White House tries to allay fears over Bush militarism

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White House tries to allay fears over Bush militarism
By Francis Harris in Washington
(Filed: 24/01/2005)

The White House sought to defuse hostile reaction in Europe by insisting yesterday that President George W Bush's pledge to spread democracy around the globe will not be imposed primarily through the use of military force. Mr Bush's father, former president George Bush Sr, weighed in with comments designed to cool the atmosphere ahead of the president's planned fence-mending trip to Europe next month.


In what was described as a coincidental visit to the White House briefing room, the elder Bush was asked about his son's inauguration speech on Thursday. He responded: "People want to read a lot into it -that this means new aggression or newly assertive military forces. That's not what that speech is about. It's about freedom." In a similar vein, an unnamed White House official briefed the press that the president had explicitly stated that armed force would not be America's primary response to tyranny.

The speech was merely a continuation of policy. "It's not a discontinuity, a right turn, but an acceleration, a raising of the priority," the official said. In his speech on Thursday, Mr Bush said: ''We will persistently clarify the choice before every ruler and every nation: the moral choice between oppression, which is always wrong, and freedom, which is eternally right.'' He went on: "All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know that the United States will not ignore your oppression or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.''

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before "shock and awe." On CNNI a representative of the CATO Institute said that the $87 billion the Bushies were requesting for Iraq was a drop in the bucket, that the Bush administration was going to be using Condi Rise to prepare the American public for a generational commitment to democratizing the entire Middle East, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.

All this is coming to pass. The US will go into Iraq, Syria etc. and change them before they change the US, or however Cheney words his excuse to invade.

It's as funny as hell that Poppy has to come to Sonny's rescue on the eve of his inauguration speech. When has Chirac's or Schroeder's or Putin's daddies had to bail their son's ass out of the international fire?

...Georgie's DADDY to cover for him. I read that in the Sunday paper, and about spit my coffee out. The freakin Prez is an adult man, he ought to be able to speak for himself, there, Daddy!

Heheheheh...

I wondered at the time if elder Bush wasn't sitting at the inauguration thinking to himself, "Holy shit, did he just say that?!?!??!"

ROFL

I hate these fockers. They really hate the American people, the Constitution and the people of this planet who want them to just GO AWAY!