Bush jokes about WMD........

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Bush jokes about WMD........
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Fri, 03-26-2004 - 7:17am

>" "If George Bush thinks his deceptive rationale for going to war is a laughing matter, then he's even more out of touch than we thought," the Kerry campaign said in a written statement. "Unfortunately for the president, this is not a joke." The statement said more than 550 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq and more than 3,000 others wounded. "<


Quote: John Kerry.


http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/25/bush.broadcasters.ap/index.html


President Bush poked fun at his staff, his Democratic challenger and himself Wednesday night at a black-tie dinner where he hobnobbed with the news media.


Bush put on a slide show, calling it the "White House Election-Year Album" at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association 60th annual dinner, showing himself and his staff in some decidedly unflattering poses.


There was Bush looking under furniture in a fruitless, frustrating search. "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere," he said.


There was Vice President Dick Cheney, a frequent butt of gentle Bush ribbing, holding his fingers a few inches apart. Bush said, "Whenever you ask him a question, he replies, 'Let's see what my little friend says."'


And there was Bush again, in an odd contortion in front of his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice. He said he was trying to explain to her the foreign policy of Democratic challenger John Kerry.


Bush showed himself playing cards on Air Force One and cracked that he was on his way to an international summit and using a special deck to help him bone up on the names of the leaders he was about to meet.


His slide show segued into a somber ending, showing a group of special forces troops in Afghanistan at the site where they buried a piece of the fallen World Trade Center in commemoration of the dead from Sept. 11.


The late NBC News reporter David Bloom, who died in April from an apparent blood clot while covering the Iraq war, was remembered. His wife, Melanie, talked of her husband's passion for journalism.


About 1,500 guests attended the dinner.

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Fri, 03-26-2004 - 7:29am
I listened to Tim Russert talk about this on the Today Show. He believes you would have had to have been there for the entire dinner to see that there were serious moments about the war and our soldiers who have died as well as the jokes. They even did a tribute to the deceased David Bloom.

The media just showed a few snippets that made it appear the dinner was nothing but laughs.

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Registered: 04-16-2003
Fri, 03-26-2004 - 8:36am
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Now that his reasons for going to war are being proven false, he probably wants to run away an hide--when you can't cry, joke.

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Registered: 09-05-2003
Fri, 03-26-2004 - 9:17am

I actually did watch the dinner on MSNBC.

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Registered: 03-23-2003
Fri, 03-26-2004 - 10:02am

I found it totally disgusting.


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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 03-26-2004 - 5:45pm
The Shrub is a big fat joke. Why doesn't this surprise me?
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Registered: 05-27-2003
Fri, 03-26-2004 - 8:08pm
What difference does that make. He still made those totally disgusting remarks. How could he be so insensative?