President Bush On Iraq War: ‘I Was A Dissenting Voice. I Didn’t Want To Use Force’

[cynatnite]

Former President George W. Bush will unveil his memoir “Decision Points” this Sunday to offer “an account of a key decisions in his life.” According to his publisher, the book will offer “gripping, never-before-heard detail.” One of those unheard-of details? Bush didn’t want the Iraq War.

Conducting Bush’s first interview of his publicity tour (which will air Monday), NBC News’ Matt Lauer pressed Bush on his decision to go to war despite “questions” from a number of “dissenters” like Gen. Colin Powell and his father’s former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft. Bush responded that “of course there were” dissenters, like himself

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/11/03/bush-iraq-dissenter/

:wow: :wtf:

[AndrewP]

1. Bush Jr can fuck off

[Dawson Leery]

2. Shrub (poster child for birth control) wanted this war.

He said so in 1999.

[StarryNite]

3. He's such a lying sack of shit!

[KansDem]

4. WTF!!!

:wtf:

George, you lied to us then...you're lying to us now.

At least you're consistent!

[Ozymanithrax]

5. Oh, that Bush...

:rofl:

[dkofos]

6. More lies from the WAR CRIMINAL

[Bill McBlueState]

7. Dude, you were also the frakking President.

This is sort of how we all imagined things went in the Bush White House -- Cheney and the gang ran the show while W smiled and nodded. I didn't think he'd be so open about it.

[Democrats_win]

8. This proves he NEVER was President* of the United States.

Because everyone knows that the President* cannot order troops to war except if there is a declaration of war. The imperial Bush wars never happend. Let the double speak live on forever! The real question is why would the "media" give a war criminal and criminal against humanity any voice at all!!!!? Have they run out of lethal injections?

[Mist]

9. Beyond parody. I guess it took Shrub 7 years to figure out that everyone

hates this war, and present himself as a dissenter.

[Sal Minella]

11. And you'd think, in seven years, he'd have figured out that saying

"I wanted to privatize Social Security, but failed" would be an awkward thing to say in light of Wall Street's performance the last 3-4 years.

[The Wielding Truth]

10. Damn Liar! He was the "DECIDER"! He is worthless! No way can he rewrite this!

Pysops can give him cover, but it doesn't work on us!

[aquart]

12. Lying bastard.

[LittleBlue]

13. Not surprising. Bush was little more than a pawn of the various WH forces

Dick Cheney being one of them.

Chimpy didn't have the brains to possess deep convictions on anything outside religion.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. George you gave the fucking orders

no dialing that down now Junior.

[joeybee12]

15. In other words, Dumbo, you were never in control...n/t

[Jokerman]

16. To be found in the Fantasy/Fiction section of your local book store. n/t

[ljm2002]

17. Success has many fathers...

...while failure is an orphan.

He doesn't want to own it. Too bad, George, it's all yours and history will judge you accordingly.

[polly7]

18. What a freaking liar.

Now I remember why I literally felt sick every time I heard or saw him on TV, a pathological, lying narcissist with that FU smirk and more power to hurt human beings than nearly anyone in the world. Well, HE used it, and, joked about it. Goddamn liar. Sorry.... excuse my anger, he brings out the worst in me.

[Occam Bandage]

19. I have little trouble believing that he believes this.

He was a blank-slate president, devoid of his own ideas, utterly incurious, and entirely dependent on his advisers to spoon-feed him a world-view. It's probably true that Bush did not particularly want war, because Bush did not particularly want anything.

[Spirochete]

20. Was this before or after

he said "fuck Saddam. We're taking him out!"?