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Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Don't Forget To Water Them
Bush at his press conference today:
I firmly planted the flag of liberty, for all to see that the United States of America hears their concerns and believes in their aspirations. And I am excited by the challenge and am honored to be able to lead our nation in the quest of this noble goal, which is freeing people in the name of peace.
The president was then asked how he would accomplish his goal of "freeing people in the name of peace." Quick on his feet as always, Bush replied, "we'll fucking invading any country that's not free." He went on to say that the United States would then plant the "boot of American military bases" surrounded by the "vinca of freedom" and the "azaleas of tax-free municipal bonds" in the "garden of Western-style democracy" all over the world.
ntodd
[Update: Wolcott has more on the unnerving PC.]
['nother update: noticed one word that bothered me and I removed it from the permanent record, as though it were never there...]
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Freeing people... but we don't mean freedoms that matter, like freedom from low wages, freedome from poor insurance, freedom from bad presidentts.
Nope, that we are stuck with
Dov
Posted by: DovBear | Jan 26, 2005 9:38:37 PM
"Freeing people in the name of peace" - doesn't necessarily mean we have to keep peace. Just in the name of peace. We kill them and say it was for peace... oh, yeah, that sits real well with me.
Posted by: oldwhitelady | Jan 26, 2005 10:54:31 PM
The knights who say NI want shrubberies. We need to send Bush on a quest...a really really long quest...to cut down the largest tree in the forest ... with a HERRING!
Geez, first we have flags claiming piles of crap, now we have gardens of freedomanliberty. Soon we will have lawnmowers of democracy..or something.
Posted by: ellroon | Jan 27, 2005 12:01:19 AM
Apparently he said variants of "looking forward" about 3000 times during the press conference. All of them combined, one after another after another were the 'top three sound bites of this day' on Olbermann. It was pretty funny over and over and over.
Worse, though, he nervously laughed when he claimed to value life (of the dead marines). "We WEEP..." while he laughs.
What a creep.
Posted by: Alex | Jan 27, 2005 1:15:02 AM
They should start printing Bush coupons in Iran.
"Invade a country, get one free!"
Posted by: PSoTD | Jan 27, 2005 9:28:35 AM
whendo we get free of him?
Posted by: DovBear | Jan 27, 2005 11:22:40 AM
Codespeak for religious reactionaries:
Freeing people in the name of peace, but just substitute "Jesus" for peace. We all know who is is really talking to and what he really means. Saving those people for Jesus.
Posted by: Sarah | Jan 27, 2005 11:50:41 AM
Remember what the "tree of liberty" is supposed to be watered with. Bush hasn't forgotten.
Posted by: Randomfactor | Jan 27, 2005 2:13:59 PM
Fighting for peace is like fucking for chastity.
Posted by: fkuechmann | Jan 27, 2005 7:05:15 PM
"vinca of freedom"
I thought it would have been the "wild carrot of freedom." If you know anything about wild carrot, you know it crowds out all the other plants and chokes them to death.
Posted by: Trish Wilson | Jan 28, 2005 12:59:41 PM
Buy me stuff off my 
