What we have here is a failure to take responsibility.

[radfringe]

Bush* Inc. prefers to blame everyone from the FBI, to the CIA, to British intelligence, to Clinton.

9-11 - FBI's fault
Niger selling 'yellow cake' to Saddam - British intelligence fault, CIA's fault
Invading Iraq - "....just following Clinton's policies...."
no WMD's in Iraq - it's the fault of the intelligence community

Behind the headlines, the stories and the obvious spin is where the true OUTRAGE should be - and that is bush*'s failure and refusal to take responsibility.

Kay is WRONG when he said that the intelligence community owes America an explaination - it's not the intelligence community that owes America (and the world) an explaination - BUSH* OWES AMERICA AND THE FAMILIES OF THOSE KILLED/WOUNDED IN IRAQ AND THE WORLD AN EXPLAINATION AND AN APOLOGY

As we are frequently reminded by the stepford-supporters - Bush* is the president, Bush* is the Commander 'n Chief, Bush* is in charge - and being president, being commander 'n chief, being in charge means having the fortitude and the guts to stand up and take responsibility for what occurs on his watch. In this - Bush* is a miserable failure.

Call it what you want - being mislead, deceptions, lies, or errors in judgement - it still comes down to the same thing - Bush* is the pResident and the responsibility lies with him.

If bush* wants to be president instead of just dressing up like one - then he better damn well start acting like a president and take responsibility.

It's obvious that based on his past actions of passing the buck and blaming everyone else that he has no intention of ever taking responsibility for anything.

[Elwood P Dowd]

1. Harry Truman

had a saying on his desk. It said "The Buck Stops Here". But, little
Bushit wouldn't know about that. His says "Leave Your Bucks Here".

[radfringe]

2. heee heee hee --- His says "Leave Your Bucks Here". I like that!

Caught a snippet on a talk-radio show yesterday about Bush*'s failure to take responsibility

caller pointed out the even Reagan took responsibility for beruit bombing

caller went further and mentioned that neither bush* nor any of his buddies in the white house have even attended a funeral for any of those killed in Iraq

also heard that Daschel is calling for an investigation into the intelligence gathering that bush* inc. used for hyping the Saddam threat

meanwhile - I think the Dem candidates should jump all over bush*'s failure to take responsibility --- not only with Iraq and the WMD's but also with the economy

Back in December 2000 - bush* reminded reporters that he "...inherited the economy...."

since then he's blamed Clinton, the Dems, 9-11, and congress for the state of the economy and the exploding deficits

in my book - if you sit in the big chair - you are in charge and therefore RESPONSIBLE

[xchrom]

3. kay speaks with forked tongue

kay is a pig -- even if he is singing in a slightly different key right now.
he says it was the intelligence community owes the president an explanation? there were no reports that said we should go to war over the wmd's in iraq -- in fact while the reports talked about the potential threat of iraq it was the admin that took the info to a place no one in the intelligence community had previously taken it.
then in bush's state of the union he uses a debunked british report for his reasons for war.
bush is where the buck stops -- but cowards like bush never, ever do that do they? no, they ask others to stand in and take the fucking bullet for them. he was awol then and he's awol now.

[radfringe]

4. PINO

this is what my partner calls bush* - PINO = president In Name Only

bush* wants to be in the driver's seat, but he doesn't want to steer

[DemoTex]

9. But Bu$h IS steering ...

Bu$h is steering us backwards down a narrow mountain road at eighty miles-per-hour, with one eye on the rearview mirror and the other on the loot.

I wish I could remember who wrote that. It is from an op/ed piece I read a couple of years ago in Liberal Opinion.

[RapidCreek]

5. One has to wonder why a man so comfortable in a flight suit

would be unaware of the mandatory response expected from any soldier asked "what excuse do you have for fucking up?".

The only answer to this question? "There is no excuse sir". So much for the president of personal responsibility. Then again I guess Bush wasn't really a military man....he only plays one on TV.

RC

[Gysgt213]

6. There is to much evidence to contrict what Kay is obviously trying to

mislead this country on. One flaw is that he himself believe it. Another flaw is prior to the run of the war the administration was presenting evidence that they obviously had nothing to pack up. Does no one remember the presentation Powell gave at the UN. Another flaw is Cheny's visits to the CIA and the setting up of an intelligence office in the Pentagon to go over evidence and make true evidence the CIA would not stand behind. But the most major flaw in all of this is that even if the CIA had given the President bad intelligence presented as good. It's not the CIA who advises the President to go to war. Even if Iraq had WMD, this was no Pearl Harbor. There was no evidence ever presented that Iraq could deploy these so called weapons in a moments notice. There was no evidence to suggest that we had to act right away for our protection.

[newyawker99]

7. Hi Gysgt213!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[lovedems]

8. Look at Pete Rose. He lied, everyone knew he lied and he still kept

lying. He compounded his problem by his continued dishonesty that when he finally did tell the truth, people didn't give a shit.

I saw that analogy on the Today Show this morning because they were talking about all the lies that seem to be floating around these days.

This issue isn't going away and the further * compounds the situation and continues to play the blame game, the worse he looks.