Bush quote from 60 minutes interview

Rushlimbo

"I strongly reject that this administration hasn't been straight with the American people," he said. "The minute we found out they didn't have weapons of mass destruction, I was the first to say so."

When did he admit there were no WMD'S ??????????

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/14/bush.60.minutes/index.html

norm

"Now, look, part of the reason we went into Iraq was -- the main reason we went into Iraq at the time was we thought he had weapons of mass destruction. It turns out he didn't, but he had the capacity to make weapons of mass destruction."

---- George W. Fucknut August 21, 2006

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060821.html

hippiemom

I like this one:

"I think the Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude."

norm

hippiemom wrote:

I like this one:

"I think the Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude."

And free oil!

sponger

Well, he said it behind closed doors while Cheney was in the room. Then Cheney smacked upside the head and told him to shut his mouth and to never say that again.

JaneNY

hippiemom wrote:

I like this one:

"I think the Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude."

:eek: is the only response I can think of.

WindNoSail

Rushlimbo wrote:

"I strongly reject that this administration hasn't been straight with the American people," he said. "The minute we found out they didn't have weapons of mass destruction, I was the first to say so."

When did he admit there were no WMD'S ??????????

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/14/bush.60.minutes/index.html

Actually he did, admit that there wer no WMDs that is. It was like one speech and he just said that officially they do not anticipate they will find WMDs. It may have been more than a year ago. Maybe two.

Not to fight this one out, but the whole WMD issue is so old to me at this point. I never heard ANYONE ever make the argument that we should not go to Iraq because we believe the information is false over WMD's. That said, everyone in Congress and the White House and in the intellegence community and the media should be experiencing a little 'Iraq guilt'.

Unless of course you think Bush lied to you directly about WMD's, when he knew the truth all along that is wasn't the case. And the intellegence community was forced by Cheney to provide such information. And Congress, especially the democrats were just innocent legislators who were decieved.

sponger

WindNoSail wrote:

Actually he did, admit that there wer no WMDs that is. It was like one speech and he just said that officially they do not anticipate they will find WMDs. It may have been more than a year ago. Maybe two.

Not to fight this one out, but the whole WMD issue is so old to me at this point. I never heard ANYONE ever make the argument that we should not go to Iraq because we believe the information is false over WMD's. That said, everyone in Congress and the White House and in the intellegence community and the media should be experiencing a little 'Iraq guilt'.

Unless of course you think Bush lied to you directly about WMD's, when he knew the truth all along that is wasn't the case. And the intellegence community was forced by Cheney to provide such information. And Congress, especially the democrats were just innocent legislators who were decieved.

I think that you are right on with that. There just isn't enough evidence out there to prove that Saddam didn't have WMD's.

But, I think people were more worried about terrorism than anything else. And I think people thought Saddam had something to do with terrorism. They thought he had links to al qaeda. And I think our government allowed Americans to believe this in spite of knowing otherwise.

searchlightsoul

sponger wrote:

I think that you are right on with that. There just isn't enough evidence out there to prove that Saddam didn't have WMD's.

How then could it have been so obvious to everyone else in the World that he didn't have them? The really sad thing is that you will probably make the same mistake again. Talk about a gullible population.

PaperPlates

searchlightsoul wrote:

How then could it have been so obvious to everyone else in the World that he didn't have them? The really sad thing is that you will probably make the same mistake again. Talk about a gullible population.

I don't think the Kurds thought it was THAT obvious.

ONCE DEVIDED

The kurds want their own homeland, and basically have one now the kurds said anything to garner support in their war on saddam, including working with alqueeda in the northern no fly zone. that is where they were defended from saddam by the US and britain.

duggro

sponger wrote:

I think that you are right on with that. There just isn't enough evidence out there to prove that Saddam didn't have WMD's.

should it not be the case that you have to prove he HAD them rather than proving he didnt?

searchlightsoul

Paperplates had it right. You were used by the Kurds so they could get a degree of autonomy and you were used by your administration. Not by Bush, he is a straight forward idiot but by the other more politically 'intelligent' guys in the government.

Any way what was Iraq going to do with WMD...provoke an attack so that they could fight a war they couldn't win. Surely it was obvious that North Korea and Iran were far more dangerous?