Closer to the bone than I thought...
Mar. 27th, 2003 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
libertangoFrom an article in Time magazine:
""Fuck Saddam. We're taking him out." Those were the words of President George W. Bush, who had poked his head into the office of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. It was March 2002, and Rice was meeting with three U.S. Senators, discussing how to deal with Iraq through the United Nations, or perhaps in a coalition with America's Middle East allies. Bush wasn't interested. He waved his hand dismissively, recalls a participant, and neatly summed up his Iraq policy in that short phrase. The Senators laughed uncomfortably; Rice flashed a knowing smile. The President left the room."
Note the date. 2002, not 2003.
Which means Bush has been lying for 51 of the last 52 weeks, with his whole, We-haven't-made-a-final-decision line.
But it mostly shows my previous post was not rhetorical hyperbole.
""Fuck Saddam. We're taking him out." Those were the words of President George W. Bush, who had poked his head into the office of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. It was March 2002, and Rice was meeting with three U.S. Senators, discussing how to deal with Iraq through the United Nations, or perhaps in a coalition with America's Middle East allies. Bush wasn't interested. He waved his hand dismissively, recalls a participant, and neatly summed up his Iraq policy in that short phrase. The Senators laughed uncomfortably; Rice flashed a knowing smile. The President left the room."
Note the date. 2002, not 2003.
Which means Bush has been lying for 51 of the last 52 weeks, with his whole, We-haven't-made-a-final-decision line.
But it mostly shows my previous post was not rhetorical hyperbole.
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