Who Would Vote For bush Again?

dude, you're just playing the word game, ...

"Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike? If this threat is permitted to fully and suddenly emerge, all actions, all words, and all recriminations would come too late. Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a strategy, and it is not an option."

On Thursday in Cincinnati, Ohio, Cheney described Saddam as a "man who provided safe harbor and sanctuary to terrorists for years" and who "provided safe harbor and sanctuary as well for al Qaeda."

DontTreadOnMe wrote:

dude, you're just playing the word game, ...

The word game, DTOM, is being played by the anti-Bush folks who assert that Bush claimed the Iraq threat was "imminent," when it's clear he did not.

Quote:

"Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike? If this threat is permitted to fully and suddenly emerge, all actions, all words, and all recriminations would come too late. Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a strategy, and it is not an option."

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if that was the case, what is the explanation for not allowing the u.n. inspectors the additional few months to do their work?

if the threat was not imminent, that means that there was no "urgency" to take overwhelming action.

c'mon tico... you're a lawyer. you know words have specific meanings, that's why we use them. to convey specific mental imagery of a thought.

and, to pretend that there is no such thing as "implication" in the use of language is disingenuous.

that said, how ya like the new gilmour record ?

By George,

I do believe that dyslexia & blueveinedthrobber nailed it with their last two posts!


Snood, I told you that your post was so far over their heads that they would never understand it! They don't try to understand anything that doesn't come from the mouth of their master. Well, this guy pretty much says it all for me!

show me where he said, "i am not a fan of the bush administration".

If liberals were going around claiming Bush asserted Saddam was a "threat of unique urgency," you and I would not be having this argument.

that said, how ya like the new gilmour record ?

DontTreadOnMe wrote:

show me where he said, "i am not a fan of the bush administration".

Who said he said he was a fan of the Bush Administration?

Brandon9000 wrote:

snood wrote:

Brandon9000 wrote:

cicerone imposter wrote:

On Thursday in Cincinnati, Ohio, Cheney described Saddam as a "man who provided safe harbor and sanctuary to terrorists for years" and who "provided safe harbor and sanctuary as well for al Qaeda."

I'm having a problem with my memory. Would you mind pointing me, please, to the quotation in which Bush asserts that Iraq played a role in 9/11?

Most of us humans, being as high as we are in the evolutionary pecking order, have rudimentary intuitive powers. Do I understand you as saying that you believe George Bush and his seconds in no way tried to make a case that Hussein and 9/11 were connected? Aside from semantics, just tell me you really believe that no attempt was made to make that connection.

I can only go on what he said, and he never said that Iraq played a role in 9/11. If you disagree, just cite your source.

Suppose I said "Brandon was seen in the company of the robbers before the robbery, trained them to rob banks and has given bank robbers safe haven and funded their robberies". In your opinion, as long as I don't say "Brandon is an accomplice of the bank robbers", then I am not giving the impression that you are an accompliece?

Brandon9000 wrote:

DontTreadOnMe wrote:

Quote:

"The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency."
- President Bush, 10/2/02

threat
A noun
1 threat
declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another; "his threat to kill me was quite explicit"

2 threat
a warning that something unpleasant is imminent; "they were under threat of arrest"

On the contrary, something can be a threat in the making. The word does not contain the idea of imminence. "He had made some nasty threats about what was going to happen when his jail sentence ended."

so now the dictionary is wrong ??

jeez louise, brandon, even your example uses the concept of imminence.

what do think "in the making" says ? it says "it will be here".

that is imminence.

the eventual, but certain, ending of a jail sentence is an imminent release.

dude, you're just playing the word game,

whether a person says "the house is burning to the ground" or "the house is on fire", the meaning is still the same.

Brandon,
I'm still trying to get you to acknowledge or deny that you can see where there was an implication of a connection made, but you keep wanting to talk about what words were said. Do you or don't you see where Bush and Co. tried to make a case that Hussein and 9/11 were connected?

cicerone imposter wrote:

On Thursday in Cincinnati, Ohio, Cheney described Saddam as a "man who provided safe harbor and sanctuary to terrorists for years" and who "provided safe harbor and sanctuary as well for al Qaeda."

Bush has also made a comment that was either EXACTLY, or very much like this within the last couple of days asl while ha has been out "selling" his "war successes" to "the people that can people that can be fooled all the time". What would he do without his his moron core of believers??

Anon

Maybe Bush didn't come right out and say it, but him and his whole administration mislead the American people and led them to believe that Saddam was involved.

isn't that just as bad?