via
emphyrio I came across this piece by
Andrea Mitchell about HW's barely concealed disagreement (and irritation) at Dubya's Iraq policy.
Maybe being 80 means you never have to say you're sorry (Andrea Mitchell)
George Herbert Walker Bush sure opened up to Imus today. Notoriously gun-shy about "going on the couch," as he's always told Maureen Dowd, `41 (with whom he told Don "I have a very unusual relationship, you might say") reacted for the first time to his son's saying "He didn't cut and run like they did in 1991."
"Yeah, I didn't like that much....I'm sure there was some background around that statement because I saw that and frankly it hurt a little bit..."
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And when Imus asked whether the President's admission that he miscalculated about Iraq had more to do with the Rumsfelds and Cheneys and the other neo-cons, Bush said: "Look, I told you I don't like to differ with my son, his team, or anything else. I have to surrender. I have to have my own opinions in a blind trust as Doonesbury said about me one time, in which case it's true. If I said something to you and I look different from the President, everybody would rush over to the New York Times or to Maureen or to somebody else and say `Look, the president differs.' What do you say down in the White House press room about the nutty father unleashed out there. We don't need that. I had my chance."
I'm surprised he hasn't been pressed harder on this. I know it's come up in the past and he evaded it; but now it's out there in the heat of battle.