Bush claiming responsibility for the war in Iraq was just

[Road Scholar]

grandstanding to divert attention away from his cherry picking intelligence and misleading congress and the general public this past week. Just another Rove red herring. I heard some folks praising him for "taking responsibility even though he was given faulty intel". Am I the only one who caught that? Did anybody else catch that? He and Cheney are guilty of treason and conspiring to commit treason.IMHO
:shrug:

[WLKjr]

1. just in, BUSH AUTHORIZED THE SPYING ON AMERICANS!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10488458/

[flordehinojos]

2. bush continued to blame the intelligence community for the lies to invade

iraq, because he continued to say he was given faulty intelligence. the bastard forced them into fabricating faulty intelligence and/or he fabricated it himself. he wanted to go after iraq's oil and saddam's ass, and he did.

to bush the means doesn't matter as long as he gets his end. his end this time was yet again to divert attention away from ..... and he did it by his phony song and dance act.

he is a dangeroous man.

[rfranklin]

3. Bush did not lie...he WAS given faulty intelligence...

by Cheney and Wolfowitz and Hadley and Libby and Bolton.

[flordehinojos]

4. sure.

they gave him what he wanted and asked for.

[ComerPerro]

5. Exactly. It was him taking responsibility without actually taking any

[gulliver]

6. He also wanted to claim responsibility while the news was good.

It was very Rovian. Bush wanted to take credit for the Iraqi elections, but he phrased it as an acceptance of "responsibility" while still casting blame on the intelligence community. The sheer complexity and gall of the play is what smacks of Rove. Take credit; use the word "responsibility" to sound responsible; make sure the blame fallout is on someone else. Maestro! Bravo!

Tomorrow's speech is all about trying to get a political boost from the elections. At least that's what Bush wanted it to be. It was hilarious to see how unthrilled Bush was when Lehrer said that Bush's tapping American phones without a warrant was the "number one story." Bush said (close paraphrase) "It's not the number one story. That's the Iraqi elections."

Poor Junior. The NYT spoiled his speech. Now the setting is Bush tapping phones.

[BoneDaddy]

7. Absolutely

No doubt about it! We cannot make the mistake of thinking these people stupid at all. Their adherents and followers perhaps, but they (Rove and company) are brilliant, black magicians. Rove is a master at propaganda. Problem is, for the most part, liberal progressives tend to work towards openess and honesty, where these characters will not stop at anything, sacrificing ethics, morals and he trust of americans. We are like a boxer fighting with gloves on, obeying the rules, up against a bare knuckled street fighter who will take you out any way they can. The Dems have lost the last couple of elections because they haven't taken the gloves off. True, the repulicans stole and manipulated them, but so much of what has occurred has been ALLOWED to occur with the complicity of the Democrats.

[Road Scholar]

8. It was so clever, it took me a day to realize this was a diversion

from the deception. So so so Rovian.:banghead:

[BoneDaddy]

9. History shows us that these men and women will...

lie whenever, wherever. I think people who believe them want to believe them because the alternative is unthinkable. They hear just what they want to hear. We are nothing more than an experiment at the hands of dangerous people.