What a WEENIE! Bush afraid to testify without his boss, Cheney.

[Stephanie]

Do you think Bush has the capacity to be EMBARRASSED at his own cowardice? What a freaking LOSER! Cannot do ANYthing on his own. Needs Cheney to hold his wittle hand. How humiliating for this CHIMP to have to walk into those hearings with his substitute Poppy. Whose decision do you think it was? I'm betting Cheney ordered Bush to do it this way. Bush is a laughingstock.

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Bush, Cheney to Talk to 9/11 Commission April 29
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) and Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) will answer questions together and in private before the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on April 29, the White House said on Wednesday.

They will meet at the White House with the five Republican and five Democratic members of the commission. Their appearance had been planned but a specific date had not been announced.

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It is unusual for such investigations to hear from two officials at one time, which could eliminate the possibility of contradictory testimony and allow the two to defer to each other in the questioning. But the panel chairman, former New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean, a Republican, said the commission accepted the unusual arrangement to hear from the president, noting that sitting presidents rarely appear before investigative panels or congressional committees.

http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news/?c=&p=cheney+testify

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Bush and his war cabinet, including Rumsfeld, Cheney and Powell, hastily convened at the White House to consider an airstrike to "decapitate" the Iraqi leadership. After some back-and-forth over the potential for civilian casualties, Bush kicked everyone out of the Oval Office but Cheney. "This is the best intelligence we've had yet on where Saddam's located," Cheney told the president, according to Woodward. "I think we should go for it."

At 7:12 that evening, Bush called back his advisers and said, "Let's go." (In his omniscient narrator's voice, Woodward writes: "Powell noted silently that things really didn't get decided until the president had met with Cheney alone.")

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4767542/

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[arcane1]

1. "sitting presidents rarely appear before investigative panels"

unless they are investigating evil, icky SEX!!! :crazy:

[redqueen]

2. I would agree he's a coward, but not a laughingstock

I just don't find much humor in this poor excuse for a man (let alone a president!) given how much he's done to ruin this country.

Patriot Act (chipping away at our freedoms, made possible by his allowing 9/11 to happen)

Unnecessary War of Aggresion (sacrificing our troops and draining our treasury for his buddies at Halliburton and Bechtel)

Wanton Destruction of the Environment (when will democrats start talking about how many people die from respiratory problems as a result of the air that isn't fit to breathe?)

I could go on and on, but these three are enough to certify this man as a menace but no laughingstock.

[AndyP]

4. what's going to be hard to curtail is

Kerry sided with him on two of those things. I think he's going to have to hit a lot harder on how BUSH was the one to screw up a good thing.

[havocmom]

3. most likely it is Cheney who is afraid

Can you imagin what a risk to him if bush* were allowed out without a handler? Probably pretty easy to get him to spill beans without someone next to him. You saw the press conference? And that was with handlers in the room with him.

Would be such fun for the Commission to get him alone in a room. Cheney would likely be in an orange jumpsuit by the end of the day if that were to happen.

[Stephanie]

9. Yes - Cheney has Bush on a short leash

What amazes me is that everyone (talking heads, etc.) continues to maintain the fiction that Bush is prez. Woodwards speaks of him in very respectful tones. They all (esp. staff) say "the president decided" and "the president knew" with no hint of irony. They are talking about someone who doesn't exist. Moore was right - this president is fictitious.

[rhino47]

5. Greatest feat would be for Bush to talk while cheney is drinking water

[AndyP]

6. now explain to me why this is

was this a deal from the Rice fiasco- like they would let her talk if shrub can speak with his handler. Or was it that Bush didn't want to talk at all but they talked him into it by letting chenney sit with him and hold his hand??

[Stephanie]

7. Originally, if you'll recall, Bush said "I don't testify."

He said he would meet with the Commission and give them his "views", maybe a little advice. He would only testi - excuse me - DISCUSS with them for one hour. Then, they amended that to say that Bush would not WALK OUT on the two commission members he agreed to meet after one hour. He might stay a little longer. Then when they finally caved in to pressure to get Condi, they added this little clause AS IF they were doing the commission a favor - that bush would testi - excuse me - MEET with the commission longer and BONUS Cheney would be with him.

Now, wouldn't the commission already have scheduled time to speak with Cheney alone? What happened to that?

[redqueen]

8. Isn't it unprecedented for two witnesses to testify together?

Why are these two criminals getting special treatment? Is it legal?

[opihimoimoi]

10. We got it wrong?? Bush is in charge, not Cheney? Consider it.

[Stephanie]

11. Ummmm - the Chimp in Charge?

What makes you think so?

Come, we go fishing now.

[opihimoimoi]

14. How else can we explain all the fkups these goes are doing?

Hitler was in charge.... saw what happened?

[Stephanie]

12. We need to HEAP HUMILIATION on him for this

We need to RIDICULE him until he's forced to act like a man and go in alone.

[redqueen]

13. You expect bush to act like a man?

Unless we're paying him, I really doubt it. If we fork over 100 grand or so, maybe then, but probably still not, as he'd be so afwaid of the mean men with hard questions!

[Stephanie]

15. Nah, I don't expect he could pull that off. But I want to RAZZ him for it

What a limpdick pretzelface POS. What an embarrassment.

[redqueen]

17. Doesn't calling him 'limpdick' imply he has one?

I tend to think of him as dickless since he doesn't have the cojones to rule this country like a REAL leader, and must instead rely on his boss, Chickenhawk Cheney, to do the heavy lifting. I thought real men would not be satisfied to have some ancient scowling has-been yank them around like a dog on a leash.

He's a colossal failure - one for the history books.

[KansDem]

16. This alone should be enough to sew the seeds of doubt...

... about Bush's competence and honor/dignity in even the staunchest Bush supporter.

[Generator]

18. Nah, why should he have to answer questions

his integrity is beyond question! That's what they believe. We don't have a MAN for President we have a Christian LEADER, he's their David Koresh, their Jim Jones. They have assigned the critical part of their brains away, it's all FAITH. Hallelujah. It's the only thing that makes sense. And besides, this commission is all about pointing fingers, and why on GOD's green earth does our government have to be accountable?

[Stephanie]

19. Bush is Jim Jones

The faithful drink the koolaid. Only heathens ask questions.

I hope he goes in that room and Roemer and Ben-Veniste and Kerrey and Gorelick REAM HIS ASS. I don't think Dick Cheney is going to be able to save him anyway. I think he may have made a mistake meeting with them in private. I think he's about to get his cowardly ass kicked.