Sensible Erection | Bush believes WW III has begun.

Friday, 5 May 2006

quote [ US President George W Bush has referred to the "war on terror" as "World War III" during a television interview. ]

"Whoops! Did I say that in my out loud voice?"
Video in the extended.

http://tinyurl.com/fhs2c - Thanks to silky stevens. Last two minutes. Need IE unfortunately.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1632213.htm

"In 2002, then-White House spokesman Ari Fleischer explicitly declined to call the hunt for Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda group and its followers "World War III"."

I'm sure it's all just a biiiig misunderstanding and it will be cleared up very soon so I can go back to thinking about the porn posts above and below this one.

[politics] [by wieder@11:32pmGMT] [+10 WTF]

Comments

dook_sucks said @ 12:02am GMT on 6th May
mission accomplished. Now we know why he was right!!! We just didn't know the mission was to ensure 9-11 was the start of WWIII

blacksun said @ 12:05am GMT on 6th May
heh.. wtf on the thumb. Is that like one of the pron chicks from the other posts falling through your thumb? :p

wieder said @ 12:21am GMT on 6th May
Heh, it's what happens when I've got two different subjects competing for control of my brain and Photoshop happens to be open. :)

Other page

Your idea would have been pretty damn funny.

kitkaos said @ 12:07am GMT on 6th May
+1 for the thumb alone.

wieder said @ 12:22am GMT on 6th May
*muchos gracias!*

Tenderdm said @ 12:24am GMT on 6th May
There is an old Chinese phase that goes:
"Afraid the world is not chaotic enough"
The moron certainly fit the description.

sacrelicious said @ 12:32am GMT on 6th May [Score:5 Funny]
but WWII was a proper sequel. see, in WWI england, france and russia (and later the US and other former colonial allies) battled germany and austria. in WWII it's the same alliances (plus a few newcomers to both sides, and again, the US to join later) battling over direct ramifications of the outcome of the last war (namely unreasonable sanctions against the losers that allowed a facist regime to come to power by exploiting the discontent engendered by them). also [SPOILER WARNING], in the second world war we learn that hitler is actually churchill's father.

now they always used to say that a war with soviet russia would be WWIII, and that would be fair since any such conflict would have been rooted in the events and outcomes of the two previous world wars, and since once again alliances would be more or less similar. and there would be ewoks.

the "war on terror" is not WWIII. sure, it does have some remote roots in the first world war, but I think it's actually more rooted in proxy wars with the soviets than it is in the treatment of the middle east in the aftermaths of WWI and WWII. it's just too many times removed to really be called a proper sequel. sure, if the wars were a fictional series, then you could get away with calling it a sequel, but in history practically everything is connected in one way or another, so I think a stricter deffinition of sequel is called for. I mean, the war on terror has about as much claim to sequence as the korean and vietnam wars. so if were gonna say that this is part of the World War saga, then this would actually be part five at least.

but bush doesn't know all this backstory, he just wants a nice even trilogy. and a cabinet full of Jar-Jars.

wieder said @ 12:36am GMT on 6th May
I think he may be foreshadowing how the plot is supposed to unfold vs reflecting on what has happened thus far in the story arc.

sacrelicious said @ 12:39am GMT on 6th May
if that's the case then this would be the begining of a second saga, rather than a continuation of the first.

sacrelicious said @ 12:40am GMT on 6th May
this would basically be what LOTR was to The Hobbit.

Nostrildamus said @ 3:02am GMT on 6th May [Score:1 Insightful]
No, this is shaping up more like the two series of Thomas Covenant Chronicles. Because, you know it's gonna be never-ending, terse while at the same time being prolix, with lots of death & no sympathetic characters.

relm said @ 4:21am GMT on 6th May
And really, really, really fucking depressing.

For christ's sake, what kind of author has his main character's first act upon entering the magical fantasy land be: Hey look, a girl! I will rape her!

captainstubing said @ 4:35am GMT on 6th May [Score:2]
Thank you, Nostrildamus. Many years ago I made myself read the first three of those fucking dreadful books because everyone kept going on about how good they were. I fucking hated them. 20 years later the mention of those fucking books makes me want to kill anyone who happens to be around. I'd be more than happy to go through WWIII than read another fucking word of those fucking boring, poorly written pieces of shit fucking goddam fucking books. Fuck you, Stephen R. Donaldson...fuck you hard.

v21 said @ 8:09am GMT on 6th May
+1 I completely concur.

todde said @ 8:22am GMT on 6th May
With Dubya as Sauron

zentrix said @ 2:38am GMT on 6th May
but in this exciting new installment we find out that time is circular and WWIII is actually a prequel to WWI.

sorry for the spoilers.

nbob said @ 3:08am GMT on 6th May [Score:5 Funny]
Edmund: You see, Baldrick, in order to prevent war in Europe, two superblocs developed: us, the French and the Russians on one side, and the Germans and Austro-Hungary on the other. The idea was to have two vast opposing armies, each acting as the other's deterrent. That way there could never be a war.

Baldrick: But this is a sort of a war, isn't it, sir?

Edmund: Yes, that's right. You see, there was a tiny flaw in the plan.

George: What was that, sir?

Edmund: It was bollocks.

relm said @ 4:19am GMT on 6th May
On the decision to undergo a "war of attrition":

These men weren't evil. Some of them weren't even stupid.

Nihil said @ 5:37am GMT on 6th May
+1 Black Adder

Nihil said @ 5:39am GMT on 6th May
Dammit. Someone please give the +1 Funny I was too post-coital drunk to give.

randomaction said @ 7:09am GMT on 6th May
Taken care of. Could someone please give the +1 Funny, I just used mine cause Nihil was too fucked.

dagfari said @ 12:26pm GMT on 6th May
Done and done.

Do I still have to jack off a horse?

zenviper said @ 12:41pm GMT on 6th May
yes.

ring riot said @ 9:35am GMT on 6th May
Plus One, Blackadder. All right, man! That's one of my favorite episodes!

freedude said @ 7:37am GMT on 6th May
I don't have a cabinet full, but here's a box of Jar-Jars:

Jallandhara said @ 11:52am GMT on 6th May
what the fuck?

graham said @ 11:58am GMT on 6th May
that's for the pre-pubescent girls that wanted to feel what it'd be like to get eaten out....by jar-jar binks.

silky_stevens said @ 12:45am GMT on 6th May
So if this is a television interview, let's see it. Has anyone seen this? Sounds like bullshit or exaggeration to me.

sacrelicious said @ 12:52am GMT on 6th May
cause you doubt bush would say something stupid?

?

but anyway, the second link (australia's ABC news) is a legitimate network on the level of the BBC or the US's "big three". not saying they couldn't be duped or are incapable of misleading, but it's a much better pedigree than if this came out of a blog or something.

silky_stevens said @ 1:02am GMT on 6th May
He might, but why not provide a clip? If it was on TV they should be able link to it.

CNBC.com does not mention it. Sounds shady.

silky_stevens said @ 1:08am GMT on 6th May
Ok, there is a vid (gotta use IE) of Bush doing an interview on May 5 on CNBC's website watching in now for insane comments...

silky_stevens said @ 1:20am GMT on 6th May [Score:1 Informative]
Yay. He does in fact say this in the vid.

Mr Bush said: "I believe that. I believe that it was the first counter-attack to World War III."

Find the clip on this page. Don't even think about using Firefox. The comments are in the last 2 minutes of the interview.

sacrelicious said @ 1:23am GMT on 6th May
I like how CNBC tries to bury this in an link entitled "Bush calls for cut in ethanol tariffs"

wieder said @ 1:27am GMT on 6th May
Thanks for finding that. I kept trying to find *anything* that confirmed it. Even if it was FOX News.

The rest of the interview is pretty typical meat flapping.

nbob said @ 2:57am GMT on 6th May
Becase the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is running out of Government Funding perhaps.

My gut tells me that's because of the internal politics; like the states and territories (of Australia), it's run by the other guys (Labour party, not the incumbent Liberal party)

captainstubing said @ 4:53am GMT on 6th May
Your gut is wrong in this case. ABC is federal and has been funded (grudgingly) by the Libs for the past decade. The states have no role at all in the ABC. The government claim it has a bias against them...which is exactly what the previous Labor government used to claim. Oppositions love the ABC because they call governements to account and governments hate it for the same reason.

Shirobake said @ 12:58am GMT on 6th May
As an American, I feel I speak for all of us when I say

Shit

warmseat said @ 1:55am GMT on 6th May
As a non-american, all I say is...

A-HA!

Oh, wait... World War you say...

Shit. Fuckin' loon. What are you people waiting for to snd him into rehab and his pack of corrupt looters to jail?

Shirobake said @ 8:24am GMT on 6th May
That sounds like somethin a pinko-commie would say! Or...HES A WITCH!!!!

Seriously, your using a type of sensible logic that got lost on our country quite some time ago...

Jallandhara said @ 1:47am GMT on 6th May
1.) Elect "found" born again christian
2.) Have said aforementioned christian claim that God tells him (literally) what to do.
3.) Also, have him know the rapture is bound to come.. (By any means necessary)
4.) ...............
5.) WWIII (PROFIT!)

Jallandhara said @ 1:50am GMT on 6th May
Also, before you watch: Think that he blinks when he lies...

Shirobake said @ 1:55am GMT on 6th May
really? I thought it was "breathes"

Jallandhara said @ 2:19pm GMT on 6th May
maybe alittle of both?

Ranma X. said @ 2:01am GMT on 6th May
It's the end of the world as we know and, though I'm a little gassy, I feel fine.

rem said @ 4:22am GMT on 6th May
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.

Gunslinger said @ 2:07am GMT on 6th May [Score:1 Insightful]
"World war" is a horrific thing. Epic in scale and without any real winners. I perceive the most likely form that World War III would take is the United Nations vs. a fascist US and its thralls.

Perhaps you don't believe it could come to that, and perhaps you're right. But I believe you can admit that it would certainly qualify for the title of "World War III" if it happened.

Mopy J said @ 3:05am GMT on 6th May
I had an incredible cab ride once with a cabbie who told me he knew it was going to come down to China vs. America vs. EU. He wouldn't let me out till I agreed with him.

strangeffect said @ 4:36am GMT on 6th May
That's awesome. You should have said something like "drive me to Puerto Rico"

v21 said @ 8:17am GMT on 6th May [Score:1 Insightful]
America won't fight the EU. In fact, I don't think there'll be alarge scale war for a while. India and Pakistan might blow up (literally), the Middle East's leaders are too concerned with filling their pockets to have a concerted war against anyone (thought that might change in a while, as the US's star dims, an Israel is left standing there going "oh! oh! oh!"). But China is rising by performing economic juju on the US, vampirical style, so a war would fuck that one right up. The EU isn't a bloc that can even agree on fishing rights, let alone a concerted military effort. I reckon the West will just fade into a peaceful and successful irrelevancy as a series of localised wars splutter in and out, occasionally donate some troops.

Man, that was optimistic! Here comes living like Australia/New Zealand!

spazm said @ 4:46am GMT on 6th May [Score:1 Insightful]
fucking hell...

ring riot said @ 9:37am GMT on 6th May
Can someone please EXTRACT this bastard from the White House BEFORE he begins WWIII?

mister said @ 9:59am GMT on 6th May
Alright, I want to know who voted for this fuck.

thorfinn said @ 10:38am GMT on 6th May [Score:2 Funny]
I know of 4 you can add to your list, War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death. Cthulhu could have gone either way, but i think he slept through the election.

lokialmighty said @ 8:31pm GMT on 6th May
cthulu cast a vote for bush with each of his infinite tentacles as long as the sea is deep.

zenviper said @ 12:41pm GMT on 6th May
it was him!

graham said @ 10:44am GMT on 6th May
stalin > bush?

randomaction said @ 11:41am GMT on 6th May
obv

graham said @ 11:58am GMT on 6th May
yeah, you know me.

poop23 said @ 4:00pm GMT on 6th May
Anyone read Zizek?