bush's biggest regret; he got the intelligence wrong in Iraq.

[Philosoraptor]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl186

Soul not for sale
One of the president's most interesting sound bites came during his interview with FOX News. He said: "I didn't compromise my soul to be a popular guy." The quote is an acknowledgment that the president is well aware that he's about as popular as taxes and chicken pox. Bush went on to say that he would have liked to have been more popular, but he's proud that he didn't sacrifice his integrity.

What Bush regrets
During a rather candid interview several weeks ago, folks heard something truly surprising from the president—an admission that he was wrong. Bush said that his "biggest regret" was that he and his team got the intelligence wrong in Iraq. As the Washington Post puts it, "The self-criticism is notable for a president who has long resisted looking back at his time in the White House and once was unable to provide an example of a mistake he had made in office."

Yeah well you're a fucking liar george w., and your very name is now synonymous with failure and death. Got the intelligence wrong? FUCK YOU, we know the real deal asshole.

[Turbineguy]

1. That's how it's done

lie, lie, lie to the end and then keep on lying.

[indepat]

13. When one's entire agenda is but a big lie, how else can one cover except by more lies?

:P

[madeline_con]

2. I hope he dies a broken, bitter drunk.

Somehow, maybe he'll figure out how reviled he is.

[Philosoraptor]

14. Me too Madeline, meeee toooooo.....

[patrice]

3. He "didn't compromise his soul", true, such that that soul is, it is uncompromised. nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. actually, he got the wrong intelligence, AND he got it wrong.

Feith and others created the orfice of special operations solely to fuck with intel.

[Mari333]

5. what a liar n/t

[FreakinDJ]

6. FUCKING LIAR - He cooked the Intel

needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law

[CoffeeCat]

7. I love a good fairy tale...

Does this chump actually believe that we are buying this ridiculous nonsense?

Oh please.

They "got the intelligence wrong." Yeahhhhh...that's it.

The PNACers had been dying to get their foot in the Middle East for twenty years. For Pete's sake, their
game plan was up on their Web site...hiding in plain sight for years on www.newamericancentury.org. Their goal of "US global
domination" was to infiltrate the Middle East militarily--like a tumor that would metastasize and infect
the entire region.

Why are they pretending that this is a big, "Ooops!"

It was planned. It was wanted for years.

The PNAcers (neocons) asked President Bill Clinton for the same war with Iraq. Here's the letter they
sent to President Clinton http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

Clinton rebuffed their efforts. He didn't say war with Iraq was a bad idea. He said that since he was embroiled
in the Lewinsky scandal, that going to war would appear that he was "wagging the dog."

They've been on their haunches, salivating for this war---and all they needed was a neocon President and some type
of "event" that would traumatize the American people into submission.

They got it all...and we're supposed to believe that Bush regrets "getting bad intelligence."

I used to be disgusted, but now I'm bored with their antics and how stupid they think we are.

[mmonk]

8. Biggest lie, not biggest regret.

We're not even going to have a national conversation about it either. Dangerous times.

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. First, he's lying and he knows it! But even if it were true, why didn't he take any measures

necessary to verify the intel he got, before rushing headlong into attacking Iraq? This was SERIOUS! LIVES WERE AT STAKE! THE CREDIBILITY OF THE UNITED STATES WAS AT STAKE!

So he thinks he can just brush of the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives with an "I got the wrong intelligence in Iraq" admission? He is a sick, sick man and one who is very sure that nothing will held against him, EVER!


ALSO, HE HAS NO SOUL, NEVER DID!

[Warren Stupidity]

10. What they got wrong was that Saddam had nothing at all.

They knew their 'intelligence' was bullshit: they made it up so of course they knew it was bullshit. But they expected that they would find enough crap lying around to be able to say 'here it is'.

It seems that all the usual suspects are out at the end of the year/end of the regime trotting out the same tired lies. "Saddam pretended he had WMDs", "He didn;t prove he didn't have them", "The Evil Saddam wouldn't let the inspectors in", "all of our friends repeated the lies we told them when we asked them about Iraq and WMDs so we believed them", blah blah blah evil SADDAM, blah blah blah Iraq Freedom, blah blah blah.

The banality of evil.

[indepat]

11. Even if the intelligence had been correct, wars of aggression are still the major war crime, are

they not? :shrug: :P

[Political Tiger]

12. He got more than that wrong! n/t