Bush to London: DROP DEAD

Unlike his Rethug predecessor (Gerald Ford, who seems as sweet as the Tooth Fairy in retrospect), Bush actually means it:

Q CNN reports that about two-thirds of British residents believe the bombings are a protest to Britain's support of the U.S. effort in Iraq. Does that concern the President, and has he done anything to reassure Prime Minister Tony Blair?

MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I think the President has talked about the situation in Iraq and the progress that we're making there. The terrorists have chosen to make Iraq a central front in the war on terrorism and we're fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here at home.

--http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/07/20050721-3.html

Don't you think his best friend a/k/a lapdog Tony Bliar would have gotten him on the blower and said this isn't going to go down too well in the UK?

•  We're fighting them in Iraq

  So the Brits will get bombed instead of us.

  What do we care as long as it's not New York, right? <snarl>

  by Harpoinhell on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 01:48:52 PM PDT

  •  actually I suppose

    NY is OK, it's where all those libruhs live...

    That's why they're spending all those anti-terror dollars on Wyoming and the other "main" terrorist target states instead of the NY subway system.

    by Paolo on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 01:51:54 PM PDT

    •  Did you see the Daily Show bit...

      where they noted that all that money spent on Wyoming was to stop terrorists from attacking the "Nation's Largest Pile of Unspent Homeland Security Money"? Priceless.

      by ejmw on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 02:06:08 PM PDT

•  London to Bush - Drop Dead

  The feeling is entirely mutual.

  by EuropeanSurrenderMonkey on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 01:49:37 PM PDT

•  Oh. My. God.

  Now we've telescoped the definition of "humanity that matters" from "U.S. and its allies" to "only the U.S"?

  THAT'S going to increase the number of well-wishers around the world, isn't it?  

  Blair is toast.  

  by jerbear57 on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 01:49:40 PM PDT

  •  Only if the Brits ever develop

    balls enough to toast him.

    I'm not holding my breath.

    by corvo on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 01:58:11 PM PDT

•  Wow

  That's an asinine resonse, even by Scotty's standards.  I can't believe he has the temerity to recite the very talking point which was disproved by the London bombings.  But hey, looked at another way, it makes perfect sense:

  "The terrorists have chosen to make Iraq a central front in the war on terrorism and we're fighting them there and in London so we don't have to fight them here at home."

  Hey, wherever's convenient.
  

  by BrooklynRaider on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 01:50:54 PM PDT

  •  What's amazing in this talking point is...

    that Scotty said the "terrorists have chosen to make Iraq a central front in the war on terrorism."

    Oh really?

    by juniper on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 01:54:30 PM PDT

    •  Well, you know

      Ol' Dubya turns out to lead a pretty good tango.  Yeah, the terrorists have chosen to follow our lead.  They look so good together, Bush and Osama.  You'd almost say they were natural partners.

      by BrooklynRaider on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 01:59:54 PM PDT

  •  soooo standard!

    This is what they just do.  No matter what the reality is, they just say what they want it to be. And, worse, their followers don't/can't think it through; they just accept it.
    

    by OLinda on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 02:06:06 PM PDT

  •  Black is white

    up is down. hot is cold. truth is fiction. fiction is truth.

    by chicagochamp on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 02:19:02 PM PDT

    •  Yeah, that's pretty much the key

      to understanding everything this administration says.

      I think all of Scotty's pressers should be preceded by a Rod Sterling voiceover.

      by BrooklynRaider on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 02:21:40 PM PDT

•  Monkey Boy will not have any friends by the time

  this is over.  Maybe the lapdog in London will start blowing the whistle on Bushco.  We can wish can't we?

  by txbirdman on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 01:53:53 PM PDT

  •  It's not Monkey Boy...

    that I'm worried about running out of friends.  What matters to me is that come Jan. 2009 we may discover that the United States doesn't have any friends - and all because of Monkey Boy.

    by mlharges on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 02:30:57 PM PDT

•  WHERE'S THE FOLLOW UP???

  seriously, come on!  where's the reporter with the most obvious follow question/comment in the history of journalism???  

  "Sir, we ARE fighting them here.  London's been bombed twice in 2 weeks...Explain how you can say we're there so they wont be here, WHEN THEY ARE HERE ALREADY!!"

  how in the world is that question NOT the next one?

  by topicalstorm on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 01:58:36 PM PDT

•  What I fear

  is that terrorists or terrorists-to-be are going to say "We'll show you how wrong you are about only attacks in Iraq!" and will redouble their attempts to carry out attacks in the US, UK, and elsewhere because the Bush Administration is flouting around the Flypaper Theory.

  by b r on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 01:59:08 PM PDT

  •  "Bring it on!"

    by BrooklynRaider on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 02:00:30 PM PDT

  •  this is what I was thinking

    I'm afraid some US islamic radical will think "how dense ARE you? let's do some bombings in the US to show Bush the consequences of his actions are not going to stay at arm's length."

    Who needs that?? It makes me sick to see these Iraq retaliation bombings, whether they're in europe, the UK, here, or, well, in Iraq.

    by Elizabeth D on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 02:07:48 PM PDT

•  Unbelievably stupid...

  to continue using that flypaper rationale.  He is beginning to look a lot like the former Iraqi Information Minister.  It is not even funny any more...just plain walk into a wall STUPID...please, where AM i?

  by rlteiken on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 02:06:28 PM PDT

•  The U.K. is now another spot for their flypaper

  I don't think Scotty has an issue with that.

  by Viktor on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 02:10:49 PM PDT

•  "We're fighting the terrorists in London

  so we don't have to fight them here at home. " (Thanks to Brooklyn Raider)

  by freedc on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 02:11:24 PM PDT

•  OT - Rove

  Thanks for the link to the transcript.  I was under the impression from another thread that the reporters ignored Rove today.  Actually they did pretty well.  Trying to get info on the memo and Air Force One.  Sounds like Gregory again.

  Of course they don't get answers, but they keep asking.
  

  by OLinda on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 02:15:56 PM PDT

•  Didn't know London was in Iraq! n/t

  by Street Kid on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 02:22:45 PM PDT

•  In other words:

  The answer is no.

  by Eternal Hope on Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 02:30:21 PM PDT