Bush: "there's only one decision maker. And that's me. "

[sabra]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,222378,00.html

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O'REILLY: But then Woodward says you don't listen to anybody. You just blow them off.

BUSH: Well, that's his opinion. He just doesn't know how it works, because I've got a lot of good, strong people around me that — you know, they walk in the Oval Office. They're not intimidated. They say here's what's on mind, but I listen to a lot of people from outside as well. Of course I listen to people.

But this is a job where there's only one decision maker. And that's me. And I make decisions based upon principle. I make decisions based on the information I have. And I believe the decisions I have made, no matter how difficult they are, are going to make this world a better place.

O'REILLY: And if they don't? If it doesn't work in Iraq and other things like that?

BUSH: Well, it's going to work in Iraq. And — unless we leave before the job is finished. There's a lot of positive things in Iraq, such as 15 million Iraqis have voted for an election. Now admittedly, things have changed since the election. And the fundamental question is do we have the flexibility in our plan to meet the enemy as the enemy adjusts? And we do.

But I — look, history is interesting. I read three books on George Washington last year. And my opinion is that if they're still analyzing the first president, the 43rd president ought to be doing what he thinks is right. And eventually, historians will come and realize whether or not — what the decisions I made made sense.

[helderheid]

1. .

:scared:

[MADem]

2. When you let the bigheaded blowhard interview you, you're toast!!! NT

[MrCoffee]

3. my opinion of the Chimperator couldn't get lower, but it would be nice if

once, just once, he said something that made the slightest bit of sense.

*sigh*

[Ron Green]

4. He certainly seems done for now.

:nuke:

[whistle]

Bush the dictator

[earth mom]

30. ...

:scared:

[SledDriver]

5. 15 million Iraqis voted in ONE election...

several years ago. Have they voted since then?

[malaise]

6. He's out of his fugging mind

there are three branches and the legislative and judicial make more than a few decisions.

[tularetom]

7. Actually there are 300 million "decision makers"

and I'll bet if there was a decision made today, most of them would decide to fire an employee (that's what you are bush, the cheap hired help) who did such a piss poor job.

[Sequoia]

8. And the three books are:

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375803971.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_V65774995_.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375810153.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

[MrCoffee]

9. LMAO! schweet!

[MazeRat7]

15. Excellent !!! *LOL

[BootinUp]

10. It ain't about your f*ckin legacy @sshole! n/t

[MuseRider]

11. Well I say

let us hold our little Decider accountable for every one of those piss poor decisions (the criminal ones too!).

[JohnnyRingo]

12. He and his supporters always come back to "history will judge"

It's a way of telling detractors to shut up and don't critisize him for 50, 100, or maybe 200 years.

Good luck with that, I don't recall Republicans waiting to read the history book about Bill Clinton.

I see a future where the name Bush is changed by people embarassed by the association, much like one can't find the name Himmler in the phone book now.

[MrCoffee]

14. Look at St. Ronnie the Fuck.

the Noise Machine takes care of its idols.

[JohnnyRingo]

18. Good point

They'll argue that unless history books include the positive, it'll be biased.
Sometimes, just like in Iraq, there just is no positive.

Let's hope future history isn't written by Sean Hannity and Karen Hughes.

[BlueStater]

13. It was the American people that put you in office, you arrogant fuck

They could take you out of it, too.

[GreenArrow]

24. well, actually,

it was the Supreme Court.

[mattomjoe]

16. "...15 million Iraqis have voted for an election"

And that's all they have to show for this FUBAR.

Keep hammerin' Georgie -- you'll eventually get that square peg into the round hole.

[Johonny]

17. Yeah he listens

but he only hears the voices that he is interested in.

You know he knows he sucks because he has 2 years left on his term and he's talking about his place in history and has been for a while. People actually confident in their job don't talk like this. 6 years into his presidency he's still all campaign slogans and empty talk. He's just occupying space. He has no plan, no interests and no sense of the future.

He's the most powerful person in the world and he's reduced to talking to right wing infotainment hacks in a desperate state to convince a populace that doesn't like him, he doesn't suck. It's pathetic.

[Disturbed]

20. One arrogant asshole feeding the questions

to an arrogant, asshole answering them.

[maxsolomon]

23. o really isn't a simpleton

evil propagandist blowhard pervert, sure. he's pretty smart though.

bush is a simpleton.

[dkofos]

19. Yeah it would be a heck of lot easier if this were a dictatorship

as long as * is the dictator

[johnnie]

21. Let him keep yappin

When it's all said and done and he is out of office, he will try to point fingers. You know damn well he is the kind who will not take any responsibility for what he has done.

You have to remember that he lives in a shell, no one tells him shit. When he faces it, they will question him and he will blame everyone else, and this is the stuff we can point out to him when he does.

[11 Bravo]

22. In case you ever doubt that the current President of the United States ...

is a total fucking moron, please bookmark this thread. Then, any time you begin to wonder "is he really THAT dumb?" just go back and re-read the last sentence in the OP.

[sabra]

26. but but but he read three George Washingtons...

[onethatcares]

27. and two dr seuse

I trump three georges

[Hubert Flottz]

25. Karls Rove is Bush's Martin Bormann

Martin Bormann
(1900-1945?)

SNIP...

During this period, the 'model secretary', diligent, adaptable and efficient, began his silent, imperceptible rise to the centre of the power apparatus, slowly acquiring master of the bureaucratic mechanism and Hitler's personal trust. He developed and administered the Adolf Hitler Endowment Fund of German industry, a huge fund of 'voluntary' contributions by successful business entrepreneurs to the Fuhrer, which Bormann then reallocated as gifts to almost all the top Party functionaries.

In addition to administering Hitler's personal finances, buying the Berghof at Berchtesgaden and running it as well as the whole complex of properties on the Obersalzberg, Bormann acquired the power to control the living standards of Gauleiters and Reichsleiters, not to speak of members of the Fuhrer's intimate circle. Bormann's brutality, coarseness, lack of culture and his apparent insignificance led the Nazi Old Guard to underestimate his silent persistence and ability to make himself indispensable. Rudolf Hess's flight to Britain opened the way for the 'Brown Eminence' to step into his shoes on 12 May 1941 as head of the Parteikanzlei and to gather the reins of the Party into his own hands and steadily undermine all his rivals for power. Until the end of the war, the short, squat Bormann, working in the anonymity of his seemingly unimportant office, proved himself a master of intrigue, manipulation and political in-fighting. Always the 'narrow Party man' and a fierce guardian of Nazi orthodoxy (he was an arch-fanatic when it came to racial policy, anti-semitism and the Kirchenkampf ), Bormann strengthened the position of the Party against the Wehrmacht and the SS, and increased his grip on domestic policy.

Increasingly he controlled all questions concerning the security of the regime, acts of legislation, appointments and promotions, especially if they concerned Party personnel. He also established espionage in the army, getting younger officers promoted to spy on the political attitudes of their colleagues. He reopened the fight against the Christian churches, declaring in a confidential memo to Gauleiters in 1942 that their power 'must absolutely and finally be broken.' Nazism, based as it was on a 'scientific' world-view, was completely incompatible with Christianity whose influence was regarded by Bormann as a serious obstacle to totalitarian rule. The sharpest anti-cleric in the Nazi leadership (he collected all the files of cases against the clergy that he could lay his hands on), Bormann was the driving force of the Kirchenkampf, which Hitler for tactical reasons had wished to postpone until after the war.

Bormann was invariably the advocate of extremely harsh, radical measures when it came to the treatment of Jews, of the conquered eastern peoples or prisoners of war. He signed the decree of 9 October 1942 prescribing that "the permanent elimination of the Jews from the territories of Greater Germany can no longer be carried out by emigration but by the use of ruthless force in the special camps of the East." A further decree, signed by Bormann on 1 July 1943, gave Adolf Eichmann absolute powers over Jews, who now came under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Gestapo. More...

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/bormann.html

[focusfan]

28. does he think he is God

maybe one day he will get his

[Disturbed]

29. Busholini believes that he was appointed by God

to lead America and to spread Freedom around the world, especially to the Middle East. :crazy: