{"id":439,"date":"2004-08-30T13:05:43","date_gmt":"2004-08-30T17:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2004-08-30T13:05:43","modified_gmt":"2004-08-30T17:05:43","slug":"a-bush-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"A Bush in ‘Time’…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drudge reports selected quotes<\/a> from a new Bush interview in Time<\/i>. Among them:<\/p>\n

“I couldn’t have sat down and said to you, By the way, we’re going to be so victorious so quickly that we’ll end up having to fight another third of the Baathists over the next year in order to bring liberty to the country.\u201c<\/div>\n

Of course you could have. That’s your j-o-b. You’re the “President”! You are precisely<\/i> supposed to look at all<\/i> such possibilities. It’s called “Leadership” and “Judgement”. You know, those things you are running<\/i> on and trying to trick folks into believing that you actually have!<\/p>\n

And if you “couldn’t” have imagined such a thing, perhaps had your read your own father’s own book<\/i>, you might have had a hint! Look what your Dad said, Junior!:<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/b><\/p>\n

To quote you, Mr. “President” — “Is our children learning”?<\/p>\n

Apparently they isn’t.<\/p>\n

Back to Drudge\/Time\/Dubya:<\/p>\n

On what the most important thing is that he’s learned from the past four years, Bush says, \u201cI’ve learned that Washington is a much more bitter, ugly place, dominated by special interests, than I ever envisioned. I was surprised.\u201d<\/div>\n

Is it just me, or didn’t Dubya work for his Dad in Washington<\/i> when he was Veep for 8 years, and then President for 4? And yet, Dubya just “learned”<\/i> this about Washington? He couldn’t have “envisioned” it?!<\/p>\n

Who does he want us to think he is, Gomer Pyle who just flew inta D.C. for the first time!?<\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

Or is it all of the above?<\/p>\n

Bush\/Cheney ’04: You’re dumber than us!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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