never had a clue about foreign policy. You just cannot kill everyone who does not agree with you. Bush still acts like a school boy.

[noamjunior]

Ried should pull a Lieberman and switch parties- he is such a tool!

[tompoe]

No need to switch. Reid and Pelosi are doing just what they want, now. Reid and Pelosi may end up being history's biggest enablers of the war crimes committed by Bush/Cheney.

[StillAmused]

"We're killing them. We're killing them."

Thus spake the sociopath.

[ajax2]

Harry, how has your retirement been?

[lungfish]

Yep, kill those Bushco generated insurgents­..... they weren't there until he invaded with no real plan to manage the situation.­... and he can use our money (and loans from that great bastion of freedom and democracy, China), our kids, our reputation­s.... what a little punk.

[thirteen13]

They just don't get it. You can no more destroy them than they could destroy us.

al Qaeda knows it cannot destroy the USA. However, their goal is to bankrupt the USA. It looks like they are right on target. Don't take my word for it, look at the gas pump and heating oil prices.
Then go to the food store and see how much less you get for the more you spend.

[RS]

"al Qaeda knows it cannot destroy the USA. However, their goal is to bankrupt the USA. It looks like they are right on target."


They did the EXACT SAME THING to the former Soviet Union. Isn't there a well-known proverb: "Those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it"?

[kellygrrrl]

The Faux Cowboy FratBoy Brat MUST be extinguished!

[dukeman]

They are also killing and maiming us.

[Ramirez]

There is no such thing as a "private meeting" with Harry Reid.

[LiberTLover]

No, but apparently there were plenty of them with Bush and his pals. I would be most curious to hear those private meetings that took place discussing how they would con peple into voting for someone who can't put a coherent sentence together (even with help!) and how they would convince people that they support the troops with inadequate equipment, armored vehicles, intelligence, health care or even a friggin' plan, while helping Haliburton stagger to the bank from their 'support'.

[thirteen13]

al Qaeda is using us against ourselves. They know the greed and corruption of our military complex and contractors sucking us dry. It's all part of bankrupting the USA.

[StillAmused]

There's no such thing as a "smart right-winger".

[noamjunior]

Good for him -given that gop private meetings usually seem to take place in airport bathrooms

[JessWonderin]

"Bring'm ON!" . . . sure, why not? OTHER peoples money, blood and kids . . . .

[OliviaRee]

It's absolutely astounding that the Bush/Cheney regime will leave office unscathed, with truck loads of war profits that will allow them to retire in the lap of luxory for the rest of their sad and sorry lives.

[KillTheMessenger]

Once dumb as a stump, always dumb as a stump?

I didn't say that. The next Republican president wannabe said it.

[EnuffsEnuffAlready]

How in thunder can you get away with insulting stumps like that?!

ANY stump is brighter than this arrogant playground punk.

[LiberTLover]

You made me laugh and shoot diet Pepsi out of my nose! Funny. And so true.

[SpaghettiWorshipper]

Reid's deadpan kills me.