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Originally Posted by ratbastid
No, look, this is really simple. He lied because the truth ("We knew all about it, have for decades; we saw this particular storm coming and knew the likely consequences, and sat around with our thumbs up our asses, and 1300 people died.") doesn't look good. And looking good is Priority #1 for this administration. (Okay, that's pretty much true for politicians in general these days.)
The lack of integrity that this has revealed is simply SHOCKING.
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I struggle with this, because I try, from my subjective point of view, to understand the motivation for behavior. My speculation about a possible reason for Bush's lie is admittedly a stretch, but to me, a lie makes him look worse than to have told the truth(e.g. "I regret to report that all of us, including me, have had our collective thumbs up our asses for decades"). Maybe he just thought that if he lied, he wouldn't get caught (Lord knows my kids have used that reasoning a lot). Either way, I agree with your observation about the absence of integrity, and would only add that this reaffirms the perception of Bush as clueless and stupid.