3rd November 2010, 11:42 AM
He just released a book you see, "Decision Points". Here's a quote from an interview on NBC about it.
Uh, what, do you think we're idiots, or that everyone has forgotten 2002-03 or something? Good luck with that, but I think even this country isn't quite stupid enough to believe such ridiculous statements.
He also was evidently sad to heard that Iraq had no WMDs, though he didn't show it at the time one bit (somewhat the opposite, I think). More revisionist history?
Quote: LAUER: Not everybody thought you should go to war, though. There were dissenters.http://thinkprogress.org/2010/11/03/bush...dissenter/
BUSH: Of course there were.
LAUER: You know, there were questions at the Pentagon. Colin Powell had questions. Brent Scowcroft, your father’s former National Security Advisor, and dear friend, wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, I’m paraphrasing here, saying, “It’s not a good idea to go to war in Iraq.” So there were dissenting voices.
BUSH: I was a dissenting voice. I didn’t want to use force. I mean force is the last option for a President. And I think it’s clear in the book that I gave diplomacy every chance to work. And I will also tell you the world’s better off without somehow in power. And so are 25 million Iraqis.[...]
LAUER: You would still go to war in Iraq?
BUSH: I– first of all, didn’t have that luxury. You just don’t have the luxury when you’re President. That’s a very hypothetical question. I will say definitely the world is better off without Saddam Hussein in power, as are 25 million people who now have a chance to live in freedom.
Uh, what, do you think we're idiots, or that everyone has forgotten 2002-03 or something? Good luck with that, but I think even this country isn't quite stupid enough to believe such ridiculous statements.
He also was evidently sad to heard that Iraq had no WMDs, though he didn't show it at the time one bit (somewhat the opposite, I think). More revisionist history?