Typical MSM bias with this headline:
Bush: I Am Responsible For War
Responsibe for the only Democratic government in the Middle East also. Guess that headline got cut.
President Bush accepted responsibility on Wednesday for going to war with faulty intelligence, but firmly defended a decision that has deeply divided the country. “We cannot and will not leave Iraq until victory is achieved,” he said.
The president said that Thursday’s parliamentary elections in Iraq are a watershed moment that will inspire democracy across the Middle East. But with public opinion still running against his mission, Bush still was left defending his decision to go to war nearly three years ago.
“It is true that much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong. As president I am responsible for the decision to go into Iraq,” the president told a foreign policy forum on the eve of elections to establish Iraq’s first permanent, democratically elected government. “And I’m also responsible for fixing what went wrong by reforming our intelligence capabilities. And we’re doing just that.”
“We are in Iraq today because our goal has always been more than the removal of brutal dictator,” Bush said. “It is to leave a free and democratic Iraq in his place.
“My decision to remove Saddam Hussein was the right decision. Saddam was a threat and the American people and the world is better off because he is no longer in power,” the president told the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
The crux of the report makes it like he was saying he went into Iraq KNOWING the intelligence was faulty. But what he actually said was that he was responsible for the decision to go to war, and he said that the prewar intelligence was faulty. Big difference there, but of course the left can never be relied on to print the truth, only the spin that makes it appear as if they are right.
CBS prints a blatantly false headline while FOX prints this headline:
Bush Hails Iraq Elections as Democratic Milestone
Funny how SeeBS will print headlines that attempt to make the President look bad, while FOX will print a headline that actually details what his speech was about, including:
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein could have avoided war by complying with the demands of the international community to be truthful about his weapons-making capabilities and to allow unfettered access by international weapons experts to potential weapons sites, Bush said. But he did not, and so the United States and a coalition of international partners acted.
“The United States did not choose war. The choice was Saddam Hussein’s,” Bush said.
Think you would read that quote in a SeeBS article? Not in a million years, simply because there is no way to spin it to show the President in a negative light. Here is the actual speech:
We saw the future the terrorists intend for our nation on that fateful morning of September the 11th, 2001. That day we learned that vast oceans and friendly neighbors are no longer enough to protect us. September the 11th changed our country; it changed the policy of our government. We adopted a new strategy to protect the American people: We would hunt down the terrorists wherever they hide; we would make no distinction between the terrorists and those who harbor them; and we would advance our security at home by advancing freedom in the Middle East.
September the 11th also changed the way I viewed threats like Saddam Hussein. We saw the destruction terrorists could cause with airplanes loaded with jet fuel — and we imagined the destruction they could cause with even more powerful weapons. At the time, the leaders of both political parties recognized this new reality: We cannot allow the world’s most dangerous men to get their hands on the world’s most dangerous weapons. In an age of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, if we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long.
We removed Saddam Hussein from power because he was a threat to our security. He had pursued and used weapons of mass destruction. He sponsored terrorists. He ordered his military to shoot at American and British pilots patrolling the no-fly zones. He invaded his neighbors. He fought a war against the United States and a broad coalition. He had declared that the United States of America was his enemy.
Over the course of a decade, Saddam Hussein refused to comply with more than a dozen United Nations resolutions — including demands that he respect the rights of the Iraqi people, disclose his weapons, and abide by the terms of a 1991 cease-fire. He deceived international inspectors, and he denied them the unconditional access they needed to do their jobs. When a unanimous Security Council gave him one final chance to disclose and disarm, or face serious consequences, he refused to comply with that final opportunity. At any point along the way, Saddam Hussein could have avoided war by complying with the just demands of the international community. The United States did not choose war — the choice was Saddam Hussein’s.
When we made the decision to go into Iraq, many intelligence agencies around the world judged that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction. This judgment was shared by the intelligence agencies of governments who did not support my decision to remove Saddam. And it is true that much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong. As President, I’m responsible for the decision to go into Iraq — and I’m also responsible for fixing what went wrong by reforming our intelligence capabilities. And we’re doing just that.
Great speech. Too bad the MSM has to display their bias at every opportunity.
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The crux of the report makes it like he was saying he went into Iraq KNOWING the intelligence was faulty. But what he actually said was that he was responsible for the decision to go to war, and he said that the prewar intelligence was faulty. Big difference there, but of course the left can never be relied on to print the truth, only the spin that makes it appear as if they are right.
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