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October 5, 2006

Bush Quotes as Deep Thoughts

By Steven Leser

I was a huge fan of "Deep Thoughts" by Jack Handey on Saturday Night Live. So on my old blog over at "The Dumbya Chronicles", I had a thing where each week I posted a Bush quote that really "spoke" to me and I called them "Deep Quotes". Here are a few of the Gems:

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I was a huge fan of "Deep Thoughts" by Jack Handey on Saturday Night Live. So on my old blog over at "The Dumbya Chronicles", I had a thing where each week I posted a Bush quote that really "spoke" to me and I called them "Deep Quotes". Here are a few of the Gems:

"To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day hero ... assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an un-winnable urban guerilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability."

George H.W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States in "A World Transformed". 1998

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"Well, we've tried summits in the past, as you may remember. It wasn't all that long ago where a summit was called and nothing happened, and as a result we had significant intifada in the area."
--George W. Bush Interview with Britain's ITV, as reported by the Associated Press's Ron Fournier on April 5, 2003.

"Somebody told me there's a story floating around that somehow I am blaming the Clinton administration for what's going on in the Middle East right now. ... I appreciate what President Clinton tried to do. He tried to bring peace to the Middle East."
-- George W. Bush, the next day at an April 6 press conference in Crawford, Texas with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

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In honor of the end of the Ari Fleischer era of Shrub's administration, one of Ari the Prevaricator's first press briefings, January 25, 2001, where the head frontman for the administration showed what we were in for:

Ari Fleischer lies about WhiteHouse Vandalism in his Jan 25th Press Briefing

Q Ari, on the vandalism issue, you made light of that the other day, but is this now the subject of a more serious investigation, internally?

MR. FLEISCHER: There is no investigation. What we are doing is cataloging that which took place. And that's the status.

Q We know about the W's, graffiti in the bathrooms. Can you describe what else was done?

MR. FLEISCHER: David, I choose not to. I choose not to describe what acts were done that we found upon arrival because I think that's part of changing the tone in Washington. I think it would be easy for us to reflect and to discuss these things and to be --

Q It is government property.

MR. FLEISCHER: -- and to be critical.

Q This is taxpayer funded property.

MR. FLEISCHER: President Bush chooses to set a different tone, and that --

Q How is this a tonal issue? This is about government property, as you said the other day, that has to be replaced at taxpayer money. Were there telephone wires cut, was there graffiti, were there keyboards that had to be replaced because they were vandalized property?

MR. FLEISCHER: The President understands that transitions can be times of difficulty and strong
emotion, and he's going to approach it in that vein.

Q What's the purpose of cataloging it?

Q Why give them -- if you're going to give them a pass, why bother to catalogue it?

MR. FLEISCHER: We'll just make sure we figured out what happened.

Q What's the purpose of that?

MR. FLEISCHER: Just to figure out what took place.

Q Is there a dollar figure?

Q If you're not going to report it to the people who are paying for it, why --

MR. FLEISCHER: I'm sorry?

Q Is there an estimate on how much this damage has done?

MR. FLEISCHER: There is no estimate.

Q Is strong emotion a defense against a criminal charge?

MR. FLEISCHER: Well, there are no criminal charges to be made.

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The upshot is that we all now know of course that there was no damage in the White House. The General Accounting Office, the non-partisan group of people that run things administratively behind the scenes for a lot of government functions, concluded in their investigation that there was no damage or vandalism.

Ari, however, through innuendo and omission, allowed this vicious rumour to continue and spread. In my book, that is a lie, the first of many.

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In the midst of the ongoing carnage that is the Iraq Guerrilla war, and the almost never mentioned and never-ending war in Afghanistan, I often think of what Bush said in a campaign speech in September of 2000.

"As president, I will work to build a culture that respects life." Source: Rita Rubin, USA Today, p. 1A Sep 29, 2000

Authors Website: http://www.ibtimes.com/blog/steven-leser_103/bio/

Authors Bio:
A political blogger for the International Business Times, Steve Leser is a hot national political pundit. He has appeared on MSNBC's Coundown with Keith Olbermann, Comedy Central's Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Russia Today's (RT) Crosstalk with Peter Lavelle. But, Leser is most known for his work as commentator and the progressive counterpoint on the very conservative FOX News cable network. Steve Leser has been frequently featured on Your World with Neil Cavuto, Bulls & Bears, and Cashing In against such FOX notables as Neil Cavuto and Stuart Varney. Leser gave the stirring live commentary on FOX as news broke of the resignation of Sarah Palin as Governor of Alaska.

Steve Leser is in demand in New York as keynote speaker for his authority on the power and machinations of Republican think tanks, the economy, health care reform and various other political topics.

Leser is also a political organizer and has held positions within the Democratic Party including District Chair and Public Relations Chair within county organizations.

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