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Bush calls Iran's leader 'odd'
AFP ^ | December 17, 2005

Posted on 12/16/2005 1:14:33 PM PST by jmc1969

US President George W. Bush said overnight that building democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan would embolden reformers in Iran, and he branded the Islamic republic's hardline president "an odd guy."

"The stakes in Iraq are beyond just making sure that Iraq is not a safe haven for Al-Qaeda," the network behind the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Mr Bush told PBS television in an interview.

"Iran's got a president that, that, you know, second-guessed the Holocaust and has announced ... the sort of destruction of Israel," said Bush. "He's an odd guy."

Washington has accused Iran of seeking nuclear weapons, promoting instability in Iraq and trying to undermine efforts to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ahmadinejad; bubbleboy; bush; iran; israel; oddguy; terror; understatement
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1 posted on 12/16/2005 1:14:35 PM PST by jmc1969
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To: jmc1969

WHAAAA! Bush called a former Terrorist thug "odd" Whaaa! Bush lives in a bubble! Whaaa!


2 posted on 12/16/2005 1:15:53 PM PST by MNJohnnie ("My job as the President is to see the world the way it is, not the way we hope it is." -GW Bush)
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To: jmc1969

To say the least...


3 posted on 12/16/2005 1:15:57 PM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
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To: jmc1969

"Odd"? That's mildly put. Bet W's thinking something more profane.


4 posted on 12/16/2005 1:16:12 PM PST by lilylangtree
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To: jmc1969

Grow a spine Mr. Bush.


5 posted on 12/16/2005 1:16:22 PM PST by samadams2000 (Nothing fills the void of a passing hurricane better than government)
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To: jmc1969

He should have called him worse than that.


6 posted on 12/16/2005 1:16:26 PM PST by jveritas (The Axis of Defeatism: Left wing liberals, Buchananites, and third party voters.)
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To: jmc1969
I think he was being way too nice.
7 posted on 12/16/2005 1:16:50 PM PST by b4its2late (There are good terrorists - dead ones.)
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To: jmc1969

The dimocratic leadership will demand an immediate appology for this pre-emptive insult to the leader of another country.


8 posted on 12/16/2005 1:16:54 PM PST by conservativewasp (Liberals lie for sport and hate our country.)
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To: jmc1969

He should've used my tagline........


9 posted on 12/16/2005 1:17:16 PM PST by b4its2late (There are good terrorists - dead ones.)
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To: lilylangtree
He is but he cannot say it publicly.
10 posted on 12/16/2005 1:17:23 PM PST by jveritas (The Axis of Defeatism: Left wing liberals, Buchananites, and third party voters.)
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To: jmc1969

Master of understatement..


11 posted on 12/16/2005 1:17:23 PM PST by Mikey_1962 (I grew up in a slum, when I got to college it had become a "ghetto".)
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To: jmc1969

"He's an odd guy."

He seems just like every other Muslim extremist we have heard from...death to the west....death to israel...death to the infidels...sadly, he is anything but odd.


12 posted on 12/16/2005 1:17:40 PM PST by willyd (No nation has ever taxed its citizens into prosperity)
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To: conservativewasp

he's just pulling their chain you know... dems will demand an apology from the rogue cowboy at the White House... lmao


13 posted on 12/16/2005 1:18:55 PM PST by Cinnamon
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To: willyd

He sure has a way with words....


14 posted on 12/16/2005 1:19:10 PM PST by RambozoDClown
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To: jmc1969

Odd, meaning of course "Crazy as a Sh@#house rat."


15 posted on 12/16/2005 1:20:03 PM PST by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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To: jmc1969

Well, to me the people that post at DU are "odd", this guy in Iran is a raving fruitcake.


16 posted on 12/16/2005 1:20:10 PM PST by alarm rider (Irritating leftists as often as is humanly possible....)
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To: samadams2000

Can't imagine Reagan calling the guy "odd", can you? Me neither.


17 posted on 12/16/2005 1:20:33 PM PST by Pessimist
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To: jmc1969

odd seems to be a good word really. how someone could make it to such a high political position yet have no common sense is very odd.
i also find it odd that a traitor, a thief, a couple murderers and a handfull of lying hypocrits could make it into positions of power also.


18 posted on 12/16/2005 1:21:36 PM PST by absolootezer0 ("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
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To: MNJohnnie

He used 'ODD' as an ACRONYM:

Over Drugged Douchebag.

Best I could do...


19 posted on 12/16/2005 1:21:37 PM PST by The_Republican
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To: jmc1969

I like it, to get profane and everything would show that he bothers him too much. Saying something as disarming as "an odd guy" is like swiping his feet out from under him.


20 posted on 12/16/2005 1:22:15 PM PST by rattrap
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