In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
The "Notes" of a President
Atrios has this excellent picture on his site... what is it? Well here's a small reproduction of the original:
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(Click here for the huge original photo.)
Someone took that photo, cropped Bush's cabinet meeting "notes" and flipped them so they were more readable.
So at the end of a meeting with his cabinet, this is what George wrote down:
??? was a threat -
Sworn enemy of US
Destabilizing Force in volatile part of world.
??????
Ties to terrorist orgs
(and I can't make out anything in the last two sentences)
So over a year after the war with Iraq began Bush's talking points are exactly the same but he still needs to write them down. Jeez... even I have them memorized by now. Is this what was discussed at the meeting? Please, he wasn't interested in the meeting... he was just getting ready for some questions from the press.
Meeting the press must be really scary, what if they ask tough questions? Hey wouldn't it be cool if who he'd ask to question him had been pre-screened for him? You know... making it less scary?
Well what's this on the next page? Why it is a list of names in ALL CAPS (in what looks like a different handwriting). All I can make out is:
Deb ???
David Morgan
Roger ????
John Roberts (?)
Bob ????
Ann Compton
Oh, its a list of White House press corp reporters. Hey do you think that is the order of who George will ask?
Let's see: From the transcript available at Whitehouse.gov:
President Discusses Economy, Iraq in Cabinet Meeting
I'll be glad to answer a couple of questions. Deb, why don't you lead it off?
Whoa! Deb was first on the list too! What a wild coincidence.
Let's see who he'll ask next.
Let's see -- Morgan.
Whoa. David Morgan! He's second on the list. Wow, who'd of thunk it. George gets the list of who to call ahead of time. But he's so good at pretending isn't he? "Deb, why don't you lead it off?" Yeah Deb why not, I mean since Rove told you you'd be first. Now get that softball ready. Let's see -- Morgan. Its like he's pretending to think of who to ask next. It's kind of funny. Here's some more fun excerpts from that press conference:
The other thing we talked about was our firm resolve to spread freedom, and therefore peace, around the world. We fully understand terrorists will try to shake our will, to try to shake our confidence, to try to get us to withdraw from commitments we have made in places like Afghanistan and Iraq. And they won't succeed. Iraq will be free, and a free Iraq is in our nation's interest. A free Iraq will make the world more peaceful. A free Iraq will be an ally of those nations who honor human rights and human dignity and the aspirations of men and women everywhere. A free Iraq will make America more secure.
Okay that isn't from his notes... he seemed to be able to spontaneously explain world policy at a third grade level. Good for George.
The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al Qaeda, because there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda.
Also not from his notes, but a great sentence anyway, reminds me of a quote from him from back in August, 2002 when talking about Saddam, "and when I say I'm a patient man-- I mean I'm a patient man."
Anyway back to the cabinet meeting:
I always said that Saddam Hussein was a threat. He was a threat because he had used weapons of mass destruction against his own people. He was a threat because he was a sworn enemy to the United States of America, just like al Qaeda. He was a threat because he had terrorist connections -- not only al Qaeda connections, but other connections to terrorist organizations...
Wow, those notes sure came in handy there. And we know about the weapons of mass destruction that he used against his own people because we just got the purchase receipts from the Reagan estate... right George? I mean wasn't that why Rummy went to visit in the eighties? To see how Saddam was enjoying the merchandise?
Speaking of Rummy, let's have more from George:
I'm never disappointed in my Secretary of Defense. He's doing a fabulous job, and America is lucky to have him in the position he's in.
And the hair of his, why its just Fab too!
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