President Bush never fought a LOT of things. One of his characteristics that I did NOT like. He had broad shoulders and let the BS roll off of him, but he didn’t fight to get his word out when he needed to do so IMHO.
I wouldn’t call that “suppressing” information. I think his desire to avoid getting dragged down into the “bug dust” hurt him at times, and this was one of those times. In fact, in this case, it hurt more than him - it hurt the country and was probably a major contributing factor to how we got stuck with the present administration.
That is a very succinct and insightful observation.
I agree completely.
Yes I agree with your comments. I would add this — everyone knew Iraq has chemical WMDs. That was well documented and he had had those for years. We didn’t go into Iraq over chemical WMDs. It was feared he had nukes or bio WMDs which were never found other than that empty bio trailer.
Bush could have played politics and said - see — they had chemical WMDs but everyone knew that already. He chose to play it honestly. He should have handled it better politically.
I think the key thing is — we never found nukes or bio agents but that doesn’t mean they were not there. There’s lots of sand in Iraq and we saw lots of trucks moving stuff to Syria. Bush should have said that just because we didn’t find them doesn’t mean they didn’t exist and never conceded the left’s premise.
You have nailed this one.
I also wonder if President Bush knew about the WMD’s. One of his big mistakes when he came to office is that he kept many of Clinton’s people in their positions. It is possible the info was suppressed and never got to him.
Bush. Heh...I’ve said my piece on that POS and his progressive family and gotten flamed for it.
meyer: Your comment is apropos.
If you haven’t seen it, watch the smug SOB in this video state over & over, “I’m retired”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy7tFjC2mKU
He’s not abandoned Conservatives (as the video implies); he never was one and, yes, he, Rove & the rest are complicit in paving the way for our current mess. The answer? I’m not preaching today; I think it’s been discussed ad naseam and is obvious to CONSERVATIVES.
The big questions:
Will they ‘act’?
and
Will legacy-republican party voters see the light, rather than letting the RATs continue to successfully split the majority in this country?
That means promoting & supporting the right candidates, not just ‘voting along party lines’ when called to civic duty... (which is what they’d like us all to do)
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