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Segami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:12 AM
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BUSH: 'I Was A ' DISSENTING VOICE ' On Iraq War
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" Former President George W. Bush considers himself "a dissenting voice" in the decision to go to war with Iraq.


In the first interview of the publicity tour for his new book, Decision Points, Bush told Matt Lauer that he didn't want to use force.

Excerpts:

http://www.nbcuniversal.presscentre.com/content/detail.aspx?ReleaseID=2411&NewsAreaId=2



"Not everybody thought you should go to war, though," Lauer said. "There were dissenting voices."


"I was a dissenting voice. I didn't want to use force," Bush said. "I mean force is the last option for a President. And I think it's clear in the book that I gave diplomacy every chance to work. And I will also tell you the world's better off without Saddam in power. And so are 25 million Iraqis."


Bush went on to say that he still feels like going to war was the right decision. And as he wrote in the book, "No one was more sickened or angry than I was when we didn't find weapons of mass destruction."



The interview will air Nov. 8.


<http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/bush_i_was_a_dissenting_voice_on_iraq_war.php?ref=fpb>
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BeyondGeography Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:13 AM
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1. That's amazing, even for him
Unreal.
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FarPoint Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:23 AM
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14. We always seem surprise...
well, I am too actually....but then, they always rewrite history....so, in second thought...I knew it would come to this distortion. I feel like I am in the twilight zone when they do this.....
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Lucy Goosey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:13 AM
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2. "Dissent" ??
I don't think that word means what you think it means, Dubya. :eyes:
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:13 AM
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3. lololololololololol
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:14 AM
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4. Uh,Dude
You were the f*&#ing President. I think your opinion really should have trumped everyone else's. :eyes:
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Segami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:16 AM
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6. No, I believe you're mistaken. Cheney was the president.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:21 AM
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12. He certainly was
the puppet master.

Well Bush sure showed him when he refused to pardon his buddy Scooter. Showed him who was boss on that one! :rofl:
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:16 AM
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5. You didn't seem very angry when you were hunting for WMDs under the sofa in the Oval Office.
Asshat.
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AuntPatsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:20 AM
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11. exactly what I was thinking...how anyone would think of wasting money on his tripe is beyond me...
but there is no accounting for stupidity and fiction mascerading as non-fiction being so fascinating and admired by some...
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:17 AM
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7. Er, from what I read, he was looking for an excuse to go to war with Iraq from the word GO.
This was even before 9/11.

Hours after 9/11, his team was looking for anything to tie to Saddam. It's all right there in the Terror Timeline, documented.

Too bad Bewsh's voice couldn't come with selective delete.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:18 AM
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8. Then why did * tell the outgoing Clinton Administration on Inauguration Day that
they were going into Iraq when the latter tried to warn them about Al Quaeda?
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:19 AM
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9. Talk about taurine metabolic byproducts.
"No one was more sickened or angry than I was when we didn't find weapons of mass destruction."

You have the nerve to state that after joking about it at the correspondents dinner?
FUCK YOU and your family for ten generations back, George!
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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:19 AM
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10. Pardon me,President Codpiece..Bull F*cking Sh%T
the lies never stop,do they?
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pinboy3niner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:21 AM
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13. A 'dissenting voice' has never ordered an invasion
Never.
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zonkers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:23 AM
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15. George, you are smokng the good stuff.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:23 AM
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16. go back to your fucking room junior
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:23 AM
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17. and his lil' buddy Mutt Lauer swallowed that one hook line and sinker
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:24 AM
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18. So I guess he reluctantly strutted across the deck of an Aircraft Carrier
in Bulging bravado because he was forced into it.,.
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Segami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:35 AM
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28. Reminder to the SHRUB for his case to go to WAR.
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/29796304#29796304>
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Frustratedlady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:25 AM
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19. I know I overslept, but tell me,,,it ISN'T April Fool's Day, right?
He has a big dose of buyer's remorse in his old age. I seem to recall him in his "costume" telling us --Mission Accomplished-- with all the pride of a pit bull.
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quinnox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:25 AM
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20. hahahaha
Is this guy serious, holy crap.

The rewriting of history by the junior idiot to make himself look better has begun.
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:26 AM
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21. I see Bush is on the "I'm Still a Psychopath" book tour. (What was that about "F*** Saddam"?)
Edited on Wed Nov-03-10 08:27 AM by WinkyDink
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sce56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:26 AM
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22. Reminds me of the SNL O'Donnel skit
After discussing the “media’s fixation” with silly things like “dabbling in witchcraft” O’Donnell reveals to the pair that back when she started her anti-masturbation campaign back in the day she didn’t even know what masturbation was…now that she does she masturbates multiple times a day!
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Mimosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:27 AM
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23. What a damn liar! UNBELIEVABLE!!!! n/t
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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:28 AM
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24. Sure, georgie. Whatever you say...
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alsame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:28 AM
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25. Actually, I believe him. I still don't think he was
in the loop and didn't really know what was going on. He wasn't making decisions or policy - he just did what he was told.
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eShirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:28 AM
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26. only if "dissenting" is defined as "cheerleading"
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walldude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:29 AM
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27. I'm sure it's very clear in his book how much of a
pacifist he was and how he really had no choice but to invade Iraq. Of course in reality it's very clear that nothing would have prevented them from attacking Iraq. Not even Saddam surrendering, which he actually tried to do but Murika needed some Shock and Awe.
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:36 AM
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29. "No one was more sickened or angry than I was when we didn't find weapons of mass destruction."
Missing the fundamental point...You don't take a country to war ON A HUNCH, hoping to find your justification LATER. You make 100% certain of your reasons FIRST. Sorry, Georgie. You're full of shit (as if we didn't know).
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xiamiam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:40 AM
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30. what a crock of shit..nt
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:52 AM
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31. More Lies
lies, lies, lies.

Fuck you GWB
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:53 AM
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32. Little turd from Crawford sure is afraid of going to jail.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jpVm59Q7Xb0/RiBKXR-SyZI/AAAAAAAAAjc/sMuZpTzrOao/s320/Bush+Looking+Under+Desk++bush_wmd_joke_lon816.jpg

No one was angrier, right.
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:55 AM
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33. Hey George, you can't be both "the decider" and the "dissenting voice"
:hurts:
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Segami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 09:10 AM
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36. LOL. Didn't you get the memo? What George really meant to say was that he was really
' The Dissenter and not The Decider ". He was misquoted by the press. I believe we have video to confirm his bullsh#t, err claims!:rofl: :rofl:

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slOWroJlmbs&feature=related>
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 09:31 AM
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38. A drunk slurring his words might mis-pronounce dissenter as decider!
Give the guy a break! He is NOT a war criminal! (shades of tricky dick)

:sarcasm:
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Segami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 09:36 AM
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39. LOL. Well then, if he was ' dissenting ' as he claims, he would have been dissenting
to the REAL president which would have been CHENEY!
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 09:01 AM
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34. continuing his drunken delusions ...
he thinks he was a "dissenting voice" ... however, he was too drunk to notice that he never actually said anything dissenting ...
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 09:03 AM
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35. "we didn't find weapons of mass destruction" - WTF???
How many RWers have we heard saying we found the WMDs??? And how many of them said "They were there! Because we can't find them doesn't mean they're not there!"
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 09:55 AM
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40. Instead of looking in his office, he should have gone to Cheney's office
and looked at the documents in those man-sized safes. That's where the WMDs were fabricated.
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Demstud Donating Member (288 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 09:16 AM
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37. So he got out voted?
You were the damn president, man! If YOU are the dissenting voice, then it doesn't happen! Apparently, Bush didn't understand that the presidency isn't rule by committee, lol. Which might be closer to the truth that you think. This guy truly was incompetent and unqualified for the job. Watched part of an interesting Frontline documentary on Bush and the war, and it suggested that he really did tone down quite a bit of the language they put in his speeches (resulting in a number of the hilarious gaffes when he was trying to ad-lib). It made a pretty good case that Bush was the more moderate of that group. Kind of scary.
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Fuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 10:17 AM
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41. The bullshit runs high with this one.
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thereismore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 11:14 AM
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42. Between him and the duke of all fucking darkness Cheney, I could believe it. nt
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madmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 11:14 AM
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43. Yes, and I'm one of 16 Vestal Virgins. nt
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Vickers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 11:20 AM
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44. Well, George, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt...
...and chalk this up to Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome.
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FLAprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 11:23 AM
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45. We are witnessing revisionist history at its worst....
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 11:24 AM
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46. What a total crock of crap!
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femrap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 11:36 AM
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47. Just another tip from
Orwell....let's rewrite history for the dumb fuck citizens.
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unblock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 11:44 AM
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48. yeah, he wanted to go to war AGAINST iraq. dick had to explain it to him.
"i know it's confusing, but in this context, going to war AGAINST iraq is really the same thing as going to war WITH iraq, it's just that going to war WITH iraq doesn't sound as, well, aggressively criminal."
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