George Bush Regrets That He Does Not Get to Decide How People View Him
President George Bush — now seven and a half years into the worst administration of modern times — is so, so very sorry that he no longer has the power to dupe the majority of Americans into believing what he wants them to believe.
This was never part of the plan…
President Bush has admitted to The Times that his gun-slinging rhetoric made the world believe that he was a "guy really anxious for war" in Iraq.
Um, I don't think it was the rhetoric.
In an exclusive interview, he expressed regret at the bitter divisions over the war and said that he was troubled about how his country had been misunderstood. "I think that in retrospect I could have used a different tone, a different rhetoric."
Yeah, no. No. Again, I'm gonna have to go with it not being the rhetoric.
Phrases such as "bring them on" or "dead or alive," he said, "indicated to people that I was, you know, not a man of peace."
Okay, those phrases certainly didn't help at all. But, beyond the words or phrases or rhetoric or whatever, there was a, um, certain… something that made people believe that he was "not a man of peace."
I'm just gonna float this one out there, but maybe — just maybe — it was the thing with him manipulating the country in the aftermath of 9/11, brazenly lying to the world and orchestrating a war that didn't need to happen with a third world country that was not prepared to defend itself let alone pose a genuine threat to the United States.
Maybe it was that.
But the rhetoric didn't help either.
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Someone must have gotten to him-either Laura or his Mom.
So ok, he's finally admitted something. Too late, too much damage done already, and he knows how to fix it, but then that's one more thing he refuses to admit he was wrong. He's a total shit.
Bearness- that's exactly what I thought! I would stupefied that he even admitted he said the wrong words! I do believe that's the first time he's outright said he did anything wrong ever. Holy sheep!
Give dude credit. He finally admitted he made a mistake in his life.
I'm not worried about the war rhetoric – I'm worried about the ACTUALITY of the war this dillweed got us into.
Otakureview-I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing phrases like-"Let's wait for the IAEA to issue their report."
"Find out how accurate Curveball is." "Let's find out from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, or Turkey if their intelligence matches ours."
"I think that in retrospect I could have used a different tone, a different rhetoric."
… exactly what other rhetoric did he nix as good choices before settling on war rhetoric??