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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 07:15 PM
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Now the WH is trying to convince us that we're the ones "out of touch" on Iraq

Snow: Americans ‘Out of Touch With Reality’ In Iraq

Just weeks ago, President Bush insisted that the United States was “absolutely” winning in Iraq. Recently, as the casulties have mounted, he’s toned back his sunny rhetoric slightly, saying the United States was not “winning or losing.” Yet media reports indicate Bush believes the United States can win by sending 20,000 more troops to Iraq, a gambit that has been tried before and failed.

This prompted a reporter to ask White House Press Secretary Tony Snow if Bush was “fundamentally out of touch with what the reality is on the ground in Iraq?” Snow responded that “we may be out of touch with reality because we sit around and we look at fractional pictures on the screen.” Bush, on the other hand, “knows more than anybody in this room about what’s going on there.” Watch it:


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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 07:18 PM
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1. Hogwash, Snowjob. We see the number of dead soldiers that has been
escalating. That's not just 'fractional pictures', they were living human beings killed in an immoral war of your boss's making. Who's out of touch?
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 07:22 PM
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2. That won't help Tony's credibility..
Oh wait!.....He has never had any credibility.

Never mind.
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neuvocat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 07:22 PM
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3. I like the nickname I made for him:
Tony "Yellow Journalism" Snow.
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cui bono Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 07:32 PM
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5. Don't eat yellow Snow.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 07:27 PM
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4. Tony,
go fuck yourself.
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