Will Bush feel the heat to apologize for 9/11?

[BeyondGeography]

The reaction to Clarke's gesture today by the commission has been strongly favorable. The attendees applauded the first time Clarke was complimented for his gesture.

I think the media will hound Bush to do the same. And Junior won't like it one bit.

Any agreement?

[kiahzero]

1. Nope

Bush, as always, will get a free pass.

[JuniorPlankton]

4. Nope

Not in a million years!

[leftofthedial]

2. Boy George is incapable of a meaningful apology

he lacks the basic human capacity for empathy

[Catfight]

10. and funerals

[devinsgram]

33. First of all you have to be human

to have empathy. I don't see * as being human at all.

[underpants]

3. Oooh good point--Will the masses see Clarke's apology?

IF they do W will be in a real spot. If they don't (I think the calls are being made now) then he will escape even having to apologize.

[livetohike]

5. No, he never admits to anything

Yesterday, Bush said if he had known that planes would be flying into buildings in NYC, he would have done something about it. This skirted the real issue which is:

What did he know about terrorist threats in general?

What did he do about it?

I think Clarke's testimony is telling us the answers to those questions, but I want to hear it from El Presidente.

[seabeyond]

6. he cant, he is the hero

what he is running on. cant apologize, then what does he run on

[BeyondGeography]

12. The question, folks, is will he feel the heat to apologize

I agree that an apology won't be forthcoming. But I think he's looking at a truly awful scenario here: Reporters shouting, "Mr. President, do you feel you owe an apology to the American people?" Implication: Your underling has apologized to the families of the victims, why not the boss?

It will happen, IMO.

[MSgt213]

7. Clarke sure did put everyone on the spot when he did that

everyone else it seem was trying to say hey it happen and it wasn't my fault.

[Rockholm]

8. Clarke's Apology Was A Key Turning Point...

* HAS to stand before the country, tears welling up and APOLOGIZE for being a royal fuck-up. This happened on HIS watch and it was HIS fault. Say Bye-Bye to Condi, folks.

[tjwash]

30. Need to fire Rumsfeld.

Should have fired him immediately after the second plane crashed into the WTC, and the fighter jets still had not scrambled. This bonehead was in charge of making sure that did not happen.

[annagull]

36. I agree, Clarke just body slammed Bushco with moral authority

This is big. He has made the entire bush crew look like the finger-pointing crybabies they are.

[salinen]

9. Would his mother ever apologize

for birthing satan? Same odds.

[diamond14]

32. sign at New York Pro-Peace rally: "PULL OUT BUSH...your

father would have !"

[Kahuna]

11. Never, ever. Not in a millenium.

:puke:

[BeyondGeography]

14. Feel the heat, feel the heat, feel the heat....

It's amazing how many of you miss the point of this post.

[tom_paine]

26. No.

n/t

[Kahuna]

34. I understand the question. Bush will say, OBL should apologize for 9/11...

In case you haven't been paying attention for the past 3 1/2 years, bush doesn't apologize. Period. :eyes:

[alonso_quijano]

13. and IF he apologizes...

...the suck-up-ness and insincerity will be utterly transparent. Damned if ya do, Georgie,...

[klook]

15. No way

This jerk will never apologize for anything. His picture should be next to the word "arrogance" in the dictionary.

[DieboldMustDie]

16. He's just doing what God told him to do....

so why should he apologize? :mad:

[tom_paine]

17. Totalitarians DON'T apologize

Might as well ask if Hitler, Himmler, Stalin, and "Iron Feliks" Dzhzerhzinky apologized.

Same answer.

EXACT same answer.

And Corproate TV Pravda will hound Bush for nothing except today's latest lie to uncritically repeat over and over and over...

[BeyondGeography]

19. DU'ers are flunking reading comprehension today

The real Tom Paine would question your collective common sense.

Sorry folks, I've never seen so many non-responses in my life.

[catzies]

22. If I get you, the operative phrase is "feel the heat"

And it is up to us to "turn it up" so he feels it.

Add our voices of support to the 9/11 families, for starters.

There are many things we can do to make him feel the heat.

[tom_paine]

24. Really?

I think my answers:

No, he won't apologize

and

No, the media will hound him on nothing of significance

were quite concise.

And, since we are guessing what some Founding Fathers would say, I think Mr. Paine would find this King George as odious as the one he railed against.

I also think Mr. Paine would very well recognize the similarities of Totalitarianism's Rise, had he lived through the Commie Revolutions and WWII.

So, I'll see your speculation and rasie you an unfoudned assertion.

:evilgrin:

[SendTheGOPPacking]

18. Are you serious? NO! He won't apologize

There is no reason to think he would even admit a mistake was made.

[salinen]

20. O.K.

what are we all missing?

[BeyondGeography]

27. See post #12, and Post #3

Again: My post doesn't ask: Will Bush apologize? It asks: Will Bush FEEL THE HEAT to apologize?

A subtle difference, but clear nonetheless.

[ThirdWheelLegend]

21. How can he?! He is running on how gooder he is on terra-ists.

I thought the apology was amazing. He apologized for the admins failures to do anything, which is long overdue. And all the while Bushie still runs on his SUPPOSED goodererness against terra'.

TWL

[indypaul]

23. As Nixon described his economists--

"Seldom correct, but never in doubt." He will never
admit to any mistakes. It's not his nature and sees
it as a sign of weakness.

[joshdawg]

25. Yes, he will feel the heat, but

he has no mental ability to admit he has done anything wrong. His handlers will try to get him to say some things that will appear to some as an apology, but there will be no emotion behind it.
Will he feel the heat, yes, but like so many other times that he has been on the hot seat, he has people like Rove and Wolfowitz and Rice to tell him what to say and how to respond. The man is a moron, so he needs other folks to tell him how to behave and act and react and say.

I hope I pass your reading comprehension test. (a poor attempt at humor) Hope you have a good day. I know I will.

[BeyondGeography]

29. Joshdawg is the winner

Head of the class.

[JHB]

28. He couldn't even say "Shame on me" even though...

...he was just quoting an old saying.

Any "apology" from him will strictly be a non-apology.

[ramapo]

31. Of course not

His apology would ring very hollow. But no matter, I doubt he has ever apologized for anything.

[Minstrel Boy]

35. Apologize?!? It's all he can do to keep from taking credit for it!

"Trifecta. heh heh heh."

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

37. No..he will frame it that everyone owes him an apology