Here’s the video to Steve’s post from yesterday. For those who may have missed it, in a speech before the American Legion yesterday, President Bush continued his rank fear mongering and made clear that he plans on confronting Iran regardless of what the American people or Congress have to say about it. Keith recaps the saber rattling and highlights the ever-moving Iraqi goalposts by juxtaposing what Bush said were the goals of the “surge” back in January with what he is saying today.
Download | Play 
Download | Play
And Iran’s active pursuit of technology that could lead to nuclear weapons threatens to put a region already known for instability and violence under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust. Iran’s actions threaten the security of nations everywhere.
And that is why the United States is rallying friends and allies around the world to isolate the regime, to impose economic sanctions. We will confront this danger before it is too late.
Unlike in 2002 or early 2003, this sort of crap doesn’t fly anymore. President Bush simply has no credibility left. That is what happens when you spout lie after lie to a country that expects to hear the truth from it’s leader. You have breached that trust, Mr. President, and it won’t return to the office in which you currently reside until you are gone.
2 Trackbacks To “Bush Ramps Up Iran Rhetoric, Warns of “Nuclear Holocaust”“
1st
[Deleted. Blogwhoring]
Bush looks like he’s surrounded by tentacles.
that maniac belongs in jail.
This time, I’m afraid that it really will take a mushroom cloud to convince us, Mr. President.
Typical war drum-beating, chicken-hawking asshole.
a region already known for instability and violence
Yeah, by your own hand.
Iran is about to pay dearly for Bush’s low popularity.
I couldn’t agree more, SP.
WTF should we listen to anything this guy has to say anymore?
if they really wanted to start a nuclear attack.. wouldn’t starting with nuclear weapons would be more reasonable.. than making 4 planes fall from the sky?
Fool my once (with Iraq), shame on you. Fool me twice… fool me twice… won’t get fooled again.
Ooooh, this is why Rove, Gonzo, and the rest are jumping overboard,..I think I got it now.
he’s lost all credibility. the great dissembler.
He doesn’t give a crap about what we think of his credibility.
Thats the really scary part.
Damn him!
My, my, a real life Don Quixote….
Paranoid Schizophrenics never run out of things to fear, or reasons to fear them.
I’m surprised he didn’t conjure up ‘The Voices’ that he hears, to justify this position.
Take the keys to the war making machine away from Bush/Cheney. They will fuck it up, whether Iran needs to be hit or not. Let’s wait for a reasonable, sane, and above all competent president in 2008 to deal with this.
Well…I have a serious question. I despise this president and disagree with 99% of what he says and does, but in this case I’m not so sure. It’s to the point that I feel a twitch in my knee whenever he says something…I gotta disagree. On this issue, however, no. Ahmadinijad appears, to me, to be a religious zealot like Bush, who is bent on destruction. I do not think the world will be a safer place if this man gets nukes.
If I am wrong (and I hope I am) please, tell me why.
why won’t someone that has the power arrest this criminal? there are so many in this country that can, and none do?
it shows you that law enforcement isn’t authorized to do their jobs. the DOJ is a joke, and they have hindered the prosecution and defense of every case in this land for the last 7 years.
next person I hear that says equal justice under law, gets a big laugh from this old tree.
He didn’t warn of a nuclear holocaust. He warned of a nukulur holocaust. I don’t know why bloggers give him the benefit of the doubt. If he says nukulur, type nukulur.
What else would this simpleton be doing if he and everything he said weren’t a recurring nightmare?
Nuclear holocaust? The hypocrisy has reached new limits.
Here’s one country - with thousands of nuclear weapons. One country that has USED these weapons to kill a few hundred thousand in the past…..threatening a country that probably doesn’t have any, and if they did, have no ability whatsoever to threaten the US.
But instead of talking about that, the media just promotes Bush’s propaganda. Makes me sick.
That’s my rant. Read on if you’d like:
“Speaking of Iran”
http://www.populistamerica.com/speaking_of_iran
WOLF….!!….WOLF..!!
The SKY IS FALLING!!!
IRAQ HAS WMD’s…!!
T”HE END DAYS ARE “UPON US…!!
This man has lied and cried wolf so much nobody can take him serious (except of course the 26% ers).
Dr. Strangelove Cheney is really wanting to push this to the max with Iran.
This is more true: “The U.S.’s actions threaten the security of nations everywhere.”
These guys are crazy fools. We’ve got to stop them.
Blah, blah, blah.
The whole world is bored of you now, little man.
i wouldn’t trust Bush with my lunch money
Another “speech” in front of a cozy, loving crowd. Nice job Chimpy, way to take your message to the people.
Anyway, he tried this exact bullshit once before….and it worked.
Now, if the American people buy this crap one more time….they deserve all the negative ramifications that will result. Frankly, there’s no hope for this country.
To paraphrase a wise man…”Fool me once, shame, uh, shame on me. Fool me twice, I uh, uh,…won’t get fooled again.”
Typical presidential bed wetting stuff. He’ll kill us all.
anonymous @ 18:
I’ve read translations of his speeches, in which he bashes Bush, but it seems to me, to be tit-for-tat. He wouldn’t even be in power if Bush hadn’t started his saber rattling against Iran.
Where Bush is threatening to Bomb Iran, all Ahmadinijad is saying is, ‘bring it on, we’re ready.’ not once has he threatened to invade Texas.
On an other note, the Russians seem to think that he’s not developing nukes, and it is their engineers overseeing the program.
Now there’s no reason to trust any of these sources, but likewise, Bush seems to lie about pretty much everything.
But to give you credit for thinking this way, consider the parable of the ‘Boy Who Cried Wolf.”
One last point, as Bush destroys America’s military readiness, he works to improve the military readiness of Saudi Arabia, by selling them $20 billion in weapons. Why is that?
So, do the Dem candidates want war with Iran? If not why aren’t they shouting it from the rooftops?
BushCo will stop at nothing to attack Iran. Crank up the volume on the terror pimpin, time to bomb Iran.
Now that China and Russia are allies with Iran, if Iran really wanted a nuke, couldn’t they supply them with one?
Also why isn’t chimpy pursuing China and Russia? Coward yellow-belly warmonger.
chimpy failed in two wars simultaneously, now he wants another.
NO CHIMP! NO MORE WARS!
LibertyLover @ 5:
Please don’t say that. He can actually arrange that.
bush is never more animated (”alive”) than when he’s screaming hysterically for war. Anyone notice that? It’s like a drug to him, and I truly believe he’s addicted to war. Just as long as he doesn’t have to actually fight in one or sacrifice anything himself.
â–şRuns-With-Dogâ—„ @ 23:
Bah! You hit Submit Comment quicker!
Bush just made it clear that he will act, no matter who disagrees. I guess those ‘Generals on the Ground’ don’t matter anymore.
Weaseldog @ 16:
Another we don’t want the smoking gun to be a nuclear mushroom?
boosh is a good example why dropping mushrooms in a college dorm ain’t a good idea.
Dale @ 3:
To me it looks like bombs going off. They damn sure ain’t halos.
We’re not marching on Moscow until winter.
Weaseldog @ 29:
I agree, Russia would be very worried if they were developing Nukes, because they could be passed to the Chechen (sp) rebels or the Serbs, then Russia would be in danger.
burt @ 26:
He’d just get his buddy chainey to beat it out of you.
510 more days… 510 more days
* rocks back and forth *
The leader of Iran is a religious zealot and may be a madman. He shouldn’t have nukes. The leader of the U.S.A. IS a madman, and a religious idealogue, and he shouldn’t be trusted to have the reigns of power. Our national security is threatened because of the Bush administration first and foremost, and not because of Iran. Bush is a danger to us all.
Is boosh surrounded by the sphincters of jellyfish?
ysbaddaden @ 37:
Exactly. If he only smoked pot in college, he’d be trying to look for actual smoking guns rather than obsessing about mushrooms. :D
Funny how Saudi Arabia, from where almost all foreign fighters are coming from in Iraq, is never
ever mentioned…ever!
The quote is wholly inaccurate. The President did not once mention a “nuclear holocaust”.
He said “nucular holocaust”
Get it right.
********************** I M P E A C H ! ******************************
I think he is to lame a duck to get us started in another war. If he did however, he would seal the fate of America for the next fifty years as the terrorist nation that the rest of the world will have to deal with.
This is typical of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney: At any time when the topic of IRAQ becomes hot, they start in with hostile rhetoric about Iran.
They then deflect some part of their IRAQ critics, temporarily away from trying to hold them accountable on IRAQ, by discussing Iran.
You’ve seen them do this dozens of times.
And right now, IRAQ is so hot to these guys, that it’s white-hot…
Right now, they’re just trying to survive the month of September, with their “surge” intact…
And if they find themselves with the American People dead-set against any more “surging”, then they’re fighting tooth and nail against any draw-down of U.S. Troops in IRAQ.
And so get ready for more nonsense about Iran over the next month.
The only thing that scares me is the fact that people listen to these evil, stupid people.
A lot of war buffs, love to re-enact all of the world’s great military victories. How come we’re led by one that wants to re-enact all of the world’s great military defeats?
So let’s get this straight.
If a group want more dead Muslims (a million dead Iraqis is not enough), then all they have to do is stage another big attack on USA?
Is it really that easy?
If we don’t fight them there…and there…and there…and there…and don’t forget there…and there…and there…hey, what’s that?! over there…and there…and their…and thayre…and they’re…and der…and there again…