Bush owns up to mistakes against a `brutal enemy'
Um, no he didn't
PRESIDENT BUSH acknowledged yesterday that since the invasion of Iraq the US military had, "through trial and error", been forced to adopt a new approach towards an unexpectedly brutal enemy.
The President said that he understood why many Americans had had their confidence in the war shaken after watching scenes of carnage on television. He was speaking in Cleveland, Ohio, a state where his support has plummeted faster than any other in recent months.
Bush owned up to mistakes? When? Where?
Invading and occupying Iraq was a mistake that he never owned up to. Lying us into a war based on WMD that didn't exist was a mistake he never owned up to. Indiscriminate bombing of civilians was a mistake he never owned up to. Torture and murder of innocent civilians was a mistake he never owned up to.
Rendering the geneva conventions against torture, and the United States Constitution obselete and quaint were mistakes he never owned up to. Turning the entire world against us and making us all Ashamed to be called Americans were mistakes he never owned up to. The list goes on and on and on.
Trial and error suggests that once we recognize a mistake, we stop and try a new approach. Since Bush makes no mistakes, we never stop anything. We haven't stopped torturing. We haven't stopped killing. And last time I checked, we still maintain a 150,000+ force of troops in Iraq.
Did it ever occur to King George that our "confidence in the war" has been shaken because we know that we were lied into war, and that our president is a war criminal?
May 1, 2003, on board USS Abraham Lincoln, the so-called "Mission Accomplished speech"
"All of us can now agree that the fall of the Iraqi dictator has removed a source of violence, aggression, and instability in the Middle East . . . Men and women across the Middle East, looking to Iraq, are getting a glimpse of what life in a free country can be like."
Reality time. No one agrees. Iraq was not a 24-hour warzone before we invaded. Now it is. Iraq was not overcome with violence and killing before we invaded. Now it is. The middle east is massively more unstable now than it was before we started meddling in things.
This is the kind of reporting I expect from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Fox News, but not the kind I expect from, you know, the rest of the world.
Speaking of who makes mistakes and who doesn't, Here's a quote I'll never forget:
Q: Thank you, Mr. President. In the last campaign, you were asked a question about the biggest mistake you'd made in your life, and you used to like to joke that it was trading Sammy Sosa. You've looked back before 9/11 for what mistakes might have been made. After 9/11, what would your biggest mistake be, would you say, and what lessons have you learned from it?
THE PRESIDENT: I wish you would have given me this written question ahead of time, so I could plan for it. (Laughter.) John, I'm sure historians will look back and say, gosh, he could have done it better this way, or that way.
(Long, uncomfortable pause)
You know, I just -- I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but it hadn't yet.......
I hope I -- I don't want to sound like I've made no mistakes. I'm confident I have. I just haven't -- you just put me under the spot here, and maybe I'm not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one.
