'Has the place blown up?' (Bush asked Annan @ UN)

that would be funny.

thought he was being a good ole boy, he is embarrassing and dangerous

especially in these times.

You joke like that at any airport and the SS will be pulling you out of line and into a small room.

Not a BIT funny. VERY tasteless. Just like everything else about him. For a so-called "patrician," he sure has low-life instincts.

This gov has caused a Stupid Panic and he says this shit. We're locking up pre K students for drawing weapons. * is a fucking loser.

...if it weren't the #1 most reckless man alive talking about the #3 or #4 most reckless man alive.

this is the guy with his finger on the button.

You all do realize that all he has to do is say "LAUNCH 'EM!" and then the only thing between us and armageddon is a mass mutiny of launch crews (which is not bloody likely).

:yoiks:

what will those lunatics do if they feel they are losing power.

Didn't the pentagon just say it's ok to preemptive nuke any perceived threats?

He actually restrained himself from punching Bush in the nose. I don't think I could have.

"Why don't you fucking grow up!"

This guy is detrimental to my health.

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how to behave in public among adults.

I would have shouted Hooray!

I mean it was like he was snickering at him.

answers from him real fast. Don't they tell US not to joke about bombs and things being blown up? Great example, asshat.

We have Bevis and Butthead running this country from the special ed room of the white house

I saw that kind of hand raised before when I taught special Ed. The body posture, the non focused eyes, the drooped shoulder and thought about Gary Lawson and some of the student I taught.

It was more of life imitates art, vs the art imitates life.

:rofl:

Look at poor Condi, so sad that George did wee wee in his pants.

Wonder the Sec-Gen'l thought...

I really can't believe his "wit".

What a fuckwit.

MaineDem to the world....I'm sorry; I didn't vote for him!

:rofl:

What a fucktwit!

Did that quip come before or after your bathroom break?

Or was he* just born like that?

colossal racist failure*.

He is an embarrassment............

peace.

... it's a deliberate message.

Sort of like "We will bury you".

around and angered several members. Annan should have responded with an honest answer to this dopey question, but he has some class and probably didn't want to lower himself to bush's level in front of the press.

Will someone please find a ballgag for this asshole?

embarrassment.:eyes:

I expect junior to get more testy as his poll numbers keep plummeting

States is such a clueless idiot. What an impression he must make on intelligent people who have to deal with him. What a representative for our country. (shakes head)

Not only is it completely inappropriate for POTUS to joke about buildings blowing up in NYC -- hey, Georgie, remember the WTC? -- but also because the U.N. Envoy was one of those killed (by a bomb) early on in Bush's Folly.

The U.N. special representative in Iraq and at least 16 others died Tuesday in a bomb explosion that ripped through the organization's headquarters in Baghdad.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/08/19/sprj.irq.main/

If so, this is what I'm talking about when I say THEY are being too fucking passive and pansypants w/ re this admin.

Sure, old Europe, bitch and complain about how the US can't get a grip on it's own politics.... but don't offer any sort of "reinforcement" for us either.

As I recently said to some Germans I've been talking to:

Well, let's see how you fare next week (elections): if you--with your itsy-bitsy little country, your universal health care, your six week paid vacations, etc., with the economic miracle we helped make happen after we got rid of Hitler for you--cannot manage to keep the Bushevik Merkel out of office, shut the fuck up about how politically incompetent we Americans are, and don't come asking us to bail you out either when the Bushevik Schmevolution hits your town!

I speak German so fluently I'm not recognizable as a non-native speaker.

Talked to an old "friend" yesterday....just can't even begin to go into it.

Have been "listening" ( in my inbox), for DAYS on end now to their blather.

They just don't fucking GET that this is NOT Europe.

uh...gee...well, why aren't you all marching on Washington DC.

Uh....well, I can tell you why at least 50,000 of us aren't: let me put it this way: If you can't afford BUS ticket (esp since there is virtually NO public transp. infrastructure) to get out of the way of a CAT 5 hurricane bearing down on you, uh, how do you think you're going to
A) be motivated to put --go to Washington to protest--on your "to do" list
and
B) afford to GO there

Europeans just do NOT get it. At least Germans don't. I'm so fucking tired of them....

Verpißt Euch, wenn ihr hier mitliest!

Get on any train on a weekend and you'll run into any number of protesters. Then they load back up and go back home to Munchen or Koln or wherever. They don't know what it's like to cross a vast country that has no public transport.

It is irritating.

god don't get me started.....

We're terrified of these bastards, and for good reason. When you're raised in a society that instantly confers upon you strong human rights, you feel an entitlement to express displeasure. We're taught from a very early age here that we have no entitlements. We don't march en masse unless we are very politically active, but we may have sentiments that echo or exceed those held by the activists.

It's easier to hate a people than it is to understand them...Europeans have bigots just like we do.

In the words of Kris Kristofferson, "everybody seems to need somebody to look down on...if you can't find anyone, then help yourself to me."

It says more about the ignorance of the people saying those things than it does about "us".

even green types here often don't get it.....how are you supposed to not use a car if you live 50miles from a grocery store? (many parts of the west)

....or live in small towns in the midwest where the towns have lost many businesses and Reagan's deregulation allowed Greyhound etc to take them off their route

I once had a Dutch friend ask me to "drive up and help a friend in San Francisco" within a half hour time frame. When I pointed out to her that from where I live to San Francisco is a good six hours with *good* traffic, she was stunned. Apparently she had the perception that LA and San Francisco were quite near each other. You can travel through countries in Europe in that time frame. She was amazed to learn that it takes less time to fly from NYC to London than it does from where I used to live in the northwest to NYC. Naturally, I'm talking about western European friends, as Russian folk have a greater sense of how long it gets to "get there from here".

Trying to commute to Washington DC from the west coast is ill-advised unless you're relatively well-heeled, young and healthy, have friends nearby and/or are certifiably insane. It's three thousand frickin' miles away.

"old Europe"? That's just ridiculous.

Anyway, the Soviets were the ones that actually got rid of Hitler, like it or not. They actually worked for their universal health care, six week paid vacations, etc...they deserve those great things. They actually understand democracy and good policies, they actually know a fascist when they see one; we do none of those things.

Even IF the UN could reject Bolton (although I'm not sure it can), it is most likely a ceremonial process, and it would be uncalled for to reject any representative, as it is that country's responsibility to choose its own representation.

I didn't make the post, but I believe the poster meant "old Europe" in the sense of "good, old boys" or "old King Cole", etc, not Old Europe. At least that is how it read to my mind.

We're all equally human - our countries all have a similar number of problems of different kinds. We just happen to have more of them now and all of them active.

I've traveled through Europe, I love Europe and most Europeans. Forgive us if we bitch a little. We're dealing with a monster in our living room - for you guys, he's still down the street aways.

Just as there is ignorance in many Americans about some of Europe, there is ignorance in many Europeans about some of the USA, and a mutual lack of understanding of our respective cultures, et al. (I mean "cultures" as not in two, as we probably have as many co-existing cultures as Europe does).

"he's still down the street aways."

that "aways" is getting closer, and closer ... it's like a rapidly approaching ICE and they don't see it, or don't comprehend the SPEED at which this train is headed straight for Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, etc.

and I'm not necessarily saying the Europeans dont' DESERVE those things, I think EVERYONE deserves them, and there are enough resources in the world for everyone to have them

My point about Europe is that they don't seem to GRASP the implications of NOT having those little luxuries and the effect this NECESSARILY has on political involvment.

Maslow's Scale of Human Needs.

Complete idiot! If I were part of those "powers to be," I'd be right embarrassed by now. My DOG could do better.

Someone has to get this bunch out, yesterday!

Diebold and ES&S, and the Republicans who rubbed their hands gleefully, and the Democrats who sat in silence and accepted all the lavish lobbying perks, as Bushite companies took over our election system with SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code in their electronic "voting" machines, and the war profiteering corporate news monopolies, who doctored their own exit polls (Kerry won) to fit the "official result" derived from Diebold's and ES&S's secret formulae (Bush won), had other ideas.

But that was yesterday.

Today, we have the Herculean task of unpeeling all this corruption in our election system, county by county, state by state, election theft machine by election theft machine, as we throw this colossally fraudulent election system, bit by bit, into 'Boston Harbor'! (--or a Louisiana levee!).

Got to get this done--or American democracy will be history.

and you are in big trouble.

bushie is an incompetent half human jerk.

for making a terrorist threat

thats about as bad as "bring em on" and looking for WMD under the sofa.

suspiciously?

Better call Operation TIPS !!!

His inappropriateness just leaves me speechless.

That George is such a card!!! He shows the world the sophistication and intelligence of the 'merican people.

How can he keep getting stupider? Oh no, guess he isn't. How awful.

Loved that cartoon and pic, btw.

FOOL.

This is a very short piece. Bush's comments were about his new UN ambassador who said someone should blow up the top ten floors of the UN.

Given the Bush administration and conservatives contempt for the UN shown in their lies about Iraq to them and violating international law at will makes this comment seem less like a joke, and more like he was asking for a progress report.

We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we still need other countries help and cooperation from time to time. We are less likely to get it if we rub their noses in our ability to slap them around.

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WTF was he thinking (oh that's right, he wasn't).

Let's get a resolution demanding an apology. Joking about a terrorist act? Unconscionable.

Somebody somewhere, please, please impeach this clown.

I find it interesting how all these nations in the world found it necessary to offer to send humanitarian aid to the US under the Bush regime just like we send humanitarian aid to stricken countries under dictator regimes. Apparently, these nations now see the plight of the American people in the same light as we once saw other less fortunate people in once lesser countries.

Actually I guess Condi is the wipe and * is the ass!

such a statement, they'd be hauled in under the Patriot Act for making a terroristic threat. I'm just sayin'.

drip, drip, drip.

Not anymore. Six years ago we were pretty close to being the most powerful, but now we are simply the most dangerous. And our growing weaknesses make us more dangerous as each day passes. Like the cartoon said, "We are the most powerful third world country on earth" - that's true; but should we be proud of it? I am ashamed of being an American, even more than during the Vietnam War, or during our deplorable, murderous involvement in the Iran/Contra putrescence. We have sunk so low, have become so criminal, and so detrimental to the world, to the Earth, that I believe that the only thing we can hope for is a complete collapse of this nation. It is the world's best chance of surviving in a livable environment...

is plummeting.

an utter prick??? How humiliating! I mean, I enjoy the pee story. I kinda enjoy Chavez being so disrespectful to him (love the insisting on speaking as long as Bush). It's a perverse reaction, really - 'cause at the same damn time I am entirely furious that this evil man has cost us so much international respect and prestige.

Yeah - he's a real funny guy....

Don't forget, * deliberately shoehorned Bolton into the UN in a stealth recess appointment, against the will of the Senate. The world knows how Bolton got into the UN.


And now, * gleefully plunges that knife deeper.




I maintain that there will be a heavy, heavy price for George W. Bush, the Republican Party and the entire bigoted cabal of *conservative ideology*.

The prognosis is grave.

Bush would be there three days later standing on the rubble with his arm around some-one talking about how he was gonna build a bigger and better UN.

on edit: not to mention that it's more likely to get blown up on his watch seeing as he doesn't seem very effective at stopping things from getting razed to the ground.

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un-freaking-real

can stay public even though everywhere Clinton and Poppy Bush go, Clinton grabs Poppy's hand and pushes or pulls it in the direction he needs to go. So Clinton is now an official baby sitter. They laugh behind his back the whole time. What's wrong with Clinton??? He does not need these people as friends.