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| Dean: Bush responsible for deaths in Spain | |
| 2004-03-17 | |
Former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean said Tuesday that President Bush’s decision to send troops to Iraq appears to have contributed to the bombing deaths of 201 in Spain. A growing international investigation is focusing on Islamic militants possibly linked to al-Qaida as the culprits in the Madrid train bombings last Thursday. European intelligence agencies are trying to identify a purported al-Qaida operative who claimed in a videotape that the group carried out the bombings to punish Spain for backing of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. The tape was discovered in a trash bin near Madrid’s largest mosque on Saturday after a telephone tip to a Madrid TV station. Dean referred to the videotape when asked whether he was linking U.S. troops in Iraq to the deaths in Spain. "That was what they said in the tape," Dean said. "They made that connection, I’m simply repeating it."
Except when I pinned it on Bush Today I was simply repeating what those who have claimed responsibility for the bombings in Spain said was the reason they carried out that despicable act." Look what Bush made them do! Dean was speaking on a conference call arranged by Kerry’s campaign. Campaign spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said, "We aren’t in a position to say that Spain’s support for the war in Iraq made them a target." Spain has been a target for Islamo revenge since 1492. "Governor Dean was simply repeating what’s already been reported by news organizations about a group that claims responsibility for the enormous tragedy in Spain," she said. "It’s clear that what happened in Spain is a painful reminder that the war on terror is far from over and the nation would be better off if this administration took the time to rebuild our alliances rather than engaging in political attacks." We Zionist conspirators and neanderthal reactionaries might suppose that the terrorists are responsible, with a lot of encouragement from the appeasement activists who incite them with demands that terrorism be rewarded. Once a scapegoat has been nominated, however, no real effort is required to blame him for literally anything. A few weeks ago, an Al Guardian columnist stupidly lost some money in a Nigerian e-mail scam and seriously blamed Bush for it. It’s ridiculously easy to blame Bush for nearly anything. I’ll demonstrate: A couple of weeks ago, there was a bizarre accident at my home. My overweight neighbor was trimming a tree in his backyard. The ladder fell, depositing the neighbor against the fence, which collapsed. The ladder itself continued onto my side, and knocked down my electric powerline, leaving me in the dark for 3 hours. Remarkably enough, the neighbor was not seriously injured. This was obviously Bush’s fault. How, skeptical Rantburgistas might ask? Simple, my neighbor is a car dealer, he makes a killing from SUVs (when these aren’t roaming about killing and plundering on their own). If it weren’t for Bush limiting our freedom by failing to ban these diabolical machines, this guy wouldn’t be rich enough to live in my neighborhood. I would have a slender, athletic vegan commissar or such for a neighbor, and the accident would not have happened. Last year, I was returning to my car from a night class. I slipped in the darkness, hit my noggin on the curb and required several stitches to fix it. Again, Bush’s fault; no doubt about it. You see, if Bush allowed the government to provide a guaranteed minimum income of $26,500 a year(as the Green Party advocates) nobody would have to work, there would be no night classes and clumsy middle-aged professors like myself would not be wandering about in dark parking lots. | |
| Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |
| #26 Hey Kids! |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-3-18 12:18:01 AM |
| #25 Yo Sistuh - Lol, heh, they all say shit like that! Cash money accepted = end of deal ---- nobody don' owe nobody nuttin, babe! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-3-17 7:56:36 PM |
| #24 No botox for you com boy. Your last tip was okay but the batteries died. You owe me. |
| Posted by: Sistuh Carrie 2004-3-17 7:25:00 PM |
| #23 .Com, My sincere apologies for misreading your post. |
| Posted by: Daniel King 2004-3-17 5:13:37 PM |
| #22 Dumb ole me, I thought it was Islamofascist Morrocans that placed the bombs that killed all the innocents in Madrid. (The victim shouldn't have been dressed like that and she wouldn't have been raped.) Deano's feigned wrath is misdirected and politically counter productive. Keep this up in Kerry's name, Howie. We all know how well the screech worked for you in the primaries. |
| Posted by: GK 2004-3-17 4:38:24 PM |
| #21 DK - Hmmm. Re-read my comment - I didn't say it because it would be too derogatory. I believe the distinction was clear. No, I'm with you - offending real whores so egregiously by comparing them to the worst of the political variety of "For Sale" people is entirely unacceptable! I respect them too much, so I declined to follow through on the comparison. My sincerest apologies to whores everywhere for any misunderstanding! When you don't steal my wallet or slip me a mickey, you rock! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-3-17 4:11:30 PM |
| #20 .Com, you're being disrespectful to whores with your comparison. |
| Posted by: Daniel King 2004-3-17 1:03:57 PM |
| #19 "The Democratic party here - at the national level - has become so utterly fixated on taking power at all costs that it will say or do anything necessary to get there" Ya gotta wonder what Kerry's "Band of Brothers" is going to think of him when he sends out vast armies of Democratic Party lawyers next November to fan out across the nation and disqualify every military absentee ballot they can get their filthy hands on, just like Al Gore did. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-3-17 1:01:12 PM |
| #18 That long highlight at the end! :rotflol: Please file this in the Classics! |
| Posted by: Korora 2004-3-17 12:26:13 PM |
| #17 Kerry knows he can not afford politically to spew utter nonsense. Well, not all the time, at least. Sometimes is okay, apparently... (see "foreign leaders" claim) |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-3-17 11:49:21 AM |
| #16 Dave D- Thank you for stating so clearly That Which May Not Be Spoken. The Democratic party here - at the national level - has become so utterly fixated on taking power at all costs that it will say or do anything necessary to get there. I'm in a discussion on another board where we were discussing the recent announcement that the DNC is already lining up its court challenges for the election. That tells me that - put quite simply - the Democratic party no longer accepts the fact that its policies are unacceptable at the national level, and they will follow any route, including a judicial coup, to win. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2004-3-17 10:52:44 AM |
| #15 I'm with Superhose on this. Dean happily occupies the loony left, and Kerry is glad he's there spouting inanities. I hope someone on the R side appropriately bitchslaps Ho-ho for this scurrilous charge. He could just have easily blamed the Madrid attacks on Saddam Hussein -- if he wasn't such an evil asshole, Bush, Blair et al., wouldn't have had to go to Baghdad to topple him. |
| Posted by: Tibor 2004-3-17 10:27:38 AM |
| #14 Deano was rejected by Democrats because of these kind of statements. Think about it, even the Democrats thought he was too far left. For Kerry to associate himself with Deano and his tin foil hat comments will only serve to drive the center-left and undecided voters toward Bush. |
| Posted by: Scott 2004-3-17 9:17:56 AM |
| #13 Dave D - "no matter what you spew out, loyal Democrats will happily swallow" LMAO! One of the wittiest comments I've seen. |
| Posted by: Spot 2004-3-17 9:16:48 AM |
| #12 I'm with Cyber Sarge. Let them hang themselves ala Dean. I think it would be simply terrific if Dean would become Kerry's official campaign public relations spokesman. My favorite Dean comment (above) was that Bush "doesn't support our troops" and "sent the soldiers to Iraq unequipped." I wonder if that's what the Iraqi army thought. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2004-3-17 8:49:19 AM |
| #11 If Kerry is seen as an appeaser Orthodox left/liberal thought is that destruction of the United States will be accomplished by imposing policies that will weaken our national defense/security. This has long been a goal of leftists worldwide and the left now has its boy, Kerry, to carry this out. As I said, 2004 is gonna be fun watching the left self-immolate. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-3-17 8:38:35 AM |
| #10 Maybe Dean wants to be the new DNC chairman. He obviously beat Terry Macauliff to the media with this stupid comment. |
| Posted by: Douglas De Bono 2004-3-17 8:33:37 AM |
| #9 I said it yesterday and I am going to say it again today: Let him rant. The more he rants then more marginalized the dems become. They either have to acknowledge him or denounce him. Howling Howard swings more voters our way everytime he opens his yap. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-3-17 8:30:27 AM |
| #8 One would assume so. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-3-17 7:23:37 AM |
| #7 Dave D I hate to make this kind of jokes but do you know if Monica was a loyal democrat? |
| Posted by: JFM 2004-3-17 7:19:45 AM |
| #6 Bill Clinton taught the Democratic Party leadership a vital lesson: no matter what you spew out, loyal Democrats will happily swallow. He taught them that truth simply doesn't matter; that a lie is just as good as the truth, especially if it happens to be a lie the party faithful desperately want to believe, and always better than the truth if it helps you win. We've had two Democrats in the Oval Office in the last third of a century. I voted for each of them the first time and against them, when they ran for re-election. After seeing the rampant dishonesty of today's Democratic Party, I don't think I'll ever give another Democrat even a first term to try him out; these people have become an outright menace to our very survival. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-3-17 6:48:08 AM |
| #5 How lovely it would be to learn that LOSER mercifully took the decison never again to publicly spout pornographic inanities out his gaping maw, locked himself in his bathroom, pointed his .357 revolver mouthward, performed oral sodomy on the business end, pulled the trigger, and assumed room temperature for the greater good of Americans who value common decency. |
| Posted by: Garrison 2004-3-17 6:44:03 AM |
| #4 ...and wears a big girl's bra. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-3-17 5:47:16 AM |
| #3 If it weren't so derogatory to them, I'd say Dean is a whore. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-3-17 5:32:38 AM |
| #2 If I were Kerry, I would tell Dean to shut the hell up. Kerry already looks weak on defense, and blaming Spain's support of the US in Iraq for the terrorist's reason for bombing them, looks like so much appeasement. This election is probably the most important one in past 50 years. If Kerry is seen as an appeaser, as another Neville Chamberlain, he will lose and lose badly. It is a matter of life and death, and the terrorists have shown that appeasement just encourages the bad guys. |
| Posted by: Ben 2004-3-17 5:30:03 AM |
| #1 "That was what they said in the tape," Dean said. "They made that connection, I’m simply repeating it." Dean is usurping Al Jezeera's job. Dean's function in the continuing campaign is to launch ridiculous crap into the echo chamber hoping that some of it memefies. The Kerry campaign probably faxes a list of Meming Points. Kerry knows he can not afford politically to spew utter nonsense. Most of the excrement side of political invective is Dean's intellectual property anyway. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-3-17 4:57:16 AM |