Ari Fleischer: "Obama should be thankful every day that he inherits a world without Saddam"

[sabra]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479785,00.html

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FLEISCHER: Well, that's the bigger story of the news conference today and I'm glad you raised that, because I think, the core here is you're seeing a president who is about to sell off into the wind with confidence. And that's the private George Bush that I know so well. I saw it when I worked for him and I've seen it the many times I visited him since I left the White House. I'm, frankly, very glad the American people got to see that confident side of him today, because he is restful. He is pleased with the decisions he's made, and big decisions that got made on his watch.

I hope no other president has mementos of presidency as his — a recount, a recession, two recessions, two wars, an anthrax attack, a biblical hurricane. He's had issues that hardly anybody else has had to wrestle with, Abraham Lincoln and the civil war, that's different. But very few presidents have had the challenges he's had. He leaves with a lot of confidence, knowing, particularly on Iraq, he has made major decisions.

And Barack Obama should be thankful every day that he inherits a world without Saddam Hussein in it.

:crazy:

[gratuitous]

1. We used a sledge hammer to kill a mosquito

Sure, we knocked a few holes in the walls, and those windows are going to need some major repairs. Oh, and don't walk over there, the floor joists are buckling. But you better be by God thankful we got that mosquito!

[BurtWorm]

2. I will curse Bush forever for giving us a world in which Ari Fleischer can claim to be relevant.

:patriot:

[rurallib]

3. We traded Saddam for two wars, a crisis in Israel,

threatening global warming, and a financial disaster of epic proportion. Seems a little out of proportion.

[area51]

4. Still delusional, eh, Ari?

Angling for an extra 15 minutes of fame?

S. Hussein was never a danger to us, you fscking moron! Your loverboy Bush has bankrupted this country with his wars, all for a personal vendetta against Hussein.

[Solly Mack]

5. Delusions

[sinkingfeeling]

6. I'd be more thankful if we had a world without the Bushes and Cheneys.

[ejpoeta]

8. i agree. amen to that.

[Solly Mack]

10. Yes!

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. Same here.

[Javaman]

7. Ari asshole Fleischer should be thankful he wasn't thrown into prison. fuck him. nt

[Winterblues]

9. He also had his rich Oil buddies riding around in a nuclear submarine

and even allowed to make a rapid ascent and killed a bunch a Japanese students. He also had his rich Oil buddies rip off California for billions of dollars while he refused to do anything at all about it. Poor Bush* everything just happened to him.......

[soleft]

11. I'd trade Saddam for Bin Laden any frigging day of the week

[Proud Liberal Dem]

12. Oh Puhleeez!!!!!

:banghead:

Saddam AFAIK wasn't a threat to anybody (let alone US) since 1991 and, unless Bush et. al have some intelligence that they have heretofore been unable and/or unwilling to show us he wasn't involved in any of the terrorist attacks of the 1990's and certainly NOT 9/11. In fact, NONE of hijackers were Iraqis.

Yeah, it could've been legitimately argued that Saddam might still have had some capacity to produce WMD or might have still had some atrophied WMD sitting around somewhere prior to our invasion/occupation, however even if that had been the case neither myself (nor most of us here) saw Iraq as any kind of threat let alone a big enough threat to justify invading/occupying it. In fact, thanks to Bill Clinton, Iraq had ALREADY been fully disarmed -as the completed US inspections process demonstrated post-invasion. I still have vivid memories of paying close attention to the lead up to the Iraq invasion back in 2002-2003 and constantly thinking.........

:wtf:

I don't have a source on this but I'm pretty sure that Obama (and the rest of us) would feel much better about being left in a world without Bin Laden/AQ/Taliban rather than being left with the mess of trying to extricate ourselves from Bush's totally unnecessary and VERY costly (both in terms of money and lives-American AND Iraqis) occupation of Iraq.

[hlthe2b]

13. This one is truly unredeemable....

A total waste of protoplasm...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. I'm thankful every day I inherit a world without Tony Snow in it.

And I'm at least a little happy I haven't got Fleischer on my TV screen.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

16. ...He uses the wars and recession as a defence of Bush?

Me, I would have thought that having caused two wars and a recession or two was something any of the other presidents could have done if they'd chosen; they just preferred not to.