Bush pokes fun at himself at dinner

[The diplomat]

If some democrat or anti-bush website had done a cartoon showing Bush looking under the couch and under chairs saying "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere,", how many of you would find it funny?

[Caligastia]

Very good point.

[Jac de Molay]

Using satire as a criticism is nothing new, compared to belittling your own home-spun policy which led to war....

The latter is about as funny as retarded kids playing in traffic.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by The diplomat
If some democrat or anti-bush website had done a cartoon showing Bush looking under the couch and under chairs saying "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere,", how many of you would find it funny?

These days, not many. Six months ago, probably.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by The diplomat
If some democrat or anti-bush website had done a cartoon showing Bush looking under the couch and under chairs saying "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere,", how many of you would find it funny?

not the same thing

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

The latter is about as funny as retarded kids playing in traffic.

Why you got something against those goofy little bastards?

[Sava]

What a piece of ****... I'm sure those 570 dead soldiers were laughing

scumbag republicans

[Gibsie]

I want to see a picture of Bush holding his finger to his lips as if to say "oops", standing in front of a nuclear wasteland. Preferably faked, but it's really only a matter of time for the real thing I'm sure...

[East Street Trader]

Now if Hitler had tried a joke in which he was hunting unsuccesfully for the certificate of origin which he could not produce (in contravention of his own race laws) with some SS character standing by about to cart him off to the death camps as a result, that would have been truly tasteless.

But, you know, I somehow can't quite envision such as Hitler doing any such thing.

So I sort of like the fact that this guy has a bit of the self deprecatory about him. Whether his taste in giving expression to it is good or bad.

There may be something else to say in his favour. I have been waiting for some time now expecting him to make some further hideous and eye catching move in his "war". But in fact both he and Blair have rather seemed somewhat chastened by the situation over WMD.

If some sign of shame over the Guantanamo situation appeared I think I would start to give a sigh of relief and put the worries I have entertained down to my joining in some of the hysteria that has been going on.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by The diplomat
If some democrat or anti-bush website had done a cartoon showing Bush looking under the couch and under chairs saying "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere,", how many of you would find it funny?

And then I bet YOU would be where we're standing -- YOU would claim that WE would be being insensitive to the families of the soldiers in Iraq. Wouldn't you?

[Sava]

Originally posted by MrFun


And then I bet YOU would be where we're standing -- YOU would claim that WE would be being insensitive to the families of the soldiers in Iraq. Wouldn't you?

and don't forget... John Kerry is satan!

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by East Street Trader

There may be something else to say in his favour. I have been waiting for some time now expecting him to make some further hideous and eye catching move in his "war". But in fact both he and Blair have rather seemed somewhat chastened by the situation over WMD.

There was never some secret plan to attack a half dozen countries. Iraq was always sui generis - due to a legal and strategic history going back to the unfinished (in the opion of many Americans) first Gulf War.

[Shi Huangdi]

I don't see how this was a slap in the face to the soldiers who died.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Originally posted by Sava
What a piece of ****... I'm sure those 570 dead soldiers were laughing

scumbag republicans

I see Cujo finally showed.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
I don't see how this was a slap in the face to the soldiers who died.

Do you think he'd be willing to make such a joke in front of the mother of a soldier who died fighting in Iraq for this very issue? Remember how we were sold a bill of goods about WMD in Iraq as justification for war? If someone had told you your loved one needed to go and fight and die for a cause that ended up being false, would you laugh at a joke made about why they fought/died? By the guy who sent them there?

It doesn't take much empathy to see why this is offensive.