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The Red Shoes?
ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES —
In the fairy tale the red shoes could not be removed and their movement could not be stopped. They just danced on and on down the road and up the hill and into the horizon: From Think Progress.
'So what?'
Political Animal —
... yesterday, the president reflected on the war, saying, "One of the major theaters against al Qaeda turns out to have been Iraq. This is where al Qaeda said they were going to take their stand." Raddatz interjecting, noting that Iraq was not a major theater for al Qaeda until after the U.S. invasion. "Yeah, that's right," the president said. "So what?" He added that he believes the terrorist group is "becoming defeated." It's hard not to watch clips like these and just shake your head. Ali Frick sets the record straight : "Continuing his refusal to take any responsibility for ...
Bush Acknowledges Absence Of Al Qaeda In Pre-Occupation Iraq With A 'So What?'
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... That's what makes this part of the interview, highlighted by Ali Frick at ThinkProgress, between President George W. Bush and ABC News' Martha Raddatz so extraordinary. ...
Bush Acknowledges Absence Of Al Qaeda In Pre-Occupation Iraq With A 'So What?'
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... That's what makes this part of the interview, highlighted by Ali Frick at ThinkProgress, between President George W. Bush and ABC News' Martha Raddatz so extraordinary. ...
Speechless
The Mahablog —
Bush On Al Qaeda Not Existing In Iraq Before Invasion: ‘So What?’»
Quote of the Day
The Reaction —
... "So what?" -- President Bush dismissing the role the U.S. invasion played in attracting al Qaeda to Iraq. To our war president it's all the same. Somehow I bet the families of the dead don't feel that way. Incredible. ...
Bush Admits Al Qaeda Wasn't In Iraq Before Invasion: "So What?"
Newshoggers.com —
... By Cernig
Un-fricking-believable. Bush, talking to ABC's Martha Raddatz, does a Cheney on the lies leading up to the Iraq invasion and the messy misadventure of the occupation:
BUSH: One of the major theaters against al Qaeda turns out to have been Iraq. This is where al Qaeda said they were going to take their stand. This is where al Qaeda was hoping to take–
RADDATZ: But not until after the U.S. invaded.
BUSH: Yeah, that’s right. So what? The point is that al Qaeda ...
Commander Clueless
The Reaction —
... . While I also like to think the best of others, I don't see any evidence that Bush has learned his lesson. People seem to be focusing on Bush's remarks about AQ in Iraq during ...
The Words Of Bush
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... That's how he acknowledges that there was no al Qaeda in Iraq to speak of before he created a power vacuum through his botched war and occupation. So two wars to cripple al Qaeda actually gave al Qaeda and Jihadism in general two new bases for operation: Iraq and Waziristan. Thanks to the amazing work of many troops and generals and Iraqis, al Qaeda is at bay (though not defeated) in Iraq, but resurgent in Pakistan. Which is to say that several thousand Americans - and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis - died to get us back to Square One. ...
The Legacy Project spins Iraq
Political Animal —
... , for reasons that defy comprehension, argued on Monday that Saddam Hussein "still had the capability to produce weapons of mass destruction" prior to the U.S. invasion. * Bush, when confronted with the fact that al Qaeda wasn't in Iraq until after the U.S. invasion, said the development was irrelevant, asking, " So what? " The intensity of the spinning is impressive, but wholly unpersuasive. ...
Continuity
Antiwar.com Original —
... of American power (" So what ?"), while Clinton preferred his wars to be by proxy or from 15,000 feet, masquerading as charity. One is compelled to wonder what happened to the "tempering qualities of humility and restraint." Perhaps they mean as much as Bush II's campaign pledge to abandon "nation-building" and engage in a "more ...
