LIVE THREAD: President Bush News Conference 03/06/03

http://freerepublic.com ^ | March 6, 2003

[Howlin]

President Bush's new conference regarding current events

[TigersEye]

What was said? What does it mean? etc.etc. In time I will get caught up but I want the readers digest condensed version ...Thanks

Well, in a nutshell, Pres. Bush calmly and resolutely...

kicked the world's butt!

and the world said "thankyou, Mr. President! May we have another?"

Except for one dipstick who thought we were still in Saigon.

[Mo1]

Oh I would love to see them do time and wear matching handcuffs, but that ain't gonna happen .. so I'd rather spend my energy in getting the truth out and educating people

Back during the impeachment days, my BIL asked me why I couldn't show support for Clinton, I said , I'm sorry but I have a problem supporting a man that has not only raped several women, but has also raped our country and sold our national security to the highest bidder

I shut him up for the rest of the night

[uncbob]

That's interesting. I definitely heard it used in reference to George W. Bush.

Somebody may have used it to describe Bush but I am pretty sure it was a Mark Twain Quote

I think Mark Twain-- Will Rodgers and PJ O'Rourke are the 3 best social wits this country has produced

[Dolphy]

It's funny to me to hear Juan Williams and Greta have these revelations about the President. I didn't start out in his corner (during the primaries) but he won me over the first time I saw him in person. I have said from the beginning, he's a sleeping giant. There was just something about him, charisma, kindness, resolve, etc.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

haha.

Sorry, I know that was too easy. I'm feeling punchy tonight, what with waiting for the war, and the fact that I got two offers on my house today. I'll be putting all my things into storage while I hike the 2650-mile Pacific Crest Trail with my wife. I hope the war is over, and bin Laden in custody by mid-April. It'll be hell not having FR for five months (save the occasional town stop in a public library).

[fightinJAG]

Please let me know how you got admitted to the President's national security briefings. I would like to attend also.

[habs4ever]

That's tin foil crap and you ought to think long and hard about what other tidbits your pals are passing your way.

[PhiKapMom]

How does CA elect such people?

Scarborough wasn't buy anything the guy said! You would think the RATs would be ashamed to keep going on TV saying the same old thing day after day. US is going it alone -- no we are not but they keep saying it anyways.

[lawnguy]

I forget her name, Ann Richards? said that the MidEast squabbles were not something the US was interested in.

April Glatsby, I think.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

We're callin' for the vote [in the U.N.]

One of the best points in the speech, calling on the UNSC to vote where they stand. No more diplomatic plausible deniability.

[Political Junkie Too]

...he won me over the first time I saw him in person.

I never saw him in person, but a friend and I saw Dick Cheney at the Alameda County Fairground in the days before the election during his stump through California. We still talk about it, and how the local papers under-reported the turnout.

-PJ

[Balata]

Many people don't understand the policy of containment. Policy of containment is successful only when there is a show of force and resolve from Countries who have a unanimous concenses to keep it contained. It is a policy of strength not weakness. It does not mean you let a country do whatever it wants along as it doesn't spill outside it's boarders.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

We don't NEED the U.N. Approval/Permission !

ANOTHER of the best points of the speech! GO GWB!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

It's official.

David Gergen used the word "quagmire" on Gretta's FNC show at 10:15CT on this 6th day of March, in the year of the Lord 2003.

This is the first official use of the "Q" word to describe the liberation of Iraq and we haven't fired a shot (that we know of).

[Mo1]

Dont be surprised if we're at war by monday
War in three weeks.

Oh heck I gave up guessing .. LOL

Face it, we have no idea and President Bush sure ain't going to give us a hint

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

WHEN IT COMES TO OUR SECURITY, WE DON'T NEED ANYONE'S PERMISSION!!

Second Amendment Bump to That!

[Carolinamom]

Gergen is wringing his hands over the world not being with us.

Kristol, surprisingly, is supporting Bush and saying that he was not being cowboyish, that he had presented a very good case.

Gergen,somewhat backtracking, says that Bush had more resolution than new facts.

For someone who purports to be a Washington insider, he seems as clueless as Nancy Pelosi, who today couldn't think of the term "Coalition of the Willing" while she was bemoaning the usual dem criticisms of unilateralism.

They need to read FR threads more. WE know these facts.

[Howlin]

It's so good to have the words of these intellects to help us understand what's going on, isn't it?

BARF.

[Cboldt]

The opening of the conference was pretty impressive. President Bush said the only question before the UN is "Has Iraq fully and unconditionally disarmed? or not?" Then he went on to answer the question! They have not, and are not. In fact, Iraq is arming now.

So, the UN has it's message, and it's own fate in it's own hands.

I never did it, but I can imagine an 18 year old, living at home, caught "red handed." Dad says, "one more time, and you'll be out of this house so fast it will make your head spin." Well -- your fate is under your own control.

[Alberta's Child]

You're on the right track, but that was not my question. It was U.S. ambassador April Glaspie who informed Saddam Hussein that the U.S. had no compelling interest in "Arab-Arab disputes" (I believe this was the term she used).

Iraq was in a very difficult position financially because it had to pay off the enormous cost of the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, and they were being hampered by Kuwait. Kuwait was not only driving down the price of oil on the world market by exceeding its OPEC quotas, but it was doing so by drilling for oil from reserves along the border with Iraq that extended into Iraq.

The defining moment of the early 1990s was not the Persian Gulf War but the end-game in the collapse of the Soviet Union. For the first time in decades, Europe had a viable source of oil (the former Soviet republics in the Caspian Sea basin) outside the Middle East.

Ironically, Iraq was targetted by the West in 1991 because it was considered to have the best potential to develop into a Western-friendly nation that could exist without the radical Islamic influence that affects most of its neighbors.

And herein lies the proof of one of my original points -- if radical Islam were truly the greatest threat to the U.S. today, then the U.S. was fighting on the wrong side in 1991.