fun wit bush's news conference
A quote: "One of my hardest parts of my job is to console the family members who have lost their life." -- George W. Bush
One of the things that really bothered me about Bush last night was his evasiveness with a couple of issues (well, to be fair, he was evasive with just about everything, but especially so with a couple issues). The first was the way he, when asked if made any mistakes before 9-11 and during the lead-up to war in Iraq, did not answer the question. He went through a litany of stuff that he repeated several times throughout the event but never came out and said "yes" or "no". I'm sorry, but a man (and especially one of such character as Bush likes to make himself out to be) has the balls to admit when he's been wrong. If he hasn't been wrong (or he feels like he hasn't been), he has the balls to stand up and say, "look, I haven't done anything wrong". Bush is not willing to do either. His evasiveness would suggest that he does feel he made mistakes but is unwilling to accept it publically and apologize for the pain and destructions that his mistakes lead to (also probably fearful of the reprecussions given it'd set him up nicely for impeachment and maybe even war-crimes trials).
Another quote: "a country that hides something is a country that is afraid of getting caught" -- George W. Bush
If the same could be said about, I don't know, Presidential administrations, then I think I lot could be said about their fears of being caught...caught with their pants down on Iraq, their economic policies, their energy policies, their fatherland, erm, "homeland" security policies and just about every policy given their secrecy, their declarations of executive priviledge all over the place and otherwise hiding just about everything that they do away from the public eye. Including what they're doing about the 9-11 commission.
The other evasive answer of Bush that really bothered me was when he was asked about appearing before that 9-11 commission with Dick Cheney and behind closed doors. When asked why he was appearing with the VP, he smirked and gave the non-answer of how he wanted to answer questions. When asked again he only smirked again and gave the same answer. He refused to answer the question that was obviously being asked (which was, and I quote from the Whitehouse's transcript, "I was asking why you're appearing together, rather than separately, which was their request."). It is a question that I think should be answered...why wouldn't each one be able to appear on their own? I can see why they'd want to hold their testimony behind closed doors as they are the president and vice-president and (I don't think) should be paraded in front of commissions like that, but why must they be together, and furthermore, why must their testimony not be under oath as they have insisted on its not being so? These are very important questions and the president's dismissal of them is really rather disappointing.
One of the things that really bothered me about Bush last night was his evasiveness with a couple of issues (well, to be fair, he was evasive with just about everything, but especially so with a couple issues). The first was the way he, when asked if made any mistakes before 9-11 and during the lead-up to war in Iraq, did not answer the question. He went through a litany of stuff that he repeated several times throughout the event but never came out and said "yes" or "no". I'm sorry, but a man (and especially one of such character as Bush likes to make himself out to be) has the balls to admit when he's been wrong. If he hasn't been wrong (or he feels like he hasn't been), he has the balls to stand up and say, "look, I haven't done anything wrong". Bush is not willing to do either. His evasiveness would suggest that he does feel he made mistakes but is unwilling to accept it publically and apologize for the pain and destructions that his mistakes lead to (also probably fearful of the reprecussions given it'd set him up nicely for impeachment and maybe even war-crimes trials).
Another quote: "a country that hides something is a country that is afraid of getting caught" -- George W. Bush
If the same could be said about, I don't know, Presidential administrations, then I think I lot could be said about their fears of being caught...caught with their pants down on Iraq, their economic policies, their energy policies, their fatherland, erm, "homeland" security policies and just about every policy given their secrecy, their declarations of executive priviledge all over the place and otherwise hiding just about everything that they do away from the public eye. Including what they're doing about the 9-11 commission.
The other evasive answer of Bush that really bothered me was when he was asked about appearing before that 9-11 commission with Dick Cheney and behind closed doors. When asked why he was appearing with the VP, he smirked and gave the non-answer of how he wanted to answer questions. When asked again he only smirked again and gave the same answer. He refused to answer the question that was obviously being asked (which was, and I quote from the Whitehouse's transcript, "I was asking why you're appearing together, rather than separately, which was their request."). It is a question that I think should be answered...why wouldn't each one be able to appear on their own? I can see why they'd want to hold their testimony behind closed doors as they are the president and vice-president and (I don't think) should be paraded in front of commissions like that, but why must they be together, and furthermore, why must their testimony not be under oath as they have insisted on its not being so? These are very important questions and the president's dismissal of them is really rather disappointing.
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