BUSH: 'I Was A ' DISSENTING VOICE ' On Iraq War

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" Former President George W. Bush considers himself "a dissenting voice" in the decision to go to war with Iraq.


In the first interview of the publicity tour for his new book, Decision Points, Bush told Matt Lauer that he didn't want to use force.

Excerpts:

http://www.nbcuniversal.presscentre.com/content/detail.aspx?ReleaseID=2411&NewsAreaId=2



"Not everybody thought you should go to war, though," Lauer said. "There were dissenting voices."


"I was a dissenting voice. I didn't want to use force," Bush said. "I mean force is the last option for a President. And I think it's clear in the book that I gave diplomacy every chance to work. And I will also tell you the world's better off without Saddam in power. And so are 25 million Iraqis."


Bush went on to say that he still feels like going to war was the right decision. And as he wrote in the book, "No one was more sickened or angry than I was when we didn't find weapons of mass destruction."



The interview will air Nov. 8.


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[BeyondGeography]

1. That's amazing, even for him

Unreal.

[FarPoint]

14. We always seem surprise...

well, I am too actually....but then, they always rewrite history....so, in second thought...I knew it would come to this distortion. I feel like I am in the twilight zone when they do this.....

[Lucy Goosey]

2. "Dissent" ??

I don't think that word means what you think it means, Dubya. :eyes:

[Solly Mack]

3. lololololololololol

[Mz Pip]

4. Uh,Dude

You were the f*&#ing President. I think your opinion really should have trumped everyone else's. :eyes:

[Segami]

6. No, I believe you're mistaken. Cheney was the president.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Mz Pip]

12. He certainly was

the puppet master.

Well Bush sure showed him when he refused to pardon his buddy Scooter. Showed him who was boss on that one! :rofl:

[tanyev]

5. You didn't seem very angry when you were hunting for WMDs under the sofa in the Oval Office.

Asshat.

[AuntPatsy]

11. exactly what I was thinking...how anyone would think of wasting money on his tripe is beyond me...

but there is no accounting for stupidity and fiction mascerading as non-fiction being so fascinating and admired by some...

[HughBeaumont]

7. Er, from what I read, he was looking for an excuse to go to war with Iraq from the word GO.

This was even before 9/11.

Hours after 9/11, his team was looking for anything to tie to Saddam. It's all right there in the Terror Timeline, documented.

Too bad Bewsh's voice couldn't come with selective delete.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Then why did * tell the outgoing Clinton Administration on Inauguration Day that

they were going into Iraq when the latter tried to warn them about Al Quaeda?

[hobbit709]

9. Talk about taurine metabolic byproducts.

"No one was more sickened or angry than I was when we didn't find weapons of mass destruction."

You have the nerve to state that after joking about it at the correspondents dinner?
FUCK YOU and your family for ten generations back, George!

[w8liftinglady]

10. Pardon me,President Codpiece..Bull F*cking Sh%T

the lies never stop,do they?

[pinboy3niner]

13. A 'dissenting voice' has never ordered an invasion

Never.

[zonkers]

15. George, you are smokng the good stuff.

[spanone]

16. go back to your fucking room junior

[Supersedeas]

17. and his lil' buddy Mutt Lauer swallowed that one hook line and sinker

[WCGreen]

18. So I guess he reluctantly strutted across the deck of an Aircraft Carrier

in Bulging bravado because he was forced into it.,.

[Segami]

28. Reminder to the SHRUB for his case to go to WAR.

<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/29796304#29796304>

[Frustratedlady]

19. I know I overslept, but tell me,,,it ISN'T April Fool's Day, right?

He has a big dose of buyer's remorse in his old age. I seem to recall him in his "costume" telling us --Mission Accomplished-- with all the pride of a pit bull.

[quinnox]

20. hahahaha

Is this guy serious, holy crap.

The rewriting of history by the junior idiot to make himself look better has begun.

[WinkyDink]

21. I see Bush is on the "I'm Still a Psychopath" book tour. (What was that about "F*** Saddam"?)

[sce56]

22. Reminds me of the SNL O'Donnel skit

After discussing the “media’s fixation” with silly things like “dabbling in witchcraft” O’Donnell reveals to the pair that back when she started her anti-masturbation campaign back in the day she didn’t even know what masturbation was…now that she does she masturbates multiple times a day!

[Mimosa]

23. What a damn liar! UNBELIEVABLE!!!! n/t

[City Lights]

24. Sure, georgie. Whatever you say...

[alsame]

25. Actually, I believe him. I still don't think he was

in the loop and didn't really know what was going on. He wasn't making decisions or policy - he just did what he was told.

[eShirl]

26. only if "dissenting" is defined as "cheerleading"

[walldude]

27. I'm sure it's very clear in his book how much of a

pacifist he was and how he really had no choice but to invade Iraq. Of course in reality it's very clear that nothing would have prevented them from attacking Iraq. Not even Saddam surrendering, which he actually tried to do but Murika needed some Shock and Awe.

[Atman]

29. "No one was more sickened or angry than I was when we didn't find weapons of mass destruction."

Missing the fundamental point...You don't take a country to war ON A HUNCH, hoping to find your justification LATER. You make 100% certain of your reasons FIRST. Sorry, Georgie. You're full of shit (as if we didn't know).

[xiamiam]

30. what a crock of shit..nt

[otohara]

31. More Lies

lies, lies, lies.

Fuck you GWB

[Octafish]

32. Little turd from Crawford sure is afraid of going to jail.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jpVm59Q7Xb0/RiBKXR-SyZI/AAAAAAAAAjc/sMuZpTzrOao/s320/Bush+Looking+Under+Desk++bush_wmd_joke_lon816.jpg

No one was angrier, right.

[PA Democrat]

33. Hey George, you can't be both "the decider" and the "dissenting voice"

:hurts:

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36. LOL. Didn't you get the memo? What George really meant to say was that he was really

' The Dissenter and not The Decider ". He was misquoted by the press. I believe we have video to confirm his bullsh#t, err claims!:rofl: :rofl:

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slOWroJlmbs&feature=related>

[PA Democrat]

38. A drunk slurring his words might mis-pronounce dissenter as decider!

Give the guy a break! He is NOT a war criminal! (shades of tricky dick)

:sarcasm:

[Segami]

39. LOL. Well then, if he was ' dissenting ' as he claims, he would have been dissenting

to the REAL president which would have been CHENEY!

[zbdent]

34. continuing his drunken delusions ...

he thinks he was a "dissenting voice" ... however, he was too drunk to notice that he never actually said anything dissenting ...

[zbdent]

35. "we didn't find weapons of mass destruction" - WTF???

How many RWers have we heard saying we found the WMDs??? And how many of them said "They were there! Because we can't find them doesn't mean they're not there!"

[tanyev]

40. Instead of looking in his office, he should have gone to Cheney's office

and looked at the documents in those man-sized safes. That's where the WMDs were fabricated.

[Demstud]

37. So he got out voted?

You were the damn president, man! If YOU are the dissenting voice, then it doesn't happen! Apparently, Bush didn't understand that the presidency isn't rule by committee, lol. Which might be closer to the truth that you think. This guy truly was incompetent and unqualified for the job. Watched part of an interesting Frontline documentary on Bush and the war, and it suggested that he really did tone down quite a bit of the language they put in his speeches (resulting in a number of the hilarious gaffes when he was trying to ad-lib). It made a pretty good case that Bush was the more moderate of that group. Kind of scary.

[Fuzz]

41. The bullshit runs high with this one.

[thereismore]

42. Between him and the duke of all fucking darkness Cheney, I could believe it. nt

[madmax]

43. Yes, and I'm one of 16 Vestal Virgins. nt

[Vickers]

44. Well, George, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt...

...and chalk this up to Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome.

[FLAprogressive]

45. We are witnessing revisionist history at its worst....

[BrklynLiberal]

46. What a total crock of crap!

[femrap]

47. Just another tip from

Orwell....let's rewrite history for the dumb fuck citizens.

[unblock]

48. yeah, he wanted to go to war AGAINST iraq. dick had to explain it to him.

"i know it's confusing, but in this context, going to war AGAINST iraq is really the same thing as going to war WITH iraq, it's just that going to war WITH iraq doesn't sound as, well, aggressively criminal."