Posted by jakeman on December 4, 2004, at 13:24:38
In reply to Quiz: Who said this? » MissMinerva » jakeman, posted by Jonathan on December 4, 2004, at 1:40:46
> "I just don't think it's the role of the United States to walk into a country and say,
> 'This is the way we do it — so should you.'"
> Answer: George W. Bush, in September 2000.
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> It seems that, at the same time that "Bush's Brain" Karl Rove was planning the occupation of Iraq, he was briefing his protege to reassure American voters with sound-bites like the above.
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> The third and final part of a BBC TV documentary "The Power of Nightmares"
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/3755686.stm
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> includes a video clip of Bush saying these exact words. My memory isn't *that* good: I copied the exact words from a newspaper review published the next day, which unfortunately is not on the newspaper's web site. It was broadcast here in the UK five to seven weeks ago; if you get the chance to see it, I think you'll both find it interesting — much more so than the BBC's rather superficial web pages suggest.
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> For online evidence that Bush has expressed the same opinion on more than one occasion:
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> http://joshw.org/mod/diary/discuss.php?entry_id=765
> http://www.fareedzakaria.com/articles/newsweek/070703.html
> Jonathan.Here's a another quote along those lines:
"I will work hard to find political solutions that allow an orderly and timely withdrawal from places like Kosovo and Bosnia. We will encourage our allies to take a broader role. We will not be hasty, but we will not be permanent peacekeepers dividing warring parties."
George Bush, September 23, 1999As a Texas resident, I know that Bush has a long history of saying one thing and doing another. (In the old days that practice was called lying).
What is shocking to me is that people don't seem to care.Here is a link to the PBS program, "The War Behind Closed Doors," in which interviewees talk about the neo-conservatives priming Bush for a war with Iraq prior to his election.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraqHow ironic is it Bush's close circle of hawkish advisers-- K. Rove, R. Perl, C. Rice, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz (and Bush himself) never served in a war? Yet the Bush campaign smeared Kerry's military service record...
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