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   Monday, January 15, 2007

   HOW LONG? HOW LONG MUST WE SING THIS SONG?

A strange thing happened on 60 Minutes last night: the President sat down for an interview with someone other than a Fox News puppet and was asked (what?) serious questions...

SCOTT PELLEY: "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?"

PRESIDENT BUSH: "On what issue? Like the weapons of mass destruction?"

PELLEY: "No weapons of mass destruction."

BUSH: "Yeah."

PELLEY: "No credible connection between 9/11 and Iraq."

BUSH: “Yeah.”

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

BUSH: “I gotcha. I gotcha. I gotcha.”

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

BUSH: “Well, I strongly disagree with that, of course. 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.”

Oh, for pity's sake -- STOP LYING. Dubya consistently makes Bill Clinton sound like George Washington, and Richard Nixon like Mother Theresa. How low does this bar have to drop?

Okay then, George, I do this for you and that sad, strange 25% of Americans who still cling to these imperial fantasies that kill. For the last bloody time...

Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.
-- George W. Bush, March 18, 2003

There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them.
-- Gen. Tommy Franks, Mar 22 2003

We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.
-- Donald Rumsfeld March 30, 2003

"Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit."
-- Tony Blair, April 28 2003

"In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."
-- George W. Bush, May 1 2003

"U.S. officials never expected that we were going to open garages and find weapons of mass destruction."
-- Condoleeza Rice, May 12 2003

"Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction."
-- Gen. Richard Myers, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff, May 26 2003

"For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction [as justification for invading Iraq] because it was the one reason everyone could agree on."
-- Paul Wolfowitz, May 28 2003

"I don't think they existed."
-- David Kay, head of the Iraq Survey Group, Jan 23 2004

"I didn't think it through...It was a damned discoverable thing that other people brighter than I should have known. The lesson of life is that the 'obvious' isn't."
-- Jay Davis, former head of the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Mar 17 2004

"I would say that Saddam Hussein clearly had the intention of having such weapons."
-- Colin Powell, Sept 17 2004

"We didn't find the stockpiles we thought would be there...Knowing what I know today, I would have made the same decision."
-- George W. Bush, Sept 18 2004

Of course he would. When Pelley quite reasonably asked if Bush feels at all "crushed" by the Iraq fiasco, Bush said, "Quite the contrary. My spirits are strong, and I’m blessed to be the president." Blessed! I'm sure that'll warm the hearts of military parents as the next round of fallen soldiers are announced.

C'mon America, there's a solution for all this: it's called impeachment. It's not that hard. You did it to Clinton without blinking. Since Bush's May 1 2003 "we have prevailed" speech, you've spent more time in Iraq than you did in World War II. Put a fork in it! The fat lady has sung! And with 3000 dead soldiers and counting, the song's getting old.

Labels: America, George W Bush, media, Middle East, repair, war - what is it good for?