As near as I can tell, W's press conference was about as edifying as people not of the W faith would expect by now. A particular amusing bit, although not Iraq - related :
Now the temptation is going to be, by well-meaning people such as yourself, John, and others here as we run up to the issue, to get me to negotiate with myself in public, to say, you know, "What's this mean, Mr. President, what's that mean?" I'm not going to do that. I don't get to write the law. I'll propose a solution at the appropriate time, but the law will be written in the halls of Congress. And I will negotiate with them, with the members of Congress, and they will want me to start playing my hand -- "Will you accept this, will you not accept that, why don't you do this sort of thing, why don't you do that?"
I fully recognize that this is going to be a decision that requires difficult choices, John. Inherent in your question is do I recognize that. You bet I do. Otherwise, it would have been done.
And so I am -- I just want to try to condition you. I'm not doing a very good job, because the other day in the Oval when the press pool came in, I was asked about this -- a series of questions on -- a question on Social Security with these different aspects to it, and I said I'm not going to negotiate with myself and I will negotiate at the appropriate time with the law writers, and so thank you for trying. nytimes.com
This almost makes me want to go look up the "Saddam didn't let the weapons inspectors in" war "justification" answer, but I'm sure there will be much more of a similar nature from the never-changing, never-mistaken war president. Some people dig W, others scratch their heads. |
