Bush and Mars

[Laura PourMeADrink]

All this talk about Mars lately, it made me think of that Bush quote:
'George W Bush' Quote

"Mars is essentially in the same orbit...Mars is
somewhat the same distance from the Sun,
which is very important. We have seen
pictures where there are canals, we believe,
and water. If there is water, that means there is
oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."

Source: George W Bush

[seemslikeadream]

1. Can we just send him there?

[NV Whino]

7. Sure go ahead and send him there...

and ruin another planet.

[Jack Rabbit]

2. So that's how we got into a Iraq and it became a disaster

Right, Frat Boy, that means everything's just going swimmingly.

Floating around in or near that water could be microbes of a variety we've never seen before and to which we have no immunity.

Tell you what, we'll send you and Cheney up there first to find out.

[Wilms]

3. My google says it was Quayle.

Minor, probably insignificant, difference.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. No, AssHat said it. When he was governor here's the source

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/Bush-Quotes-ngin.htm

"Mars is essentially in the same orbit...Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe." .Governor George W. Bush, 8/11/94

[bananas]

10. Dan Quayle said it, not Bush

Here are two sources - wikiquotes and snopes.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle
<snip>
"Mars is essentially in the same orbit...Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."
Vice President Dan Quayle, Hawaii, 8/11/89 (interview broadcast on CNN, referenced in 9/1/89 Washington Post article: "A Quayle Vision of Mars")
<snip>


http://www.snopes.com/quotes/quayle.asp
<snip>
Dan Quayle has certainly made more than his share of misstatements, and most of the ones on the following list are actual Quayle quotes (although versions of this list with all the quotes mischievously attributed to Vice-President Al Gore and Texas governor George W. Bush also circulate around the Internet).
<snip>
"Mars is essentially in the same orbit . . . Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."
<snip>

[annabanana]

4. "Canals"?. . "water"?. . When did he say this? 1958?

I mean really

[seemslikeadream]

5. Somebody's been listening to Coast to Coast

Who knew bush was a fan of Art Bell

[Donkeykick]

8. What makes me laugh is...

he was probably telling that like he always explains something to an audience--like the people are children or something.

[stevedeshazer]

9. Actually, that was a Dan Quayle quote

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/526.html

But the BIG question is:

DOES MARS HAVE OIL?

:)

[FlyingSquirrel]

11. Mars being the god of War, we should send the entire Republican Party there.

Or at least the neocons.