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Originally Posted by Ustwo
willravel it should be very obvious....
There are people who, if Bush commented on the blue sky would insist he lied about it and the sky was in fact azure, what an idiot he was, how Cheney told him to say the sky was blue, and how he plans to use the lie that the sky is blue to turn the US into a police state.
Most of us have just been ignoring these people.
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My advice is to add Bob Woodward to your "list"; the WaPo reporter who comprised half of the investigative team that were largely responsible, for the reporting that brought down the Nixon presidency. Bob Woodward, who enjoyed unparalleled access to the Bush White House during the first term. The Woodward who compromised his own reputation for reproting the news, in exhange for unique access to the White House. Woodward failed to report, for more than two years, that Bush administration officials had revealed details of Valerie Plame's CIA employment, in mid 2003.
Fortunately, Woodward provided a description of the man who ten days after this Jan. 10, 2001 briefing meeting with the Joint Chiefs and outgoing defense secretary William Cohen. Frightening, to me, that when he was about to become the most powerful man in the world, instead of thirsting for as much information concerning the duties, responsibilities and capabilities that he was about to take on as CIC of the U.S. Military, Bush was distracted by the uneaten mints he observed in front of the officials who were briefing him....
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...04Apr19_2.html
PLAN OF ATTACK : Cabinet Divided
Cheney Was Unwavering in Desire to Go to War
Tension Between Vice President and Powell Grew Deeper as Both Tried to Guide Bush's Decision
By Bob Woodward
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 20, 2004; Page A02
......... Immediate Focus on Iraq
In early January 2001, before Bush was inaugurated, Cheney passed a message to the outgoing secretary of defense, William S. Cohen, a moderate Republican who served in the Democratic Clinton administration.
"We really need to get the president-elect briefed up on some things," Cheney said, adding that he wanted a serious "discussion about Iraq and different options." The president-elect should not be given the routine, canned, round-the-world tour normally given incoming presidents. Topic A should be Iraq......
......On Jan. 10, a Wednesday morning 10 days before the inauguration, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and Powell went to the Pentagon to meet with Cohen. Afterward, Bush and his team went downstairs to the Tank, the secure domain and meeting room for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.....
..........The Joint Chiefs' staff had <b>placed a peppermint at each place. Bush unwrapped his and popped it into his mouth. Later he eyed Cohen's mint and flashed a pantomime query, Do you want that? Cohen signaled no, so Bush reached over and took it. Near the end of the hour-and-a-quarter briefing, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Army Gen. Henry H. Shelton, noticed Bush eyeing his mint, so he passed it over.
Cheney listened, but he was tired and closed his eyes, conspicuously nodding off several times.</b> Rumsfeld, who was sitting at a far end of the table, paid close attention, though he kept asking the briefers to please speak up or please speak louder. "We're off to a great start," one of the chiefs commented privately to a colleague after the session. <b>"The vice president fell asleep, and the secretary of defense can't hear." </b>
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Ustwo, even Bush's poodle at Newsweek, Howard Fineman is having second thoughts about his role as cheerleader. Do you ever feel embarassed as you keep up the pretense that the Main Stream U.S. press, owned by just five giant meida corporate conglomerates is somehow operating with a left leaning bias. or as you maintain the pretense that Bush is a capable leader with all of our safety and our other best interests as his #1 priority?
Maybe the lack of posts here is related to some folks having reached the limit of how much they have to ignore to ever more frequently post phrases similar to, <b>"Well....Clinton did blah blah blah.....".</b>
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11623419...wsweek/page/2/
Un-Explainer in Chief
Bill Clinton's gift (and curse) was that he could explain just about anything. <b>George Bush, on the other hand, distrusts public talk.</b>
By Howard Fineman
Newsweek
Updated: 3:36 p.m. ET March 1, 2006
........I think most Americans found some comfort in Bush the Growling Cowboy.
That time has passed, though. The main reason of course, is that the simple, black-and-white solutions that the president sketched for us in the "war on terror" haven't materialized. Most Americans now consider the war in Iraq to have been a mistake, one that has made us less secure here in what is now called "the homeland." They see his Manichaean clarity not as a comfort, but as a danger—because it underestimates the complexity of the real world. There are many more moving parts to consider in the world than the simple clockwork Bush had described.........
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