Bush claims not be a dictator
Interesting article about how Bush is angry that he’s not a dictator.
Oh, wait… he’s angry because he’s being portrayed as an evil dictator in the media. My favorite two bits occur right at the beginning of the article:
At a news conference, Bush appeared most angry that the programme ed the programme of spying on American citizens without going through the courts] had been revealed in the press. He said it was an effective tool in disrupting terrorists and that whoever leaked details to the media had committed “a shameful act”.
Bush is upset that his spying program has been revealed to the public. He’s upset that he can’t spy on American citizens anymore because it was an “effective tool in disrupting terrorist…” How effective? Any metrics on that? Nope, because that would give out more info which would be an even more shameful act than the initial reveal was. Give me a break.
On another issue, Bush acknowledged that the pre-war claim that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction complicated the US ability to confront other potential emerging threats such as Iran.“Where it is going to be most difficult to make the case is in the public arena,” Bush said. “People will say, if we’re trying to make the case on Iran: ‘Well, if the intelligence failed in Iraq, therefore, how can we trust the intelligence on Iran?’”
Bush states it very well himslef: If the intelligence failed in Iraq, therefore, how can we trust the intelligence on Iran? How about this, George: Don’t be upset that the “public arena” will castigate you… be upset that you falsified information and then blamed it on the intelligence agencies in the lead up to the war on Iraq. Naturally no one trusts the intelligence agencies that you maligned.
In this other article on the same site which teases Bush about mixing up Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden (c’mon, everyone has a slip of the tongue every once in a while) there’s my final interesting bit:
“In the late 1990s, our Government was following Osama bin Laden because he was using a certain type of telephone and then the fact that we were following Osama bin Laden because he was using a certain type of telephone made it into the press as the result of a leak,” Bush said.
So we should restrict the press in an effort to make ourselves safer. Bush is saying that he is against the transparency of government in the pursuit of “liberty” from dark forces on foreign shores that mean us harm. You’ve got to be kidding me.