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Tuesday, March 21, 2006

The protector:

About Bush's Monday speech defending the Iraq War, Digby remarks:

He has said that his job is "to protect you" about 50 times. Does anyone find this paternalistic "I will protect you" stuff as creepy as I do?

Wrong, Digby! Bush only mentioned protect (and its variants) sixteen times - and of those, a mere eight times in reference to the terrorists/Iraq (bold below):

... coalition and Iraqi forces [are] coming to protect [the citizens of Tal Afar]
... the operation accomplished all this while protecting innocent civilians and inflicting minimal damage on the city.
I vowed after September the 11th, that I would do everything I could to protect the American people.
... I also understand my most important job, the most important job of any President today, and I predict down the road, is to protect America.
Foreign policy used to be dictated by the fact we had two oceans protecting us.
My most important job is to protect you, is to protect the American people.
... we will use military might to protect our ally, Israel ...
... how do we deal with threats before they fully materialize; what do we do to protect us from harm? That's my job.
... I think about my job of protecting you every day -- every single day of the presidency ...
[my] job ... is to protect the American people
[Sunnis wonder] whether or not they'd be protected.
... when you grow your economy, like we're growing our economy, there is an opportunity to not only protect ourselves [from economic threats]
... my most important job, which is to protect you.
... one good way to do so, and to protect the environment at the same time, is to encourage the use of safe nuclear power.
[referring to the NSA] ... after September the 11th, I spoke to a variety of folks on the front line of protecting us ...
... How do we protect our borders ...?

This from a guy who, when alerted that Bin Laden was determined to strike the U.S., ignored the warning and took a month-long vacation.

[BTW, Bush's 'protector act' worked to some degree. Here is what one questioner said at the occasion: "Mr. President, I just finished Ambassador Paul Bremer's book, and one of the things I just wanted to say to you and to Ambassador Bremer is thank you for protecting us."]

posted by Quiddity at 3/21/2006 12:32:00 PM

1 comments

Michael: Don't you know that that's an impossibility -- that that could never happen. That I would use all my power to keep something like that from happening -- don't you know that?
- Godfather II

By Anonymous, at 3/22/2006 11:26 AM