Bush 'sorry for humiliation' of Iraqi prisoners

CNN ^ | 05/06/2004 | Breaking

[johnb838]

He also doesn't need to explain to Abdullah how the US system works. He understands it very well, and if he doesn't, Queen Noor is from here, she can explain it to him.

[KQQL]

Rush is wrong.

saying sorry takes courage and it's not the same as saying I apologise.

[Cold Heat]

I think it was someone in the Pentagon.

He does have some leakers, It is a possibility, but somehow the intel commitee comes to mind.

[Yaelle]

If you truly believe that, then I think you don't have a clue what real strength is. Bush is revealing himself to be a man who is trying to live his Christian faith, and do what he believes is right. Anyone who mistakes that for weakness would be wrong, whether or not they agree with his decisions.

Well said, and worth repeating.

[highlandbreeze]

Sounds good.

Boy, she is some peice of work, that one,huh. Everytime I see her my hair sstands on end.

Yuck.

[CWOJackson]

"I hop that Rumsfeld is trying to track down the culprit. I think it was someone in the Pentagon."

Wait till the press finds out they mistakenly got hold of Ted Kennedy's personal photo album. Notice how quiet Ted's been over this?

[RobbyS]

I would put my money on the Shinseki faction in the Pentagon. Just a guess, but I know lots of people hate him.

[RobbyS]

Maybe your roots are in sympathy with her hair follicles.

[highlandbreeze]

LOL:-P

[CWOJackson]

We used to have an under-employed civilian worker from the Pentagon (he really was) who posted here regularly. He was extremely anti-Bush, anti-Rums and anti-WOT and made a habit of using Pentagon computers and internet access to press his agenda...which of course made him popular with one element on FR.

When his employers were informed of his use of government time and property he quickly disappeared. No loss.

[DoughtyOne]

I agree with your logic, but I'm not sure if the Food for Oil Scam is bigger than the 'sympathetic to the enemy' press issue as things go.

Either way, this issue is dead now.

[expatguy]

I missed most of the thread but wanted to say this ~

Did our president apologize for bombing Tokyo or Dresden?

[TomGuy]

No, he didn't. Read the transcript that was posted (#391.)

An apology by any other name is still an apology. The perception is that GWB apologized. Clintonisque parsing won't work.

Bush Apologizes, Says Rumsfeld Will Stay
			Posted by yonif On 05/06/2004 5:35:16 PM CDT Rapid City Journal ^ | May 6, 2004 | JOHN J. LUMPKIN WASHINGTON - President Bush apologized Thursday for the abuse and humiliation of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers, but rejected calls for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

[LucyJo]

"...we stand in the breach."

Wiser now, and by the grace of God...victorious!

[Final Authority]

With the apology it is indeed over for GWB. If GWB can't differentiate humiliation from torture in his understanding with respect to his public statement and if he doesn't use the events of 9-11 to frame the issues or the events in the former Iraq regime then he misses the boat. He is impotent and made so by his statements.

What happens when battlefield conditions require destroying a mosque or using a C-130 gunship to take out a position and CNN has pictures of dead women and children? Does GWB apologize again? When this happens and it surely will, can he let it happen again? And after it happens, can we ever use the force necessary to win the war?

In my opinion, unless GWB declares that the events of humiliation are just that, and they are wrong but pale in comparison to what Islamists want to do to Americans, and that he will authorize the military to use the force required to win the war, then I think he is finished because I could never vote for a loser. If you throw a punch or step on the ice, or put the pads on to go into the game you better play to win because if you don't you will surely lose, and that is where we are right now.

[texasbluebell]

Just saw a clip of the idiot Rangel expounding in front of the House.

"I'm calling for Articles of Impeachment."

Who does he want to impeach, the President?

Over this?

And Sheila Jackson Lee earlier was all but threatening the President that there would be no more money from congress for this war unless Rumsfeld is out.

This is madness. Who do these people represent?

[stands2reason]

highlandbreeze: Well, I hope everyone is happy now.

Teplukin: Yup, I am happy. It takes a big man to apologize. And Bush is that man.

All of us should be very grateful that God has given us President Bush to lead us against our foes

highlandbreeze: Whatever

LOL!!!

[u-89]

>Rush also said that the soliders were just blowing off steam and having some fun.

My lord! Did Rush REALLY say that?

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Limbaugh was foaming at the mouth today in a manner that was a detriment to the conservative cause. He came off as the personification of the worst unhinged bloodthirsty warmonger caricature ever dreamed up. Some poster here said he was off his meds today and that is an understatement from what I heard. I must admit that I kept switching the channels on my car radio but continuously came back out of morbid curiosity.

Limbaugh was not only unhappy about any idea of an apology but he denigrated the treatment of the prisoners as minor collage like hazing or something no worse than seen in a S&M porn film and thought perhaps the kids were just a product of popular college in which case it's all the liberal's fault. Basically he treated the subject as a manufactured partisan liberal attack and not a real event.

He also endorsed torture for the good of humanity as he read from some book on the necessities of torturing our enemies as the only way to save ourselves and basically was saying it's a good thing we have people willing to carry out such tasks.

Not finished there he then gloated in our mass killing of German and Japanese civilians in WWII through carpet bombing. - and I mean gloated. No apologies needed for our past actions and none needed now. His rantings did Bush no favors, that's for sure. Didn't make the conservative movement look too good either.

[LucyJo]

Thank you. I'm just thankful to know it is the truth.

[The Wizard]

The only thing wrong with these pictures is it wasn't kennedy, dashole, rangle and the other criminals that deserve it...