The Countess

White House Hypocrisy - Kerry and the "F" Word

December 7, 2003

In response to a question about anti-war candidate Howard Dean's success, Kerry responded: "When I voted for the war, I voted for what I thought was best for the country. Did I expect Howard Dean to go off to the left and say, `I'm against everything?' Sure. Did I expect George Bush to f--- it up as badly as he did? I don't think anybody did."

White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card's reaction: "I'm very disappointed that he would use that kind of language. I'm hoping that he's apologizing."

Bush's "kind of language" -- "major league asshole" - with a ringing endorsement from Dick Cheney

Sept. 4, 2000 - At a Labor Day event in Naperville, Ill., Monday morning, apparently oblivious of the microphone just inches from his mouth, Gov. George W. Bush made a crude offhand remark about a reporter that those in the campaign of his rival, Vice President Al Gore, hope will take some of the shine off Bush's warm and sunny veneer.

Waving and smiling to the crowds, Bush and his running mate, former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, seemed to be enjoying the generous reception offered by the Republican enclave in the Chicago suburbs.

Then Bush spotted New York Times reporter Adam Clymer, who has been with the paper since 1977, serving as national political correspondent during the 1980 presidential race, as polling editor from 1983 to 1990 and as political editor during the successful presidential campaign of Bush's father in 1988.

There's Adam Clymer -- major league asshole -- from the New York Times," Bush said.

"Yeah, big time," returned Cheney.

Bush's "kind of language" -- "Fuck Saddam. We're taking him out." - (What's worse, that he used the "F" word or that he outed his intention of invading Iraq one year before doing so??)

Robert Parry, THE CONSORTIUM: "As he marched the nation to war, Bush presented himself as a Christian man of peace who saw war only as a last resort. But in a remarkable though little noted disclosure, Time magazine reported that in March 2002 – a full year before the invasion – Bush outlined his real thinking to three U.S. senators, 'Fuck Saddam,' Bush said. 'We’re taking him out.'"

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Mar. 31, 2003
First Stop, Iraq
How did the U.S. end up taking on Saddam? The inside story of how Iraq jumped to the top of Bush's agenda — and why the outcome there may foreshadow a different world order
By MICHAEL ELLIOTT AND JAMES CARNEY

F___ Saddam. we're taking him out." Those were the words of President George W. Bush, who had poked his head into the office of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. It was March 2002, and Rice was meeting with three U.S. Senators, discussing how to deal with Iraq through the United Nations, or perhaps in a coalition with America's Middle East allies. Bush wasn't interested. He waved his hand dismissively, recalls a participant, and neatly summed up his Iraq policy in that short phrase. The Senators laughed uncomfortably; Rice flashed a knowing smile. The President left the room.

Bush's "kind of language" -- "pussy."

At the Republican National Convention in 1988, he was asked by a Hartford Courant reporter about what he and his father talked about when they weren't talking about politics. 

"PUSSY," Bush replied.

Bush's "kind of language" -- "You no-good fucking son of a bitch, I will never fucking forget what you wrote." - (More important: WSJ editor Hunt reported that Bush was well "lubricated" - i.e., drunk. This was in 1987, when Bush declared that he had stopped drinking.")

In 1987, one year after he had given up drinking he ran into Al Hunt, a Wall Street Journal editor who was minding his own business sitting at a restaurant with his wife and 4-year-old daughter.    Bush lit into him, saying, among other things, You no-good fucking son of a bitch, I will never fucking forget what you wrote."