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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 02:52 PM
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This Bush dink in the White House? Not my president.
Never was. Never will be. He's just not good enough to be anybody's president.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 02:56 PM
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1. Here' s why I say this.
Look at what an idiot this Bush dink is. What makes this little, pinheaded man worthy of joining the historic company of a Jimmy Carter (even)?:

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,158960,00.html

CAVUTO: Speaking of civil liberties, one of your predecessors, Jimmy Carter, was very critical of our operations at Guantanamo Bay (search), saying they should be shut down, that abuses there, if proven true, are dragging our name through the mud globally. What do you make of that?

BUSH: Well, I first of all want to assure the American people that these prisoners are being treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention. I say in accordance with because these weren't normal, you know, military-type fighters. They had no uniforms. They had no, you know, government structure. These were terrorists, swept up off the battlefield in a place like Afghanistan, for example.

And it's in our nation's interest that we learn a lot about those people that are still in detention, because we're still trying to find out how to better protect our country.

Secondly, that anytime there's an allegation of abuse, we investigate. That's what transparent societies do. We've got a press corps that's constantly asking tough questions about prisoner treatment, for example. You just asked one. And that's what open societies do, they answer the questions by saying...

CAVUTO: But now President Carter has said, sir, shut it down. Joe Biden said shut it down. Do you think it should be shut down?

BUSH: Well, you know, we're exploring all alternatives as to how best to do the main objective, which is to protect America. What we don't want to do is let somebody out that comes back and harms us.

And so we're looking at all alternatives and have been. And when there have been questions of abuse and allegations like the Koran, the Pentagon went through a full investigation and then released the data for everybody to see.

And I will tell you that we treat these prisoners in accordance with international standards. And that's what the American people expect. When somebody put out that Amnesty International report, they asked me about it. I said it's just absurd to equate Gitmo and Guantanamo with a Soviet gulag. It's just not even close.


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ArkDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 03:00 PM
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2. ......................
dink ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dngk)
n. Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a North Vietnamese soldier or guerrilla in the Vietnam War.


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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 03:03 PM
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4. Bush wasn't in the Vietnam War, so obviously I mean another kind of dink.
But it is meant disparagingly.

:hi:
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prole_for_peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 03:03 PM
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3. the dairy queen by my house was advertising
"dink specials" on their marquee. i wonder if they were talking about him.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 03:06 PM
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5. Maybe it's just New England slang.
Bush, being a New Englander by birth might have heard of it when he was being edumacated at Andover. It means dick, weinie, wuss.
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