The Deluder in Chief

[dtotire]

The Deluder in Chief


Published: December 7, 2008

We long ago gave up hope that President Bush would acknowledge his many mistakes, or show he had learned anything from them. Even then we were unprepared for the epic denial that Mr. Bush displayed in his interview with ABC News’s Charles Gibson the other day, which he presumably considered an important valedictory chat with the American public as well.

It was bad enough when Mr. Bush piously declared that he hopes Americans believe he is a guy who “didn’t sell his soul for politics.” (We suppose we should not bother remembering how his team drove Senator John McCain out of the 2000 primaries with racist attacks or falsified Senator John Kerry’s war record in 2004.)

It was skin crawling to hear him tell Mr. Gibson that the thing he will really miss when he leaves office is no longer going to see the families of slain soldiers, because they make him feel better about the war. But Mr. Bush’s comments about his decision to invade Iraq were a “mistakes were made” rewriting of history and a refusal to accept responsibility to rival that of Richard Nixon.

At one point, Mr. Bush was asked if he wanted any do-overs. “The biggest regret of the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq,” he said. “A lot of people put their reputations on the line and said the weapons of mass destruction” were cause for war.

After everything the American public and the world have learned about how Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney manipulated Congress, public opinion and anyone else they could bully or lie to, Mr. Bush is still acting as though he decided to invade Iraq after suddenly being handed life and death information on Saddam Hussein’s arsenal.

The truth is that Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had been chafing to attack Iraq before Sept. 11, 2001. They justified that unnecessary war using intelligence reports that they knew or should have known to be faulty. And it was pressure from the White House and a highly politicized Pentagon that compelled people like Secretary of State Colin Powell and George Tenet, the Central Intelligence director, to ignore the counter-evidence and squander their good names on hyped claims of weapons of mass destruction.



more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/opinion/07sun2.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

[LiberalEsto]

1. The NYT was a colluder with the deluder

It's so nice that after all these years of deaths, bloodshed, torture and severe injuries in Iraq, the Times is finally criticizing the Deluder-in-Chief about the war.

But they still haven't acknowledged their own huge role in trumpeting the case for the war. And at the very least, their columnist (or should I say calumnist) Judith Miller should be named a Deputy Deluder.

[secondwind]

2. I still remember the "45 minute" of Sadaam's reach, that Sadaam's WMD's

could reach US soil in less than an hour!!! I never believed that shit.

The Chump-in-Chief also said he would most miss:

Air Force One
The Chefs at the White House
Not sitting in Traffic

That is it!! After 8 years, that is all he could come up with!

In December 2001, just 3 months after 9/11, Chump said (and I quote):

"ALL IN ALL, IT'S BEEN A GOOD YEAR FOR LAURA AND ME." :puke: