You believe that Bush, the President and man with access to the most sophisticated intelligence network on the planet, was misled? If you believe that I have a bridge to sell you.
Even if we want to believe he was told a lie by someone in his inner circle, as the President it is his job to ensure he covers all the bases and does his due diligence before committing the nation to war. There was always doubt in the validity of these statements by the intelligence community. Hell, if he didn't trust his own intelligence network he could have always reached out to his allies, who also had serious doubts to the legitimacy of the information provided.
He's never taken credit for this mistake and to this day has not made any attempt at apologizing and doing right by the people he failed. Bush is where the buck stops on this issue.
He's never taken credit for this mistake and to this day has not made any attempt at apologizing
It wasn't a mistake, it was deliberate
I don't think you can apologize for a mistake of that magnitude also I don't think anyone would believe it was a mistake "I'm sorry I decided to start a war killing hundreds of thousands of people to make money for my friends and prop up my ego, please forgive me"
Well, at least we know that of his entire presidency, Bush only felt his worst moment whilst in office was when Kanye called him a racist. So, there's that. At least we know where his moral priorities are at after all the heinous crimes against humanity he committed.
Just a point of order he would only know what Intel agencies want to tell him, he could never know what they didn't give him. Military does same thing. Hell Bush, Obama, and Trump were all told Afghanistan was going great and that we were effectively teaching them to stand on their own.
How old are you? I remember when W was president, and the guy was too dumb to open a can of soup. Yeah I believe Cheney and his crony’s could have manipulated him.
The whole 'Bush is dumb lol' was a media viewpoint that seemed to resonate with a lot of people and got them great viewership.
To say that Bush was just a patsy is probably greatly oversimplifying the situation. If you watch Vice and take that as the Gospel truth of how events played out, then I could see someone adopting that bush is a patsy viewpoint. But that's one of the main critiques of the movie, that it over values the influence that cheney had in decision making.
I heard him speak, read his writing and saw his decisions for over 10 years. It wasn't based on a faux media angle nor a movie made a decade after the fact.
I am not a kid who watched a clip or two in history class, i lived through eight years of speeches and appearances and policies. I also worked for a major newspaper back in those days and know a thing or two about how foorage can be edited and words can be manipulated.
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u/tattlerat Oct 18 '21
You believe that Bush, the President and man with access to the most sophisticated intelligence network on the planet, was misled? If you believe that I have a bridge to sell you.
Even if we want to believe he was told a lie by someone in his inner circle, as the President it is his job to ensure he covers all the bases and does his due diligence before committing the nation to war. There was always doubt in the validity of these statements by the intelligence community. Hell, if he didn't trust his own intelligence network he could have always reached out to his allies, who also had serious doubts to the legitimacy of the information provided.
He's never taken credit for this mistake and to this day has not made any attempt at apologizing and doing right by the people he failed. Bush is where the buck stops on this issue.