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Over at LRC blog, Jeffrey Tucker is kind enough to round up some of the gems<\/a> from the prez’s Q & occasionally A session last night. I’ll just go through a few with my knee-jerk ripostes in italics:<\/p>\n

*They’re [Iraqis] not happy they’re occupied. I wouldn’t be happy if I were occupied either.
\nAnother reason to keep Dick Cheney on staff, no?<\/i><\/p>\n

*I want to know why we haven’t found a weapon yet.
\nHey, car bombs, mines, RPGs, and Kalashnikovs are weapons, too, and “we” have found plenty of those–right in “our” faces.<\/i><\/p>\n

*One of my hardest parts of my job is to console the family members who have lost their life.
\nBush Iraq military funeral attendance count: 0<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

*This is a war against people who have no guilt in killing innocent people. That’s what they’re willing to do.
\nNo comment; just a gaping jaw.<\/i><\/p>\n

*I have directed our military commanders to make every preparation to use decisive force, if necessary, to maintain order and to protect our troops.
\nMaintain, v.: To keep up or carry on; continue; to keep in an existing state; preserve or retain; to keep in a condition of good repair or efficiency.<\/i><\/p>\n

*There’s a terror still in the soul of some of the people in Iraq; they’re worried about getting killed, and, therefore, they’re not going to talk [about the location of WMD].
\nTell us more of these people who are surely in U.S. custody (or could be) and whom they’re afraid of being killed by.<\/i><\/p>\n

*My job as the President is to lead this nation into making the world a better place. And that’s exactly what we’re doing.
\n“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Nope, nothing about saving the world. Maybe he thinks he’s Bono or Miss America.<\/i> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at LRC blog, Jeffrey Tucker is kind enough to round up some of the gems from the prez’s Q & occasionally A session last night. I’ll just go through a few with my knee-jerk ripostes in italics: *They’re [Iraqis] not happy they’re occupied. I wouldn’t be happy if I were occupied either. Another reason […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}