Bush is the President for chrissake

[sandnsea]

How is it possible the man didn't know intelligence might exist that Iraq was seeking uranium in Africa? How is that possible? Isn't that his job?

Presuming some bizarre chain of command beyond my comprehension, why didn't he ask about it when he saw it in the SOTU? WTF, Iraq is seeking uranium? When did that happen? Did they get it? What are the details? Where is it now?

Bush did not accept responsiblity for anything today. The whole thing is beyond ridiculous.

Had to get that off my chest.

[JohnKleeb]

1. he was drunk plain and simple

or Poppy forgot to tell him how the CIA is or he forgot his textbook at Mr. Cheney and Ms. Rice's house.

[lkinsale]

2. To add my rant...

We are talking about NUCLEAR ARMS here. The proliferation of nuclear weapons of mass destruction. The NUCLEAR security of this country--

and this Hadley guy just "forgot." Details, details!

That really makes me feel secure. I'm really thrilled these are the people dealing with North Korea and Iran.

[demgrrrll]

5. I think that this defense makes them all look like bozos and raises more

questions than it answers. What kind of a plan has a group of people admit they are incompetent and then announce the issue is closed. I don't think so. They know they are in long term trouble and are pulling out all the stops to get this swept under the rug.
They are moving too quickly and making mistakes. They are not very good at defense. Interesting times.

[sexybomber]

3. "uhhhh, my question is"

How could he "forget" that said intelligence was pure crockery?

[JVS]

4. Telling him would only be a security risk!

Best that he not know these things. He might blab it all to Putin or Jiang Zemin in a drunken stupor.

[caledesi]

6. His real name is Ted Baxter!

[Sterling]

7. Um thats pResident thank you.

Maybe thats why he does not behave like a leader?

[diplomats]

8. Let me put this as delicately as I can

as columnist Richard Cohen says, Bush is "uncritical." He's intellectually lazy, never examines anything in detail and accepts what he's told as face value. As that's putting the best spin on it. He lives in a fantasy world where everything is black and white and he does God's bidding. If taking out Saddam was God's will, then what does he have to apologize for? I'm sure that's how he sees it.

[no one in particular]

9. Ya see, Bush is a big picture kinda guy.

He ain't got time for details. They get in the way of things like learning to ride a Segway, haulin' brush and yakin it up with the Saudis at the ranch.

The big guy is supposed to take credit for the successes and chew out the staff for the failures, right? After all, that is the Republican Way.

[haymaker]

10. FYI

He not the legitimate, elected president. He was placed in office by a corrupt supreme court that invented law, without precedent, to do it. So, in truth, he is not really the president at all.

[spanone]

11. He's a fucking moran

[Americanreborn]

12. Yeah, tell me about it

An Italian intellegence agency said that the forged document on the uranium from Niger would not pass by an amateur looking at it to verify it. It was that obvious. The crest was different on the intellgence document as compared to the real Niger crest on the Niger government website.

If you look at the dates that the foriegn ministers that were listed and signed the papers, they were not even foriegn ministers at that time that the document was dated.

Plus, the signature on the document was brief and that is a HUGE, UNMISTAKABLE, error to any person. When the signature is brief, it could have been signed and forged by anyone.

No, Bush knew what he was doing. And it really does not matter know. He pushed that thing through and used it to build his case for war. Now that he has had his little war, it really does not matter to him. He is keeping George Tenent around in the CIA (although the CIA pushed and prodded Bush to remove that from his State of the Union Address) as a fall guy. That is all.

This whole war was about lies. I have a feeling that more of them will be made public in the future.

Americanreborn

[JackSwift]

13. He knew, he lied and he prefers it that way

We've all seen the pictures by now of the president going over the SOTU speech line by line and word by word to make sure it was filled with his hand-picked lies. Hasn't everyone figured out yet that this guy loves to deceive and conceal?

The question for this scandal is: "What lies did the President and his staff insist on telling knowing that they were lies?"