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1/25 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,145330,00.html Your pro-Bush fanatic Bill says "The truth is the Bush administration has made mistakes in Iraq and in defining the new rules in the terror war." Fox is becoming more and more Fair and Balanced. \_ If you think O'Reilly is pro-Bush fanatic, you didn't see his interview with Bush (which is the only thing I've seen of him in 2 years). -emarkp \_ Is that something I might be able to find on the web? When was that? \_ Your google fu is weak: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,133712,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,133854,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,133993,00.html \_ Dubya needs to clarify to Americans and the world that we were wrong about WMDs. He can open reconstruction bids to other countries. Then he can say, regardless of the U.S.'s mistake in presenting its case on WMDs to the UN, the people of Iraq don't deserve to Then he can say, regardless of the U.S.'s incorrect conclusions on WMDs as presented to the UN, the people of Iraq don't deserve to suffer because of one nation's faulty intelligence. Then he can ask for help from Americans and the rest of the world. Dubya has had the ball in his court since Kay and Duelfer's findings, and arguably, since his re-election. It has been fully Dubya's decision to not make the clarification on WMDs to the world, and all the consequences follow naturally and deservingly. WMDs to the world, and all the consequences of people not wanting to ally with him follow naturally and deservingly. \_ Dubya has made no mistakes that he can recall. Didn't you watch the debates? He has a mandate from God. He doesn't need to admit to error. \_ O'Reilly is neither Pro Bush nor Anti anything. He is merely Pro-Ratings and Pro-Publicity and Pro-OReilly \_ Pro-O'Reilly is closest, but I also say he's anti-liberal. Hard to defend Dubya's mistakes, but in the context of "liberals", O'Reilly says Dubya is still better than them. |
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| www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,145330,00.html SHOW INFO The upcoming Iraqi election: that is the subject of this evening's "Talki ng Points Memo." Now you would think everyone in the world who values freedom would be roo ting for the Iraqis to have them, but they are not. Here in the USA, som e of the anti-Bush crowd would rather have chaos in Iraq than a victory for the president. France, Germany, and other countries a re gloating about the messy Iraq situation. And any ascendance of democr acy there is met with scorn. Even the Vatican, which condemned the war in Iraq, is pretty much silent on the possibility that 25 million human beings may have life without a murderous dictator. "Talking Points" believes that the goal in Iraq is noble, to have a Musli m country embrace liberty. While that goal is obviously difficult, we ar e not the bad guys in Iraq. We're trying to do something good and fight terrorism at the same time. The interesting thing about Senators Kennedy, Kerry, Boxer, Jacques Chira c, Vladimir Putin, and all the rest who refuse to take a proactive stanc e against Islamic fascism is that they have no solutions to Bin Laden an d Zarqawi. What is Pope John Paul II's solution to worldwide terrorism? According to the new book, "All the Pope's Men", it's to get to the root causes of i t, whatever those may be, and let the United Nations deal with the atroc ities. Does anyone listening to me right now have confidence the UN ca n prevent terrorist attacks? As for the root causes, that's a fine goal, but it would take decades to even dent. Meantime, innocent people are being slaughtered in the name o f Allah. As for the American opposition to an aggressive war on terror, what can I say? The USA stood by and did little as hundreds of US soldiers and M arines were murdered in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, as two US embassies were blown up, as a US warship was attacked. And remember the World Tr ade Center was first bombed in 1993. So I ask with all due respect what the American left and some critics on the right would do about terrorism. The truth is the Bush administration has made mistakes in Iraq and in def ining the new rules in the terror war. And until they develop a s mart policy to defeat the Islamic killers, they're just spitting in the wind. search) and wa nt him to be stripped of Austrian citizenship. The governor is a natural ized American citizen, but also held on to his Austrian credentials, so he is a dual citizen. It may be ridiculous depending, of course, on your point of view. IYou can watch Bill O'Reilly's "Talking Points Memo" and "Most Ridiculou s Item" weeknights at 8 and 11 pm ET on the FOX News Channel. com Site Tools Take advantage of services and tools that get you closer to the news. Sub scribe to FOX News Alerts, or download our FNC Ringtones, Search Toolbar , Ticker and more. |
| www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,133712,00.html SHOW INFO This is a partial transcript from the September 27, 2004 edition of "The O'Reilly Factor," that has been edited for clarity. Watch Part II and III of the interview on Tuesday, September 28 and Wedne sday, September 29 at 8 pm and 11 pm ET! Catch "The O'Reilly Factor" weeknights at 8 pm and 11 pm ET and listen to the "Radio Factor" we ekdays on Westwood One. First of all, I want to thank you for talking w ith me, since so few people will. BUSH: I enjoy how you interview people, and I appreciate you giving me t he chance to come on and have, what we say in Texas, "Just a visit." search) last spring, only five percent of the Iraqi people see the United States as liberators. Are you surprised they don't appr eciate the American sacrifice more? BUSH: I think they're beginning to appreciate the sacrifice, because the country is getting better. search) are ki lling innocent Iraqis and killing our soldiers in order to try to get us to leave. I also saw a poll where it said, by far, the vast majority of the Iraqis believe the world is getting better. Electricity is bet ter, schools are opening, hospitals are running. I think when it's all said and done, the Iraqis are going to look back and say: "Thank God for America." O'REILLY: How long is it going to take before that happens, do you think? Now, I think the elections are goin g to have, you know, a very positive effect, and they take place in Janu ary. O'REILLY: But can they vote when people are being blown up... You cannot allow the terrorists to dictate whether or not a society can be free or not. search) pulled the four women off the bus and killed them because t hey had voter registration cards? I think there had been about 3 million Afghan citizens who had registered at this point in time. A lot of peo ple said: Well, the elections look like they've got to be over in Afgha nistan, because the Taliban is, too violent to allow the elections to go forward. Today 10 million citizens in that country have registered to vote, forty percent of whom are women, which is a powerful statistic. O'REILLY: The South Vietnamese didn't fight for their freedom, which is why they don't have it today. O'REILLY: Do you think the Iraqis are going to fight for their freedom? He believes the future of Iraq is the future of freedom, and he tells me that, you know that these places where they go bomb the recrui ts, the people trying to sign up to serve in the army or the police, the next day, more recruits come. You know why I believe that, and this is really important, it's because I b elieve everybody yearns to be free. But if we sen d mixed signals, if we waver, the times will be tougher. That's what th e terrorists are watching, they're watching us like hawks. And that capability could have been passed on to terrorists, and that was a risk, after 9/11, we could not a fford to take. But you, to this day, don't know what happened to his chemical weapons. BUSH: No, well he doesn't have anything to, to gain by giving us much. I mean, he's going to go on trial, and the Iraqis will lay out a case. In other words, they now control the shrines , and they did so in a way that he, Allawi, thought would be best for th e political process. There's a political process going forward and a security operation going forwar d And the two must be parallel. And Allawi made the decision that the best operation in Najaf would be the way we handled it. And if they're saying that maybe last fall we should have moved on Sadr, it's a judgme nt call that history will have to look back on. O'REILLY: Fallujah: Should we have crushed it when we could have? BUSH: Well, there again, there was a dual track with a political process going forward. A lot of people on the ground there thought that if we' d have gone into Fallujah at the time, the interim government would not have been established. And if the government would not have been establ ished, we wouldn't have been able to transfer sovereignty. I happen to think the transfer of sovereignty is a key moment in the hist ory of a free Iraq. The reason I believe that is that the Iraq people a re going to follow Iraqi leadership, not US leadership. And Prime Min ister Allawi's been there for about two and a half months, nearly three months. search) and Najaf in order to make the place a more peaceful country. BUSH: Well, first of all, the statement said: Thank you for serving in A fghanistan and Iraq. Thank you for being on one of the largest, longest cruises in our nation's history. Now, I'm going to go and thank our troops every chance I get. O'REILLY: But the press spinned it, you know how they spinned it. BUSH: Well, maybe you deserve it more than me, but nevertheless... O'REILLY: No, no, but go in there with the flight jacket, BUSH: Absolutely. I'm saying to the troops, on this carrier and elsewhere: Thanks for serving America. BUSH: nd by the way, those sailors and airmen loved seeing the commander in chief. They'd been on a cruise in two theaters of war now, Afghanistan and Iraq. I flew out ther e, and said thanks, thanks on behalf of a grateful nation. O'REILLY: Iran said yesterday: Hey, we're going to develop this nuclear stuff, we don't care what you think. You ready to use military force aga inst Iran if they continue to defy the world on nuclear? BUSH: Well, let me try to solve it diplomatically, first. All options ar e on the table, of course, in any situation. O'REILLY: Would you allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon? BUSH: We are working our hearts out so that they don't develop a nuclear weapon, and the best way to do so is to continue to keep international p ressure on them. O'REILLY: Is it conceivable that you would allow them to develop a nuclea r weapon? BUSH: No, we've made it clear, our position is that they won't have a nuc lear weapon. O'REILLY: A "Time" magazine investigation says, 3 million illegal aliens crossed the Mexican border, and we talked about this four and a half yea rs... BUSH: Well, as you know, as the governor of Texas, I was very aware of t his issue. We h ave beefed up places along the border to try to stop the process of... O'REILLY: With all due respect, though, it's not working, with 3 million ... They're doing a pretty good job down in Arizona, which is the main border crossing. I think there's a thousand more border patrol agents along the border, we're mo dernizing border techniques, we're using better surveillance methods to stop crossing at the border. Now, look, people are coming up because the y want to work. O'REILLY: Absolutely, BUSH: If you can make 50 cents in the interior of Mexico, and five bucks in the interior of the United States, you're coming for the five bucks, and they're poor. O'REILLY: Ninety percent of them are, but 10 percent are bad guys. BUSH: I don't know how you got the 10 percent number, maybe... O'REILLY: The border patrol you know, incarceration, violent crime, that ... I happen to believe t he best way to enhance the border is to have temporary worker cards avai lable for people. And I think it's best for the employers who are employ ing these people. I think it's best for the employees that are trying t o find work. I think the long-term solution for this issue on our border is for Mexico to grow a middle class. Look, I wish I could have taken you down there and shown you the northern tier of states in Mexico ten y ears ago compared to today. Free trade helps lift lives, free trade develops commerce, free trade giv es people a chance to realize their dreams. And so long as the wage diff erential is as big as it is, and so long as moms and dads feel the neces sity to feed their children, they're going to come and try to make a liv ing. O'REILLY: So you're not going to militarize the border to stop... BUSH: No, we're going to use the border patrol, beef it up, give it bett er technologies and better equipment to do its job. You know a lot of people are not going to like that answe r, you know that. military to back up the border patrol, to just stop the, rampant... BUSH: No, I think the best way to do it is to give the border patrol the assets it needs to do its job. Watch Part II and Part III of our exclu... |
| www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,133854,00.html SHOW INFO This is a partial transcript from the September 28, 2004 edition of "The O'Reilly Factor," that has been edited for clarity. Watch Part III of the interview on Wednesday, September 29 at 8 pm and 11 pm ET! Catch "The O'Reilly Factor" every weeknight at 8 pm and 11 pm ET and listen to the "Radio Factor" weekdays on Westwood One. BILL O'REILLY: HOST: How will the federal government ever pay off the fe deral deficit, in your opinion? PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH: By being fiscally wise and growing our economy. OREILLY: Do you think it can be paid off in our lifetime, though? You mean, for, have the revenues exceed the ex penses in the budget? OREILLY: See, we have a big deficit here BUSH: You're talking about the debt or the deficit? OREILLY: Well people are saying that because we have to fight this war o n terror, because of the tax cuts, oh and you know how the propaganda, i ts all over the place BUSH: No, I think we can of course I think we can balance the budget as a matter of fact, I put out a hand, a budget that says well cut it i n half in five years, now, that's going to mean that the Congress has go t to be fiscally wise, with our money. One other, you know, I get accused for not having vetoed any budgets. search), to develop a budget that trun ked discretionary spending, that was reasonable about the growth in disc retionary spending. Its now, non-defense, non-homeland, discretionary spending is less than one percent in our budget. And that was growing at one, less that one percent, when I became President, it was growing at fifteen percent. The reason I believe ta x cuts were necessary is because we were in a recession and we needed to grow this economy. Tax cuts for t he rich, what do you think when you hear that? BUSH:: I think that if you're going to have tax cuts, everybody who pa ys taxes ought to get relief. BUSH:: I think that I think thirty-five percent is enough for anybody to pay in federal taxes. I also know that when you're talking about tax, taxing the rich, really what you're talking about is taxing many small business owners. Ninety percent of the small business owners are sub-cha pter S corporations, or limited partnerships. They pay tax at the indivi dual income tax rate, and so when you hear the politicians saying tax th e rich, you're talking about taxing job creators as well. I think raising taxes would be a mistake, a nd my opponents going to raise taxes. OREILLY: Do you think the federal government has a moral obligation to p ay Americans health bills? BUSH: A moral obligation to pay, now, I think the federal government has an obligation to help those who cannot help themselves. CROSSTALK OREILLY: Even if they're alcoholics or drug addicts BUSH: That's why, well that's why Ive put community centers, and that's why I am for providing places where people can get preventative care, as well as primary care without going to emergency rooms and hospitals . Secondly, I believe that the federal government must help seniors. Its an obligation we took on when Lyndon Johnson was the President. And the Medicare proposal that I , the Medicare bill I signed is one that modernizes Medicare, gives seniors more choices. It says therell be a prescription drug benefit fo r seniors. It provides preventative care for seniors so we can diagnose early. It is a good piece of legislation that honors an obligation to ou r seniors. I think we also ought to help the people who are uninsured fi nd insurance by doing practical things such as allowing small businesses to pool risk across jurisdictional boundaries, these are called associa tion health plans, so they can buy insurance at the same discount big co mpanies can. OREILLY: But arent we becoming an entitlement society here with the gov ernment helping, and I understand, I mean, youve got to be a compassion ate person, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican. But it, the gover nment gets bigger and bigger and bigger, now were in prescription drugs , were in BUSH:: Well, let me stop you on the prescription drugs just for a second. And we provide it, we said to the seniors, well provide you medicine. We would put, wed put the mon ey up to, for heart surgery, we wouldn't put the money up for the prescr iption drug coverage necessary to prevent the heart surgery from happeni ng in the first place. I know its going to provide our seniors better coverage and care, and seniors are going to h ave a choice in this plan. In other words, weve introduced market refor m into Medicare for the first time, and that's why it was opposed by my opponent, and many people who believe we ought to nationalize healthcare . This is, you what you're talking about is an issue in this campaign, and that is, do we increase the reach of the federal government to the lives of our citizens? I beli eve that we ought to have health savings accounts and expand them and pr ovide incentives to small businesses, to provide health savings accounts for their uh employees. I believe low-income working Americans ought to be given a tax credit to apply to a health savings account, all aimed a t making sure that the decisions between uh, uh between the doctor and p atient are central to the healthcare decision-making process. September the 11t h, we were united going into Afghanistan. OREILLY: But why did it go, why did it go out, is there one thing that's polarized the nation? BUSH:: I, well, you know, well see how polarized it is on Election Day, for starters. But, if I, the Iraq war was a, is a polarizing event, because a lot of people didn't see the wisdom of going into Iraq. BUSH: Well I think, uh, yeah, I mean, there was, I believe that we have t o take threats seriously before they fully materialize, I saw a threat i n Saddam Hussein. My opponent saw a threat in Saddam Hussein, OREILLY: Not Jacques Chirac? OREILLY: Yeah, but he stabbed you guys in the back, you thought he was g oing to help you and he didn't. BUSH:: Well, the, in the first resolution that took place in right afte r my, well not right after my speech, but shortly after my speech, at th e General Assembly in 2002, the resolution said, the resolution said, disclose, disarm, or face serious consequences, and France voted aye. Wh en it came time, after diplomacy had failed, to define serious consequen ces, that's where we had a divergence of opinion. I believe when interna tional bodies speak, they ought to, they ought to mean what they say. And I believe when a President speaks, he ought to mean what he says. search) forces to protect elections in Afghani stan, come on, I mean, this guys BUSH:: Well they're helping us in Afghanistan some, theyve helped us in Haiti some. But you know, hes, he just didn't see the wisdom of the action in Iraq and I think historys going to prove him wrong. I would , I CROSSTALK OREILLY: You think it was political, you think hes playing to his left- wing base in France? BUSH: Well, youd better get him on your show Factor, because I don't want to put words in his Ill tell you this. If Saddam Hussein were in power today, wed be a heck of a lot worse off. And its really important for our citizens to understand that. This is a guy that had the capability of making weapons. I believe he was trying to delay and hope that the world would turn its head once again, and re member, there was what, seventeen different UN resolutions OREILLY: Oh, its ridiculous. BUSH: He would have been completely strengthened if the United States and the world had not acted. OREILLY: Well what about the guys who died in the first Gulf War, when you sign a cease-fire that he disobeyed seventeen times BUSH: Absolutely. OREILLY: Were supposed to let those guys just be buried in the sand and not do anything? In light of the CBS document fiasco, do you think you get a fa ir shake from the network news and the elite media like the New York Ti mes? Do you think your administration and you get a fair BUSH:: That OReilly, you know Im smarter than that, to be taking on the press in the middle of a campaign. You know, when its all said and done, and people look at this campaign, the y're going to have to decide whether or not they want somebody who tells ... |
| www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,133993,00.html SHOW INFO This is a partial transcript from the September 29, 2004 edition of "The O'Reilly Factor," that has been edited for clarity. Catch "The O'Reilly Factor" weeknights at 8 pm and 11 pm ET and list en to the "Radio Factor" weekdays on Westwood One. BUSH: I was thinking America was under attack, I was collecting my though ts, and I wasnt about to panic a bunch of kids. And the program was win ding down, I waited for the end of the program, I excused myself and I w ent to action. And what the American people will judge me on is whether or not I handled that crisis, in a way that lets them know that, that I ll lead in this war on terror, that's what they need to look at, and I t hink they are looking at it that way. OREILLY: Weve got about four minutes to go, and Ive got two more quest ions. We talked about this time, I don't know whether you remember, but the last time we talked, I asked you what you thought Jesus would think about capital punishment. OREILLY: This time I want to ask you, why do you think some people get u pset when you mention your faith vis--vis your job? BUSH: I really mention my faith vis--vis my life, and I don't know. People, -- Im asked a quest ion, -- what does faith mean to me, it means strength and calm in the fa ce of the storm. I mean, I do rely on prayer, and I am empowered by the fact, Im empowered by the fact that people pray for me. I don't know why people object to somebody who is, -- when asked -- says religions important. I don't see how you can divorce religion and how you live your life. I mean -- I, they're -- if faith is an important part of your life its ingrained in your soul, and ingrain ed in your being. And I make decisions based upon whats best for this c ountry. And I pray for wisdom, I pray for strength, I pray for others wh o are in harms way. And I make decisions -- I make decisions about earthly matters, I make decisions about how to get out of recession, or how to improve education , or how to spread the peace-- and that's what I believe were doing is spreading the peace. Youve been written ab out, debated, you're in the news every day, what dont we know about you ? BUSH: That's a tough question to answer, because Im not exactly sure OREILLY: What do you want BUSH: If Americans OREILLY: What do you want BUSH: Really think about me. BUSH: No, I know they're thinking about me OREILLY: Yeah. BUSH: Im just trying to get a sense for-- well I hope they know Ive got a great sense of humor and laugh-- I hope they know that Im totally de dicated to my family, that I love my wife and my daughters are just -- m ean more to me than anything. I hope they know that I weep when they wee p, and I laugh when they laugh, that I take great joy in, you know OREILLY: You love the job? OREILLY: Because when you were first running, you werent -- didn't kno w -- whether you were going to love it. BUSH: Well you didn't know, you dont know till youve had it, and I do l ove the job, I love it enough to ask for four more years. And its -- I believe because wev e done hard work in these three and a half years -- this world is gettin g better. In my convention speech, I said, we climbed a mountain and now we see the valley below. I believe that peace is coming, and I believe that were more free. I believe weve done our du ty to our children and our grandchildren to fight these ideologues of h ate and to spread freedom and peace at the same time. search) will make their life better when Iraq becomes free. Im a believer in the power of liberty to transform societies, and I believe we have a duty, I believe we have a duty to sp read liberty so that our children and grandchildren can grow up in peace . OREILLY: Mr President, thanks very much, we really appreciate you talki ng to us. Join us in the No Spin Zone for the "The O'Reilly Factor" weeknights at 8 pm and 11 pm ET! com Site Tools Take advantage of services and tools that get you closer to the news. Sub scribe to FOX News Alerts, or download our FNC Ringtones, Search Toolbar , Ticker and more. |