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 Fri Jan 14, 2005 8:40 am Bush Learned Lesson From 'Bring 'Em On' |
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Bush Learned Lesson From 'Bring 'Em On'
Thursday, January 13, 2005
WASHINGTON � President Bush expressed misgivings Thursday for two of his most famous expressions: "Bring 'em on," in reference to Iraqis attacking U.S. troops, and his vow to get Usama bin Laden (search) "dead or alive."
During a round-table interview with reporters from 14 newspapers, Bush acknowledged that his tough language "had an unintended consequence."
On July 2, 2003, two months after he had declared an end to major combat in Iraq, Bush promised U.S. forces would stay until the creation of a free government there. To those who would attack U.S. forces in an attempt to deter that mission, Bush said, "My answer is, Bring 'em on."
"Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean," Bush said Thursday. "'Bring 'em on' is the classic example, when I was really trying to rally the troops and make it clear to them that I fully understood, you know, what a great job they were doing. And those words had an unintended consequence. It kind of, some interpreted it to be defiance in the face of danger. That certainly wasn't the case."
In the week after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush was asked if he wanted bin Laden, the terrorist leader blamed for the attacks, dead.
"I want justice," Bush said. "And there's an old poster out West, that I recall, that said, 'Wanted, Dead or Alive."'
Recalling that remark, Bush said Thursday: "I can remember getting back to the White House, and Laura said, 'Why did you do that for?' I said, 'Well, it was just an expression that came out. I didn't rehearse it.'
"I don't know if you'd call it a regret, but it certainly is a lesson that a president must be mindful of, that the words that you sometimes say. ... I speak plainly sometimes, but you've got to be mindful of the consequences of the words. So put that down. I don't know if you'd call that a confession, a regret, something."
The newspapers participating in Thursday's round-table interview were the Detroit Free Press, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, The (Portland) Oregonian, the (Little Rock) Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, The Miami Herald, The Kansas City (Mo.) Star, The (Phoenix) Arizona Republic, the Portland (Maine) Press Herald, The Hartford (Conn.) Courant, the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel, The (Columbia, S.C.) State, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer-Press.
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Jeff Miller
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| Fri Jan 14, 2005 12:03 pm |
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Well atleast he learned his lesson but it still doesn't make it right.
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Republican_Man
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| Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:51 pm |
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I like the things he says. We need a President that is tough and not completely politically correct.
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Arellia
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| Fri Jan 14, 2005 7:18 pm |
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I agree with RM. I don't think he needed to apologize for those things. But, if he felt he should, that's his business...I never saw anything wrong with the two mentioned statements.
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Founder
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| Sat Jan 15, 2005 4:58 am |
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The Liberals probably b*****d about it. Thats why hes trying to make an effort here. I agree. Those two phrases didn't affect anything IMO.
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Link, the Hero of Time
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| Sat Jan 15, 2005 9:20 pm |
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I love how it's got to be the liberals who made him apologize.
Did you stop to think that maybe he looked back at what he said and noticed the implications that those words had?
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Republican_Man
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| Sat Jan 15, 2005 9:21 pm |
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| Link, the Hero of Time wrote: | I love how it's got to be the liberals who made him apologize.
Did you stop to think that maybe he looked back at what he said and noticed the implications that those words had? |
Hardly.
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Puck
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| Sat Jan 15, 2005 11:10 pm |
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Well if anyone wants to blame anyone, it should be Laura that you all are "blaming" for this apology, not anyone else  .
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| Sun Jan 16, 2005 1:09 am |
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Ok you're right. It can be anyone's fault. Any side. Even maybe his wife. My point was this: It didn't really mean anything. I think Bush overreacted with this or anyone who made him apologize.
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