Posted on 06/01/2004 11:24:16 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:15:40 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
President Bush yesterday said he had nothing to do with the selection of Iraq's interim government and insisted that the new leaders are not puppets of the U.S. government, hours after congratulating some of them in personal telephone conversations.
"I had no role in picking -- zero," Mr. Bush said in the Rose Garden. "It's going to be up to the leaders to prove their worth to the Iraqi citizens. In other words, the leaders are going to have to show the Iraqis that they're independent."
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I say Iraq can have whoever they want (as long as we can manipulate them like a puppet and keep them in our pocket) yep, all the free elections they want, with my one tiny condition.
Replace leaders with lettuce and you got an onion headline.
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