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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 02:48 PM
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BUSH Re Rape: "I would have been — I would have been — I’d had — I would have been very emotional"
Bush On Saudi Rape Case: I ‘Don’t Remember’ If I Brought It Up With King Abdullah

This morning, CNN’s Ed Henry pointedly asked President Bush why he hasn’t used his “influence” to “do something” about the 19-year old Saudi woman who was the victim of a brutal gang rape and later sentenced to 200 lashes. The Saudi court blamed her for being an “adulteress who invited the attack.”

Bush refused to answer Henry’s question, simply stating that King Abdullah “knows our position loud and clear.” He said he recently spoke to King Abdullah “about the Middle Eastern peace,” but isn’t sure if he mentioned the Saudi case. “I don’t remember if that subject came up.”

When asked what went through his mind when he first heard about the case, Bush brushed aside his role as head of state, instead saying he would have been “very emotional” if it had happened to his daughter.

BUSH: My first thoughts were these.

What happens if this happened to my daughter? How would I react?

And I would have been — I would have been — I’d had — I would have been very emotional, of course.

I’d have been angry at those who committed the crime. And I would be angry at the state that didn’t support the victim.

And our opinions were expressed by Dana Perino from the pulpit — from the podium.

VIDEO at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bush-saudi-rape/
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 02:53 PM
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1. Whad else would one expect from a DOLT? The Man is Incapacitated ..his brain is fucked
He is a Bully...suffers from NPD...which means he ain't got empathy....he don't care for anyone else but his close circle

We have a Loser of a Leader
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 02:53 PM
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2. You'd think he could have at least engaged in a little
pillow-talk with King Abdullah.

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flordehinojos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 02:53 PM
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3. does the man even know how to think? did the question unrattle bush for some reason
other than what might have happened to his daughters... some pushed back memory of years ago as some assert that he raped someone a few years back? I didn't see the press conference. I haven't looked at the video (dial up connections don't lend themselves to video watching since it takes forever to watch any video) ... so i am just going by what is posted here ... but from the printed words ... it seems some rattled the old fart!
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Sadie4629 Donating Member (919 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 03:05 PM
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8. Did you know that Bill Clinton was also accused of rape?
There probably isn't a high-profile man in the whole world who hasn't been accused of rape by someone. Bush, for whatever reason, is inarticulate, to say the least. Don't read more into it than that.
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flordehinojos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 06:07 PM
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13. oh, with the bushes YOU DO have to read a whole lot more into their swampiness
of muck, lies and manipulations... be it rape, WMDS, Vote Counting, Elections and so forth.

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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 02:55 PM
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4. There was a HELL of a slip- "from the pulpit". nm
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Whisp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 02:59 PM
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5. was that the real quote?
I thought it was the OPs add on because it's so unbelievable.

another big geeeeeeeze if that's what * really said.
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 03:09 PM
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10. From reading the link, it looks like that's part of the actual quote.
I'm not willing to watch the video just to find out.
Dude gives me the creeps. The angry, screaming creeps.
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Whisp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 04:25 PM
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12. yep, big creeps. reminds me of...
a part in Men in Black, that part where the alien disguised as a human in overalls - but the costume was falling apart and he was busting out all lumpy bumpy. ugh.
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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 03:02 PM
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6. Dana Perino must have recently been ordained as a Bush High Priestess
Edited on Tue Dec-04-07 03:12 PM by aint_no_life_nowhere
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nightrider767 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 03:02 PM
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7. After that CNN's Ed Henry pursued a new line of questioning
Edited on Tue Dec-04-07 03:03 PM by nightrider767
Asking Bush how he remembered to shove his head up his ass every morning. Whether it was something his wife reminded him to do, or if after all these years of doing it, if it's just become an ingrained part of the morning routine.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 03:07 PM
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9. He'd get drunk and lose the war against pretzels
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 03:12 PM
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11. The Saudis *own* Bush--They tell him what to do, not vice-versa...
Bush is a tool for Saudi oil interests...
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