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KennedyGuy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 11:23 PM
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Soldiers forbidden to speak after "Tears of Bush" Photo op..
Edited on Thu Jan-11-07 11:40 PM by KennedyGuy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/11/AR2007011100389.html

"Assuring there would be no discordant notes here, Maj. Gen. Walter Wojdakowski, the base commander, banned the 300 soldiers who had lunch with the president from talking with reporters. If any of them harbored doubts about heading back to Iraq, many for the third time, they were kept silent".

Utterly pathetic..take a pic with them...send them back to Iraq.
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sce56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 11:26 PM
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1. F____ING BS
Edited on Thu Jan-11-07 11:28 PM by sce56
http://web.archive.org/web/20030602211200/
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 11:33 PM
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2. "BRING EM ON" shouted the (Drunken) AWOL CHIMPANZEE


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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 09:47 AM
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16. If a Democratic President had said something so stupid, insensitive
and cruel, the so-called media would never shut up about it.
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caligirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 11:40 PM
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3. They can probably identify the bottle of artificial tears dropped into the
empty black holes that look like eyes.
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KennedyGuy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 11:42 PM
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4. Drudgie has the pic of Chimpy crying on the front page..
Doesn't mention not letting the troops speak though..
Big suprise.
Our soldiers are nothing more that props for this idiot.
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earthside Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 11:56 PM
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6. One Weird Photo
There appears to be a rivulet of moisture on his cheek ... but his eyes are COLD.

?x=271&y=345&sig=w3oCjqNYacthklhBbYajOw--">Reuters Photo
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lisby Donating Member (254 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 12:20 AM
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9. He's crying for himself, not the soldiers. NT
:(

He's a sociopath.

Lisby
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 02:12 AM
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11. he looks evil
he IS evil
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barbtries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 09:58 AM
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18. the eyes look dead
they chilled me to the bone
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Buzz Clik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 10:18 AM
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19. hmmm....
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PADemD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 10:31 PM
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21. It looks like
he's looking around to see if anyone believes him.
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 12:02 AM
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7. Hitler cried when his German Shepperd Blondie died
even though he is the one that tested a cyanide capsule on Blondie.
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Joe Chi Minh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 12:17 PM
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20. And part of the training of his Gestapo was for the individual to kill
Edited on Fri Jan-12-07 12:17 PM by KCabotDullesMarxIII
the dog he had trained.
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HuffleClaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 11:54 PM
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5. not a surprise, not at all.
they KNOW the troops would tell the TRUTH.
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CoffeeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 12:03 AM
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8. Yeah right...
I always shed piles of tears over people--and then tell my underlings to make sure that they STFU.

Makes sense to me.
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meldroc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 12:31 AM
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10. What was fun was watching the expressions of the soldiers as * spoke...
Edited on Fri Jan-12-07 12:32 AM by meldroc
You could tell they were desperately resisting the urge to roll their eyes... Can't say I blame 'em.
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Golden Raisin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 03:46 AM
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12. And this is the kind of democracy
and freedom of speech Bush is trying to export to Iraq and elsewhere? This is the kind of democracy he's asking our brave soldiers to die for? They are supposed to be defending THE RIGHT to freedom of speech.
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 04:55 AM
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13. I guess they don't want it getting out
that Bush's tears were faked. Just like the fake turkey he brought to Baghdad.
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Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 06:20 AM
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14. He had a slice of onion in his lapel, I'm betting. (no text)
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Joe Bacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 08:31 AM
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15. That general SHOULD BE BUSTED IN RANK!
We have to purge these Jesusbots out of the military!
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 09:53 AM
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17. Isn't it a soldier's duty to disobey illegal orders?
Odd, though, that these sort of stories have been pretty widely circulated all through Bush's presidency, but they didn't typically come out for days or even weeks or months afterward. Now they come out in the same news cycle. Bush's approval numbers have been tanking even without timely reporting of his imperious ways; what will happen when people are clued in even before the next phony prop shot is staged?
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EndElectoral Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-13-07 12:44 AM
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24. Absolutely...this is Watada's defense! Sen. Byrd has also said the War Resolution is unconstitution
al....Hence, if challenged the orders woudl be illegal orders since Congress abrogated it's responsiblity to determien war, but passed it off onto the President to decide.

Additionally, Watadi claims the reasons for war were manipulated.

Illegal orders must not be followed. Remeber Nuremburg. the whole trials were about the I was just folowing orders defense.

1998
"You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier... So long as I'm the dictator. "

1999
"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is."
On Kosovo, Houston Chronicle (April 9, 1999)

2002
So I don't know where he is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him, Kelly, to be honest with you.
White House press conference, March 13, 2002 <19>

2002
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C. (June 18, 2002)

2004
I just don't think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden. It's kind of one of those exaggerations.
3rd Presidential Debate, October 13, 2004 (See his Mar 13, 2002 quote)

There was no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the attack of 9/11, I’ve never said that and never made that case prior to going into Iraq.<70>
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 10:41 PM
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22. Bush probably used
artificial tears to get that look. :eyes:

Any tears the soldiers shed were real.

Mz Pip
:dem:
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Generic Brad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-13-07 12:31 AM
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23. Those are probably real tears
Most likely he yanked out a nose hair real fast.
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