Reporter Smacks Bush With the Truth!

[babylonsister]

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Reporter Smacks Bush With the Truth!
Submitted by Bob Fertik on July 12, 2007 - 5:26pm.

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Wow - some reporter dared to smack Bush around with the truth, and CrooksAndLiars has the video:

Q Mr. President, you started this war, a war of your choosing, and you can end it alone, today, at this point — bring in peacekeepers, U.N. peacekeepers. Two million Iraqis have fled their country as refugees. Two million more are displaced. Thousands and thousands are dead. Don’t you understand, you brought the al Qaeda into Iraq.

THE PRESIDENT: Actually, I was hoping to solve the Iraqi issue diplomatically. That’s why I went to the United Nations and worked with the United Nations Security Council, which unanimously passed a resolution that said disclose, disarm or face serious consequences. That was the message, the clear message to Saddam Hussein. He chose the course.

Q Didn’t we go into Iraq –

THE PRESIDENT: It was his decision to make. Obviously, it was a difficult decision for me to make, to send our brave troops, along with coalition troops, into Iraq.

Does Bush not know that Saddam complied with every demand placed on him by the U.N. weapons inspectors???

Bush demanded U.N. access to the Presidential palaces and he got it. Bush demanded surprise inspections and he got it. Bush demanded all records of Iraq's WMD's and he got it.

That's why the U.N. Security Council refused to pass a second resolution authorizing Bush's invasion.

So Bush decided to ignore the U.N. and launch an illegal war of aggression, which is a war crime under the U.N. Charter.

On March 18, 2003, Bush explained his reason in an official letter to Congress:

(1) reliance by the United States on further diplomatic and other peaceful means alone will neither (A) adequately protect the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq nor (B) likely lead to enforcement of all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq; and

(2) acting pursuant to the Constitution and Public Law 107-243 is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.

Both (1) and (2) were lies; Iraq was never a threat to the U.S., and Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks.

This document alone constitutes sufficient grounds for Articles of Impeachment.

Update 1: John Amato reacts to Bush saying "I was hoping to solve the Iraqi issue diplomatically."

Talk about a bunch of crap oozing out of Bush’s mouth today at his presser. Bush and Cheney never wanted to solve the fake Iraq threat diplomatically. He has the nerve to say it was Saddam’s fault. They treated the idea of war just like a schoolyard fight between teenagers. Paul O’Neil stated in his book “The Price of Loyalty,” that even before the administration took office their primary target was Iraq which was pushed by Wolfowitz. In Woodward’s “Plan of Attack,” it was stated that the Bushies wanted to topple Iraq and 9/11 turned into the perfect excuse to do just that. It’s really interesting to read these books now after so much evidence has been finally brought to our eyes.

[annabanana]

1. When he responded that way to those questions... He should have been

SHOUTED DOWN By follow-ups from the entire room. He should have been confronted with the facts in the above post, loudly and repeatedly.

(That said, the DC press corps is getting just a little feistier.)

[malaise]

2. Seriously Bush's response to Helen Thomas

should be replayed over and over - those are the rantings of a self-deluded lunatic. Bush is a pathological liar.

Yet again this wasn't his fault - it was Saddam's decision.

[bdamomma]

9. these are traits of an right wing authoritarians

1: Faulty reasoning — RWAs are more likely to:

Make many incorrect inferences from evidence.
Hold contradictory ideas that result from a cognitive attribute known as compartmentalized thinking.
Uncritically accept that many problems are ‘our most serious problem.’
Uncritically accept insufficient evidence that supports their beliefs.
Uncritically trust people who tell them what they want to hear.
Use many double standards in their thinking and judgments.

2: Hostility Toward Outgroups — RWAs are more likely to:

Weaken constitutional guarantees of liberty such as the Bill of Rights.
Severely punish ‘common’ criminals in a role-playing situation.
Admit they obtain personal pleasure from punishing such people.
Be prejudiced against racial, ethnic, nationalistic, and linguistic minorities.
Be hostile toward homosexuals.
Volunteer to help the government persecute almost anyone.
Be mean-spirited toward those who have made mistakes and suffered.

3: Profound Character Attributes — RWAs are more likely to:

Be dogmatic.
Be zealots.
Be hypocrites.
Be absolutists
Be bullies when they have power over others.
Help cause and inflame intergroup conflict.
Seek dominance over others by being competitive and destructive in situations requiring cooperation.

4: Blindness To One’s Own Failings And To The Failings Of Authority Figures Whom They Respect— RWAs are more likely to:

Believe they have no personal failings.
Avoid learning about their personal failings.
Be highly self-righteous.
Use religion to erase guilt over their acts and to maintain their self-righteousness.

[Old and In the Way]

3. We really need to look at Cheney's secret energy task force meetings.

That will prove that they conspired to start a war to invade and occupy Iraq for their $100TT oil reserves. I'm amazed at how nonchalant this guy is when talking about war crimes his administration has committed.

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. kick

[GCP]

4. Goddess bless Helen Thomas

She has more balls than the rest of the room put together.

[WinkyDink]

5. "9/11 turned into the perfect excuse "~~~Well, that's one way of saying it....

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. MIHOP. Is there really any doubt? Not for me, there isn't.

[soothsayer]

6. Helen rocks!

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. Bush is caught in another lie.

Bush had Iraq bombed before Saddam's time was up and there is information out there that Saddam was willing to talk to us.

[WinkyDink]

10. Not merely "some reporter"!!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

11. The reporter was Helen Thomas. It was the first question he took! She is magnificent!

:loveya: Helen!

[Cass]

13. "he chose the course...it was his decision to make"

How could Saddam disarm when he had no WMDs??? He WAS disarmed!! Has any reporter ever challenged him on this ridiculous assertion?