Bush On Al Qaeda Not Existing In Iraq Before Invasion: ‘So What?’
Bush On Al Qaeda Not Existing In Iraq Before Invasion: ‘So What?’
Yesterday, after an Iraqi journalist used “[t]wo of the worst insults in Islam” against him, an unfazed President Bush sat down with ABC’s Martha Raddatz for an exit interview in Iraq. When Raddatz asked Bush about his legacy, Bush first boasted about “52 months of uninterrupted job growth.” (There have been 1.9 million jobs lost in 2008 alone.)
Bush then turned to Iraq, and justified the war there by suggesting it had been al Qaeda’s home base. When Raddatz corrected him, Bush dismissively replied, “So what?“:
BUSH: One of the major theaters against al Qaeda turns out to have been Iraq. This is where al Qaeda said they were going to take their stand. This is where al Qaeda was hoping to take–
RADDATZ: But not until after the U.S. invaded.
BUSH: Yeah, that’s right. So what? The point is that al Qaeda said they’re going to take a stand. Well, first of all in the post-9/11 environment Saddam Hussein posed a threat. And then upon removal, al Qaeda decides to take a stand.
Watch it:
Continuing his refusal to take any responsibility for the consequences of his decisions, Bush suggests that al Qaeda came to Iraq by chance, that it simply “turn[ed] out to have been” the place where they “were going to take their stand.” But al Qaeda’s existence in Iraq is 100 percent attributable to Bush’s decision to go to war in Iraq: al Qaeda never existed there before, and in fact, Saddam Hussein viewed Osama bin Laden as a threat and refused to support him.
Throughout the run-up to war, Bush repeatedly cited supposed links between al Qaeda and Iraq to drum up support for the U.S. invasion. When those links proved to be utterly false — and perhaps even willingly fabricated — Bush began insisting that al Qaeda had chosen Iraq as the “central front in the war on terror,” and so the United States was forced to stay there and respond. In the meantime, more than 4,000 Americans have been killed, 30,000 maimed, and nearly 100,000 Iraqis killed.
In an interview earlier this month, Bush cited the intelligence failures in the lead-up to war and said simply, “I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess.” Bush’s indifference to the consequences of his decisions mirrors the scorn his Vice President displayed when dismissing American opposition to the Iraq war with a one-word answer: “So?”
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Too bad the troops did not frag his lying ass while he was at their base.
December 15th, 2008 at 10:18 amBush On Al Qaeda Not Existing In Iraq Before Invasion: ‘So What?’»
– - I see the Great Orator Bush has expanded on Cheney’s trademark, “So?”
December 15th, 2008 at 10:20 amFCUK YOU SHRUB.
BURN IN HELL.
December 15th, 2008 at 10:20 amBubble boy, still, yet, again.
December 15th, 2008 at 10:21 amI found this to be his most telling comment:
“Bush clueless why Iraqi reporter threw shoes at him“
December 15th, 2008 at 10:21 amI sincerely wish American media had a smidgen of the honesty and courage of one single Iraqi journalist.
December 15th, 2008 at 10:22 amI suppose the endless exit interviews will serve to put Dufous down on record as being completely without any accountability, sensibility, or sentience.
Ignore this stupid buffoon and he’ll go away.
Buy cheap that can be thrown with east and hold on to em for a sec…they’re going to be very popular in the near future.
December 15th, 2008 at 10:25 amJeez will it never get to be Jan 20th!! I am so sick of this a**hole puking his crap in the media. Will he never go away?
December 15th, 2008 at 10:26 amThe man is obviously on thorazine.
December 15th, 2008 at 10:27 amSend an old shoe to Bush for Christmas.
Mailing Address:
The White House
December 15th, 2008 at 10:28 am1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
His behavior is beyond cognitive dissonance.
George, would you like a bigger shovel or more time to dig the hole?
December 15th, 2008 at 10:32 amThe fcuking sonuvabeatch should suffer for what he’s done.
52 months of job growth?! where?! Blackwater and Halliburton.
I want to see that man punished.
December 15th, 2008 at 10:32 am“I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess.
FCUK YOU JACKMEAT.
YOU, AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, WERE SUPPOSED TO MAKE THE RIGHT CALL REGARDLESS OF INTELLIGENCE.
NOTHING LESS THAN GODDAMN TREASON BY THE MOST INCOMPETENT POTUS IN HISTORY.
December 15th, 2008 at 10:36 amProof that man isn’t ’superior’ to all other life forms on Earth…
December 15th, 2008 at 10:37 amIt is amazing that the lesson this DICK took from the shoe incident is that it was a size 10. He is oblivious to the fact he is hated, HATED!!!
He is lucky he was looking right at that guy because both shoes were heading right toward his bean. He looked like he had practice dodging shoes.
If you can dodge a shoe, you can dodge a ball.
December 15th, 2008 at 10:39 amJeez! What a tool!! Is it january yet??
December 15th, 2008 at 10:41 amIs Dubya REALLY so stupid as to think that “52 months of uninterrupted job growth” means that for 52 months we have had more and more jobs available for people, completely ignoring that we have to have a minimum number of jobs created each month just to keep up with the population increase — a minimum that consistently fails to be met?
Or does he just think we’re stupid enough to believe that?
I won’t even get into the obvious contempt he shows for the public by adopting the “so what” tone of his veep.
As he continues to polish the turd of his legacy, I can’t wait to hear how he compares shoes to laurel wreaths.
December 15th, 2008 at 10:42 amFax Bush a picture of an old shoe from your favorite Kinko’s.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
FAX: 202-456-2461
December 15th, 2008 at 10:43 amYa know, what I find most insulting of all is that HE thinks WE’RE stupid!
December 15th, 2008 at 10:47 am“I wish the intelligence had been different”
December 15th, 2008 at 10:55 amYes George, the people of Iraq wished that you had intelligence too, any intelligence whatsoever before you laid waste to their home.
Shock and Awe Killed over a MILLION Iraqis not 100,000. Please use the correct numbers so as not to let Bush look less of a Murder than he is.
December 15th, 2008 at 10:58 amMUNTAZER AL-ZAIDI had the last word on this war criminal. He threw his shoes on this imbecil-in-chief demonstrating what people around the World thinks of this pseudo-president and the US’s policies.
December 15th, 2008 at 11:00 amZaidi now is being held in custody. Demand his release! The world is watching what will happen to this hero!!!
Bush is the one who should have been frogmarched out of that room and incarcerated until his trial!
HAGUE 2009!
Bush like Rice this past week were trying to spim us out of sink. They think we will forget the manipulation of their LIES prior to the invasion and occupation. They think we will forget the TORTURE and all the War Crimes perpetrated during their criminal government. They think they are talking with people as dumb as they are…
December 15th, 2008 at 11:03 amHAGUE 2009! WE WILL NEVER FORGET!
Bush is a f***ing sociopathic, murdering SOB who deserves to be executed for his war crimes and criminal negligence.
Do NOT mark his grave or I’ll make it a yearly pilgrimage to sh*t on it.
Rot in hell, GW.
December 15th, 2008 at 11:05 amMuntazer-Al-Zaidi has the balls Americans lack.
This may be the beginning of a new tradition for polititians that remain clueless. I would prefer bricks but, I’ll settle for shoes.
December 15th, 2008 at 11:08 amThis is such a smug arrogance on Bush’s part. So he truly has no remorse for creating the Al Qaeda haven in Iraq? He really doesn’t get it? Obama needed to impeach Bush on 11/5…
http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ssablog/
December 15th, 2008 at 11:09 amPtty it was an inofencive shoe, and pitty it did miss its target…
December 15th, 2008 at 11:11 amBush: “And finally we gave Hussein a peaceful way out. It was his choice. And when he refused to allow for inspections, when he refused to disclose or disarm,….”
Um, it wasn’t Saddam who threw the inspectors out, it was Georgie. This guy’ll lie right to your face, Martha; call him on it, it’s your job.
And it turns out he both disclosed and disarmed, Georgie.
And an echo to misshusseinmolly’s point re job creation matching population growth – I think it’s 55K/month just to stay even.
December 15th, 2008 at 11:15 amWell, first of all in the post-9/11 environment Saddam Hussein posed a threat to anyone who wished to operate an al Qaeda cell in Iraq.
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December 15th, 2008 at 11:19 amSounds like he’s been drinking–that empty smile as Raddatz began the interview speaks volumes.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good line of horseshit–that’s the Republican way!
December 15th, 2008 at 11:20 am“In Najaf, demonstrators threw shoes at a passing American convoy and called Bush “cow.” “
More of those liberation flowers getting thrown around.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081215/ts_nm/us_iraq_bush_shoes;_ylt=Ast5cKQ.y8eRXvmpumSEFxJZ.3QA
December 15th, 2008 at 11:21 amIn an interview earlier this month, Bush cited the intelligence failures in the lead-up to war and said simply, “I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess.”
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Um, the intelligence HAD been different, you moron. That’s why you and your cronies manipulated it – because the intelligence actually said there was no threat from Iraq, and no reason to invade.
Or have you conveniently forgotten this little detail?
December 15th, 2008 at 11:23 amsacopenapa Says:
MUNTAZER AL-ZAIDI had the last word on this war criminal. He threw his shoes on this imbecil-in-chief demonstrating what people around the World thinks of this pseudo-president and the US’s policies.
December 15th, 2008 at 11:00 am
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Let’s hope not. I’d like to see more than just shoes thrown at Bush. I’d like to see the book thrown at him as well, when he’s put on trial for murder.
December 15th, 2008 at 11:26 amWorst President Ever!
December 15th, 2008 at 11:42 amImpeach. There’s Still Time!
This worm thinks he’s going to waltz his way out of the White House. He has destroyed everything this nation stands for and persists mocking the american people ever so arrogant and defiant. Bush has truly pushed things beyond their limit. I want him and his entire family disgraced. A whole bunch of money fixated devil worshipping freaks is what they are.
It’s going to take years to clear the unholy stench of Bush from the White House. Who would have thought this idiot was going to be such a nasty stinker. Death to the idiot NOW!
December 15th, 2008 at 12:06 pmYou reap what you sow.
December 15th, 2008 at 12:11 pmgw bush pretends he was the VICTIM of ‘bad intelligence’ rather than the PERPETRATOR! His mendacity is boundless.
December 15th, 2008 at 12:12 pmI don’t understand why chimpy keeps on repeating the same bs about the intelligence not being correct. It is his job to make sure the intel is correct. This old fool is saying he can go around the world and blow up countries and blame it on bad intel. GMAFB
One page from the liar curveball, doesn’t out weigh the reports and testimony stating Iraq wasn’t/isn’t a threat.
So false intel lead you to disregard the GC, torture, make up stories about, Tillman, Jessica, and other soldiers caught up in your murderous rampage?
How about you using the false flag thing? Do you really believe we are going to forget about all the shit you caused? Youtube is our back up. All we have from you and the dirty repugs are lies that can be disproved in a flash.
Everyone knows he faked the intel…it wasn’t bad intel it is a bad president with evil, psychopath, bloodthirsty, self-serving, revengeful habits.
GET THE F0UCK OUT OF OUR WH.
December 15th, 2008 at 12:16 pmEvilPoet Says:
You reap what you sow.
We reaped what he sowed
December 15th, 2008 at 12:17 pmIs there a term for fear of shoes? A shoe phobia? I sincerely hope that shoe throwing will follow this smirking, lying bastard the rest of his life.
Open that library please! I want to show due respect for Bush’s pResidency.
December 15th, 2008 at 12:22 pmThat delusional putz is going to have to hide for the rest of his freaking life.
I hope some day Chimpy finally realizes the incredible evil he has perpetrated on the world – and how much the world hates him for it….
And I hope he lives in abject fear for the rest of his life.
December 15th, 2008 at 12:30 pm@Game of Life – What can I say? If you want to get rid of a problem you have to strike at the root.
December 15th, 2008 at 12:42 pmHe’s claiming 2 opposing viewpoints.
1st the intelligence was wrong about Saddam
December 15th, 2008 at 1:06 pmThen he states to Raddatz: “Well, first of all in the post-9/11 environment Saddam Hussein posed a threat.”
If I ever see Bush, I guess I’ll have to throw rotten tomatoes instead.
December 15th, 2008 at 1:08 pmI think it would be a great help to all Americans if the IQ of George Bush was published. Then we might have some empathy for the little woodenhead (not me, but someone).
December 15th, 2008 at 1:10 pmHe’s right just as Cheney said the same. We’re the butt of the joke and we allowed it for 8 years. The truth hurts and more will come out about how much treason Bush/Cheney have done with the help of the Media, Journalist and Americans.
December 15th, 2008 at 1:48 pmThe rationalizations of a mad man!
December 15th, 2008 at 1:55 pmjackie you are so right. It wasn’t just Bush alone in this nightmare. The MSM looking to fill air time with bombs and shock and awe.
A journalist from Italy is the one who produce this paper that was later deemed to be false by the Italian Gov. the British Gov. and other spy agancies.
However our dear leader cherry picked his intel from that paper and went on from there convincing the nation it’s time to go to war. The reason GW keeps repeating the “false intel” excuse is because there is a possibilty he may be charged with war crimes. US government may protect him however, he will never be allowed to leave the US becuase he will get arrested. He could become the next Malosavitch. The question is will the people of the US stand up and demand he faces trial?????
December 15th, 2008 at 2:04 pmSO WHAT?
Are you f ucking kidding me? His attitude is horrifying.
December 15th, 2008 at 2:17 pmwhenever the reublicans don’t like something pres obama does we should all say …..”SO WHAT” in the post bush world…karl rove is considered a threat…………
December 15th, 2008 at 2:37 pmWhy is Rod Blagojevich being impeached and this “horror of a human being” still walks free?
December 15th, 2008 at 3:22 pmHe doesn’t feel remorse. He doesn’t care if you know he’s lying.
He doesn’t care. That is the bottom line. And unless he, personally, suffers consequences, he will continue not caring. And if he does suffer consequences, he will still only care about himself.
We seriously need to learn how to recognize sociopaths and keep them out of public office.
December 15th, 2008 at 3:30 pmAnd the world will be better without GWB at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
December 15th, 2008 at 3:32 pm#55 better place.
(I guess seeing the video enrages me so, I can’t type)
December 15th, 2008 at 3:32 pmGWB clearly is a sociopath who is still drinking heavily.
December 15th, 2008 at 3:33 pmIt’s obvious to me.
Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!
December 15th, 2008 at 8:28 pmRevisionist History Alert!
Bush Legacy Project At Work!
Revisionist History Alert!
Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!
What a worthless loaf Bush is. Ignorant, arrogant and clueless. He NEEDS to spend a couple of decades in prison for his warcrimes just so a BIT of reality can penetrate his thick skull.
December 15th, 2008 at 9:23 pmNo one will ever ask that smirking monkey about Donald Rumsfield and his legacy of disaster.
December 15th, 2008 at 10:58 pmDisgraced idiot pretty soon you’ll pay the high price for f_cking with the american people. Fate caught up to Hitler and the Helmsleys and pretty soon it will catch up with you as well!
So many people hate you worm and we all want to see you fall down really hard. Get ready scumbag it’s going to hurt!
December 16th, 2008 at 4:27 am>SO WHAT?
Don’t you understand Zoey, its very clear. You need to drink ALL the drain cleaner, otherwise, how are you going to deal with that terrible stomach ache you develop after you drink it? You reality based people get waaay to hung up on your notions of “causation” and cause preceeding effect. I mean, come on, like Sarah “the sage” Palin says, we shouldnt debate about how problems happen…not like delving into those realms could provide any insight into how to act in the future..
December 16th, 2008 at 7:30 amI’m Canadian, but I think W is an insult to the whole world. In the years to come, US president usually travel around presenting speaches when invited. PLEASE PLEASE may he find at each time somebody who will throw him old shoes, so he and we may never forget how dispeakable he is to the whole world. That would be a nice thing to see.
December 16th, 2008 at 10:42 pmal queda doesnt exist anywhere…all terrorism is a myth made up by the vast right wing conspiracy…right?
January 16th, 2009 at 7:55 pmmurderBYzeN Says:
February 17th, 2009 at 5:38 amDo ignorant punks like you actually think you make sense?