[lbo-talk] 'Bring them on'

[N P Childs]

"There are some who feel like that conditions are such that they can
attack us there," Bush told reporters at the White House. "My answer is
bring them on. We have the force necessary to deal with the situation."

<<http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3027229>http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3027229>

Keee-riste. It's hard to tell where to start; the Commander in Chief 
sounding like a drunk 19 year old in a downtown bar, or soldiers in Iraq, 
10,000 miles from home, in a country they don't understand that is getting 
less enamored of their presence as each day passes looking at this and 
going 'Oh good, now he's inviting them to attack'.

BTW, anyone know how this would translate into Arabic? I have to believe 
that an expression like this so bound N American in idiom would translate 
into something more, er, prosaic in Arabic like 'Deliver them unto me' or 
something like that.

PC

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