WP: Bush Skirts Queries on Iraq Nuclear Allegation

[Nambe]

The Washington Post Company

PRETORIA, South Africa, July 9 -- President Bush today brushed aside questions about the accuracy of his claim in his State of the Union address that Iraq had tried to buy nuclear materials in Africa, declaring that there was "no doubt" his decision to go to war to remove Saddam Hussein from power was correct.

The president avoided answering questions directly about whether he regretted including the claim and whether he still believed the charge -- that Iraq had sought a form of uranium from Niger -- to be true despite White House aides' acknowledgments this week that the allegation was baseless and should not have been in the speech.

Bush dismissed the matter as "attempts to rewrite history." ---

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[diamond14]

1. shrub's response...."he just asked 'Why?'"......

this part of the article shows the incredible low-level thinking of the shrub....OUR Country is falling apart because of this mindless pResident...if only we had a elected President with a brain !


"They said he has accepted their account of how the line had come to be included in his speech. "He understands intelligence and that as new information becomes available, we're going to continually update," said Dan Bartlett, the White House communications director. "He wanted an explanation and we told him how the process works and he accepted it. He just asked, 'Why?' "

[Dagaz]

2. Does anyone else smell a setup?

The administration "leaks" that the British intel was bad and the press goes into instant attack mode. This just reaks of a Rove setup where the left is all negative and Bush is ijn Africa with great photo ops.

Once again (and I've been on this for 6 months) the Democratic attack is not on the economy but now back on Iraq where Bush has remained strong in the polls throughout.

It's 9-11/Iraq/9-11/Iraq but we still haven't seen a real attack on the handeling of the economy.

[diamond14]

4. it was handed to them on a silver platter today....the economy

when rummy said it was costing about $3.8 Billion a month in Iraq, and about $0.9 Billion a month in Afganistan....not including salaries, and no end to these conflicts...those numbers are really stunning at a time when OUR seniors, OUR Veterans, OUR children...are all getting pushed out in a cold rain...

of course, the shrub mess is all inter-twined, his wars, his tax-cuts for the rich, and the collapsing economy...Democrats need to be able to grab issues, simply state it...and then repeat, repeat, repeat....simplify it, simplify it, simplify it...this WMD stuff is very very complex, and the Democrats have yet to simplify it...they should hire a TV consultant or a PR person to help them simplify it into a unified message from every Democrat...use the rove techniques, because it works...

Democrats put a lot of thought into these issues...which lends itself to getting all wrapped up in different types of details when speaking to the press...bushies put NO thought into any issues, and just repeat, repeat, repeat the key sentences faxed to them each day by KKKarl...

[lostinspace]

3. Bush's pathetic attempt to dodge the question

The AM news radio station in Chicago kept playing this over and over today.

A reporter in Africa asked Bush to comment on the fact that the information he used to make the Uranium statement in the STU address was false.

Bush went into a stammering response replying: "You want to know if
Iraq is trying to buy Uranium today. No they are not trying to buy
Uranium today". Which was not the reporters question at all.

He sounded like a small time hood. Not the leader of the free world.

[wabeewoman]

6. How stupid is that?

Exactly who did he think was trying to buy uranium for Iraq since we supposedly are in charge! And where were the follow-up questions?? Agghhhh!!

[Rhiannon12866]

8. I echo your frustration!

I have been asking this for months, sometimes aloud to the television screen, when is somebody going to start asking the tough questions?!:grr:

[Rhiannon12866]

7. Please don't tell me that the man is really that clueless

Or is the American public that clueless that they are buying this as a sensible answer?! As for the press, don't get me started. When is someone going to start calling him on all this?! This is more than ridiculous, it is just sheer lunacy!!!:crazy:

[Mechatanketra]

5. This is giving me a headache.

The habitual personal projection of the wingnuts has reached such a crescendo that it no longer even makes a modicum of sense. Spitting his "revisionist history" accusations puts Bush in the position of announcing 2 and 2 is 11 -- visibly not even in the bounds of being true.