Appealing to the higher Father

[verybdog]

Nobody at Straight Dope talks about this?

Amazing.

how is history likely to judge your Iraq war,’” says Woodward.

“And he[GWB] said, ‘History,’ and then he took his hands out of his pocket and kind of shrugged and extended his hands as if this is a way off. And then he said, ‘History, we don’t know. We’ll all be dead.’”

[Bryan_Ekers]

Oooh, oooh, let me.

Woodward asked a dumbass question (even people way smarter than GWB can’t predict how future historians will think) and Bush gave it the answer it deserved.

[Revtim]

I’ll GWB the benefit of the doubt, and hope meant that simply people alive today will be dead, and not the extinction of the human race.

[verybdog]

How about this:

”Saturday, Jan. 11, with the president’s permission, Cheney and Rumsfeld call Bandar to Cheney’s West Wing office, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Myers, is there with a top-secret map of the war plan. And it says, ‘Top secret. No foreign.’ No foreign means no foreigners are supposed to see this,” says Woodward.

“They describe in detail the war plan for Bandar

[rjung]

I’m sure the White House smear campaign against Bob Woodward is gearing up even as we speak.

[verybdog]

@Bryan Ekers

Woodward asked a dumbass question (even people way smarter than GWB can’t predict how future historians will think) and Bush gave it the answer it deserved.

How could the question was a dumb one? That’s a 100% ligit question.

You know when you have done something with pride and reporters ask you about it, one would never answer that in the way GWB did.

What I think is that GWB was feeling guilty about invading Iraq, but didn’t want to display it up front - hence that answer.

[Bryan_Ekers]

@verybdog

How could the question was a dumb one? That’s a 100% ligit question.

Okay. assuming you become famous, what will future historians think of you? Feel free to take a few weeks to think about it.

You know when you have done something with pride and reporters ask you about it, one would never answer that in the way GWB did.

What I think is that GWB was feeling guilty about invading Iraq, but didn’t want to display it up front - hence that answer.

Maybe he saw the same lame trap from Woodward that I see from you; an attempt to put people who disagree with you on the defensive. As such, Bush didn’t waste the energy giving a detailed reply, and neither did I.

By the way, isn’t this the sort of thread Reeder usually starts?

[MEBuckner]

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