bushus in·ter·rup·tus
n.
1. Social intercourse deliberately interrupted by withdrawal of the pResident from his leisure time prior to completing evacuation.
2. Removal from office.
Laura Bush is again showing that independent side (yeah, right!)
Regarding the recent failure to interrupt George's bike ride while D.C. was under red alert, Laura had this to say:
"I think he should have been interrupted," Mrs. Bush declared, hastening to add, "but I'm not going to second-guess the Secret Service that were with him."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050520/ap_on_re_mi_ea/laura_bush
More deviation from the White House after the break...
Laura also doesn't think you can blame it
ALL on Newsweek.
Mrs. Bush said she hoped her trip would help improve the U.S. image in the Arab world after the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal and the now-retracted Newsweek report that American interrogators desecrated the Quran, the Muslim holy book.
Newsweek at first apologized for its story and then retracted it under heavy pressure from the administration. The White House blamed the magazine's account for triggering anti-American protests in Afghanistan in which police fired on demonstrators and killed about 15 people.
Mrs. Bush said Newsweek can't be held solely responsible for the rioters' violence -- her second departure from the White House line -- even though she considered the report irresponsible.
"In the United States if there's a terrible report, people don't riot and kill other people," she said. "And you can't excuse what they did because of the mistake -- you know, you can't blame it all on Newsweek."
Mrs. Bush said the Newsweek report compounded anti-American sentiment stemming from the abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib. She said that abuse was "not any sort of typical thing from the United States."
"We've had terrible happenings that have really, really hurt our image of the United States," she said. "And people in the United States are sick about it."
Independent streak or DAMAGE CONTROL? You be the judge.
