VIDEO 2006 = Bush on Military Contractors in Iraq =President has no clue

[L. Coyote]

This video is one of the Best of the Stupid President moments, when Bush tells a student he will phone Rumsfeld, "I was going to -- I pick up the phone and say, Mr. Secretary, I've got an interesting question. (Laughter.) This is what delegation -- I don't mean to be dodging the question, although it's kind of convenient in this case..."
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As Long as We're Talking Contractors . . .
09.27.07 -- By David Kurtz
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/054407.php

A friend of the site sent along a reminder of the exchange President Bush had with a student back in April 2006 while speaking at Johns Hopkins University:

Q Thank you, Mr. President. It's an honor to have you here. I'm a first-year student in South Asia studies. My question is in regards to private military contractors. Uniform Code of Military Justice does not apply to these contractors in Iraq. I asked your Secretary of Defense a couple months ago what law governs their actions.

THE PRESIDENT: I was going to ask him. Go ahead. (Laughter.) Help. (Laughter.)

Q I was hoping your answer might be a little more specific. (Laughter.) Mr. Rumsfeld answered that Iraq has its own domestic laws which he assumed applied to those private military contractors. ...

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[Bitwit1234]

1. bush has no clue about anything.

[halobeam]

2. oh and of course what a fine answer was given to this student...

NOT!!!

I'd love that to be in the papers tomorrow. Yeah, that'll happen. Good thing I never went into journalism, I'd either have been fired from every job, or suicided.

[L. Coyote]

3. How easily the media forgets. There is so much disconnect, as if there is no past!

View on demand is changing that, but still the broadcasts rarely reflect things like this moment, illustrating how little Bush knows on an important issue to a "commander-in-chief."