Deny, You’re A Liar»

Via Yglesias, Bush admits to lying about Iraq and then denies he admitted lying about Iraq.

RADDATZ: You said you worried any time you think it will fail. Did you think it would fail?

BUSH: I thought it was failing, yes, I did, and that’s why — and I listened to a lot of opinions. And as you remember, there were like all kinds of opinions.

OK, got that? Now, a few moments later

RADDATZ: You were saying, ‘We’re winning. We have a plan for victory. We are winning,’ up through October.

BUSH: Well, there was — I also recognized — I think if you’d go through the — kind of fully analyze my statements, I was also saying, “The fighting is very tough, it’s — you know, the extremism is unacceptable. The murder is unacceptable.”

And you know, it’s very important to be realistic.

RADDATZ: But the overall thing — when you say, “We’re winning,” you know what the American people hear. You know how that will play.

BUSH: Well, yes. I think we — and I wanted — that’s as much trying to bolster the spirits of the people in the field as well as — look, you can’t have the commander in chief say to a bunch of kids who are sacrificing either, “It’s not worth it,” or, “You’re losing.” I mean, what does that do for morale?

You know what’s great for morale? Being lied to about the strategy troops are sacrificing for. May Bush and bin Laden die in exactly the same way: alone, afraid, and in captivity.