tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/2/2008
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This really isn't complicated. President Bush was not being "blunt" or showing "candor" when he told ABC News in an interview published yesterday that his biggest regret was the failure of intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq War.
Rather, he was whitewashing away his own role in the ...
abcnews.go.com - 12/1/2008
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abcnews.go.com —
Looking back on his eight years in the
White House, President George W. Bush pinpointed incorrect intelligence
that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction as "biggest regret of all the presidency." "I think I was unprepared ...
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Bush: 'I Did Not Compromise My Principles'
confederateyankee.mu.nu - 11/30/2008
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confederateyankee.mu.nu —
Barack Obama and his Democratic allies have famously
done everything in their power to try to lose
the Iraqi War while President Bush is in office, but now that everyone with any understanding of the conflict knows that the war...
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NY Times Scurrying To Give Obama Victory Credit For ...
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Bush Gets a Rewrite
Talking Points Memo —
Big news orgs help Bush whitewash history of Iraq War.
Charlie's Interview with President Bush
Political Punch —
... in Iraq. A lot of people put their reputations on the line and said the weapons of mass destruction is a reason to remove Saddam Hussein. It wasn't just people in my administration; a lot of members in Congress, prior to my arrival in Washington D.C., during the debate on Iraq, a lot of leaders of nations around the world were all looking at the same intelligence. And, you know, that's not a do-over, but I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess." At Talking Points Memo, Greg Sargent takes issue with how these remarks have been cast by some in the media."This ...
Bush "Admits" He Had Bad Intel, BUT...
Hoffmania! —
... While the networks are praising him for this admission, they're all overlooking the good intel that said Saddam DID NOT have WMD. Stop giving this guy a pass for his deadly mistakes. ...
'Liberal' Corporate Media Helps Whitewash Bush Legacy on Iraq
The BRAD BLOG —
... Greg Sargent illucidates the latest round of corporate mainstream media misreporting which, conveniently, helps both Bush and --- perhaps more to the point --- themselves by justifying their own failure to report the story of the unnecessary War on Iraq accurately, as they did, straight from the jump... ...
The Buck Stops There: Bush Blames Iraq Mess on Bad Intelligence
Crooks and Liars —
... , he is forever doomed to be known as the Worst. President. Ever. Adam Serwer at TAP and Greg Sargent at TPM have more on Bush's actual record regarding pre-invasion intelligence on Iraq.
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