Countdown - Special Comment - Bush Lie
Some come to the light early. Others come to the light later. I knew that Bush had no intention of leaving Iraq. I knew. Bush’s other brain, Condoleezza Rice said, exactly that on the Charlie Rose Show back in May. Dr. Rice said, “We are not looking to leave Iraq. That is not why this president went into Iraq…. We are not going to leave Iraq that is not capable of defending itself.”
Keith finds a quote in a new book about Bush revealing. I find it confirmation of what Dr. Rice had already told us. We aren’t leaving Iraq. It doesn’t matter what the Democrats want or what the American people want. Unless Congress has a super majority and can override a veto the troops are staying. Period. That’s the reality.
Keith Olbermann: And so he is back from his annual surprise gratuitous photo-op in Iraq, and what a sorry spectacle it was. But it was nothing compared to the spectacle of one unfiltered, unguarded, horrifying quotation in the new biography to which Mr. Bush has consented.
As he deceived the troops at Al-Asad Air Base yesterday with the tantalizing prospect that some of them might not have to risk being killed and might get to go home, Mr. Bush probably did not know that, with his own words, he had already proved that he had been lying, is lying and will be lying about Iraq.
He presumably did not know that there had already appeared those damning excerpts from Robert Draper’s book “Dead Certain.”
“I’m playing for October-November,” Mr. Bush said to Draper. That, evidently, is the time during which, he thinks he can sell us the real plan, which is “to get us in a position where the presidential candidates will be comfortable about sustaining a presence.”
All I have to say to Keith Olbermann is welcome to the light.
Really we’re not leaving? I thought those permanent military bases we built were gifts to the Iraqi people.
From what I have heard in my group MFSO-Military Families Speak Out, That the republicans are going to hit the airwaves really heavy with amputees and some gold star families. They will be asking for their suffering not to tossed aside.That we need to stay in Iraq. There are some that believe this becuase they don’t want their suffering to to be in vane. It is the only way they can deal with their loss. It is easier to accept it if it is for a worthy cause. So they can’t let it not be one. But as the Utah miners families have realized that to ask for someone else to risk their lives for an undefined risk is just to much to ask. The republican group have 15 million at this point to spend and they are going to start this fall. Who knows what else Bush is going to pull from his hat? I am really surprised they didn’t fly the nerve agent they found in the UN building to Iraq and plant it just to find it again. Or maybe they have.
Gifts to the Iraqi people.
I don’t mind or care if we leave bases but your point is well taken.
Thanks for your comment.
Thanks Margaret -
I saw an amputee video about 2 weeks ago. Former press secretary Ari Fleisher was behind it. Here a link to the $15 million story - http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/22/ari-fleischer-returns/
So sad. The whole thing is so sad.