* on Letterman proves he sat on his butt for 8 months after USS Cole

RamboLiberal

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Tue Mar-09-04 07:22 PM
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WHERE WAS GEORGE?: Al Qaeda bombed the U.S.S. Cole in October of 2000. Here is how he responded to that attack, on of all things the Late Show with David Letterman!

"Letterman then asked Bush about the terrorist murder of 17 U.S. sailors in Yemen. Seriously.

"If I find out who it was, they'd pay a serious price," Bush said of the bombing. "I mean a serious price."

"Now, what does that mean?" Letterman asked, a follow-up Bush doesn't often get when he's asked about such bravado.

"That means they're not going to like what happened to them," Bush said, and the crowd went wild.

"Now are you talking about retaliation or due process of law?" Letterman asked.

"Heh-heh," Bush said. "I'm talking about gettin' the facts and lettin' them know we don't appreciate it and there's a serious consequence ... And I'll decide what that consequence is."

http://counterspin.blogspot.com/2004_03_07_counterspin_archive.html#107885751378595525

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Malva Zebrina

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Tue Mar-09-04 07:26 PM
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1. Heh heh--bloviating big tough guy talk eh

Edited on Tue Mar-09-04 07:26 PM by Marianne

He did not have a clue--just spouted the rhetoric that in his pea brain sounded like what he thought a "leader" sounded like.

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LiberalVoice

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Tue Mar-09-04 07:26 PM
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2. What a pompous ass!

I can even see his stupid smirk.

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