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f.l.e.a from NZ on 2001-09-20 03:47 [#00034488] | |||||||||
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Mind your language, Bush warned PARIS, Sept 18: As US President George W. Bush strove on Tuesday to build a world coalition against terrorism, experts warned that his choice of language could widen the gulf between the United States and the Islamic world. Middle East watchers and diplomats winced when he used the word "crusade" to describe his anti-terror campaign and sighed when he recalled the rough justice of the Wild West in saying he wanted Osama bin Laden "dead or alive". "He uses a lot of cowboy terminology," said Marwan Bishara, a lecturer in international relations at the American University in Paris. "He seems like a guy who makes too many statements from his ranch. "He comes up with all kinds of metaphors which are way off the mark, not just for the Arabs but also for the entire international community," he said. Last week's devastating terrorist attacks on New York and Washington would have represented a huge challenge to any US presidency, and the world has held its breath as it watched how the young and inexperienced Bush would react. He has won praise from many in the West for his determination to prevent an anti-Muslim backlash inside the United States and to build international support. But the slips of language that dogged his father's presidency have raised concerns. A senior French diplomat who praised Bush's reaction to the attacks as "responsible" noted that "it took a little while for the lights to come on" when the president was seeking to reassure the world. One early slip, experts noted, came at the weekend when on a visit to the partly demolished Pentagon, Bush warned: "This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while." The word "crusade" has lost some of its impact in the West since it was coined to describe the campaign launched by medieval Christian Europe to capture and hold the holy city of Jerusalem. But it is still felt with much of its former force in the Arab and Muslim world, where the memory of Islam's 200-year struggle with Europe's knights and warrior monks is regularly invoked. And it has become a motif of the United States' new public enemy number one - Osama bin Laden - who has proclaimed that his jihad is directed against a "Jewish-crusader alliance". Bush's gaffe appears to have played into the hands of Bin Laden's propaganda machine, and caused unnecessary offence in a nervous and unstable Middle East and southern Asia. As an editorial piece in the French daily Le Monde remarked acidly: "Governing people, and not just governing Texans, is first of all about governing your words. For example, when you speak about a crusade, you have to realise what an explosive concept it represents for many people." The need to tailor his pronouncements for a wary international audience will become more and more clear to Bush as he strives to reassure Arabs and Muslims around the world that his fight is not with them but the killers alleged to be hiding in their midst, commentators said. If Washington hopes to launch any serious military action in Afghanistan, experts believe it will have to secure agreement from at least one neighbouring country to serve as a base for the attacks. Many countries would like to help, but local leaders are painfully aware of the danger of provoking anti-US sentiment in their own populations, a mood which will not be helped if Bush sounds further false notes. "We can tell that he has not exactly been groomed to speak language of reconciliation, the language of compromise," Bishara said. "What remains essential and obvious is that without the Arabs and the Muslim world... any such mission (to strike at bin Laden) is impossible." -AFP " |
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CUN8eR LASiT from quoting craccum on 2001-09-20 08:35 [#00034536] | |||||||||
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The President of the United States of America: a man with immense power, both political and military. The man many people (i.e. Americans) refer to as ‘the leader of the free world,’ is arguably the most powerful man in the world. And, at this point in time, a half-educated dyslexic who is more of a puppet on a (large multi-national) string than anyone capable of entertaining a coherent thought. You don’t believe me? Well then, read on…. “This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We’re making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end.”—Washington, D.C., April 10, 2001 “I do think we need for a troop to be able to house his family. That’s an important part of building morale in the military.”—Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, March 12, 2001 “Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets must be open.”—Swearing-in ceremony for Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman, Washington, D.C., March 2, 2001 “My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt.”—Budget address to Congress, Feb. 27, 2001 “Home is important. It’s important to have a home.”—Crawford, Texas, Feb. 18, 2001 “One reason I like to highlight reading is, reading is the beginnings of the ability to be a good student. And if you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams; it’s going to be hard to go to college. So when your teachers say, read—you ought to listen to her.”—Nalle Elementary School, Washington, D.C., Feb 9, 2001 “I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.”—Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2001 “I would have to ask the questioner. I haven’t had a chance to ask the questioners the question they’ve been questioning.”—Austin, Texas, Jan. 8, 2001 “Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.”—Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000 “Let me put it to you this way, I am not a revengeful person.”— Interview with Time magazine in the Dec. 25, 2000, issue. “Dick Cheney and I do not want this nation to be in a recession. We want anybody who can find work to be able to find work.”—60 Minutes II, Dec. 5, 2000 “They misunderestimated me.”—Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000 “It’s your money. You paid for it.”—LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000 “Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.”—LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000 “I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.” “Quotas are bad for America. It’s not the way America is all about.” “If affirmative action means what I just described, what I’m for, then I’m for it.”—St. Louis, Mo., October 18, 2000 “Our priorities is our faith.”—Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000 “I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.”—Second presidential debate, Oct. 11, 2000 “It’s going to require numerous IRA agents.”—On Gore’s tax plan, Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000 “I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.”—Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000 “Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent. He is the incumbent. He represents the incumbency.”—Detroit, Sept. 7, 2000 “We’ll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.”—Houston, Texas, Sept. 6, 2000 “Well, I think if you say you’re going to do something and don’t do it, that’s trustworthiness.”— CNN online chat, Aug. 30, 2000 “We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.’’—Ibid. “I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.”—Bartlett, Tenn., Aug. 18, 2000 “I think anybody who doesn’t think I’m smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.”—U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000 “The fact that he relies on facts—says things that are not factual—are going to undermine his campaign.”—New York Times, March 4, 2000 “I think we agree, the past is over.”—On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000 “As governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.”—CNN online chat, Aug. 30, 2000 “Well, I think if you say you’re going to do something and don’t do it, that’s trustworthiness.”—Ibid. “I don’t know whether I’m going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I’m ready for the job. And, if not, that’s just the way it goes.”—Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 21, 2000 “This campaign not only hears the voices of the entrepreneurs and the farmers and the entrepreneurs, we hear the voices of those struggling to get ahead.”—Ibid. “It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.”—Reuters, May 5, 2000 “If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.”—Hilton Head, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000 “Will the highways on the Internet become more few?”—Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000 “Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?”—Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000 “You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.’’—Townsend, Tenn., Feb. 21, 2001 “The woman who knew that I had dyslexia—I never interviewed her.”—Orange, Calif., Sept. 15, 2000 “Reading is the basics for all learning.”—Announcing his “Reading First” initiative in Reston, Va., March 28, 2000 |
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poe from the uk (school) on 2001-09-20 09:07 [#00034543] | |||||||||
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everyone has seen the halfwits quotes ffs, did you know he gave 96 BILLION to israel to fund their military operations.... americans lurrfff war |
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CUN8eR LASiT from mm on 2001-09-20 09:16 [#00034552] | |||||||||
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This may be so, but arguably some of these are timeless: 96 Billion! - that would buy a nice fleet of gunships with rockets n all - |
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CUN8eR LASiT from mm on 2001-09-20 13:33 [#00034614] | |||||||||
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ah who knows .. i doubt it -- essentially doesn't really matter -- what matters is that they "sponsor" Israel ! It seems strange for such a thing to be so public, yet not have gained much media attention (directly - not indirectly with the recent events in ny). Unless I am completely out of the loop |
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melody from mir on 2001-09-20 14:06 [#00034616] | |||||||||
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the US could use an articulate leader like Tony Blair right now. I'd love to see Bush try to handle the mud-slinging of the British house of commons, "I know what i beleive and will articulate what i believe and what i believe. What i believe is what i believe is right" YIIEEAAAOOOWWWWW !!!!!!! Swap for a coupla weeks?......... |
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f.l.e.a from NZ on 2001-09-20 22:14 [#00034776] | |||||||||
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agree with melody..Blair's gots the skillz with the words..personally find him kinda creepy and gungho..I guess it's his eloquence that makes his threats that much more..hmm..chilling?! |
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|REFLEX| from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on 2001-09-20 23:23 [#00034796] | |||||||||
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flea: I think Blair is good as well - what make him seem more serious is he is methodical about it. he thinks it over.. and lets the people who are watching know that he has gone over every detail is caution. He knows whats up. |
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zetre on 2001-09-20 23:24 [#00034797] | |||||||||
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Bush has got this cowboy thing going. I reckon that can be sort of fun, but it´s not really suiting for a president.. |
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|REFLEX| from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on 2001-09-20 23:25 [#00034799] | |||||||||
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well put |
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f.l.e.a from NZ on 2001-09-21 00:13 [#00034838] | |||||||||
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YEEHAW DOGONE MANS GONNA HUNT...or something to the same effect...sorry now I am being racist :) |
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melody from minge on 2001-09-21 02:06 [#00034904] | |||||||||
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the only race Bush is part of is the race to evolve. Last check he was somewhere infront of amoeba and behind the common newt. NEWTS AGAINST BOMBING KABUL !!! Thats democracy :-) |
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wayout from a plastic bubble on 2001-09-21 02:11 [#00034905] | |||||||||
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how could you forget such bush-isms as "subliminable" and "hispanicaly"? be afraid...be very afraid |
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yesno on 2001-09-21 09:37 [#00034962] | |||||||||
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Bush is the biggest dick in the world, and he also has a stupid accent, in all... die you redneck |
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Sampson on 2001-09-21 09:39 [#00034963] | |||||||||
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bwahahaha.... i think yesno is ultramegacool |
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Mr Cool from Norwich on 2001-09-21 09:42 [#00034964] | |||||||||
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Bush is a shifty motherlover, he's also quite stupid, nah mean? he's a dirty redneck. |
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Baron Von picklefoot from The Baron got a DSL line Woo hoo on 2001-09-21 10:00 [#00034968] | |||||||||
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Bush remindes me of someone who would come over to your house and have a few drinks with you and then try to fuck your sister!THE BARON HAS SPOKEN |
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Julian Casablancas on 2001-09-21 11:10 [#00034975] | |||||||||
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THE BARON COULD! |
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Baron Von picklefoot from The Baron got a DSL line Woo hoo on 2001-09-21 11:34 [#00034984] | |||||||||
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I can do better and I have before till they caught me in the White House and kiicked me out!THE BARON HAS SPOKEN! |
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Gypsy Cream from the biscuit barrell on 2001-09-21 11:36 [#00034985] | |||||||||
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You can criticise someone without thinking you can do better. I couldn't be a terrorist half as good as Osama Bin Laden can, but that doesn't mean I don't think he's a cock. |
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Baron Von picklefoot from The Baron got a DSL line Woo hoo on 2001-09-21 11:45 [#00034995] | |||||||||
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I hate running into people who I have met durring a long night of partying they know my name but I have no idea of who they are so I have to play the game like I know who they are uhhhhhh it's soooooo stressfull with a head full of drugs!!!!!THE BARON HAS SPOKEN!!! |
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f.l.e.a from The Bunker beneath the bunker on 2001-09-21 13:24 [#00035011] | |||||||||
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Osama and Bush are a match made in matchmakers hell! At least Bush Jr's not hurling peasoup allover ally leaders..YET... but you never know what Bush Snr's passed on other than his guncollection, NRA membership and CIA contacts.. |
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infonation on 2001-09-21 13:54 [#00035020] | |||||||||
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www.fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/fugitives/laden.htm |
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f.l.e.a from NZ on 2001-09-21 14:02 [#00035023] | |||||||||
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uh huh..and? |
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melody from monks on 2001-09-21 14:07 [#00035028] | |||||||||
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re; above post// hilarious. "Osama Bin Laden/ Occupation : Unknown " can YOU help your government find out his occupation?? Jockeying the till at the Kabul Burger King ? Hairdresser ? Beard arranging ? GO ON YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOUR HELP |
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f.l.e.a from NZ on 2001-09-21 14:12 [#00035035] | |||||||||
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beard arranging!! LOL oh melody you just kilt me good!!! |
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infonation on 2001-09-21 15:12 [#00035076] | |||||||||
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I was surprised by how tall he is. And, of course, the fact that the FBI don't know he's a beard arranger. |
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