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Senator Alleges White House Wrote Allawi's Speech
Jeremiah Cornelius writes "In a letter to the White House, a leading US Senate Democrat, Diane Feinstein, expressed 'profound dismay' that the White House allegedly wrote a large portion of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's speech to Congress last week. 'His speech gave me hope that reconstruction efforts were proceeding in most of the country and that elections could be held on schedule. To learn that this was not an independent view, but one that was massaged by your campaign operatives, jaundices the speech and reduces the credibility of his remarks.'"
et tu, Rumsfeld?
Because I distinctly saw President Bush take a drink of water while he was speaking.
Unknown host pong.
BUSH:
You know, I think about Missy Johnson. She's a fantastic lady I met in Charlotte, North Carolina....
You know, it's hard work to try to love her as best as I can...
All I ask for are some frickin stories about frickin sharks with frickin lasers on their heads. Throw me a bone guys.
...cause it made him mean.
"the humanity that goes into choosing targets..."
Well, it is nice to see that someone in Washington watches the Daily Show, I guess. The night after the speech they did a segment showing that several of the phrases in the speech were exactly the same as the president uses.
Phrases indeed. I long for a day when the President of the United States can speak in complete sentances.
Here before all but 8486 of you.
It's the desparate tactics of the people whose candidate is starting to slide
Interesting choice of misspellings - I can't decide whether desperate or disparate fits better here.....
Clinton didn't suck, he outsourced it!
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The puppet prime minister of the puppet government of a half-conquered nation is saying what his puppet boss' bosses tell him.
I for one welcome our puppet overlords.
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I missed it, did it have about 100 "uh"s in it?
no, no, take out the part about the prisoner abuse and practically leveling a city of friendlies to get Sadr and put in heroical things that make us look good
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I have serious hope that a group of revolutionary technocrats will simply develop omnescient, benevolent AI, controlling hoards of robots which will set this world in order once and for all.
We have gone through a time of childhood as an intelligence: but we will create our own parents in this form.
Shocked, I am.
Shocked and astonished by this news.
Namely, that there's a senator stupid enough to have accepted the speech as independent material.
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Oh My God, The PTA has disbanded!!
*jumps thru window*
A morning without coffee is like something without something else.
Off topic, yes, but how many people here think the Daily Show will have infinite material after tonight's debates? The Puppet comments alone could be used to make a miniseries.
meh.. it's not really "news".. it's from the CBS-esque style of reporting. "Yeah.. I found this news in my ass, it must be true."
Thanks..
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Funny, I thought Microsoft Word wrote most speeches to Congress.
These days, it's not the Iraqi government that's kidnapping, torturing, and murdering people, but a group of loosely-affiliated amateurs.
Come on, the US army isn't quite that poorly organized.
(Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
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Last week, Karl Rove pulled off a spectacular victory by suckering Dan Rather to present obviously forged documents as real. This week, the plot thickens.
... (keeps talking) ...
GEORGE AND ALLAWI ARE TALKING ON THE PHONE
ALLAWI'S HOUSE IS BEING ATTACKED BY TERRORISTS SHOUTING "Allah Ackbar! Saddam is great! We love Kerry!" BOMBS ARE EXPLODING AND THERE IS GUNFIRE.
ALLAWI: George, I'm kind of busy. You know, the whole "Iraq" thing?
GEORGE: But that was solved a long time ago. Didn't you hear my speech from the carrier? I said, "IRAQ IS NOW A FREE COUNTRY, AND EVERYONE SHOULD GO HOME NOW."
ALLAWI: Okay, George, if you say so. What time do you want me to drop by the congress?
GEORGE: Right when my convention bubble starts to burst. Oh, and I have the speech we wrote for you.
ALLAWI: Alright, I'll see you there.
LATER, AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE FOLLOWING ALLAWI'S SPEECH
REPORTER: Prime Minister Allawi, what do you say to your critics who call you a "dundering idiot" who "can't even write his own speeches" and "who obviously doesn't know anything about Iraq, despite the fact that he is an Iraqi and living in Iraq and leading Iraq"?
ALLAWI: Well, I
GEORGE DRINKS A GLASS OF WATER
REPORTERS OOH AND AAH
REPORTER: (Interrupting Allawi) George, where did you learn to do ventriloquism so well?
GEORGE: I'd tell you Karl Rove taught me, but that would be a lie. (chuckles anxiously) Okay, you got me. Karl Rove taught me.
KARL ROVE RUNS ON TO THE WHITE HOUSE LAWN WITH A ROLLED UP NEWSPAPER
KARL: (Hitting George with the newspaper) Bad George, bad George! No biscuit for you today!
LATER THAT DAY, JOHN KERRY INTERVIEWS REPORTERS
JOHN: I knew all along that Allawi is a stooge. In fact, his nickname was "Larry". Or was it "Moe"? I don't recall. But that's not the point. The point is that Allawi is a stooge.
REPORTER: Senator Kerry, how did you know this? You've never been to an intelligence committee for years!
JOHN: Well, as you know, (or as *I* know), I am omniscient. I am also omnipotent. Here, watch this. Using my mind I will cause an earthquake in Southern California.
JOHN CONCENTRATES.
CUT SCENE TO SAN FRANCISCO SHAKING IN AN EARTHQUAKE
JOHN: As you can see, I am clearly superior to George Bush in every way, and I will solve all the problems in Iraq and the rest of the world. However, you have to elect me president first. Otherwise, I will be powerless.
REPORTERS ARE AWWED AND STUNNED AND REVERENTLY KNEEL. A LIGHT SHINES AROUND JOHN KERRY AND HE LIFTS HIS ARMS AS IF TO BLESS THE REPORTERS.
The radical sect of Islam would either see you dead or "reverted" to Islam.
Kerry gutted Bush like a fish. If you were lucky enough to catch this on C-SPAN, you got to see each candidate while the other spoke. Kerry came across as commanding and presidential. Bush looked like a small child lost in the mall, looking for his mother. Kerry was calm, confident, even smiling broadly- he owned that debate and he knew it. Bush was agitated, nervous, and uncomfortable. Kerry showed that he knew his facts, and Bush didn't. Afterwards, C-SPAN took calls. The Bush callers claimed Bush had won- they were clearly in whatever fantasy land Bush inhabits. One of them said, rather defensively, that Bush looked disoriented and agitated only because he was confused by all of Kerry's flip-flopping. That one had me howling.
Men elect to become cheerleaders in the hopes of being able to hold a female cheerleader aloft by her crotch. Sometimes they try to sneak a peek up there, too. That hardly seems homosexual to me.
Mod me down if you like, but you know it's true.
"cnn poll tonight shows kerry won the debates 78% to 18% or so."
Kerry could have been more forceful but I agree he wiped the floor with GW. GW seemed to keep repeating the same five phrases over and over again. Plus he kept saying how hard it was. Over and over he said "it's hard work". Well DUH, you are the leader of the free world what were you expecting!
evil is as evil does
At least the romans gave us roads and stability for a while.....
I think you should change your nick, bud.
Or maybe it was a mooooooolah.
But I will not sit back and listen to accusations that he has read a book.
All the creatures will die, And all the things will be broken. That's the law of samurai. (Jubai, 1605)
How can you debate somebody that can't even understand what you are saying?
You know what? They ran a piece in my local paper yesterday suggesting what each candidate should do (or not do) during the debate, and one of their suggestions was that Kerry should not use so many big words.
Yes, I live in Republicanland (VA, the "Old Dominion" - or as my dad used to say, the "Old Dumb Onion").
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Well DUH, you are the leader of the free world what were you expecting!
Well, if you believe Fahrenheit 9/11, I think he expected to be on vacation for 4 years. Up until 9/11 anyway...
(yeah, yeah, it's flamebait...)
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Bush did say "rue the day" and "vociferous"
I was mildly impressed at that.
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I forgot:
*) "I believe I'm going to win" "I expect to win". [ that's what we like, complete lack of humility ]
*) "I understand" "I know that" "of course I know Osama bin Laden attacked us. I know that." I'M BRIAN FELLOWS! [ ok I made up that last part, but it's reassuring that the president knows whether he knows something, especially who attacked us ]
And now on the one hand Bush accuses Kerry of disrespecting allies and the current coalition, while on the other hand he is now out campaigning and saying that having a committee with allies won't accomplish anything and that "The use of troops to defend America must never be subject to a veto from countries like France" - now regardless of whether that is a plainly stupid tautology on the face of it, what of Bush insulting France? When Kerry criticizes the efficacy of the current coalition it's disrespectful, but Bush French-bashing (last I checked, even though they disagree with this administration, they are still one of our country's prime allies), hey, that's fair game! And not to mention "You can't claim terrorists cross the border into Iraq, yet at the same time try to claim that Iraq is somehow a diversion from the war against terror." DING DING logic alert. Pop quiz: Did 1) the war on Iraq cause terrorists to flood in, or did 2) terrorists flooding in cause the war on Iraq? If you answered #1, you have a firm inherent grasp of causality! Attacking Iraq lead to terrorists crossing the border. DUH. Now it may be involved in the "war on terror" only because you made it a big fucking terror magnet that it wasn't before! Good job! Let's bomb Iran and North Korea too, I hear there are terrorists waiting to cross the border right at this moment!
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
Yeah, but I guess you have to give him some credit for coming up with all those different ways to call Kerry a flipflopper. That GW, what a grand skill of synnonymity.
Well, we may have gone to war under false intelligence, creating a stronger terrorist threat than ever, meanwhile killing a thousand of our own troops and thousands of innocent Iraqis....BUT YOU'RE A FLIP-FLOPPER!!!!!!