BUSH On 60 Minutes: Admits His Lies But Then Lies About Lying

[kpete]

Bush on 60 Minutes lies about lying about Iraq
by Joe in DC - 1/15/2007 10:06:00 AM

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The best exchange came when Scott Pelley recited a litany of lies from the Bush administration about the Iraq war. Because polite people don't call other people liars even when they are, Pelley used other language like "not been straight" and "not been honest." But basically he challenged Bush on the lies about the Iraq war:

"You know better than I do that many Americans feel that your administration has not been straight with the country, has not been honest. To those people you say what?" Pelley asks.

"On what issue?" the president replies. "Like the weapons of mass destruction?"

"No weapons of mass destruction," Pelley says.

"Yeah," Bush says.

"No credible connection between 9/11 and Iraq," Pelley says.

“Yeah,” the president replies.

“The Office of Management and Budget said this war would cost somewhere between $50 billion and $60 billion and now we're over 400,” Pelley says.

“I gotcha. I gotcha. I gotcha,” Bush replies.

“The perception, Sir, more than any one of those points, is that the administration has not been straight with…,” Pelley says.

“Well, I strongly disagree with that, of course,” Bush says. “So I strongly reject that this administration hasn’t been straight with the American people. The minute we found out they didn’t have weapons of mass destruction, I was the first to say so.”

.......... Bush basically admitted all his major arguments about Iraq were lies. Then, he lied again saying he hasn't lied.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2007/01/bush-on-60-minutes-lies-about-lying.html

[Virginia Dare]

1. I'm trying to think, has there been ANY issue they..

haven't lied about...:shrug:

[depakid]

5. I'm sure there are a few, but I can't think of one.

I guess distinctions could be made between deceit, concealment and outright fraud.

[goclark]

2. How they let him keep getting away with it is beyond me nt

Why don't they let Keith interview him ?

[helderheid]

3. How could he expect an honest reply?

[Supersedeas]

4. what does a Repig do when confronted with a lie....why...he lies again

[rsmith6621]

6. Confusion Is this Administration's Policy...

....so you don't know if the bullshit it is coming or going...

[pacalo]

7. He was the FIRST to say so. Right.

If Pelley had listed the number of issues on which the boy king wasn't "straight" with the American people, the program's name would have had to be changed to 6000 Minutes.

[tanyev]

8. And he was the first to make fun of all the troops who died looking

for the nonexistent WMDs by participating in that "comic" video of him searching for them in the Oval Office.

[1monster]

9. And did anyone besides me notice how Pelly's voice shook while

he was asking those questsions? And how (bean bag) soft ball his most of his questions were?

(I remember a different Scott Pelly skewering Bill Clinton and later commenting on how dispicable he found Clinton over the Lewinsky affair.)

He sounded terrified. Why? Comments?