Bush: 'I was unprepared for war'

[Joanne98]

Five years after he declared victory in Iraq on the US aircraft carrier USS Lincoln, President George W. Bush says he was "unprepared" for a war in Iraq that has gone on to claim thousands of American lives and tens of thousands of Iraqis.

"I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess," Bush tells ABC's Charlie Gibson in an interview to be broadcast tonight, and said he didn't know if he'd have gone to war if he didn't think there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

"That is a do-over that I can't do," Bush said.

He said incorrect intelligence about Saddam Hussein's arsenal was the "biggest regret of all the presidency."

"I think I was unprepared for war," Bush remarked. "In other words, I didn't campaign and say, 'Please vote for me, I'll be able to handle an attack,'" he said. "In other words, I didn't anticipate war. Presidents -- one of the things about the modern presidency is that the unexpected will happen."

But also he tried to spread the blame -- and his credulity -- for bad intelligence on others.

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[WildEyedLiberal]

1. No FUCKING shit

But when I said that, he called me a terrorist appeaser.

And funny, I distinctly recall him campaigning on his ability to handle national security and hoo-rahing for the war in Iraq.

This piece of shit needs to spend the rest of his life in prison.

[amdezurik]

9. I think he was misheard

he meant to say he was un-diapered for war...

[SharonAnn]

18. "I wish the intelligence had been different ..." I wish HIS intelligence had been different.

BTW, there was plenty of intelligence that was contrary to Bush's desire to go to war. He just ignored it.

[eShirl]

2. No one could have forseen there might have been a war at some time.

[Rambis]

7. His daddy knew

you take out Saddam and the place goes to hell in a hand basket!

[Democrats_win]

3. Might get some sympathy if he hadn't STOLEN an election.

Why do I feel like a shooting victim in a bank robbery? Don't they give the death penalty to everyone involved in the robbery if someone is killed? There is legal precedent for what needs to happen to Resident Evil Bush.

[zbdent]

4. and, of course, the Repukes made a huge issue this election cycle

about whether or not Obama would be "prepared for war" ...

I'd say that Obama's much more prepared for war than Bush was ... what with all that peace available under Clinton ...

[TomClash]

5. I call loads of BS

He can't even do a good job of trumpeting his own warmed-over and well-worn talking points.

[calimary]

6. What an absolute, card-carrying, jerk-ass hose-head.

You were unprepared for EVERYTHING except for being spoon-fed by your rich, greedy cronies who expected (and assigned) you to enrich them even more at the expense of the poor and the middle class and OUR economy, junior. That's how you paid them back for covering up for you and bailing your ass out every time you fucked up for most of your miserable life.

You just met your own personal Peter Principle, georgie-poo. You the quintessential fuck-up finally rose to the level of fucking up SO grave and profound that the ENTIRE WORLD has been adversely affected and will need years for recovery - a level beyond which any of your daddy's rich friends could fix quickly and neatly anymore. And it's left your "legacy" thoroughly fucked up also. Hmmm ... fitting somehow, that last one.

Holy Freakin' Cow. I'm just shaking my head here. He says he "was unprepared for war." More likely he was unprepared to face a fuck-up of this magnitude. The Mother of All Fuck-Ups. He was unprepared to be this widely-derided. His ego just wouldn't even have considered such a possibility. I think he just figured that he'd keep on living his life and whatever happened it wouldn't be any big deal and one of his sugar daddies would come along and clean it up for him, or buy him out of trouble, or somehow "fix" things for him. No biggie. But by now he's fucked up SO badly that they really can't do a whole lot that will make any difference. This is, in every sense of the word, the fuck-up to end all fuck-ups. The MOTHER of All Fuck-Ups. It's his presidency, his legacy, his place in history - to be reviled, scorned, widely condemned and derided. Sometimes it's delicate derision - from many mainstream media people who once fawned all over their "popular wartime president", but the point is, even people like these are now expressing some type of buyer's remorse.

[Cleita]

8. Sorry, no sympathy here. You didn't have to do everything uncle Dick told

you to unless he had a shotgun pointed at you.

[Downtown Hound]

10. A pathetic man if ever there was one

What happened to, "I'm a war president?" Essentially, what he's saying here is, "I had no idea what I was doing, but I decided to lead America on this dangerous and destructive path anyways. But it's really somebody else's fault because I had bad intelligence."

[Vinnie From Indy]

11. So I guess all those lies of Dick Cheney and Addington suckered The Prez too!

GW Bush was never the real President. It was always Cheney. Smirky was a useful idiot.

[MUAD_DIB]

12. And other great hits...

Bush: "I was unprepared for office."



Bush: "I was unprepared for reality."

[PatSeg]

13. That is so pathetic

He would be better off just shutting up for a couple of months and hopefully some people might forget what a disaster he was.

[Enthusiast]

14. A good rule to follow.

Do not attack a country that has not attacked you first. Simple rule. Bush = pathetic.

[treestar]

15. The neocons had been planning for this war

They used the fear created by 911 as an excuse.

Of course they were "prepared" insofar as they thought of it.

[Ecumenist]

16. NO-FUCKING KIDDIN', CHUMP. eom

[VPStoltz]

17. Bad intelligence my arse!

Even I knew Sadam didn't have those weapons. Wanna know how? The Republicans were saying he did - point made.

[wizstars]

19. I say we buy the POS a suitcase......

....so he has NO EXCUSE!!!not to pack up and GTF outa town--the soonerest, the betterest!!


Russ

[creeksneakers2]

20. Still lies, but different ones

He's making some minor concessions now. I think the story is changing because he realizes once he leaves office there's nothing to keep the truth from coming out. "I was unprepared" is probably a preparatory talking point for when book deal recipients start talking about how much of all that happened was Bush's fault. Plus, somebody might get their hands on some records.

[Tab]

21. The only bad intelligence....

(need I complete this sentence??)

Is this not just the height of arrogance? Self-righteous invasion, brooking no criticism, then a lame acknowledgment that he was in over his head?

If he was a supervisor at the local something, I could accept it, but to play at being the president of the country - and this country, above all...

Some small part of me is gratified that he sees that he f*cked up.

May he live with that horror for the rest of his life.

[Berry Cool]

22. He's kind of like a teenager whose dad has bailed him out of trouble time and time again

for underage drinking, for driving too fast, for whatever, but who never learns anything from the process. So one night, he sneaks out of the house, takes the car (he'll have it back by midnight, he swears), goes to a party, drinks like there's no tomorrow, and when he's ready to leave offers to drive four of his friends home. They're all too drunk to realize what they're doing, so they all climb in the car. Ten minutes later, he rams head-on into another vehicle. His friends and everyone in the other car is either killed or maimed for life.

And as he lies there, the sole person to come through with just a few scratches, he says:

"I didn't know something like that could happen."

Guess what. It did. And you can't undo it now.