Laura Bush defends President over Iraq

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=513328§ion=news

Laura Bush defends President over Iraq
Tue 18 May, 2004 19:39

By Steve Holland

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (Reuters) - First lady Laura Bush says the strain of losing U.S. troops in war is "the hardest part of the job" for her and President George W. Bush and she believes his drop in the polls is a direct result of events in Iraq.

In an interview, the president's wife dismissed Democratic criticism that Bush has never attended a funeral for any of the U.S. troops killed in Iraq. She said he has met with many of the families of those who lost loved ones in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"I don't know how they think the president would choose whose funeral to go to, and I also think they are trying to imply that the commander-in-chief doesn't know or care. I can assure you nobody knows or cares more (about the casualties) than the president," she said on Tuesday.

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"All of these are difficulties that we're having to face," she said. "But I still truly believe that the American people know that the president is doing everything he possibly can to make our country safer and stronger."

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"Stepford Wives."

bLood fLows red on the highway i saw it in driver's ed.

Good One!

i'm not above a Low bLow. :P

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

one can hear it in her voice see it in her eyes.

" It's just grief that we have, that we try to live with just like the families" of those who lost loved ones."

I just know in my heart Laura cries herself to sleep every night. And during the day I know it hard for Laura to eat anything with salty tears.

What a Gal!!

what about that note...

Dear Laura,

Roses are red,

violets are blue

oh my lump in the bed,

how I've missed you.
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Now it turns out that this was a bizarre falsehood. A lie. Interviewed on "Meet the Press" over the weekend, Laura Bush was shown the video clip of her remarks -- in one of those let-our-hair-down moments the television journalists so love. Anchor Tim Russert teasingly turned to Mrs. Bush for comment:

MR. RUSSERT: Now, who could have written that poem, huh? I mean, what ...

MRS. BUSH: Well, of course, he didn't really write the poem. But a lot of people really believed that he did. That evening at the dinner, what some woman from across the table said: "You just don't know how great it is to have a husband who would write a poem for you."

Gee, I wonder if some people really believed that George Bush wrote that silly poem because Laura Bush said: Hey, my husband wrote me this silly poem, and normally I wouldn't share it because it's so personal, but I can't resist.

This hardly qualifies as "an outrage." It's more just weird. Think about it. If George Bush didn't write that poem -- who did?
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So who wrote George Bush's love poem to Laura Bush?

I suspect we'll just have to add it to all of the other mysteries -- like who lied in George Bush's State of the Union speech, and who had manual-labor-like relations with that doggoned "Mission Accomplished" banner, and which jerk at the White House unmasked a CIA agent to punish her husband, and why lie to Ground Zero rescue and cleanup workers, and how the President's brother got all that free sex and money when visiting Asia ...
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entire artile--
http://www.thenation.com/outrage/index.mhtml?pid=1157

...Lyin' Leeeeza.

After all she did murder her former boyfriend and was never convicted of it.

She enjoys KILLING!

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/e1698.htm

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"good wife"? Is that like a "good German"? or what? Does it mean she bakes cookies? Is barefoot and pregnant? Walks three paces behind?
Or is a decent person in her own right?
I don't blame Bush on his wife but she is a direct beneficiary and she does (allegedly) sleep with the enemy.

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'unpickled' enough to send her out beating the old drum for her moronic hubby. :puke:

A bush is a bush is a bush is a bush....bush doesn't care, I'll say it any day of the week.

have to say that she "still truly believes"....

Weather's not too bad in Crawford right now, Laura. Look to your future and your daughters' futures.

"I don't know how they think the president would choose whose funeral to go to, and I also think they are trying to imply that the commander-in-chief doesn't know or care. I can assure you nobody knows or cares more (about the casualties) than the president,"

Choose!? For the love of God, pick just one, any one. It's not like there is a shortage of them to go around.

And I can assure you that the stupid f*ck could give a flying rats ass about any of them. He could care less.

one of the 400+ fundraising trips your hubby has made in the past three years?

Notice how narcissistic these Bushes are? It's always about them -- Bush sacrificed by giving up sweets. They are suffering from the deaths.

Nobody cares more?

I think there are many who disagree with that.



http://www.wgoeshome.com

I'd like to see a pop quiz at the next photo-op.

Junior is a deeply ignorant and uncaring creature.

find out how much more you can care

Bush Daughters to Work for Father's Campaign

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LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites)'s twin daughters, Jenna and Barbara, will work for their father's re-election campaign after they graduate from college this month, their mother, Laura Bush, said on Tuesday.

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Their parents, while not attending graduation ceremonies to avoid the disruption, are flying to parties for family and friends in Austin, Texas, and New Haven, Connecticut.


"They are going to work on the campaign," Mrs. Bush said in an interview.

She said they would probably work at campaign headquarters in the Washington suburbs but may go out a bit and campaign for their father, "if they have the confidence."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040518/pl_nm/campaign_bush_daughters_dc_1

Just slightly.

who gave her a job? If she thinks she has a "job" then she might actually think who it is that is her boss, and it is the people who have given her a job and it is the people of whom she is the employee

I think she is too dumb to realize what her job is and to whom she is obligated because they pay her husband's salary.

She probably does not have a clue as to how many troops she, in all her waxed glory, and behind her joker smile, have died because of the absolutely stupid policies of her stupid and ignorant husband.

Yet she goes on fund raisers--all dolled up and all made up to get more and more money for the election treasure chest, while her husband is directlyh responsible for the downfall of so many people who have lost their jobs and have no income--and no health care, and single moms who cannot afford rent, food and clothing.

Poor little rich girl--she has such a hard job. What is wrong with her? Stepford mind, that is what is wrong. Fails to understand the plight of the downtrodden and the poor, who have fallen into that due to her rich little frat boy.

She has not had a job in about thirty years---no wonder she is floundering around in a haze.

This woman does not look like a relaxed and happy woman. She is a stiff, wax model with a bad eye job. She is totally bereft of any sense of her self or her soul.

Man, what a witch. I'd love to see someone like her completely lose it in public.

(See the URL)

This reads like a WH press release made especially for the occasion of Pickles' first solo performance of the campaign. Is this another one of those so-called news items that's been produced by bushistas and willingly aired as authentic by the media?

Pick a dead son or daughter, anyone's dead son or daughter. Go and witness what your husband's horrific insanity has wrought. Go look those parents in the eye and start telling them how they were 'protecting' the American people from a defenseless country that had no weapons of mass destruction, were no threat to us, had nothing to do with 9/11, that it was purely a war of choice made by some cowardly madmen who have never had to face combat, in fact ran from it when it was their turn.

Does that help Pickles?

brush clearer and so forth hiding behind wifey-pooh! Shocking.

>his drop in the polls is a direct
>result of events in Iraq.

Yea, it's those messy "events" in Iraq....and everywhere else in the world since boy king got his messianic hands on it. Everything he touches turns to %&***^ think she'd'a _noticed_ that by now.

her too?? Oops, no she always looked that way. :silly:

What a wuss!

Didn't they just warn us of a bigh attack this Summer? Meaning, they cannot really stop anything if the enemy puts their minds to it.

birds of a feather flock together

The woman is loathe to say anything remotely political ("I have an opinion but I'm not going to tell you what it is") so they must be really desperate to pull the gag out of her mouth.

"she believes his drop in the polls is a direct result of events in Iraq" - Gee! She's a real rocket scientist! :eyes:

"But I still truly believe that the American people know that the president is doing everything he possibly can to make our country safer and stronger." - They sure do! Everything he possibly can = a big fat nothing. He's completely inept, and totally impotent and she'll be relieved to know that she won't have to playact at First Lady for much longer.

She's the real boss of the family. And, she hates it when Junior is criticized.

And, I'm sure she and Poppy are agonozing over Junior's dropping poll numbers. Drip, drip, drip...till November!

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My widdo biddee boy wouldn't do anything bad. He is a good boy.
Who cares what she says? It would be news if she said he is a lying bastard, then it would be newsworthy.

I gotta find me that alternative Universe where this is the headline.

what a fucking loser he is and that she is divorcing him? Of course she has no soul, there is obviously no intention of that.

when Iraq is a democratic heaven on earth--this time!

(that was her line the last time they trotted her out, about a month ago)

Of course the Dems are at fault for making her hard-working hum=bby have to work harder...

I can think if one or two people who know more about casualties--anybody who has had a loved one become one. Of course that will never happen to Favorite Son...

First he says he doesn't, then he does. Then the story is his wife reads the paper and tells him about it. Now she says he reads the paper, but only certain parts, AND she gives him hints on which parts to read. Flip-flop, flip-flop.

Who should we believe, Laura -- or Andy Card? :evilgrin:

'Mrs. Bush said that despite what her husband says, he does read the newspapers. She said she directs his attention to articles he might need to see. "I don't mark them. We both read the newspapers in the morning, and I will point out different things, or he'll point out different things," she said.'

Bush worries news coverage might cloud his judgment
White House aides, including chief of staff Andy Card, cull the newspapers for information that they present to Bush, who also relies on First Lady Laura Bush's recommendations in deciding which news stories to read.
"Since I'm the first one to see him in the morning, I usually give him a quick overview and get a little reaction from him," Card told the author. "Frequently, I find that his reaction kind of reflects Laura Bush's take."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040514/ts_alt_afp/us_vote_bush_news&cid=1506&ncid=2043
discussed at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=555422

in uniform....

After all you do not torture your mind with such things.... why waste your precious moments on the dead Laura?

It's always how difficult it is for these Bushes. Like mother-in-law, like daughter-in-law.

out to be personal criticism of * himself. It's a technique the Repugs have perfected. Get a guy in office who NASCAR dads identify with and then when someone says "He's making a mistake" yell as loud as possible "They're attacking the president (and thus you) personally!"

People don't listen critically, and the Repugs count on it.

Her delusions seem to be in charge of her life.

May I ad a DU acronym? "Who Gives a Fuck" what this dingbat says?

chastise georgieb when he wasn't doing well on the campaign
trail in 2000. She has a role to play in exchange for an
easy life and lotsa money. She has held up her end of that
bargain with the devil if that is what you mean by "good wife".

"I can assure you nobody knows or cares more (about the casualties) than the president,"
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Bizarro world.

with a mouth like a lumberjack. (Or so I've heard...) I say to Luara: "Let the real you out!"

Unf*ingbelievable!
"I don't know how they think the president would choose whose funeral to go to, and I also think they are trying to imply that the commander-in-chief doesn't know or care. I can assure you nobody knows or cares more (about the casualties) than the president," she said on Tuesday.

the strain of losing troops is hard ...because they are going down in the polls? Silly me, I thought because of the loss of life - but that's not for her beautiful mind to process. Pass the Xanax.

He and Laura are such idiots - they were truly made for each other....

I hear he calls them OFUs. As an example, he would ask how many OFU have died today?

he cares that it's hurting his campaign!! :grr:

gna gna gna.....my husband president is a very good president ....gna... gna... gna....All the day long he is mourning our poor kids in Irak ....gna...gna...gna....American people is very villain not to support my gentle husband who is so sad ....gna...gna...gna....He is dropping in the polls just because Iraq is turning into a black shit ....gna...gna...gna....That's abusive because my husband is a good president and he is doing all that for you. GNA !

Pickles is a twit.

I guess that to the bushies it reinforces his alleged gravitas.

To me, it reinforces his petty need to feel substantial.

Either way, looks like the makings of a new drinking game.


ON EDIT: Even the "reporter" got in on the fun- notice how he referred to her as "the president's wife" as opposed to FL?

except he doesn t give a damn!! don t give me that bs you pos!!!