Bush: "I've got a pretty good crystal ball, if I could have anticipated"

[sabra]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6072527,00.html

Some thoughts President Bush has about the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, as voiced in an interview broadcast Monday on NBC's ``Today'' show:

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What he feels has been accomplished in the five years since that fateful day:

`` ... I've got a pretty good crystal ball, if I could have anticipated all of that. I knew we were going to have to have resolve. These were cold-blooded killers, willing to kill in a variety of ways. In the long term, we've got to defeat an ideology of hate with an ideology of hope.''

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With all the intelligence reports he is regularly briefed on, how does he sleep at night?

``My job is to make sure you do sleep. They're out there (terrorists) and they're dangerous and we spend a lot of time thinking about it.''

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On criticism that his administration has violated international law in connection with interrogations of terror suspects held at secret prisons:

``I can't do what is necessary to protect you and your family if I don't have the tools. ... I'm not going to talk about techniques and I'm not going to explain to the enemy what we're doing. I'm just telling you what this government has done is take steps to protect you and your family. And the best information we can get is the information we can take off people from the battlefield ... and whatever we have done is legal.''

[C_U_L8R]

1. forget the crystal ball you numbskull

if you'd paid attention to your frigging PDB
then this may not have happened.

[Kierkegaard]

2. Oh, good!

More F***ING LIES!

[Selatius]

3. The only sensible thing he said:

"In the long term, we've got to defeat an ideology of hate with an ideology of hope."

But you're not going to spread hope to people when you drop 500lbs. bombs them.

[mikelewis]

4. "whatever we have done is legal"

...except for all the illegal shit ofcourse...

[acmavm]

5. "you and your families". What' that, his new meme?

And I'm really crabby now because I had to use that word (meme).

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. Gawd! What a condescending little pissant!

:banghead: "I don't spend much time thinking about him..." WTF does he STILL think he's kidding? I am sick and tired of his dog and pony show.

[BeyondThePale]

7. Lying.Sack.Of.Shit (n/t)

[lala_rawraw]

8. then he might want to see 911pressfortruth

and they are doing a presser at press club on c-span this morning at 11 am est... but don't know if span will air it live or tape it... email span and ask them to air it live... someone post a thread, thank you:)