Bush takes blame for nuclear claim

[gristy]

On MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.com/news/945928.asp?0cv=CB10

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WASHINGTON, July 30 - President Bush on Wednesday accepted personal responsibility for a controversial portion of last winter's State of the Union address in which he asserted that Saddam Hussein was seeking nuclear material in Africa. "I TAKE PERSONAL responsibility for everything I say, absolutely," the president said at a White House news conference.

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What is amazing here is that Bush tried to dance around the question by not directly answering it. In fact, I think he has answered this way many times before.

But MSNBC called him on it! What a headline!

on edit: Yahoo has the same headline!!

http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=us&cat=bush_administration

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Bush Takes Responsibility for Iraq Claim
(AP) - President Bush on Wednesday accepted personal responsibility for a discredited portion of last winter's State of the Union address that suggested Saddam Hussein was shopping for nuclear material in Africa. "I take personal responsibility for everything I say, absolutely," the president said during an hour-long White House news conference where he sought to quell a controversy that has dogged his administration for weeks.

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Hmmmm. Is this story going to get some legs???

[ibegurpard]

1. Taking responsibility is only the first step

Now...what is he going to do about it?

[grasswire]

2. yeah, he was trying to be cute...

...and brush it off. Hahahaha!

[ixion]

3. okay, there it is...he admits that he lied

now it's time for him to be impeached and resign.

[Generic Other]

4. The only problem with taking personal resposibility in this case

is that this was only the first domino. Its toppling started a chain of dominoes falling that has yet to stop.

[gristy]

5. F***ing EVERYBODY is picking this up!

This is a Google news search:

http://news.google.com/news?q=Bush+Takes+Responsibility+for+Iraq+Claim&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=nn

:bounce:

[robbedvoter]

6. Yahoo story was castrated already - paragraph 7 used to be

> The president had been asked before about the 16 controversial words in
> the State of the Union address, and had declined to take personal
> responsibility. Instead, CIA (news - web sites) Director George Tenet
> did so, followed by a senior White House aide, deputy national security
> adviser Stephen Hadley"

They took out "and had declined to take responsibility"
They are now just throwing the past in the memory hole - and "responsibility" with bushco means diddly squat.

I see that Guardian still has it.

[Snellius]

7. Too late. He already blew it.

This was nothing more than a flippant, throwaway confession and anyone that hears it can tell it lacks any sincerity. What they should have asked is why he didn't take responsibility in the first place.

Note too when he talked about how excellent his intelligence it was only in the context that it helped lead to the conclusion that Saddam had to be immediately removed, not whether it was truthful or not.

[wontmoveon]

8. This little coward is sickening! He should have done so in the beginning!

so much for honer, dignity, accountability, and responsibility!
What a bunch of hypocrits!

[umcwb]

9. Locking - Dupe

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UMCWB
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