Does Bush Know What His Own Government Is Doing?

Do the people in his government tell him what he needs to know, or just what he wants to hear? This is the first question in the news conference today.


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/23/politics/23WEB-PTEX.html?pagewanted=print&position=


Q Mr. President, two more Americans have been beheaded, more then 300 Iraqis have been killed in the last week, Fallujah is out of government control, and U.S. and Iraqi forces have been unable to bring security to diplomatic and commercial centers of Baghdad.

Why haven't U.S. forces been able to capture or kill al-Zarqawi, who's blamed for much of the violence? And what's your answer to General John Abizaid's statement that, "I think we will need more troops than we currently have."

PRESIDENT BUSH: If that's what he says -- he was in my office this morning. He didn't say that to me, but if he were to say that, I'd listen to him. Just like I've said all along, that when our commanders say that they need support, they'll get support because we're going to succeed in this mission.

its making him and Unka Dick more wealthy. You didn't think they were in it for average americans did you?

This oaf has hit bottom. He has no plan, never had one, tuned out everyone who didn't agree with him, now he pukes out the notion that he isn't listening to the General, but if he(the General) should happen to say something, he sure would listen! That's what he's always done, right? Right? Oh - my - God...

I don't even think the man's left hand knows what his right is doing all the time.

Why do people think its ok that our President, our Commander in Chief, is this out of touch?