Fonzie, have you ever been on water skis? If Bush bothered to read, he would know what Hillary means. But then again, he is the decider and it is the job of the Executive to interpret the laws. But maybe Bush is confused because he likes to kill Americans - be they in Texas, Iraq, Afghanistan, but who is paying attention. After all, now that we have the MCA, a piece of paper - you know the one that nullifies that other piece of paper kept at the National Archives - we can find al Qaeda terrorists like Osama bin Laden. Is he important again?]
GWB: ... I believe there's a group of people here in Washington ... who have a different view of this war. They view it as a law enforcement matter. I view it as war. And therefore the federal government must use all our assets at our disposal, obviously within the Constitution to protect this country.
[Yeah, within the Constitution, like Article I, section 8, clause 11 - Congress shall have the power to declare war. Congress did declare war on a military tactic - didn't they?
... Now there are some who say we're not at war. There are some who say Iraq is not part of the War on Terror. I strongly disagree. And so does Usama bin Laden, and Mr. Zawahiri, sworn enemies of the United States, who would like to attack us again.
[Bush Jumps Shark: Take Seven
Drunk and in the Shark Tank: When Bush is feeling a little lonely, and in need of reassurance he finds the most credible people, his loyal confidants and his conscience. Nothing like claiming that we should "trust" the lying, conniving, blood-thirsty enemy. And when the terrorists claim that Venezuela is the Southern front on the "war on terror" we will need to attack Caracas too (again - this time with our own Marines like we did with Aristide in Haiti).]
BO: The Taliban has obviously resurrected itself [in Afghanistan]. Their sanctuaries are in Pakistan. You just recently had [Pakistani dictator, General Pervez] Musharraf here at the White House. Why can't Musharraf wipe these Taliban guys out?
GWB: ... the answer is good intelligence sharing. And President [sic] Musharraf made the commitment that upon good, actionable, intelligence that he will take care of the leaders of the Taliban.
[Bush Jumps Shark: Take Eight
Cue laugh track. Bush made a funny. "Good, actionable, intelligence," get it? The Bush regime has either never had any or never acted on it. I blame the CIA and the Congress, they saw all the documents, even those delivered to Judith Miller ... oops, never mind.]
BO: Do you believe that? I mean ... he hasn't done anything for years. [You] think [that] his army could go up and pacify those areas?
GWB: ... it's much harder than you think ... it's going to require good intelligence. [Musharraf has] been very effective on Al Qaeda. He understands [that] it doesn't do this [sic] country any good to have extremists and radicals inside his country, fomenting violence ... inside Pakistan or outside Pakistan.
[That Kool-Aid certainly looks tasty. I think that if we wait just a few more years that we, along with our coalition partners, will finally conquer the evil-doers who are in their last throes...]
BO: The Taliban is financed by poppy sales, heroin trafficking. Why doesn't the United States destroy those fields?
GWB: We're working with the sovereign government of Afghanistan to do just that. ... I spoke to President Karzai [and] said "look, it doesn't make sense for us to be trying to help your democracy succeed and you have got major poppy growers growing." And so they've got a new eradication program that he's going to try out this upcoming year.
[Bush Jumps Shark: Take Nine
Forget reruns, what do the sponsors want? I think that someone has been reading again. Crop eradication, like shark jumping, is the dying cry of a sit-com in need of a finale. Nixon did crop eradication in Turkey in the 1970s, "can you spell T-A-L-I-B-A-N boys and girls?" They were just one of the many beneficiaries of the shift in global heroin production when Cheney and Rumsfeld were in power the first time. By the way, American pharmaceuticals purchase opium all the time - legally, from India and Pakistan! Now I see why we need to eradicate opium. The more grown in Afghanistan or Colombia or Myanmar or Laos, the lower the price it is for our friends who are fighting over the Kashmir. At least they are making nuclear weapons with American help.]
BO: ... The bottom line is this, crazy insurgency or the Islamo-fascists, as I call them, it's never going to end in our lifetime?
GWB: Well, I think that's an ... interesting point. The question is how do you marginalize them? I think this is the big ideological debate of the 21st century ... By far, the vast majority of people want to have a peaceful existence.
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