Bush confidante makes blunder on Saddam - Karen Hughes

[NoBushSpokenHere]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9777092/

Public relations chief says leader gassed ‘hundreds of thousands’ of Iraqis

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Karen Hughes, who has faced a rocky road since being named Washington’s public relations chief, answered tough questions Friday about the invasion of Iraq and wrongly stated that Saddam Hussein gassed to death “hundreds of thousands” of his people.

Although the U.S. undersecretary for public diplomacy twice repeated the claim after being challenged by journalists, Gordon Johndroe, a State Department official traveling with Hughes, later called The Associated Press to say she misspoke.

Hughes, a longtime confidante of President Bush, was in the world’s most populous Muslim nation to improve America’s battered image after the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

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[Kikosexy2]

1. Oh mama...

Hughes please give it up girl!! You're making the U.S. worse than it already is.

[NoBushSpokenHere]

2. I hit the wrong forum ......sorry..... n/t

[patrice]

3. Repeated twice?

Either she is seriously misinformed, which indicates she didn't care enough to find out the truth.

Or, she was doing it on purpose.

In either case, I doubt she improved "...America's battered image..." much.

[RobertSeattle]

4. Shout the Big Lie, whisper the retraction

Bush Administration 101.

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[rurallib]

6. wouldn't you think she would have done some preparation?

before beginning a world wide speaking tour. Instead she goes out and confirms what the rest of the world has been saying about the US.

[Gato Moteado]

7. this part of the story is interesting......

"Hughes’ three-day trip to Indonesia came as the United States tried to limit damage from TV footage that purportedly shows U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan burning the corpses of two Taliban fighters.

The students did not ask her about the footage, but she later told reporters it was “abhorrent.”"


can you imagine if a democrat had called US soldiers' actions "abhorrent"? on "foreign soil", no less! the repukes would go nuts, calling liberals anti-american. rush limbaugh would say that the soldiers were just blowing off some steam and having fun. hannity would call liberals traitors. ann coulter would want all democrats imprisoned and all liberals killed. hmmmmm.....let's see what they have to say about karen hughes on this one.