“President Bush said on Saturday the United Nations had a last chance to prove its relevance by adopting a resolution the United States will propose that could pave the way for war on Iraq.”
- from Reuters
Like that shady store down the street that has been having semi-annual Going Out of Business Sales for the past decade, President Bush continues to issue ticking-clock ultimatums to the world at large. The difference here is that when you ignore the store’s advertising, they don’t send a salesmen to your house to to drop off a blender and forcibly remove $23.99 from your wallet.
For a brief history of Bush’s Resistance-is-Futile brand of diplomacy, you can do a simple Google search under “Bush ‘last chance’.” It turns up 59,000 results.
And yes, they all appear to be relevant. Happy reading.
Fanny Roborat
17 comments
Dee
February 22, 2003 at 6:58 pm
1But it worked SO well with the twins!!!!!!
Lynn Manheim
February 22, 2003 at 7:09 pm
2Darn. I was disappointed to bring up only 26!!
geowitch
February 22, 2003 at 8:30 pm
3Hrm, I only got 58,900 results. Perhaps time *really is* running out.
Mark
February 22, 2003 at 8:43 pm
4If Bush has decided to make the UN irrelevant unless it continues to act as a rubber stamp for the United States, isn’t the UN then *already* irrelevant?
On another note, congratulations on winning today’s edition of Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me!
ishmael
February 22, 2003 at 11:58 pm
5Egg-salad point, Mark.
Actually, two good points.
You win!
justme
February 23, 2003 at 6:43 am
6input Clinton last chance and find that you get as many results- since 1998, nice to see that we finally have a president that has the balls to do something about it.
Bugman
February 23, 2003 at 8:35 am
7“clinton last chance” gets only about 18K -”sale ‘last chance’ gets nearly 80,000 - “war last chance” gets 117K. Are they all relevant? Probably not, but it’s another way to not work some more!
oh yeah, “tom waites” “last chance” only gets 10 - rats, i was hoping that would be more instructive!
me
February 23, 2003 at 10:32 am
8Nothing to say but congratulations on winning wait wait!
Cliff Stoll
February 23, 2003 at 12:02 pm
9What he really said, but he corrected himself, was ‘revelance.’ What a guy!
Adam
February 23, 2003 at 2:53 pm
10justme:
When you do the search for Clinton with “last chance” in quotation marks (the way I did it for Bush), it turns up about 17,000 hits. And many of those are not relevant. They are often articles about Gore, or analysts saying that Clinton has his last chance to do this or that - NOT Clinton-issued ultimatums.
[By the way, the use of quotation marks in the search is important - without ‘em you get a lot more junk, as the words “last” and “chance” don’t have to be consecutive. Incidentally, such a search for Bush turns up nearly a million results.]
Kate
February 23, 2003 at 5:36 pm
11I’ve been listening to Bush’s coming “last chance” at the UN, and I’m reminded of the movie “1776″, where Ben Franklin convinces Adams to let someone else propose independence, because he’s “obnoxious and disliked”. Seems to me there would be more chance of multilateral action if *someone else* got up and proposed force, instead of the US continuously pushing the war.
Jason
February 23, 2003 at 6:00 pm
12Other google searches:
george bush “last chance” 17,300
george bush “first chance” 2,390
george bush “take a chance” 4,600
george bush “no chance” 18,800
george bush “snake eyes” 1,060
george bush “double down” 395
george bush “ride the horse” 101
george bush “eat baby” 41
heejin
February 23, 2003 at 7:00 pm
13well
I’m not very fond of bush
but
instead of just talking malice about him
i decided to trust in him…
I’m sure he has a plan
but you know what i think … there are people around him that pushes for this war more … they are the same people that pushed it when bush sr was president … and Colin Powell was there but he opposes it
and VP is one of them
and the other guy is Jewish and the other i don’t know he’s just old
bush has to finish what his father didn’t or couldn’t
the hawks had no change with clinton
but they have a change with bush now…
they were very angry with the way the war ended years ago…so
i’m thinking no more would be the best
Bobby
February 24, 2003 at 8:01 am
14Huh. I only got two hits when I searched:
bush “last prance”
One said something about porn, though.
Bugman
February 24, 2003 at 1:03 pm
15I’m with Kate - only I think they should sing it like they did in the movie!
craig
February 24, 2003 at 1:05 pm
16Searched: Bush Iraq “Last Chance” using Google’s News Search. There are 1,970 entries (although many appear to be repeats of the same wire service arcticle(s).
The earliest of the 1,970 entries is from Feb 13.
Not sure if these means anything, just thought I’d throw more fuel on the bonfire.
PS For the record, there are 3,160 entries for Iraq “last chance.” The earliest of these is Feb 18
tim
February 24, 2003 at 1:21 pm
1759,300 results for “Bush ‘Last Chance’”, and only 28 are about Noelle. Party at Noelle’s house!