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masidomus Yeah, he's certainly not regretting cashing in on selling out our economy, lol. I love: "...the war exceeded his expectations."
I bet he meant: "I had no idea what a cash cow this would end up being!"
Bush Legacy in a Word: Unprepared
Politics Daily —
Filed under: President Bush, Republicans, Featured Stories, Iraq, Terror Two stories up at ABC News corroborate a growing body of evidence that suggest George W. Bush's single greatest flaw was that he was unprepared for the job of commander-in-chief. First comes the admission from the president himself, concerning the Iraq war: Looking back on his eight years in the White House, President George W. Bush said he was "unprepared" for war and pinpointed incorrect intelligence that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction as "biggest regret of all the ...
Bush admits ‘I was unprepared for war.’
Think Progress —
... In an interview with ABC News that will air tonight, President Bush admits that he was unprepared to be Commander-in-Chief when he was elected: ...
Bush: I was “unprepared for war”
Hot Air » Top Picks —
Bush: I was “unprepared for war” posted at 12:30 pm on December 1, 2008 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly ABC will broadcast an interview with George Bush that begins nine weeks of valedictory messages from the outgoing President — and he has a few things to get off of his chest before Barack Obama takes the oath of office. Bush tells Charlie Gibson that he came into office “unprepared for war,” and that he regrets the faulty intelligence of Saddam Hussein’s WMD. However, he refused to say whether he would have done anything differently had the intelligence been more correct: ...
In Other Words
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In other words, Bush says in other words. A lot.
“I think I was unprepared for war,” Bush told ABC News’ Charlie Gibson in an interview airing today on “World News.” “In other words, I didn’t campaign and say, ‘Please vote for me, I’ll be able to handle an attack,’” he said. “In other words, I didn’t anticipate war. Presidents — one of the things about the modern presidency is that the unexpected will happen.”
Not unexpected. In other ...
Bush Admits He Was ‘Unprepared for War’
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
President Bush looked back on his time in office, airing some regrets and looking to have some say in framing his legacy, during an interview with ABC’s Charlie Gibson airing Monday. Figuring foremost among his regrets, he said, was that he had acted on flawed intelligence about the infamous WMDs (or lack thereof) in ...
Bush says he was 'unprepared for war'
Political Animal —
BUSH SAYS HE WAS 'UNPREPARED FOR WAR'.... We've heard Bush express some various regrets in recent years, but I think this one is a first. 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 for war," Bush told ABC News' Charlie Gibson in an interview airing today on "World News." "In other words, I didn't campaign and say, 'Please vote for me, I'll be able to handle an attack,'" he ...
Moronic jerkwad deluding himself
WTF Is It Now?!? —
Preznit DisasterMonkey -- who brought us the Iraq war on a lie, Abu Ghraib, the Sept 11 terrorist attacks, the Hurricane Katrina fiasco, the Second Depression, the raping of the Constitution, torture, wiretapping, putting food on our families, arsenic in our drinking water, his picture next to "dumbfuck" in the dictionary, his own personal "Justice" dept, the total fucking embarrassment of almost an entire nation, and the scorn of the entire planet, for starters -- tells Charles "durrr?" Gibson that he leaves office with "head held high ...
Debriefing Bush
The Moderate Voice —
“I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess.” That, in a nutshell, is George W. Bush’s valedictory thought about invading Iraq, in interviews with Charlie Gibson on ABC this week.
“A lot of people put their reputations on the line and said the weapons of mass destruction is [sic] a reason to remove Saddam Hussein,” Bush added.
But the historical record shows that the “lot of people” consisted mainly of Dick Cheney and his henchman, relying on a swindling Ahmad Chalabi and torturing CIA intelligence into a false case against the Iraqi regime he was salivating ...
Roger Ailes — Do-Over Or Die When pressed by Gibson, Bush declined to "speculate" on whether he would still have gone to war if he knew Hussein didn't have weapons of mass destruction. "That is a do-over that I can't do," Bush said. Sorry, Charley, but that's the wrong question. The question is why did you go to war when you knew Hussein didn't have weapons of mass destruction? Press that question, you enabling asshole.
White House Plugs Faith-Based Initiatives
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... President Bush said “helped revolutionize the way government addresses the greatest challenges facing our society,” has received some criticism in the past for participating in religious event funding and other possible violations of the separation of church and state. The faith-based initiative fact sheet comes at a time when Bush’s presidential legacy is generating much discussion among political news commentators. The president spoke with ABC News's Charles Gibson in an exclusive interview that aired Monday, taking a retrospective look at his time in office. Various parts ...
Just Go Away Already
Shakesville —
I've got a new piece up at The Guardian's Comment is free America, "The long kiss goodbye," about the Lame Duck's idiotic interview with Charlie Gibson: In the first of a series of exit interviews scheduled over the coming weeks, outgoing President George Bush sat down with ABC's Charlie Gibson to take a stroll down memory lane and reflect on his eight years of ruining the country. And some other countries. As evidenced by the video, Bush was his usual charming self, having a good old laugh about the first lady yelling at him for being a boorish rube who treats the White House furniture like it ...
No Apology from President Bush for Economic Downturn
Politics Daily —
Filed under: President Bush, Bush Administration, Economy, MediaMany media outlets reported on an interview that ABC News conducted with President Bush with the lead that the president apologized for the bad economy. That would be an attractive headline, if it were true. From the interview transcript, it is clear that President Bush was not taking responsibility for current economic conditions, and rightly so. Bush sat down with Charlie Gibson for a retrospective look at his presidency. Gibson asked the president about the global economic crisis and the Administration's response to it. The ...
Scott Ritter: For Bush--and Obama--a gut check
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... 's candid interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson has one moment of awful truth – when the president, asked if he'd have gone to war had he known there were no weapons of mass destruction in ...
W.’s Massive Delusions
The Republic of T. —
In a previous post we explored the spectacle of George W. Bush bungling through an attempt at an expression of remorse — this time over the state of the economy — as only he can. It’s what you’d expect from a guy who believed he was on a mission from God, and has watched it go horribly wrong.
He still has to “Keep the faith,” and convince himself that all is pretty much as it should be, close enough, or well on its way there.
But the rest of us don’t.
So, in one of the many interviews we’ll be treated to as we (and W.) wait out the clock, the ...
Bush: Miers ‘Absolutely’ Would Have Made An ‘Excellent’ Justice, But ‘Man, The Lions Tore Her Up’
Think Progress —
As the clock winds down on his presidency, President Bush has begun sitting for valedictory interviews. He refused to reexamine his most controversial decision — to go to war in Iraq — during last week’s interview with Charlie Gibson, saying, “That is a do-over that I can’t do.” In a new interview with editors and writers for conservative magazine National Review, Bush similarly refused to rethink his choices, “saying only that a president doesn’t ‘get an opportunity to redo a decision.’”
Though Bush wouldn’t reexamine Iraq, he happily defended other ...
W's Massive Delusions
Booman Tribune —
So, in one of the many interviews well be treated to as we (and W.) wait out the clock, the presidents thoughts (such as they are) turn to national security the war in Iraq. In one interview with Charlie Gibson ...
