BUSH ADMITS HE LIED TO AMERICANS ABOUT IRAQ LAST FALL-He's NOT As Stupid As His Supporters-After All

[kpete]

20/20 Hindsight

The president sat down on Friday with a small group of sympathetic conservative journalists -- Bush is generally at his most comfortable around those who already convinced how right he is -- and offered some insights into his perspective on Iraq.

"Last fall, if I had been part of this polling, if they had called upstairs and said, do you approve of Iraq I would have been on the 66 percent who said, 'No I don't approve.' That's why I made the decision I made. To get in a position where I would be able to say 'Yes, I approve.'"


Mark Kleiman translated the remarks for the rest of us.

"I'm not nearly as stupid as my supporters. Back when I was telling the world that things in Iraq were going well, and you folks were helping me by calling anyone who said otherwise a traitor, I knew we were all lying."


It was an odd thing for Bush to concede, wasn't it? Last fall, the White House was insisting, aggressively, that critics of the war were confused and misguided. To disapprove of the war, the president and his aides said, was to support a dangerous agenda that would necessarily undermine national security.

more at:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/015401.php

[JohnyCanuck]

1. The man is such an idiot

I am sometimes amazed he can walk and put one foot in front of another without falling over.

[Exultant Democracy]

2. Here is a link if you want to see even more of what Bush said

although the OP is certainly about one of the gems the rest is pretty good too.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=M2VhMzIzNTZkNzBjMzQ0MDE5MWNhOGY0YjAxYjdiMDk=

[kpete]

4. thanks

I appreciate the link

[Exultant Democracy]

5. No, thank you. I appreciate your posts and links all of the time.

For years now.

[BlooInBloo]

3. My sig says otherwise. :)

[Disturbed]

6. Since Impeachment is off the table Busholini has become

more arrogant and stupid.

[lonestarnot]

14. Who said it's off the table?

[thereismore]

7. Now THAT's Logic 101. nt

[thereismore]

8. So last year he was saying "you anti-war activists are wrong, stupid, treasonous, but

I know that you are right. I just had to go on to prove you wrong."


Nice catch, that!

[leftofthedial]

9. but his supporters ARE stupid

stupid beyond all belief

and far too stupid to even see the disconnect

[Toasterlad]

10. I Wonder If Any of His Rabid Followers Will Even Think About What That MEANS.

He didn't approve of the policy in Iraq almost a year ago, and yet he told us everything was going swimmingly. And he ADMITS it, like it's a normal thing to say one thing and believe something completely different. He's truly lost it.

[John Q. Citizen]

11. No problem. Who's gonna take away his license to kill? n/t

[kpete]

12. that is THE question

[mdmc]

13. but progress was made - saddam dead, democracy

Too bad there is so much more to do. I wonder if Bush ever thought it through

[DS1]

15. I was against it, before I was for it

Is that what I'm hearing?