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...from TOMPAINE.com
Here are a few (of the many, many) classic quotes reaffirming the obviousness of Bush and his administration's equivocations on having portrayed Iraq as an imminent threat:

"We ended the threat from Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction."
President Bush, 7/17/03

"Saddam Hussein is no longer a threat to the United States because we removed him, but he was a threat...He was a threat. He's not a threat now."
President Bush, 7/17/03

"This is about imminent threat."
White House spokesman Scott McClellan, 2/10/03

"No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq."
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 9/19/02

"Iraq is busy enhancing its capabilities in the field of chemical and biological agents, and they continue to pursue an aggressive nuclear weapons program. These are offensive weapons for the purpose of inflicting death on a massive scale, developed so that Saddam Hussein can hold the threat over the head of any one he chooses. What we must not do in the face of this mortal threat is to give in to wishful thinking or to willful blindness."
Vice President Dick Cheney, 8/29/02

Take today's Quick Vote at the bottom of their homepage to help them out with their tally.

the Question:
Do you find Sen. John Kerry's comments associating National Guard service with draft-dodging offensive?

The results after my vote was posted:
Yes: 43.5%
No: 56.5%.

AOL has removed "miserable failure" from its search results. Since "miserable failure" provides a link to dubya's bio, they say the search results are irrelevant. I'd beg to differ, really, but the more salient point is that they didn't remove similar "irrelevant" results for the good people on the left.

I'm not sure what the text is that brings Michael Moore, Hillary Clinton and Jimmy Carter to the top of the search results, but whatever the search criteria, AOL is letting those slide. The "miserable failure" link is the only link spam they've taken the initiative to block. The other link spams, they say, constitute a "larger issue," and AOL "cannot enforce one link at a time."

Hmmm...I wonder if we can test that by pointing out that this miserable failure should be unelectable. They'd let this one go, right?

Former Reagan speech writer, Peggy Noonan, responds to Bush's lackluster performance in the Meet the Press interview: "I am one of those who feel his performance was not impressive."

[heh heh heh]

More quotes from her Wall Street Journal OpEd:

"The president seemed tired, unsure and often bumbling. His answers were repetitive, and when he tried to clarify them he tended to make them worse. He did not seem prepared."

"Mr. Bush is less facile with language, as we all know..."

"George W. Bush is not good at talking points. You can see when he's pressed on a question. Mr. Russert asks, why don't you remove George Tenet? And Mr. Bush blinks, and I think I know what is happening in his mind. He's thinking: Go through history of intelligence failures. No, start with endorsement of George so I don't forget it and cause a big story. No, point out intelligence didn't work under Clinton. Mention that part of the Kay report that I keep waiting for people to mention."

"If I worked for President Bush I'd say spend the next nine months giving speeches, and limit interviews."

Ya don't say?! At least Bush is finally being honest here:

"I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind. Again, I wish it wasn't true, but it is true."

If you had any doubts at all about dubya's lack of intelligence, try reading through the transcript for his recent interview on Meet the Press. He has to be the most inarticulate President the US has ever had....

This is worth a visit...!

Making Bush say stupid things was the best part of this (and these are genuine quotes!).