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Bush lies or is mistaken about a Norwegian.

Ryokan

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Ryokan
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One of the stories – interesting stories I tell is about the fellow that came here. He got kidnaped and he was rescued pretty early by our Delta team. I said, what's it like to be kidnaped, man? It must have been weird – Baghdad, to be kidnaped. And he said, yes – he said, I was in there with, like – I forgot the number – nine other people from different nationalities. He said, at one time I said, I'm going to get out and you're – you're going to get out and I'm not. And all thesepeople said, well, that's a pretty pessimistic thing to say. He said, well, my government won't ransom me; yours will. And he was right. We weren't going to.

And sure enough, the Norwegian went for – I don't know what the numbers are – but they made a nice little living, because there was no – no push-back. There was no kind of structure. And so these weren't necessarily political people. These were people that just found a pretty good niche for a while. Made a couple of million dollars, nobody got hurt. And fortunately, our Delta teams found the guy, and got him out of there. But it was just an interesting story.
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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/061025/25bushtranscript_7.htm

The Foreign Ministry and the Norwegian military has no knowledge of any Norwegian involved in hostage case in Iraq.

Source in Norwegian.
 
Ziggurat said:
You mean another mistranslation?
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If you, believe it was a mistranslation. ;)

Man, I try do you republicans a favor, but trying to poke fun at this with the most innocuous Bush-lie I can think of, and this is how you repay me.

Next time I'll try to remember to use one that has gotten people killed.
 
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