Bush: "Knowing what I know today, I would have still made that decision."

[Stephanie]

Bush says he would still invade Iraq, even without the threat of WMD or links to Al Queda.

ON WHAT GROUNDS???

This statement is OUTRAGEOUS.

HUME: It was an evident decision after the election to try to be above the political fray. You came under a grueling attack on the use of pre-war intelligence, on the Iraq policy itself. And the response that — the administration was remarkably passive for a long time. Why was that?

BUSH: I just came off an election, and we're trying to elevate the debate and put politics behind and see if that couldn't happen. It didn't happen. But I've always felt like one of my jobs is to try to change the tone in Washington, D.C., to bring people together for the common good. To the best of my ability, it was just that dragging the presidency in the name-calling and the finger-pointing and the blaming — but no, you're right.

And we took a blasting and have begun recently to make the case in a more forceful way to the American people, first of all rejecting this notion that, you know, we lied about intelligence, reminding people that some of those people making those accusations looked at the same intelligence I looked at and voted for use of force in Iraq.

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HUME: Can you say today that if you had known then what you know now about the weapons, that you would have made the same decision.

BUSH: I said it today, and I said it at the last speech I gave.

And I've said it throughout the campaign to the American people. I said I made the right decision. Knowing what I know today, I would have still made that decision.

HUME: Now if you had this — if the weapons had been out of the equation, because the intelligence did not conclude that he had them, it was still the right call?

BUSH: Absolutely.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,178760,00.html

[kenny blankenship]

1. Bush implicates himself as a war criminal by these remarks

no mention about the illegality of such an intent--to make war without the justification of imminent need for self-defense--in our corporate media, quite naturally. It's as if Hitler went on live radio broadcast simultaneously throughout the world and said, "After I invade Poland the legality of the situation will become a moot issue." and then nothing more was said about it.

[Stephanie]

5. Exactly!

It's NOT HIS PREROGATIVE to invade a sovereign nation to overthrow their government. HE HAS NO RIGHT to do it.

[Arkansas Granny]

14. Isn't this the type of behavior that causes the United Nations to

impose sanctions against a country?

[closeupready]

2. Then, no, it would not have been the right call.

That may still have been his call, but it would have been, at a minimum, unprecedented. And I'll be waiting to see what, if anything, Hillary has to say about this.

[sasha031]

4. knowing what I know now

I would of still put those fire crackers in those little cute frogs mouths and blown them to kingdom come.

[bettyellen]

3. he is trying to mitigate the damage about the deliberately faulty

intellegence and nullify the significance of the DSM. Is anyone going to really call him on rewriting history?
It was his only rationale for war, and now it doesn't matter at all? WTF?
BTW, nice to see you, Steph!
:HI:

[Stephanie]

7. hey betty!

:hi:

[bettyellen]

10. dare i say it? Happy Holidays Steph!

:hi:

[Rambis]

6. Would you have guarded the brazillian tons of explosives?

that are being used to blow up our troops? You know the one that John Kerry told us about at every campaign stop.

[Gemini Cat]

8. When are we going to demand the

murdering chimp to be impeached?
How many more crimes does he have to commit before 'we the people' say enough?

[datadiva]

9. That being said

If the Congress and Senate had known this, he wouldn't have been given the authority to wage his stupid war to begin with.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. If we had known what we know today, you wouldn't have been elected.

I guess that's not as dramatic a statement as intended, since you were NEVER elected.

[Contrary1]

12. Why wouldn't he?

Look at all the money being made. And then there's all that oil.

"Knowing what I know today, I would have still made that decision."

Without a doubt.

[Stephanie]

13. He has no RIGHT.

Why doesn't he understand that?

[Disturbed]

15. The Silverspoon Sociopath is a True Believer

He truely believes that illegally invading Iraq was totally justified and that he will be seen as bringing "Democracy" to the ME.

[paulk]

16. I keep hoping the MSM would point out that Bush's speech

was Bush basically saying that he has the right to make war on whoever he wants - just because
he wants to ...

"on what grounds?"


That's exactly the right question... when is the whore media going to ask it?

[Cha]

17. That's just how I figured

bush would do it. he's Stupid and that's not changing.

[Toots]

18. Knowing what we know today...Just what is that?

We know that Saddam could not hurt a flea when we attacked and we also know that the USA was not in imminent peril. Those are facts and no one disputes those facts and yet Bush* says he would attack Iraq again even knowing these facts. I have a very real problem with that...

[Stephanie]

22. So do I.

He would do it again ON WHAT GROUNDS??? Who does he think he IS?

[sakabatou]

19. Impeach!

[cantstandbush]

20. Anybody else wonder why the WH hasn't been stormed after that statement?

[Nutmegger]

21. I lost it when I heard him say that

After all we know, this was a slap in the face.

[newportdadde]

23. What did you think he would say?

He is not capable of admitting a mistake or examining a past decision. He cannot do it, hasn't anyone ever had a boss like this? They will waste money and time etc but hell no will they admit they are wrong or change a decision no matter what.

He still acomplished two very important goals for his backers. The first is a 'secure' supply of middle east oil, the second is a fresh canvas for corporations to build on and make a fortune 'modernizing'.

[info being]

24. That's because he DID KNOW WHAT HE KNOWS TODAY!!!

And so did most of us here.

[Stephanie]

25. true

But he had to lie about the evidence to get his war on - so how does he figure he could invade Iraq with no evidence whatsoever? What is he talking about?