Why Would Our President Apologize for Saying "Bring It On!" and "Wanted Dead or Alive"

Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND) ^ | May 31, 2006 | Ermias Alemayheu

[NewDestiny]

LOS ANGELES – Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, today issued the following statement regarding President George W. Bush’s comments made during a joint press conference with Prime Minister Tony Blair in which the President said he regretted using “tough talk” when discussing ways to confront America’s enemies in the war on terror:

“The President’s tough and uncompromising talk after 3,000 plus Americans were brutally murdered was right on. To backpedal on the eve of Memorial Day with boots on the ground is heartbreaking.

“Who’s advising the President to avoid offending cold blooded killers? Family? Staff? Enemies? Whatever the source, it has to stop.

“Mr. President—please return to your senses. America is in an hour of trial, and we need you.”

Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is the Founder and President of BOND (Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny), a nationally respected nonprofit organization dedicated to “Rebuilding the Family by Rebuilding the Man.” For the past 16 years, BOND has been providing unique programs and services designed to help men and their families. For more information visit www.bondinfo.org

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[LYSandra]

I was disappointed he apologized too. I love that he is a real man and talks tough. It's what we need during war.

[King Moonracer]

To backpedal on the eve of Memorial Day with boots on the ground is heartbreaking.

He's just getting ready to run for president again....D'oh he forgot.

[the invisib1e hand]

I was disappointed he apologized too. I love that he is a real man and talks tough. It's what we need during war.

I'm sure, like everything else he says, the context was warped.

[MNJohnnie]

I agree, however the President does NOT CT in a vacuum. He has to have allies.

It wasn't because he was afraid of "offending our enemies". He is after all responsible for thousands of dead or imprisoned Terrorists.

He apologized because it was those sorts of sound bites that gave the European Left and the Junk Media a club to beat him, and his European allies in various Countries Govt., to beat on him with.

His foes used these to create a bunch a PR stunt to run with. Now they are not "With the Terrorists" but merely opposing "Cowboy Bush and his out of control rhetoric".

[LS]

I was asked specifically about those phrases on at least two of the radio interviews I did last week for my book, and I (being a historian) immediately brought up the hot rhetoric of Franklin Roosevelt or William McKinley. Their style of speech was much different, but the meaning of the words was every bit as clear as "bring it on."

Politically, I think Bush thought he finally had to "admit" to some "mistakes" (and which military campaign in history does NOT have LOTS of mistakes?).

[TomGuy]

Who’s advising the President to avoid offending cold blooded killers? Family? Staff? Enemies?

Two new Cabinet appointees:

Dr. Phil, Secretary of Getting in Touch with Your Inner Self, and
Oprah Winphrey, Secretary of Sensitivity and Feelings

[proust]

New Tone bump.

[kenth]

A kinder, gentler, war on terror?

[Jedidah]

The President regrets the words, not the sentiments. The words gave his opposition ammo to use against him, thus providing a distraction from the real issues.

Chill.

[Berlin_Freeper]

The Left, through their media propaganda agents, have been incessantly hounding the President for years now demanding an "acknowledgment of mistakes" in regards to Iraq and/or the War on Terror.

What I sense is that the President, after years of having to side step these kinds of never ending inquisitions at press conference after press conference, has finally chosen to mention what can be termed as "slips of the tongue", as "mistakes" that he regrets.

What the Left propaganda agents really want to achieve in hearing, by incessantly demanding acknowledgments of mistakes, is what they think the public can be fooled into thinking were grand mistakes of strategy, such as it was a mistake in liberating Iraq or holding terrorists at Gitmo.

The President, rather cleverly I think, finally pulled the fangs out of their demands that he acknowledge mistakes, by making the mistakes a matter of a slip of the tongue, which is a simple common mistake that anyone can make on any given day.

President Bush probably felt extra pressure to make such an admission because of the November elections and by doing so he is building political capital among the fence sitters by showing... look they keep demanding from me to acknowledge mistakes and I have done so.

That is what I see. I think it is a smart political move to wrong foot the Left propaganda agents who were obviously going to keep building bigger and bigger hysterics about him needing to acknowledge mistakes as we get closer and closer to November and President Bush ripped those poisonous fangs out of their heads.

[Fudd Fan]

it was those sorts of sound bites that gave the European Left and the Junk Media a club to beat him

Not just Euro-trash, but so-called "real conservatives" too. Which is what I find disgusting.

[drjimmy]

"USA Today"
July 2, 2003

President Bush said Wednesday that American troops under fire in Iraq aren't about to pull out, and he challenged those tempted to attack U.S. forces, "Bring them on."

"We'll stay the course in Iraq," Bush said. "We're not leaving until we accomplish the task, and the task is going to be a free country run by the Iraqi people." He and his aides offered no timetable for the withdrawal of American forces.

More than 65 U.S. troops have died in Iraq since Bush declared on May 1 that major combat had ended. Twenty-six were killed in combat, the rest in accidents.

Bush pledged to find and punish "anybody who wants to harm American troops," and said the attacks would not weaken his resolve to restore peace and order in Iraq.

"There are some who feel like that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is bring them on," Bush said. "We've got the force necessary to deal with the security situation."

[fish hawk]

Why? Shelby Steele would say "White Guilt" and he would be right. I call it "Jello Guts" my self.

[lqclamar]

Just look how far we've come in less than a century - making apologies for being too "tough" for crying out loud! Teddy Roosevelt is spinning in his grave.

[RobFromGa]

Because he couldn't say this:

"My worst mistake was to have any faith that the UN would do anything, and I should have known that members of the Security Council were being paid under the table by Saddam in return for stonewalling, and that Kofi Annan and his UN culture of corruption was making billions of illegal gains from oil-for-food, which was money that was supposed to be used to help the children and families of Iraq,

and that the delays caused by the UN resolutions enabled the Russians to assist Saddam in hiding his WMD in Syria and elsewhere where they remain a threat to the developed world today.

Other than that, I'm fine with what happened after we decided to ignore the pansies in the UN and Tony and I with the help of some other brave countries took that assh@le Saddam out and whipped his butt, and his sadistic vermin kids too.

Would you like a followup question?"

[GLH3IL]

Oh heck. The President tossed a meaningless bone to the press for the worthless hounds to gnaw on. What's more important, the words he uttered, or the course of action he took witch is far stronger than ANY words he could have uttered. If 100,000 + troops in Iraq killing terrorists isn't saying "bring it on" in a very up close and personal way...I don't know what "bring it on" means anymore.

[lugsoul]

Yeah, that tough talk really gets the job done.

[Fruitbat]

I'm sure, like everything else he says, the context was warped.

Yeah, kinda like his support for widespread amnesty is misconstrued and warped. /s

[Fruitbat]

I think W needs to go back into his WH closet, find the box with the balls in it that he once wore, and have them surgically reattached.

Texans ought to be embarrassed if this is occurring.