Did anyone see Bremer on MTP today?

[jenmito]

He sounded like McCain-trying his hardest to defend the administration while Russert was giving him his own words from his own book which totally contradicted his answers to Russert! He was stuttering, looking down, saying he didn't really "mean it that way" or "you can take it however you want, but..." WHY are these people so scared to tell the truth? It's right there in his book and he's back-pedalling from everything he wrote just to make Rumsfeld and Bush look good!

[snowbear]

1. I missed it..

But that "hush medal" he received worked wonders..

[jenmito]

4. I think you can watch it online...

He wrote in the book repeatedly that we needed more troops, that he requested more troops and Rumsfeld never responded, that the insurgency was a terrible problem and we need more troops, etc. etc. Then when Russert asked him if we needed more troops, he said NO! Conveniently, in Sept. '04 (I think) he wrote an article saying we needed more troops, so Kerry started quoting him, and two weeks later Bremer said we DIDN'T need more troops! It was the same on the subject of looting-Russert played a clip of Rumsfeld saying it was one guy with a vase and at the time Bremer was saying we needed more troops, wrote a letter to Rumsfeld, and he never responded. Rumsfeld was asked about this letter at a press briefing, and he said he responded. Bremer now says he DID respond by saying he acknowledged receiving the letter. What BULL!

[NanceGreggs]

2. Scared to tell the truth?

First, you have to know what the TRUTH is.

Bremer's reaction reminds me of the tried-and-true questioning technique of experienced lawyers, when they catch a witness in a contradictory statement:

"Well, tell the jurors, sir. Were you lyin' then, or are you lyin' now."

[jenmito]

6. Well, I think he's lying now...

Everyone knew they needed more troops. He wrote in his BOOK that we needed more troops. Now he's saying we didn't.

[Wickerman]

3. After I heard the interview, I knew there was no reason to read the

book. Apparently, whatever he said in the book didn't mean what it seemed to have meant on first read. :crazy: Cuz, as you siad, none of it resembled what he told Timmie it meant.

Bremer, I liar - who woulda thunk it?

[KC21304]

5. I agree. He was disgraceful.

[jenmito]

7. Exactly.

I can't believe these people. Is Bremer afraid for his life? He looked like it today!

[Me.]

8. I Think The Question Is

why did he write the book in the first place?

[jenmito]

9. Good question...

Maybe it was eating him up inside (or he needed/wanted the money). But maybe after Condi read it to Bush and Rumsfeld read it, they told him he better "play it down" if he knows what's good for him.

[w8liftinglady]

12. I figured he'd been spoken to.

when they get that defeated look,I can't stand to watch.I turned it off.

[salin]

10. perhaps because with all the BILLIONS that were "lost"

by the CPA under his leadership, he can't find a decent job. Thought he would try to cash in on the critical of bush book buying public... not gonna work Paul.

[Me.]

13. My Thought Regarding Those Lost Billions

Is that he didn't need a job now

[salin]

14. hehe - true...

[underpants]

18. $sure i$ a $uper important que$tion

As if there weren't BAGS of untraceable cash laying about in Iraq when he was there.

He got out of Iraq faster than some bank robbers get back onto to _____ Ave.

[Hailtothechimp]

11. This was my first MTP free sunday in a long time.

And actually, it felt great. I don't think I'll be going back to Tim "Republican whore masqerading as an earnest altar boy" Russert anytime soon.

[Nomen Tuum]

15. I will not watch Meet The Presstitute!

I refuse to watch Tim the Whore.

[bklyncowgirl]

16. Maybe they played some of his intercepted phone calls back to him.

You know the ones he wouldn't like his wife or his mother or his present employers to hear.

Maybe something like, oh, let's see, a call to a contractor arranging to split the profits on a paid for but not delivered recoverey project in Iraq or calls to an S&M fantasy line (I'm wearing a leather thong baby and I have a riding crop between my ....)

There are just so many ways to insure loyalty when you have the NSA at your disposal.

[Jemmons]

17. This is exactly what is at stake now!!!!!

In five years the GOP might have put out the light in the eyes of most people, who used to think for themselves and who used to stand up for their opinions. The tragedy of the irons curtain countries was not that they had no access to Wall mart or McDonald's, but rather that nobody dares talk the truth like they saw it out of fears of sanctions. This is slowly creeping into " Land of the Free and Home of the Brave"!

[Evergreen Emerald]

19. more back-pedaling

He had written in his book that he sent information to Rumsfeld: the commanders on the ground were requesting more troops. He wrote that he never heard back from Rumsfeld.

Russert played a tape of Rumsfeld responding to that contention. Rumsfeld stated that he sent him an e-mail acknowledging that he received the information telling him that he would look into it.

"So," asked Russert, "did you hear back from him?" And he responded, "yes."

He is rolling over and exposing his belly like a frightened puppy. Is there no one who will stand up to them?

[jenmito]

24. That's right...

It was hard to watch. It's like this admin. threatened him if he actually backed up his claims made in his book.

[Chimichurri]

20. wishy washy opportunist with nothing to tell.

He's just peddling his worthless book. Once a hack always a hack.

[ihelpu2see]

21. Yes, Bremmer was stuck, but why does the media ask the hard questions

NOW... Why not ask these questions over 1 year ago when it would make a difference.... The media wants a horse race, that is why, they want to make it like a close boxing match. But the important thing is to ferret out the liars and put forward the responsible people who can run our government.

Scarier now is the fact that Wolfowitz is the head of the World Bank and will be funneling more and more money into Iraq....

[warrens]

22. WHY are these people so scared to tell the truth?

They like breathing.

[hollowdweller]

23. The most disturbing part of the interview

Was he said Public officials should either lie to support the president in public or just quit. That even though he personally questioned Bush's decisions that in public he felt he should lie to the public to support them.

While I can understand not using the same language you use with the Pres with the public, I think it's kinda irresponsible for a public servant to lie when American lives are at stake.

This in essence is my whole concern with Bush. The institutionalized secrecy, lying and deception to manipulate public opinion, and the vanquishing of critics not by an honest debate on the issues, but by personally attacking them, and discrediting them on oftentimes unrelated matters, is eroding our democracy.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

25. You hit the nail on the head!

I watched it yesterday morning and it was bizarre! He writes a book, then goes on tv to hawk the book, and what does he do? He denies everything that he wrote in the book that he is up there trying to sell! Reminded me of Paul O'Neil who did the exact same thing. My husband was sitting in the other room and only heard a bits of the interview and I heard him say, "Wonder what they have on him?"

It honestly creeped me out. Too much like the Pod People movie plots of olden days.

[jenmito]

26. Thanks...

It creeped ME out, too. (Didn't he look and sound like McCain?)