President Bush Answers Some Questions
A question submitted from the online audience asked Bush whether he felt he had been misled about Iraq as he made the decision to go to war.
“‘Misled’ is a strong word,” he said. “Not only our intelligence community, but intelligence communities all across the world shared the same assessment. And so I was disappointed to see how flawed our intelligence was.”
“Do I think somebody lied to me? No, I don’t. I think it was just, you know, they analyzed the situation and came up with the wrong conclusion,” he added.
He acknowledged concerns about leaving the unfinished Iraq war to a Democratic successor. Both Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton have said they will bring troops home if elected.
Bush said his “doomsday scenario of course is that extremists throughout the Middle East would be emboldened, which would eventually lead to another attack on the United States.”
Also in the interview to an online audience, Bush:
- Said more is known about global warming than when he first took office in 2001. Asked if it was real, Bush said, “Yes, it is real, sure is.” Still, he defended his opposition to the Kyoto treaty on climate change. “I could have supported a lousy treaty and everybody would have went, `Oh, man, what a wonderful-sounding fellow he is. But it just wouldn’t have worked.”
- Criticized the Democratic-led Congress, claiming it had dragged its feet on trade, on renewing surveillance powers and failing to respond appropriately to the housing crisis. “And so I would call them stalled. I would call them, so far, good at verbiage and not so good at results.”
- Said his Christian faith increased while in office, saying he sought to understand his weaknesses, better himself “and get closer to the Lord.”
- Criticized former President Carter for advocating what he called a “blame-Israel-for-every-problem” mentality to the Middle East.
President Bush also expressed sympathy for both Obama and Hillary over their gruelling primary fight, and opined that race will only be a factor in the fall if the MSM makes it so - something I agree with; especially if Obama is slipping in the polls by October, the MSM will try to guilt trip America into voting Obama by claiming in polls and surveys that anti-Obama sentiment is actually anti-black sentiment.
I’m telling ya, good people, we’re going to miss this man once he leaves office - he has been the most honest, most dedicated and most kind-to-his-opponents man we’ve ever had in office. I know those who hate him will disagree with this, but that is just one of the sadder aspects of the past 8 years that as we’ve been confronted with challenge and President Bush has risen to it, some people made it their business to turn Bush into the enemy.
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