The question you have to ask about each of those, is how did telling someone to get stuffed help the USA? How did telling those countries to get stuffed help advance our interests?


makes US feel tough.

US are the baddest meanest toughest SOB in the Galaxy and are damn well going to act like it.

tough talk gets you elected ...


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India and Pakistan both offered to send peace keeping troops to Iraq. It would have greatly helped with the security effort, and in the case of Pakistan in particular put a Muslim face on the operation. But they wanted to do it under a UN operation. Bush told them to get stuffed.

chicken or egg? ... didn't Bush first tell the UN to get stuffed?