Comments on: Bush admits ‘I was unprepared for war.’

By: EugeneDebs

EugeneDebs — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:37:47 +0000

Keith Says:

You got to give it to rightwingnuts. They never stop. They are STILL trying to sell us that we were just about to win in Vietnam until we pulled out. The VC were just about to give up when we came home instead. Get ready for this zombie meme it isnt going anywhere. We will be hearing it for decades and since it is good propaganda there will be no way to drive a stake through its heart. No matter how often you tell them: WHAT do you think I was born yesterday or cant REMEMBER 2003? They will slink off but will try to run it up the flagpole again in a few days. Within a few years I expect about 25 to 30% of Americans to believe this and that you will hear it repeated to you as if reality had no meaning. They WILL put real effort and resources into trying to rehabilitate both W and this war because they wont want Americans to get leary of wars again like we did after Vietnam. Remember they have NO SHAME. Truth, facts and reality mean NOTHING to them so get ready to hear that talking point for YEARS.

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:15:52 +0000

In this interview he once again said “we had to invade because Saddam refused to let the inspectors back in”. This is a huge DELUSION he has! Saddam never kicked the inspectors out (we did because we wanted to bomb again) and he most certainly DID allow them back in. They looked everywhere and could find nothing–proving Iraq had no WMD in late 2002 and early 2003. The inspectors begged the White House to tell them where to look (since they were so sure they were there) and the White House ordered them out so they could begin the war. Iraq DID abide by UN resolutions by allowing the inspectors in, having NO WMD, and accounting for past WMD (about 20,000 pages that the White House dismissed in two seconds). At the time we invaded, Anniston Alabama had 20,000 TONS of sarin, vx, mustard, and nerve agents and 70,000 rockets to deliver them. Read the Downing Street Memo again. It said forget the intelligence, we are invading. Joe Wilson was telling the truth: Bush lied in the 2003 SOTU. Valerie Plame was heading a group in the CIA working on non-proliferation of WMD in Iraq and Iran. Her ouster destroyed that group!

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:51:51 +0000

All the evidence (like the Downing Street Memo and retaliation against anyone who told the truth) shows their plan was the invasion and occupation of Iraq because they wanted to control that part of the world. The “intelligence” was extremely slim and fabricated. Please stop talking about flaws and failures. The 935 recorded lies got you exactly what you insisted on! You just thought it would be a cakewalk and you would be greeted as liberators. Proves you don’t know much about the world.

By: nycbassist

nycbassist — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:42:55 +0000

Excuse me?? Unprepared?? You were totally prepared. You wish the intelligence had been better?? It was the intelligence you hand picked from the garden of seeds you planted. You and your bastard administration were, sadly fully prepared for this war. You got everything you wanted out of it, too. You stole oil. Your friends at Blackwater, Khaki and Halliburton made a killing (Literally). You did what you do best, and that is create disaster..and you loved every minute of it, too. You, and your like are complete sociopaths and this is your life’s endeavor bought wholesale and you revel in it. So don’t tell us you were unprepared for war. No… sadly, it was just our troops that were unprepared. It was the Iraqui people, who were unprepared. The world was not prepared for your like. Bush… he never stops finding new ways to peak at disgusting.. Please.. lock his criminal ass up for good.

By: AlexLawyer

AlexLawyer — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:19:52 +0000

Bush was–and still is–unprepared to manage a convenience store, much less the world’s most powerful nation. But it’s not just Bush; virtually the entire conservative Christian community, and its subsidiary Republican party, gleefully signed on to all aspects of Bush’s agenda. The failure is collective, those responsible are unrepentant and shameless, and the price of their folly will be high and long-lasting.

By: sacopenapa

sacopenapa — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:59:08 +0000

I’m with bratboy 50#

Bush opens his mouth to lie! Just chek the footage on the pre-war and see what a criminal this animal is!

By: sacopenapa

sacopenapa — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:55:46 +0000

WAR CRIMINAL! HAGUE 2009!!!!

By: Marie

Marie — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:51:48 +0000

What goes beyond the Peter Principle?
Bush has surely set a new standard.

By: Marie

Marie — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:50:54 +0000

There was not much Bush WAS prepared for — except maybe making a fool of himself.

By: republicanSScareme

republicanSScareme — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:59:07 +0000

Unprepared? That’s the understatement of the century.

By: SP Biloxi

SP Biloxi — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:56:50 +0000

“Bush also said, ‘I’m sure some people voted for Obama because of me.’ ”

My god, the clown President finally found his brain in the closet.

By: DaTruth

DaTruth — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:55:39 +0000

When you steal an election you are unprepared and unfit to rule. Bush forced himself upon us and the world. The outcome of his failed legacy speaks louder than words : TOTAL ABSOLUTE FAILURE!

By: ThereIsNoSanctuary

ThereIsNoSanctuary — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:35:04 +0000

“I was unprepared for war… but I started one anyway.”

By: roscoe

roscoe — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:24:02 +0000

The best part of Dumbya got shot into the sheets when he was conceived. The deaths of 4,000+ brave troops & hundreds of thousand Iraq citizens are responsible for him to answer for someday for being so “unprepared”.

By: Leftside Annie

Leftside Annie — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:16:15 +0000

Bush also said, “I’m sure some people voted for Obama because of me.”

Aw, crap, Chimpy – way to state the frikkin’ OBVIOUS!!! Geesh.

By: Nevar

Nevar — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:14:56 +0000

Bush also said, “I’m sure some people voted for Obama because of me.”

I guess he’s not totally clueless after all…

By: bratboy

bratboy — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:14:22 +0000

“I think I was unprepared for war,” Bush told ABC News’

Boy, if anyone believes that b.s., I have a lot of prime acreage just south of New Orleans I’d like to sell them.
There is no end to the lying streak of this p.o.s.
The only good word to describe this character is “sleazy.”

By: TeleMan

TeleMan — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:58:01 +0000

Bush was unprepared for real war.

The PNACers gave him a set of rose colored glasses and told him that we will be greeted as liberators. He’ll be viewed as a great war president. It’ll be a cakewalk just like his daddy’s war. We’ll get that Iraqi oil money.

Bush bought into all of those lies.

Damn puppet.

By: trollsbwild

trollsbwild — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:48:23 +0000

For the sake of expediency, W should only mention what in his entire life he has been prepared for.

crickets…..

By: Bluestocking

Bluestocking — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:47:01 +0000

Let’s get one thing straight. Some people might be inclined to interpret this as an apology or an admission of poor judgment, when in fact it’s nothing of the kind — all he’s done is state the blatantly obvious. Strictly speaking, neither Bush nor Gore were prepared for war because the the majority of American voters were not of the opinion that the country was officially at war — at least at the time, trying to turn a potential attack into a campaign issue would probably have struck most people as being needlessly alarmist and paranoid. What Bush still clearly fails to realize is that it simply isn’t possible for a President to be perfectly prepared for every eventuality, which a bit too much to expect from even the most intelligent of human beings (which Bush all too clearly is not) — but when an unforeseen event occurs, it’s how the President chooses to respond and the level of wisdom (or lack thereof) in the response which makes all the difference. In any case, the fact that Bush did not campaign on his ability to deal with a possible attack still does nothing to excuse the fact that he reportedly had at least some prior warning of a terrorist attack using planes and chose to dismiss it.

While the phrase “expect the unexpected” might have a grain or two of truth in it, it’s unrealistic for the most part — even though at least some of the Bush administration policies since 9-11 seem to have been enacted in a misguided attempt to eliminate even the slightest potential of recurrence, regardless of the cost to civil liberties. However, what Bush clearly still fails to understand is that the problems resulting from the War In Iraq have not come into being because Bush was prepared for war — but because his response was flawed (and there are, of course, some people who believe that the Bush administration deliberately chose to ignore warnings of a possible attack so that they could turn the results to their own advantage).