Gonzales defends Iraq war to 6th graders

[kpete]

Secrets of Success Revealed
On FBI Tour, Top Agents Give Students Clues on Charting the Future

By Sari Horwitz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 29, 2006; B01

It was the big day. Twenty-three sixth-graders from Northeast Washington were getting to go inside one of the most top-secret rooms in the world: the FBI command center. A lair deep within FBI headquarters downtown. The inner sanctum where all spy brains converge to make split-second decisions to protect American citizens and fight evil during national crises.

A 12-year-old at the other end of the table had a question. "What do you think about the war?" he asked.

Gonzales put down his hamburger. "One thing you have to remember is that sometimes people have to die so we can all live in freedom. That's always been the case."

"I think they should end the war," Maurice said.

"You know what, I think everybody wants the war to end as soon as possible," Gonzales said. "I really do. Nobody wants young American soldiers to die, including the president."

"If the president made us go to war with Iraq, why doesn't he go over there and fight the war?" Christian May asked.

"Why doesn't he go do that?" Gonzales responded. "He's sort of the commander in chief. He's kind of leading the troops. That's what happens in wars. You have people making the plans and making the decisions . . . and then you have people who make sure those directives are carried out."

At that moment, a Justice Department public relations officer suggested that the onlooking reporter leave the two to "chat freely."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/28/AR2006042802113_pf.html
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[MADem]

1. Gotta keep those future draftees thinking positively! n.t.

[valerief]

2. I guess the next question from the kid would have been

"Why don't you go to war?" Then "Will I have to go to war?" Kids can be as tough as Helen Thomas.

[Rose Siding]

3. "The George H.W. Bush Strategic Information Operations Center"

oy

[saltpoint]

4. It sounds like a couple of 12-year olds gave Torture Boy all he could

handle.

[DanCa]

5. I wonder if he passed out enlistment forms?

Of course sixth graders are alot tougher than the freepers that want the war and wont enlist.

[NI4NI]

6. "He's "sort of" the commander in chief"

BWAHAHAHAHA "sort of"

[Hand]

9. ... and he "kind of" commands the troops.

Damn, it's a man bites dog type of day! Gonzales tells the truth. He must be off his game--or his meds. :rofl:

[Media_Lies_Daily]

7. Christian May is now on the "no-fly" list.

[partylessinOhio]

8. Gonzales is such a dork! I am so ashamed that someone so dumb

was put in that office. Most any child could outshine him.

[Roland99]

10. PR officer suggested the onlooking reporter leave the two to "chat freely"

wow