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21st September 2007, 2:00pm
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#1 | | I hate your band SuperMod
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| Bush fucking up again
I know that picking on Dubya is like shooting fish in a barrel, but this one slayed me. I’ll quote directly from Yahoo News: Quote: |
Originally Posted by Yahoo News “Part of the reason why there’s not this instant democracy in Iraq is because people are still recovering from Saddam Hussein’s brutal rule,” Bush said. “Sort of an interesting comment, I heard somebody say, ‘Where's Mandela?’ Well, Mandela’s dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas.”
It was a reference to the charismatic former leader of South Africa who helped reconcile his country after decades of racial division. Mandela is still alive. | Link to full story
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21st September 2007, 2:15pm
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#2 | | Pos-Reprehensible
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| Re: Bush fucking up again
'Sort of an interesting comment'
Hmm, yes George, I guess you could say that...
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21st September 2007, 2:28pm
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#3 | | Fattly Drawn Boy Editor
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| Re: Bush fucking up again
What's he talking about? | |
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21st September 2007, 2:30pm
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#4 | | Pos-Reprehensible
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| Re: Bush fucking up again
He was replying to Iraq criticisms at a news conference, apparently.
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21st September 2007, 2:30pm
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#5 | | Fattly Drawn Boy Editor
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| Re: Bush fucking up again
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Originally Posted by Dario  He was replying to Iraq criticisms at a news conference, apparently. | Yeah, I know but what's he talking about? | |
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21st September 2007, 2:36pm
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#6 | | Pos-Reprehensible
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| Re: Bush fucking up again
I don't think even he knows the answer to that one, I'm afraid...
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21st September 2007, 2:42pm
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#7 | | A Jubilant Mass Editor
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| Re: Bush fucking up again
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Originally Posted by LesMTS What's he talking about? | He's saying there's no one analogous to Nelson Mandela left in Iraq because Saddam Hussein killed everyone there who was any good.
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21st September 2007, 2:42pm
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#8 | | Implied Idiot
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| Re: Bush fucking up again
I'm still trying to work out what he means by "The mandelas" and what he could possibly be mixing them up with...
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21st September 2007, 2:59pm
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#9 | | potential allergen
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| Re: Bush fucking up again
By 'The Mandelas' he means, as Potatojunkie already pointed out, those who might have been in a position to reconcile previously opposed groups through personal charisma, who were (I assume) also possessed of some measure of international influence. As was also stated, these people are dead, eliminated by Saddam.
Now, one might object to the inherent assumptions (that one person could "solve" Iraq in the same way that Mandela "solved" South Africa, that there was possibly more than one such person, and, indeed, that Saddam rather than, say, the Ba'ath party as a whole was responsible for them no longer being present), but as a statement it's not only easily penetrated but quite reasonable in substance.
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21st September 2007, 3:07pm
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#10 | | Changed Man V4
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| Re: Bush fucking up again
Yeah, Stu hit the nail on the head.
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21st September 2007, 3:10pm
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#11 | | Pos-Reprehensible
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| Re: Bush fucking up again
Not exactly the clearest way to put it though, was it? Just confusing, in fact.
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21st September 2007, 3:23pm
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#12 | | I hate your band SuperMod
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| Re: Bush fucking up again
Aye. Bush’s problem isn’t that he is a stupid man (no matter what the media may say) … it’s that he’s a shite communicator. He has problems with syntax, pronunciation, grammar … everything.
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21st September 2007, 3:26pm
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#13 | | Fattly Drawn Boy Editor
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| Re: Bush fucking up again
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Originally Posted by Dario Not exactly the clearest way to put it though, was it? Just confusing, in fact. | Shhhhhhhhh, we can just pretend we didn't leap into the thread with out prejudices flailing everywhere. | |
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21st September 2007, 4:23pm
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#14 | | Quit Yo Jibba Jabba, Fool
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| Re: Bush fucking up again
If it wasn't such a serious fact that he was one of the "world leaders", still,
this would be hillarious.
Instead, it just pisses me off more that the ignorant cunt still even exists.
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21st September 2007, 4:26pm
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#15 | | Registered User
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| Re: Bush fucking up again
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Originally Posted by Potatojunkie He's saying there's no one analogous to Nelson Mandela left in Iraq | <Inserts snide comment re: there being plenty of terrorists still in Iraq.> | |
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