Well, here is the much belated Tuesday night Cross Point between myself and Nightside’s Ethan Millard.
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Here’s a very interesting exchange between David Gregory and the President that illustrates, very well, how truly screwed America is. When you compare the president’s statements here with THIS POST, you see why I find myself looking more and more at the picture below.
From Think Progress:
REPORTER: Are you saying at no point while the rhetoric was escalating, as World War III was making it into conversation — at no point, nobody from your intelligence team or your administration was saying, Maybe you want to back it down a little bit?
BUSH: No — I’ve never — nobody ever told me that.
Newer information says different:
On Tuesday, President Bush said he was never forewarned by the intelligence community that Iran had suspended its nuclear weapons program in 2003:
In August, I think it was John — Mike McConnell came in and said, We have some new information. He didn’t tell me what the information was.
Now the White House is revealing that wasn’t true. In fact, Bush did know what the information was. CNN reports:
President Bush was told in August that Iran’s nuclear weapons program ‘may be suspended,’ the White House said Wednesday, which seemingly contradicts the account of the meeting given by Bush Tuesday.”
From Think Progress again. Those guys are brilliant.
This is the same president who didn’t bother to read the August 6, 2001 PDB titled “Bin Laden Determined To Strike in US.”
It’s the same president who was unaware, in February 2003, that Iraqis had sectarian differences between Sunnis and Shiites.
He hasn’t changed a bit.
Well, to be fair, his hair has grayed a bit.
Bags under his eyes are a little bigger too.
I don’t think he’s sleeping well.