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President Bush regrets his legacy as man who wanted war

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Posted by tipper 2008-06-11 08:24|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Actually, war came to the President.

Posted by McZoid 2008-06-11 08:56|| 2008-06-11 08:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Usual BS title given by Times of London to an article that does not say what the title says. Bush regrets the rhetoric that led people to the impression that he and America were warmongers:

hrases such as bring them on or dead or alive, he said, indicated to people that I was, you know, not a man of peace. He said that he found it very painful to put youngsters in harms way. He added: I try to meet with as many of the families as I can. And I have an obligation to comfort and console as best as I possibly can. I also have an obligation to make sure that those lives were not lost in vain.

He regrets talking like a Texan. He doesn't regret BEING a Texan.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2008-06-11 09:00|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2008-06-11 09:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Ptah, you beat me too it.

Posted by phil_b 2008-06-11 09:06|| 2008-06-11 09:06|| Front Page Top

#4 If I was Bush, I would have said I regret that most of Europe was a bunch of sissy boys that don't have the stomach to stand up for themselves.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-06-11 09:22|| 2008-06-11 09:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Look at how much he's aged...I've always found it remarkable that people fight like wild beasts for a job that takes 10 years off your life for every 4 in office.

Posted by Jonathan 2008-06-11 09:43|| 2008-06-11 09:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Many of the quotes of Bush talking like a Texan weren't bad, if he ever stood up and defended them. Instead he'd say things and allow the barracuda in the media to pick things apart unmolested until the sharks came in and it was just a nightmare.

I mean responding to a journalist questioning the "wanted dead or alive" by saying we included the alive in there because we're civilized, I'm shocked you're so bloody minded and cruel.

Or "Of course we'd like them alive as well. It's harder but the feeling is the intelligence we could gain might be worth the risk, depending upon the circumstances. And the blow to Al Queda Morale would have to pretty hard don't you think?

Or lastly, Dead or Alive are two options. I suppose you'd prefer the other two, "Surrender or hide". Well mr chicken-shit journalist those aren't really good long term options so I wanted to be clear they aren't on the table.

Mocking your enemies can be very successful in framing an argument or debate.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-06-11 11:39|| 2008-06-11 11:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Bush should have started every answer with "Now, I'm not questioning your patriotism here. I would never do that." until that also became a sort of joke so that anyone saying their patriotism was questioned would get a chuckle instead of the knowing nods they get now because that meme has sunk in.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-06-11 11:41|| 2008-06-11 11:41|| Front Page Top

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