Posted on 01/13/2007 11:15:33 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
The president concedes that his decisions have led to more instability in Iraq. President Bush made the admission in an exclusive interview with Scott Pelley at Camp David yesterday (12), his first interview since addressing the nation about Iraq. It will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Jan. 14 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
The president says the current sectarian violence in Iraq, is a destabilizing factor that "could lead to attacks here in America" and must be controlled. He defended his decision to invade Iraq in the same way, saying Saddam was competing with Iran to get a nuclear weapon and making the region unstable. But when pressed by Pelley, Bush concedes that conditions in Iraq are much worse now.
Pelley: But wasn't it your administration that created the instability in Iraq? Bush: "Our administration took care of a source of instability in Iraq. Envision a world in which Saddam Hussein was rushing for a nuclear weapon to compete against Iran... He was a significant source of instability. Pelley: It's much more unstable now, Mr. President. Bush: Well, no question, decisions have made things unstable.
"I think history is going to look back and see a lot of ways we could have done things better. No question about it," says Bush.
Toppling Saddam was not a mistake, however. "My decision to remove Saddam Hussein was the correct decision in my judgment. We didn't find the weapons we thought we would find or the weapons everybody thought he had. But he was a significant source of instability," Bush tells Pelley. "We liberated that country from a tyrant. I think the Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude and I believe most Iraqi's express that."
The execution of Saddam was mishandled, says the president, who saw only parts of it on the Internet because he didn't want to watch the dictator fall through the trap door. "I thought it was discouraging... It's important that that chapter of Iraqi history be closed. [But] They could have handled it a lot better."
I did not say that.
Nor did I mean that.
Good point.
Yes, not only does Peach believe it but so do I. The only ones who should be appologizing for 3,000 american deaths are the muslim terrorists who actually killed them and the obstructionist liberals who helped them and continue to help them by trying to cut and run. This includes the ones on this forum who pretend to be conservatives, such as yourself.
Bingo.
Jim Robinson wrote the foreward for a book called Hillary's Secret War which detailed the early years of conservative web sites. FR is mentioned in the book and in the 90's, posters were coming here and pretending to be conservatives but were really stirring dissent among posters.
It was proven that some of the posters were using servers in the Clinton White House and The Washington Post.
I believe these people come here and start arguing among freepers so we spend time debating these rather ignorant posters instead of doing what we do best which is research.
Have you seen #58, 146, 178, 186, 208, 214, 230, 235, 250, 265, and 271?
Yes.
I am an American who wants to see my tax dollars spent wisely.
I can see my original assessment of you is correct after all. You have a reading comprehension problem.
You haven't answered why you think we should listen to your faux concern about the deficit when Wall Street analysts are unconcerned. And you haven't answered Polybius's excellent post to you which, as I recall, had several questions contained within the post.
But carry on dodging. It's rather amusing.
I do apologize that my present and future tax dollars (to finance the national debt) have put American soldiers to death and yet-to-be-naturalized Americans in the womb to death through fatal decisions and wasteful government spending that has gone to killers like Planned Parenthood.
You apparently have confused difference of opinion and thoughtful response with reading comprehension.
To answer your question about the deficit, the national debt (caused by deficit spending) places a spending obligation on the government that diverts revenue from legitimate services. This is waste.
You haven't answered why you think we should listen to your faux concern about the deficit when Wall Street analysts are unconcerned. And you haven't answered Polybius's excellent post to you which, as I recall, had several questions contained within the post.
You have agreed that I do not need to answer this question, so why are you belaboring it?
Gosh you really are clueless, aren't you. And still dodging.
LOL
That was more a military operation than a war, imo. We didn't control territory and depose a dictator.A lot of other people like to call it the Persian Gulf War.
*I am an American who wants to see my tax dollars spent wisely.*
You really gave yourself away as an asshole because if the
Muzzies win and take over, not only you won't have your tax money and you won't exist either.
Not from what I read here.
It appears he tried to force those words out of Bush's mouth.. did not succeed but then put it in the title anyway.
Exactly - which is why the follow-up you suggest would have seemed like piling on, political maneuvering from the reporter.
W has made mistakes in Iraq. Those mistakes have made the situation worse. He has admitted that he made those mistakes, we don't have to pretend that he was talking about somebody else in that quote.
He's human. It happens. The important thing is whether he learns from those mistakes, and early indications are positive.
Beats hell out of the alternative. Or have you forgotten.
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