The President Speaks
But is anybody listening? by Justin Raimondo
As George W. Bush stumbled, mumbled, and grumbled his way through a special edition of Meet the Press with Tim Russert, an unspoken question kept rising above his droning voice: is this stammering dolt really the President of the United States?
On the Missing WMD Commission:
"There is a lot of investigations going on about the intelligence service, particularly in the Congress, and that's good as well. The Congress has got the capacity to look at the intelligence gathering without giving away state secrets, and I look forward to all the investigations and looks."
Naturally, he never answered Russert's question, which was why was he so reluctant to appoint this commission in the first place. Bush also evaded the question of whether he might himself testify before this commission, or the 9/11 commission. "Perhaps" is all Russert got out of him. And the President's answer to at least ten questions was, essentially, a single word: "Yeah."
Is this how a President talks?
On the missing WMD:
"… There's theories as to where the weapons went. They could have been destroyed during the war. Saddam and his henchmen could have destroyed them as we entered into Iraq. They could be hidden. They could have been transported to another country, and we'll find out. That's what the Iraqi survey group let me let me finish here….
One "theory," advanced by Hans Blix and Scott Ritter, which the President doesn't address, is that the weapons, such as they were, had been destroyed after Gulf War I. But that would be too simple and logical an explanation for the Frat Boy in the Oval Office: better to posit that they were taken aboard UFOs by aliens from Betelgeuse.
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