Bush: Iraq intelligence failure 'biggest regret'

[BridgeTheGap]

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President George W. Bush said in an interview set for broadcast Monday that he came to office "unprepared for war" and that his "biggest regret" was the US intelligence failure on Iraq.

But Bush, speaking to ABC television, refused to say whether he would have ordered the March 2003 invasion if he had known that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction.

"That's an interesting question. That is a do-over that I can't do. It's hard for me to speculate," said the US president, who took office in January 2001 and hands the keys to the White House to Barack Obama on January 20.

"The biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq," Bush said. "I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081201/pl_afp/uspoliticsbushiraqafghanistan

[NOW tense]

1. Is he talking about his Intelligence?

His lack of intelligence is amazing.

[chelsea0011]

2. Just last week he was in front of veterans saying invading Iraq

was "the right thing to do then, and is the right thing now". Now he is saying he can't decide if it was the right thing. Thankfully, our national nightmare is almost over.

[Kurt Remarque]

3. the neocons MADE it different

there was no concrete evidence on wmd's, just speculation which grew more and more bizarre. chimp just pounded the war drums.

[Skittles]

6. they manipulated the data, cooked the books

lying bastards

[Captain Hilts]

4. How about setting up the Officeof Special Plans to funnel bad intelligence to back up bad policy?

[BridgeTheGap]

7. Wasn't that uncle Dick's job? Bush just had to "play ignorant." The problem

was - he wasn't playing!

[AndyA]

5. My biggest regret right now is that...

1. Barbara Bush didn't keep her frigging legs together the night she and whoever conceived George;

2. Barbara Bush didn't abort the atrocity she named George and then hurled upon the word.

This mess wouldn't exist if she'd done either of those things. :(

[BridgeTheGap]

12. Had it not been him, it would have been some other neo-con toady. Our only hope

was Gore. We didn't know how badly they would cheat to steal the white house.
bush was just a puppet. It's all his feeble intelect would allow.

[Diclotican]

8. BridgeTheGap

BridgeTheGap

There is many in "your" camp mr Bush who should be shamed, very shamed over what they was given the world the last 7 years.. It is many in "your" camp mr Bush who should face prison time, if this ever get to court.

It is many in "your" camp mr Bush, who in the following year, because of your lying have treated the rest of the world with contempt, and who have claimed us, who doesn't support this war as anti-american and a lot of other words I would rater no say... You mr Bush, have in the least 7 year been lying to the american public, time and time again. And now just months before you are out, you say you are sorry about it???.. why was you not sorry about when it was proven long ago, that your claims of WMDs was a lie?..Who was you not sorry when you claim, and many followed you to the brink of hell in your defense.. I know a few, who would rather die, than admit they was wrong about their defense of YOUR war mr President...

I hope you, and many of your followers, both in Senate, Congress, and in the Administration would be a long time where you all belong, in prison.. I hope the american public and the next administration have the "balls" to get you all in a cort room, where your fate will be decided when all the document about your criminal behavior would be given all to se.. Then maybe then the american public as a large, can understand what type of bandit you indeed have been the last 8 year.. And then maybe even some of the right wingers of the world, could wake up, and smell the horse shit as the hit the fan..
Mr Bush, You and your administration have ruin your own country, You and your own administration have more or less also ruined whatever moral ground you once was standing on, and make the whole country a leafing stock in the whole world.. You have been what mr Bin Laden newe would have dreamed about, you have more or less ruined the United States of America in all respect of the world Ruined. And what have you to say for yourself. that you are sorry???:. You should dam sure be sorry, you should face prison time you little bastard..

Many of us, who had just our common sense and a brain who worked, had it right when we say that Iraq was no danger to US and to the world as a whole.. All this lying about WMD, and 45 minutes rules as mr Blair claimed was coming from intelligence in the US and so on was just that, lying to scare the american public to do as they was told.. And the most of the american public was buying into it all.. It will take a least a decade or maybe even a generation before all the lying from this administration is finished.. It will take a lot of resources just to get a general idea out to the american public who had no clue that "the most honest man in office" should be like that.. A thug, a criminal thug who would do ever he managed to do, to wage a war of choice.. This war mr Bush started and are given over to mr Obama is a war of choice,, not a war of necessity.. The WW2 WAS an necessarily.. The Iraq war of 2003 was not... In any cases it was a war who was in the wrong place in the world.. If mr Bush have just managed to cleaned up in Afghanistan before he wanted to go to Iraq.. But not this man.. It was old revenge from the Family of Bush.. And of course, controll over wast oil revenues.. Everyone who is claiming otherwice is lying tro their troath.


Diclotican

Sorry my bad english, not my native language

[olegramps]

9. Just the latest spin

Bush and his gang of PNAC neo-cons used 9/11 as their "Pearl Harbor" as an excuse to launch their determined invasion of Iraq. This is nothing more than more Rovian crap in an attempt to defect blame to the intelligence community. Once again the media is going to fail the American people in not challenging this absolute distortion of the facts. They only have to refer to the the testimony of Richard Clarke to totally destroy this latest attempt distort the facts of the matter.

[Doctor_J]

10. What a bunch of horseshit

I wish an electric shock would make * tell nothing but the truth for the next 7 weeks. I am so sick of his lying and buck-passing I want to :puke: every time I read something he said (I won't watch or listen to him).

[Raster]

11. I recommended this post for one reason: to shit on it! george w. bush* is a liar, thief and cheat.

Period. "...that he came to office "unprepared for war" and that his "biggest regret" was the US intelligence failure on Iraq? Oh puhleeeze. Attacking Iraq was in the works long before he ever stole the Presidency in 2000. We know this for a fact. We also know that the only US intelligence failures about Iraq were those deliberately manufactured and concocted by bush*, cheney*, rumsfeld* and the rest of the neoConjob war criminals.

This is bush* in a blatant attempt to re-write history to suit his "legacy" and rehabilitate his historical image. bush*, cheney*, rove* rice*, feith* and the rest of the sorry lot are WAR CRIMINALS and are guilty of crimes against humanity.

[Fearless]

13. This nation's intelligence failure in 2000 and 2004 are my biggest regrets.

POS.

[bemildred]

14. There was no intelligence failure in Iraq.

What there was was a failure to listen.

[MasonJar]

15. Typical W to the end...blame someone...anyone else.