Bush: 'When I take action I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent

NewsMax.com ^ | 9/16/01 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

Bush: 'When I take action I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.'

Washington and the liberal media may be getting the message: George Bush is for real and he's no Mr. Nice Guy when it comes to war.

Even Newsweek's Howard Fineman, a liberal Bush-basher, has had to do a double take this week.

Writing in his column of an Oval office meeting with four U.S. Senators -- including Hillary Rodham -- Fineman described Bush "relaxed and in control."

Fineman, drawing a comparison with Winston Churchill's defiance during World War II, quoted the president as telling the Senators: "When I take action,” he said, "I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.”

No doubt, Hillary must have shuddered when she heard that, a clear hit on her husband's eight years of appeasement with terrorists and their backers.

Fineman says Bush is "exceeding expectations, learning on the run before our eyes. . . . his feet were on the ground, his bearings set: a late bloomer blossoming in the nick of time. ... Cheered on by voters’ hopes, he’d become, in the words of a priest at the National Cathedral, "our George”: the designated dragon slayer, a boyish knight in a helmet of graying hair."

[kattracks]

A President Finds His True Voice

[jae471]

God Bless GWB!!!!!

[GeronL]

'When I take action I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt...'

Is that an actual quote??..LOL... Should be the quote of the week!

[joyce11111]

And, he has a 91% approval rating.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Bump!!!!

[El Gato]

Texas Speaks! He may not have been born here, but he was raised here and it shows.

[kattracks]

It's an actual quote and Hillary! was standing right there when he said it!

[america-rules]

Yup!

[Michael Barnes]

Your kidding me...This was "broadcast"??? Please, let this be true...

[smoothsailing]

Fineman is making nice because of all the Newsweak subscription cancellations.

I do not feel his pain.

[gopgen]

He should have added: "If your husband had done something besides molest the interns, Senator, then perhaps your state wouldn't need $40 billion to clean up the worst disaster in our history."

[opticoax]

Peggy Noonan posted an article saying the two biggest misconceptions about 43 are that he is stupid and that he is nice:

Note this pattern of liberal propaganda:
Nixon - a souless fascist
Ford - a bumbling moron
Reagan - a senile actor
Bush 42 - an out-of-touch wimp
Quayle - a lucky moron
Bush 43 - another moron

With a lack of facts, the Liberal press resorts to invective, then uses its own assessments as facts. Moron Dowd is the most glaring example. God Bless President Bush and may these Liberal journalist eat their own words.

[AlaskaErik]

Bush: 'When I take action I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.'

I laughed so hard when I heard him say it. First good laugh since Monday night. We need a president who will take action instead of reading polls and going for theatrics.

[IncPen]

Some of us knew a long time ago... Some of us knew...

[onyx]

I cancelled my subscription 3 weeks ago, even the two office subscriptions.

[kattracks]

Some of us knew a long time ago... Some of us knew...

Yes, and now EVERYONE knows.

[DoughtyOne]

If I hear how Bush is learning on the run one more time I'm gonna puke. Every president has a learning curve up front. By this time the Clinton team had already installed John Huang in the White House, set up a system of blocking staff members FBI background checks, butchered the Travel Office staff, carried out the extermination of the Branch Davidians and obstructed an investigation of their all-star Attorney Vince Foster.

I may not be a big fan of Bush, but I can recognize an ingorant fool a mile off and Fineman is looking pretty dang familiar.

[onyx]

Thanks for posting this! I just e-mailed 25 friends a copy of it! Wonderful, the best news I've read!

[PRND21]

Some? Lots.

[Clinton's a rapist]

Some plain Texas talk from GW. Gotta love that!