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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Minding the Store

Posted by on May 31 at 10:20 AM

Christ!

WASHINGTON May 31, 2006 (AP)— President Bush learned of reports that U.S. Marines killed two dozen unarmed Iraqi civilians only after reporters began asking questions, the White House said Tuesday.

Asked when Bush was first briefed about the events in Haditha, an insurgent stronghold in western Iraq, White House press secretary Tony Snow replied Tuesday: “When a Time reporter first made the call.”

To quote M (Judi Dench) in the otherwise forgettable Bond flick Goldeneye: “Unlike the Americans, we prefer not to get our bad news from CNN.”


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No one in the White House is brave or stupid enough to come anywhere near the emperor with bad news of any kind.

True, though to be fair I should point out that the Goldeneye quote was in reference to the Clinton administration's failure to know about Pakistan's nuclear ambitions.

Still, that blunder was due to a complete intelligence breakdown, while Dubya's ignorance is more a head-in-the-sand scenario. Both are pretty scary.

When the Pres is as clueless as Bush seems to be, it's time to pull the plug on this Farce of a War and stop wasting Billions of our taxes each day on it.

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