Drudge reports selected quotes from a new Bush interview in Time. Among them:
Of course you could have. That’s your j-o-b. You’re the “President”! You are precisely supposed to look at all such possibilities. It’s called “Leadership” and “Judgement”. You know, those things you are running on and trying to trick folks into believing that you actually have!
And if you “couldn’t” have imagined such a thing, perhaps had your read your own father’s own book, you might have had a hint! Look what your Dad said, Junior!:
“Trying to eliminate Saddam … would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. … We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. … [T]here was no viable ‘exit strategy’ we could see… Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.”
To quote you, Mr. “President” — “Is our children learning”?
Apparently they isn’t.
Back to Drudge/Time/Dubya:
Is it just me, or didn’t Dubya work for his Dad in Washington when he was Veep for 8 years, and then President for 4? And yet, Dubya just “learned” this about Washington? He couldn’t have “envisioned” it?!
Who does he want us to think he is, Gomer Pyle who just flew inta D.C. for the first time!?
Sorry, Mr. Smith, we ain’t buyin’ it. Unless, for some reason, you simply forgot everything that happened to you during the years of 1980 – 1992 for some reason. Which is it Mr. “President”? Are you lying? Do you think we’re stupid? Or were you drunk for 12 years?
Or is it all of the above?
Bush/Cheney ’04: You’re dumber than us!
It’s nice to see vacation didn’t take the edge off.
Like the Excorcist, I’m only just beginning… 😉
Go ahead, throw up on yourself!
The other, more interesting aspect of this interview is the belief that we are fighting Ba’athists. That can only lead to a couple of conclusions. Bush is a complete moron as regards the relationship between the Ba’athists and his handlers are unable to explain to him exactly how an invasion "changed everything" for Iraqi political factions But this belies the fact that most of the people our military is fighting are groups like the Madhi faction, not Ba’athists. Hell we’ve hired Ba’athists to go after these groups. more interestingly, those of us who knew the hot war was akin to a turkey shoot, and apparently this was everyone bbut Bush Administration officials, can understand that those who are now resisting the occupation, and it still is an occupation, also understand that killing a few more soldiers and civilians would not have prevented the resistance.
Paul, I actually found that amusing. Thought I should admit that, as we are usually in the habit of accosting one another.
Right! It’s all fun! All is fair in love and war!
All fun?
Tell that to the almost thousand American soldiers who have been killed in this war; tell it to the thousands of wounded and maimed Americans; tell it to the thousands of Iraqis killed and maimed. Not fun at all.
Johnhp,
I think Paul was referring to his chiding post. I don’t think anyone takes this debate lightly. Certainly I don’t.
B.