Bush on the 2008 Election: A Perfect Example of Delusional Thinking
Part 1: Bush Iraq War Lies
Part 2: Bush Iraq War Lies
Part 3: Bush Iraq War Lies
CNN reports on an interview that Bush recently gave concerning his opinion on the 2008 election and why Barack Obama was ultimately elected. It appears to be full of deep political insight, such as the following:
“I think it was a repudiation of Republicans,” *** “And I’m sure some people voted for Barack Obama because of me. I think most people voted for Barack Obama because they decided they wanted him to be in their living room for the next four years explaining policy.”
Oh, yes, of course most people voted for Barack Obama because they preferred for him to be in their living room. However, Mr. Bush ignores the fact that most polls showed that the majority of voters rejected Bush completely and thoroughly, a President with historically low opinion ratings. Rejection may not be easy, but it is what it is. Revising history in his own mind will not change the fact that voters repudiated him, his policies and his Presidency.
Bush also appeared to want to revise history as to the Iraq war. His own advisers have gone on record stating that very shortly after 9/11, his administration started discussing an invasion of Iraq even though all of the evidence pointed to Afghanistan.
Bush would not say whether or not he would still have pushed for war with Iraq if he had known there were no weapon of mass destruction in that country.
“A lot of people put their reputations on the line and said the weapons of mass destruction is a reason to remove Saddam Hussein,” Bush said. “It wasn’t just people in my administration. A lot of members in Congress, prior to my arrival in Washington, D.C., during the debate on Iraq, a lot of leaders of nations around the world were all looking at the same intelligence.
This man is delusional. It was his administration that pushed for the war in Iraq and his administration who told the world that you are with us or against us when they were trying to dupe everyone into following them into this war. In fact, the United States went to war without the support of the majority of world leaders and there was a massive public outcry from our allies and their citizens against it. Most of the world saw this as an opportunity for Bush to get his cronies access to Iraq’s oil.
“I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess,” he said, but [he] would not say whether he would have pressed forward with the decision to invade Iraq if he had known otherwise: “That is a do-over that I can’t do.”
The “intelligence” that he is discussing has largely proved to be fabricated by his own administration to provide some basis to go forward with the war and to get members of Congress and other world leaders on board.
It seems quite clear that President Bush realizes that he is a failure and that he never accomplished anything of substance except a tax package that has been the largest transfer of wealth from the middle class to the rich in history. Saying it ain’t so George won’t change nuthin’.
Bush is right about one thing though. History will be a great judge of his failed presidency. Finally, someone has made even Herbert hoover look good.
