05-12-2007, 12:11 PM
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Banned
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roachboy, here's the governor of my state, a kool-ade drinker, to be sure.....
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http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/sha...itical_insider
Perdue on Iraq: Solve the problem yourself, or ‘keep your mouth shut’
Friday, May 11, 2007, 08:51 AM
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Gov. Sonny Perdue just finished up his talk-radio session with former U.S. secretary of education Bill Bennett on WGKA (920AM), held at the state Capitol.
On his “Morning in America” show, Bennett mentioned that Perdue has been talked about as vice-presidential fodder in ‘08, and asked if the governor agreed with other Republicans who think it might be time to put some air between themselves and President Bush — specifically on the topic of Iraq.
Perdue said he did not. In fact, in Spiro Agnew-like fashion, the governor encouraged nattering nabobs of negatism to put a lid on the loose talk.
Perdue acknowledged that the going in Iraq has been tough. But, he said, “until you’ve got a better idea, keep your mouth shut.”
<h2>“This president did not choose war.</h2> He chose to protect the United States of America, and I’m thankful that he did,” Perdue said.
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Quote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/ma...e162076ei=5090
....In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.
The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and <h2>when we act, we create our own reality.</h2> And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'' .....
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<b>....I'm still </b> left, "just studying what they've done"...and I'm not impressed....
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