"That is a do-over that I can't do,"

The same way much of the electorate feels after 8 years of w.

you were unprepared for life, man-child.

oh stop. we would vote for him again.

sincerely,

smurphy, blt, jeff j., and the late pathetic nanc.

"I think I was unprepared for war."

Funny, he campaigned in 2000 on taking out Saddam. As history has shown, Bush was/is simply unprepared for the Presidency.

Good riddance to foul garbage. I hope the screen door doesn't hit him in the ass on the way out.

Maybe if Bush had not sent Cheney to the CIA every day for two weeks BEFORE the intelligence assessment on Iraq was issued maybe the report would have come out correct!?

It is SO funny to to see president goofball complaining about the incorrect intelligence on IRAQ when this is EXACTLY what he asked for.

This is SO typical of the political problems with the RIGHT in general. The conservatives live in a little bubble world and they will not let reality in!

Most of us solve a problem by looking at the facts and then drawing conclusions from those facts.

Conservatives don't work like that - they have ALREADY developed their conclusion based on their warped political views, THEN they warp the facts to match their pre concieved notions!

Cry all you want SHRUB - you got what you asked for! You can see in this interview the reply to the question did not even make sense to BUSH himself once he started to think about what he was spewing out to the reporter!!

He left out some important stuff,

.... my silver spoon, cheerleading, military service, alchohol, drugs, college, baseball, the Texas Governorship and the Presidency.....9-11, Enron, Tycco, Worldcom, Katrina, mortgage and financial sector meltdown...

war schmore, its been a real blast riding in Air Force One and holding Abdullah's hand.

Oh well,

I can remember him claiming he had consulted his "higher father".

The big guy must have steered him wrong!

Admitting you have a problem (or, in this case, that you're an idoit) is the first step.

Surprise, Suprise, Surprise.

Gomer Pyle

Ok, I pardon you ~ Georgie boy

In other words, I didn't campaign and say, 'Please vote for me, I'll be able to handle an attack,'" he said.

Bullshit-he promised he could fight and win a two front war. Turns out he couldn't handle a two bit war...

I am the egg man. I am the decider. Koo Koo Ca Choo.

Funny, since according to Woodward's Plan of Attack, Bush et al were spinning 9/11 immediately into invading Iraq before the dust had even settled.

What an epihany!!! Just in time for the Christmas Season. Next, he'll reveal that he wasn't on top of the economy either and that New Orleans was more than the leaky faucet he thought it was.

Hey George, how about an apology for that tax cut which has created the largest debt in the history of the world???? The Bush fortune and that of many other families who have profited from the war should be confiscated and applied to the national debt.

Bullshit-he promised he could fight and win a two front war. Turns out he couldn't handle a two bit war...

#13 | Posted by northguy3

Dimness, he was talking about his first run at the presidency. It would have seemed a bit odd if he made a claim like that in 2000, don't ya think?

"Bring 'em on!"
I am the Decider."

-George W Bush

What a pathetic coward this POS is. I'm not sure who's worse, Bush or those who continue to support him.
The people who voted for him again in 2004 aren't exactly the sharpest tools in the shed either.

Hey George, how about an apology for that tax cut which has created the largest debt in the history of the world???? The Bush fortune and that of many other families who have profited from the war should be confiscated and applied to the national debt.

#17 | Posted by danni

More of Danni's legendary insight. Spending created the debt not tax cuts.

More of Danni's legendary insight. Spending created the debt not tax cuts.

#20 | Posted by everlong at 2008-12-01 04:29 PM | Reply | Flag: FAILED ECONOMICS 101

Everlong-
It's really too bad that, given the Presidency and both houses of congress in a phenomenal dominance of Washington the Republicans spent us into profligate bankruptcy.

Funny, I don't feel the least bit sorry for the murdering bastard.

"Spending created the debt not tax cuts."

Trees waving their leaves makes the wind blow!

The world was unprepared for Bush.

Spending created the debt not tax cuts."

Trees waving their leaves makes the wind blow!

#23 | Posted by Mista Kurtz at 2008-12-01 04:39 PM

FF!

Hmm... I guess people are forgetting that's the same intelligence that was being doled around the Hill during the end of Clinton's reign... and it's the same intelligence that was given to Congress in THEIR decision to declare war.... :/ I guess it's just convienant to blame one person....

K8Blujay,

Congress did not declare war. War in fact has never been declared for Iraq.

So you do not blame Bush for getting us into Iraq?

Eva-
The "accountability presidency" doesn't seem to have much, does it?

evashogouki, I never said that I didn't blame him, but I simply do not think that he should shoulder ALL the blame as he does not have absolute power as people seem to believe.... Congress is just as much to blame for the debacle... as is the rest of his administration, among other people...

And excuse my ignorance on saying they declared war... must be all this calling it a war and such...

BTW, K8, where did you get the notion that congress "declare[ed] war"?

K8-
re: "And excuse my ignorance on saying they declared war..."

It's kinda an important point.

Bush wasn't prepared for war, and I'm sure that thousands of Americans weren't prepared to die. Of course, Bush is concerned with how HE looks.

"Congress is just as much to blame for the debacle... "

When did Congress decide we would invade and occupy Iraq?

Isn't that the President's decision?

Where is the responsibility from the party of responsibility?

Anyways, I'm glad that the administration that actually renamed the Gov't Accounting Office the "Gov't Accountability Office" has washed their hands of this mess, to the cheers of adoring fans such as K8.

must be all this calling it a war and such...

Iraq is no more of a war than was the first Gulf "War".

That one was more of a remote controlled slaughterfest and live ammo test of the MICs latest toys while this one is purely an occupation by an overwhelming force.

"War" implies a certain parity between the conflicting sides and that cannot be argued here with a straight face.

On Topic?

Bush was unprepared to tie his own shoes much less do his job as POTUS.

"W" stands for "Woefully-Inadequate"

/...or WorstPOTUSevar!

Be Well.

So what? Because I refuse to place sole blame on one person that automatically makes me a fan? Hmm.. ok, believe what you will.... and Congress did support this war at one point... even right up to Kerry and Clinton... They may not have made the active decision to go into Iraq but they did support the decision to such...

I hope that Obama never falls under such fickle scrutiny...

When did Congress decide we would invade and occupy Iraq?

Washington, October 11: Ignoring fierce international opposition, the US Congress authorised George W. Bush to take a unilateral decision to invade Iraq, with an upbeat President saying Saddam Hussein must be confronted "fully and finally".

The House of Representatives and the Senate adopted a resolution authorising Bush to launch what could become the world's first preemptive war against Iraq -- a war not in response to something Baghdad has done lately but due to apprehensions that he may use weapons of mass destruction against America and its allies.

The vote in the House of Representatives was 296 to 133 and in the Senate 77 to 23.

Reacting to the Congress decision Bush said: "The gathering threat of Iraq must be confronted fully and finally. The days of Iraq acting as an outlaw state are coming to an end."

Hmm... I guess people are forgetting that's the same intelligence that was being doled around the Hill during the end of Clinton's reign... and it's the same intelligence that was given to Congress in THEIR decision to declare war.... :/ I guess it's just convienant to blame one person....

#26 | Posted by k8blujay at 2008-12-01 04:49 PM | Reply

You are mistaken. I guess you conveniently remember history the way you want to remember history. Take a refresher course in reality. This is the intelligence going around when Bush took over.

I think Babs getting an ulcer brought the epiphany. Cut him off the nipple till he apologized.

I knew it was heading south form the moment he equated Saddam as a serious threat to the world cause he was the man that tried to kill his daddy. That proved he wasn't being objective with his decision... and he was probably more afraid for himself that the country. bin Laden hadn't tried to kill his daddy ergo he wasn't some one to worry about.

"Washington, October 11"

Leave it to ElCid to prove my point while he's ostensibly trying to prove his.

Only ONE person made the actual decision to invade and occupy Iraq: the Deciderer.

"And believe me, no one suffers more than their president and I do when we watch this, and certainly the commander in chief, who has asked our military to go into harm's way." --Laura Bush, 2007

Really?

"I was unprepared for war", just add in that he IS incompetent in war and you have a few facts right. This man wanted war from day one and asked that no othger response be considered. Now he is "unprepared". This is one strangely sick mother. Thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's have paid with their lives for his ineptness. This country will pay for many years for what he caused. An abject apology would seem in order from Bush and Cheney. It will be a long wait.

the understatement of this young century.

So far....

Nobody suffers more than Dubya.

Not Iraqi children roasted in their beds. Not the many thousands maimed and mutilated beyond recognition, but 'fortunate' enough to 'live'. Not the families of those slain by the thousands. Not the people living in anarchy, surrounded by out-of-control religious nutjobs. Not the thousands, including CHILDREN simply rounded up and put in appalling prison conditions with no hope for trial in places like Abu Ghraib.

ALL IN THE NAME OF AMERICA.

NOBODY suffers more than Dubya. He, like, needed to take pills to go to sleep once or twice, and missed a couple of meals 'n stuff.

Is this an admission of guilt????

Is he willing to face prosecution for his mistakes/actions?

I think not. And I have no sympathy for the bastard...after all, that is what he's looking for here..

He was actually preparing for war before he was even "elected."

Are you freakin kidding me? Clinton turned the oval office into the oral office but it did not matter because self was taken care of. And you mindless drones have the nerve to comment with such hatred as the comments left? As the comments support, this country is about what people think they are deserving rather than what they are due- thus the whole mortgage crisis. I don't pay my bills but give me a big house and what about a salary I don't want to work for. Oh yeah...give me that guys money...let's make it.."fair". Yo..Robin in da Hood..this is not Sharewood forest..get a job and stop surfing the net leaving toxic messages. And the "office of the, hack, president elect" is not real either. Those must have been some really good drugs in the sixties...

Unprepared for war?
WTF??????
He wasn't prepared to be President.
I doubt he was prepared to be Gov. of Texas.
He certainly wasn't prepared to run a business-he ran every one of 'em he touched to the ground.
He was a drunk, drug addled failure.
Daddy's buddies-and their money-bought him a place at the table.
He should have been left to die a failure's death-drug addicted, drunk, killed in a car crash-or in a confrontation with Police-or by someone he would've been trying to victimize.

Seesthetruth?

Too bad you don't. You never will either. You're too full of hatred.

So if I crash a car and kill someone and then tell the cop "Sorry, I was unprepared to drive", then I get excused of responsibility? By Bush saying this, he admits he is culpable for a number of atrocities and he should be punished accordingly.

Now it seems that Alaska is not the only place with a seperatist movement. Jethro (Jeb) Bush is advising the GOP to form a "Shadow Government" in order to remain relevant. Another NeoCon, PNAC signatory that should bear the brunt of severe punishment. The link is to NewsMax so I won't provide it here, going to the site would make me puke this early in the day.

Are you freakin kidding me? Clinton turned the oval office into the oral office but it did not matter because self was taken care of. And you mindless drones have the nerve to comment with such hatred as the comments left? As the comments support, this country is about what people think they are deserving rather than what they are due- thus the whole mortgage crisis. I don't pay my bills but give me a big house and what about a salary I don't want to work for. Oh yeah...give me that guys money...let's make it.."fair". Yo..Robin in da Hood..this is not Sharewood forest..get a job and stop surfing the net leaving toxic messages. And the "office of the, hack, president elect" is not real either. Those must have been some really good drugs in the sixties...

#47 | Posted by Seesthetruth at 2008-12-01 10:07 PM | Reply | Flag: Flag: (Choose)
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Honestly, I have to say this is about the shallowest bull shit comment I've seen in a long time.

Bush admits that he wasn't prepared.... But he beat the war drums for a long time???

A lot of people died for HIS stupidity and you ,clown, have the nerve to compare it to a blow job or what BO may or may not do when he gets in office. Obamma hasn't been sworn in yet, how's he fit in the picture when discussing W's admitting he fucked up??????

I guess you'd come running to Obammas defense if the shoe was on the other foot... yeah right..

Get you head out of Sean Hannity's ass so BL2 can have a turn....

He left out some important stuff,

.... my silver spoon, cheerleading, military service, alchohol, drugs, college, baseball, the Texas Governorship and the Presidency.....9-11, Enron, Tycco, Worldcom, Katrina, mortgage and financial sector meltdown...

war schmore, its been a real blast riding in Air Force One and holding Abdullah's hand.

So doing drugs and having questionable relationships & foul smelling financial dealings is not a good thing? Someone better tell OB.

I wonder if bush still hasn't played golf because of the troops.

He wasn't prepared? Then he and his party should not have spent years shilling for war and presenting it as the only alternative.

More falsehood from a man seemingly incapable of facing himself or the truth.

Now, that means all the people renditioned from iraq was improper.

It means all our troops killing iraqi's and fighting there are not protecting the UNITED STATES.

So, what are we still doing there.

Oh, well OK then - he 'regrets' the rotten information (I will NOT call it 'intelligence' because it was lies, pure and simple) and now he says he was 'unprepared' for war. No s***. What a surprise that is - NOT. And of course that makes it all better. That will bring our dead service men and women back to life. That will bring the countless dead Iraqi citizens - many women and children and babies - back to life. Not. That will take our trillions of tax dollars out of the pockets of his and Darth Cheney's cronies and put those tax dollars back in our treasury. NOT. WAY too little WAY too late. He can spend the rest of his useless life on his knees praying for forgiveness and it still won't make this all better. I hope he sees the faces of all the dead in his dreams every night for the rest of his life.

*WORST * PRESIDENT * EVER*

You really have to pay attention to what he said and not what you believe his statement implies.

He did not say that he regretted going to war, only that he used faulty intelligence to do so. It's a big difference.

CRAWFORD, Texas Paul O'Neill, President Bush's Treasury secretary in the first two years of his presidency, says the Bush administration was planning to invade Iraq long before the Sept. 11 attacks and used questionable intelligence to justify the war.

Well, bush fired paul in 2002 and imagine this being said with all the righties saying bull shit. Now the big guy himself is saying it and they still defend him.........what political denial these republicans can be.

my silver spoon, cheerleading, military service, alchohol, drugs, college, baseball, the Texas Governorship and the Presidency.....9-11, Enron, Tycco, Worldcom, Katrina, mortgage and financial sector meltdown...

lets see

silver spoon is a carry over from a comical speech by a liberal icon
cheerleading.........what does this have to do with anything. there were plenty of male cheerleaders and still are
military service..........why dont we ask oh say

DAN RATHER About all of that..lol

alcohol/drugs......sure lets talk about that as soon as we find out if barry SOLD DRUGS while he was taking them

governor of texas........did a nice job and included lots of dems in every issue........ooooohh thats really bad

and you listed several financial problems that he had little if anything to do with.....please stick to some facts

and 9/11............another conspiracy theory coming perhaps..........just plain silly and stupid

and I guess you are blaming the beaurocratic fuckup of katrina on bush like the raging liberals did then..............hmmmmmmmmmmm more interesting stuff

and of course the proper context of his statement is lost on most of you

and of course the proper context of his statement is lost on most of you.

#61 | Posted by bushlovertwo

Actually, no BushBlower, we get it we just don't buy into it.

A fact that is no doubt lost on you.

Essentially, he's saying 'Hey look, I was the "humble foreign policy" guy who got completely blindsided by 9/11'.

Coupla things wrong with that posturing.

First, we now know that he went into office looking for a way to start a war with Iraq. Their own published document PNAC confirms this fact along with much other evidence released since that time.

We can also sadly surmise that Dumbya sat on his hands and ALLOWED 9/11 TO OCCUR rather than taking any pre-emptive measures to try and stop it like meeting with his principles on the subject or taking special measures after the "OBL Determined to Attack w/i USA" PDB.

We can further surmise that he did this horrific thing in order to have the "Pearl Harbour" type incident that the PNAC document calls for in order to allow the resultant fear state to give him the political capital needed to start sed war.

Even with 9/11 a fact he still deliberately used misinformation to fearmonger his way into war with Iraq.

People who tried to speak truth to power during that time were dealt with harshly.

See: Outing of an NOC CIA agent etc.

Trouble with you, Rusty, is that yer simply "unprepared for truth"

Be Well.

at least you didnt spout the bullshit line from the movie........." you cant handle the truth' which should be in that top ten of stupid phrases
I am so tired of things like that and I stay tired of them
24/7 and at the end of the day...........well it just doesnt............lol

I am so tired of things like that and I stay tired of them
24/7 and at the end of the day...........well it just doesnt............lol

#63 | Posted by bushlovertwo at 2008-12-02 12:11 PM

viva cuervo, beyatch

We can also sadly surmise that Dumbya sat on his hands and ALLOWED 9/11 TO OCCUR

Spud, yer moving to Buffaloo Boob territory there.

Trouble with you, Rusty, is that yer simply "unprepared for truth"

Be Well.

#62 | Posted by dethspud

And you blind to it.

And you blind to it.

~Squiddly Diddly

Did Bush refuse to meet with his principles on the subject of counter terrorism in the build up to 9/11 despite being asked to do so repeatedly?

Did Bush take any measures special or otherwise after the PDB Spud referred to?

Do you realise the difference between argument and contradiction?

You look puzzled, here Spud'll help you out.

The answers to that last series of questions are respectively yes, no and no.

Be Well.

Congress is just as much to blame for the debacle... as is the rest of his administration, among other people...

#29 | Posted by k8blujay at 2008-12-01 05:01 PM

This would sort of be true it Congress had been the ones manipulating the intelligence. See post #6 above.

I don't think any POTUS would be "prepared for war".

And he regrets the intel that was incorrect.

If this isn't a mea culpa I don't know what is..

And all the conspiracy nonsense about 9/11 is just that--nonsense.

Bella--everyone on the planet was saying Hussein had WMD's.

The guy was a retard for playing such a dangerous card to pretend he did have them--or could start it up after the sanctions were lifted.

Bella--everyone on the planet was saying Hussein had WMD's.
#69 | Posted by MURPHY

Yeah, everybody but the UN weapons inspectors.

Bush: 'I Was Unprepared for War'

Now he tells us.

"Bella--everyone on the planet was saying Hussein had WMD's.
#69 | Posted by MURPHY

Yeah, everybody but the UN weapons inspectors.

#70 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine

Yeah, but that's only because they weren't regular readers of WorldNutDaily.

Yeah, but that's only because they weren't regular readers of WorldNutDaily.

#72 | Posted by nullifidian

I bet the weapons inspectors would've been thrilled to hear that they didn't actually have to go to work, that they only had to peruse WND to submit their findings.

Actually, I do believe Bush that he wasn't prepared to go into any war before 9/11. I have seen no evidence that he entered the presidency with an invasion of Iraq being high on his list. I _am_, however, very certain that war vs. Iraq was the aim of Cheney, Rumsfeld and the neo-cons in the administration and probably at the top of their list. And I do believe Bush was talked into the war by them. Not that it was hard to do, since Bush jr. had a huge grudge against Saddam because of Bush sr.

Did Bush refuse to meet with his principles on the subject of counter terrorism in the build up to 9/11 despite being asked to do so repeatedly? NO!

At the beginning of the administration, President Bush revived the practice of meeting with the director of central intelligence almost every day in the Oval Office -- meetings which I attended, along with the vice president and the chief of staff. At these meetings, the president received up-to-date intelligence and asked questions of his most senior intelligence officials.

From January 20 through September 10, the president received at these daily meetings more than 40 briefing items on al Qaeda, and 13 of these were in response to questions he or his top advisers had posed. In addition to seeing DCI Tenet almost every morning, I generally spoke by telephone every morning at 7:15 with Secretaries Powell and Rumsfeld. I also met and spoke regularly with the DCI about al Qaeda and terrorism.

Did Bush take any measures special or otherwise after the PDB Spud referred to?NOPE - did not need to:

It was historical information based on old reporting. There was no new threat information. And it did not, in fact, warn of any coming attacks inside the United States.

Do you realise(sic) the difference between argument and contradiction?

With you? Yes. An argument with you is like arguing with a third grader. A contradiction with you is anytime you open your mouth to try and speak intelligently.

Spud: Did Bush refuse to meet with his principles on the subject of counter terrorism in the build up to 9/11 despite being asked to do so repeatedly?

El Squiddly: NO!

Spud: Did Bush take any measures special or otherwise after the PDB Spud referred to?

El Squid: NOPE

Thank fer agreeing with Spud as to the essential facts of the matter.

As to the rationalisiations given by Bush fer not meeting with his principles or doing anything pro-active to prevent 9/11 from occuring it's kinda sad that you still buy into them but the KoolAid runs deep with you so that's to be expected.

The "no new information" thing is wingnuttiness of epic proportions. There were a series of red flags involving terrorist transmissions building in number and intensity that prompted that PDB.

Yer talking point du jour on that one is supposed to be "there was no actionable intelligence"

Did Rush fergit to send you that memo or did you just FAIL to memorise it according to his instructions?

Even as a right wing parrot you suck.

How sad fer you.

Be Well.

Spud,

Are you going to be around for a while?

I have a couple of youtube links I'd like you to look at (about 8-9 minutes all in).

Completely non-political - a band that I've recently stumbled onto and I am curious as to what you think of a couple of their songs.

Just say the word and I'll post the links on the nooner.

ALL: Sorry for briefly disrupting this thread.

Are you going to be around for a while?

Just another hour or so really.

Feel free to post aforementioned links on the Nooner and Spud'll eventually check 'em and comment but perhaps not till later.

Do you ever attend the Friday Night Musik threads?

Cos they are some fun stuff and a nice non-political venue fer blowing off steam.

Be Well.

Yeah, I've participated in the Friday night muzak threads. Agreed - good fun.

I'll post the links on the nooner. Check them out when you have the chance.

Amazing he still gets away with blaming faulty intelligence, when it was Bush and Cheney who literally created that so-called 'intelligence' not any of the US intelligence agencies.

"The American people have got to know that we will safeguard the system," he said. "I mean, we're in. And if we need to be in more, we will."
-Courtesy of Dubya

OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH wow.

Wasn't he, you know, conservative? Because, pardon me if I'm wrong, I thought conservativism was all about getting OUT of government, not going IN.

But of course, when we get into these deep-shit situations, it may not be so.....beneficial.....to retain that "hard-core" conservative attitude that gets Rush off in the morning, but maybe we might want to, ahhh, you know, try some......*liberalism*....?
But don't tell the public! We have to keep accusing Obama of Socialism so as to appear right-wing!

What a two-faced bastard. Oh wait, I've got an idea! We can say that he's "reaching across the isle" or something!

Yeah, that would work if he and his party didn't trash liberalism as the work of the devil every time someone says "share".