50 Tons Of Mustard Gas In a Turkey Farm
Here are three of my favorite quicktime video clips from the president's press conference and don't miss the mp3 Dick is a Killer perhaps explaining why George and Dick will be attending the 9/11 hearings together. Tony Blair will be devastated when he meets Shirley W. Bush. (adult language)
"I hope I don't want to sound like I have made no mistakes. I'm confident I have. I just haven't, you just put me under the spot here, and maybe I'm not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one.":
QUESTION: Mr. President, why are you and the vice president insisting on appearing together before the 9/11 commission? And, Mr. President, who will we be handing the Iraqi government over to on June 30th?
BUSH: We'll find that out soon. That's what Mr. Brahimi is doing. He's figuring out the nature of the entity we'll be handing sovereignty over.
And, secondly, because the 9/11 commission wants to ask us questions, that's why we're meeting. And I look forward to meeting with them and answering their questions.
QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE) I was asking why you're appearing together, rather than separately, which was their request.
BUSH: Because it's a good chance for both of us to answer questions that the 9/11 commission is looking forward to asking us. And I'm looking forward to answering them.
"You've looked back before 9/11 for what mistakes might have been made. After 9/11, what would your biggest mistake be, would you say, and what lessons have learned from it?
BUSH: I wish you'd have given me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it.
John, I'm sure historians will look back and say, gosh, he could've done it better this way or that way. You know, I just , I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with answer, but it hadn't yet.
I would've gone into Afghanistan the way we went into Afghanistan. Even knowing what I know today about the stockpiles of weapons, I still would've called upon the world to deal with Saddam Hussein.
See, I'm of the belief that we'll find out the truth on the weapons. That's why we sent up the independent commission. I look forward to hearing the truth as to exactly where they are. They could still be there. They could be hidden, like the 50 tons of mustard gas in a turkey farm."
update: shit its only 23.6 tons of mustard gas. No way I'm changing the title of the post.
Comments
My first thought was "You're kidding me." Now I'm off to get a transcript. This thing is so way out of control, Norm, I think most cannot bring themselves to think about realising it. But "...the 50 tons of mustard gas in a turkey farm"?
Yep, I see it... on the Financial Times transcript. Found in Libya... the world a safer place. Hell, the way this is going, I wonder if duct tape will do us any good here in Africa. The man is stark raving mad. What really worries me, though, is that he continues to get away with it.
50 tons of mustard gas in a turkey farm. Well, at least we now all know it's been worthwhile.
Your going to end up in the trunk of a rental car with Dave Letterman. The Justice Dept. is after you, look at the mp3 link.
Like him or not, the man is our president and warrents a certain amount of respect. It's easy to sit in your living room watching him speak and looking for ways to discredit him. I'm of the belief that, regardless of what his initial intentions were, he did the right thing.
He doesn't warrent (sic) any respect whatsoever. He has disgraced the office more than any other president in your country's history. Clinton got a blow jogb, Bush killed 10's of thousands of innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nixon spied on the democrats Bush lied to the American people and took them to war on the basis of those lies. If you're so proud of the sorry bastard why don't you have the courage of your convictions "anon" and actually sign your real name or supply your web address.
The office deserves respect. The occupant has to earn respect and this one has failed.
Mike,
I don't what it was but 50 tons of mustard gas in a turkey farm just cracked me up. You're right he's a raving lunatic, and I don't know what to say about my country men, but that many of them have a screw or two lose. Nice to see you posting again btw.
YOU'RE on fire these days Norm! It's all so overwhelming. There is so much to blog about I've just been kinda paralyzed and gotten away from political blogging. But I think you may have inspired me once again. You GO Norm!
As a semi-sentient being, our appointed president does deserve some amount of respect in much the same way that... (Oh gosh, what would be an appropriate metaphor?) lets say, a forest slug deserves respect.
The 'Dick Is A Killa' song is great! This president deserves... a big-ass slapdown. No more respest-- he and his administration have gotten breaks galore.
Great post, Norm.
I believe that was 50 tons of turkey gas on a mustard green farm, but I could be wrong.
Actually, I think it was Colonel Mustard with the candlestick in the turkey farm room.