Comments on: Transcript: Bush Interview

President Spoke to 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley At Camp David

[knowhimnow]

There are some harsh realities that the pacifists in the media (including ABC and NBC) are missing:
* Even CBS has an agenda. They are NOT "bias-free." What are their newspeople pushing?
* War is always messy. We like everything in neat and clean sound bites. But even the best laid plans will never go exactly as expected.
* We are in an epic struggle that we have NEVER been in before in the history of mankind: borderless wars, not between "countries" but between "ideals." The enemy is ALREADY on our turf.
* The real enemy has only one goal: subject or kill all non-Muslims. Fanatical, suicidally-crazy global Islamic domination is the goal. We just don't think like that, and we cant BELIEVE that there are people who do. And for that reason it's MOST important to understand...
* In Vitenam we could leave the people to "battle it out for themselves," and no one would "follow us home." Without a stable Iraq, Islamo-Fascits will be enboldened to chase us, and have increased funding (yes, sorry, that IS "oil") to smuggle bio, chemical, nukes, or conventional weapons onto American soil. JUST LOOK AT SPAIN AND ENGLAND, AND WHATS ALREADY HAPPENED IN THE US!
* For that reason, when we DO get our troops back home, we ought to spend those billions on national security: targeted efforts against Islamo-Fascists, and extremely tight borders.
* Lastly, freedom always costs blood. Always. Bush ain't perfect, and mistakes have been made. But maybe we don't really want our freedom.

[namvet8]

I should add that i was a Marine Corps grunt in the Vietnam War

[namvet8]

I volunteered for combat duty twice as a Marine Corps grunt. I know what it is like to carry the dead. I remember seeing over 200 bodies on an airstrip stacked like cordwood. This is what war is.

The results of the November elections were a clear rebuke to Bush's war-the neo-con war. It was also a mandate for change from the present policies.

But, the clique who seized power in the 2000 elections overturning democracy were determined to carry out a policy of aggressive war and Bush and Cheney do not care one bit about what the American people think.

Just as they avoided going to vietnam while being pro-war they will see no action in this one.

If it were up to me Bush and Cheney and all the other neo-cons would be sent to patrol the streets of Baghdad. We could call them the neo-con brigade. And, the children of every senator and representative and every neo-con should be outfitted for war.

General Sherman once said "It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood".

These men are war criminals. At the Nuremburg tribunals the U.S. prosecutor, Justice Jackson said that aggressive war was "the supreme international crime".

The American people must look to the example of other people who stood up to tyranny and took to the streets (peru 2000 et al) and brought those corrupt governments to the ground.

If there is a war for democracy to be fought it is in America.

[opagarden]

The National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley said on national television Sunday that the administration thinks the Iraqui people will make their government get better and protect them because that's what happens in a democracy--the government listens to the people. The sad and weird thing is that the government of the U.S. is not listening to its people now. The Commander-in-chief, Educator-in-Chief, Liar-in-Chief drags us further down the road to danger and years-long problems in the world without concern for the future except as defined by *** Cheney, the actual Devil-in-Chief.

[bushwacker29]

Bush is exhibiting the classic behavior of a compulsive gambler, doubling down in the middle of losing streak in hopes of breaking even. The only trouble is he's doing it with American lives and hundereds of billions of dollars. Congress needs to take away his "chips"!

[mrmaddox19]

Bush is crazy. In his interview he said that his spirit isn't crushed. I'll tell you why....... It's becuase he not over there If he had to put on a uniform and go stand on the front line, I bet you then he'd be crushed. He's turning the coutry into a nation of grief. All these mothers are losing there children and his spirit is not crushed.

And another thing........ he's not concerned about being popular with the country...... isn't that what got him in office. All the bull about being knowing what the average American feels, let's go talk to the mothers that already lost there children. What about the ones that don't get any sleep, hoping their son comes home. Bush don't think.

[mrmaddox19]

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[mosnas--2008]

What kind of medication is George on? Nothing seems to phase him, as he blandly gives ridiculous answers to Scott, while he wears a complacent smile and humbly attempts to relay sincere messages that will convince us that he is indeed the commander in chief. The "War President", that has been mulling over the results of the Iraq Study Group, and the advice of his personal ad-hoc group, consisting of hand picked people who will advance his agenda, tells us that he has devised a plan for moving forward. Anyone being questioned in the manner that Bush was, would have been insulted by the presentation of Scott Peller, who seemed to speak to him like a 12 year old child.

It was indeed disappointing to hear a lot of outdated Fox News *** from an incompetent president that tells us he is an educator as well as the commander in chief.

And to once again hear the lie that we have to win in Iraq because of what happened to the World Trade Center on September the 11th. This after allready admitting that there were no weapons of mass destruction.

[parkermom-2009]

I believe that Mr. Bush is no longer thinking as a President but more as a dictator. He believes he is not accountable to anyone, even Congress. If Congress truly wants to stop this President from starting the next world war by invading Muslim country after Muslim country, they must do that which they do not want to do and start impeachment processes. I believe his lies and almost racist attitude toward Muslim nations would fall under the heading "high crimes".

If he will not listen to the American people or to Congress (even those in his own party) then it is time to start to take him out of office. No one wants more troops to be put in harms way for a cause that we can not seem to crasp or even identify.

[txin1]

Who are these "many people" Pelley kept refering to? Are they the same people that sent Rather the documents that caused his downfall? I love it when vacuous reporters who work for Viacom or News Corp or GE pretend to ask questions on behalf of the American people. These questions were based on Pelley's (or some producer's) feelings. If they weren't then he would of given a basic attribution for these "many people".

Perhaps the "many people" is limited to the CBS newsroom.

Regardless of what your thoughts on Bush or the war is, the reality is that Al Qaeda is now in Iraq. If we leave they win. The feminized, all feeling, hand wringing, Baby Boomer media seems to be bent on our defeat.

[damitried]

I still don't understand the connection between Iraq and 9/11.

[sweetpea2007-2009]

Who does Mr. Bush think he's kidding? Lies, lies, and more lies! "I got cha" does NOT explain all the disgusting lies that he has tried to use to justify his actions! Bravo 60 Minutes for a superb interview! It was refreshing that someone in the press would finally hold HIS feet to the fire and confront him with just SOME of the mess he's made of our country and world!

[sweetpea2007-2009]

Who does Mr. Bush think he's kidding? Lies, lies, and more lies! "I got cha" does NOT explain all the disgusting lies that he has tried to use to justify his actions! Bravo 60 Minutes for a superb interview! It was refreshing that someone in the press would finally hold HIS feet to the fire and confront him with just SOME of the mess he's made of our country and world!

[sweetpea2007-2009]

Who does Mr. Bush think he's kidding? Lies, lies, and more lies! "I got cha" does NOT explain all the disgusting lies that he has tried to use to justify his actions! Bravo 60 Minutes for a superb interview! It was refreshing that someone in the press would finally hold HIS feet to the fire and confront him with just SOME of the mess he's made of our country and world!

Elaine5242 wrote:

"Bin Laden started WWIII, not Bush."

Then you might want to remind that moron GW Bush who he should have been after before he went and invaded Iraq - Bin Laden.

Mind you, just a few months after 9/11, Bush stated the following:

"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."

"Not our priority."

That sick b*stard was never really interested in Bin Laden - probably because Bin Laden's family owns GW Bush's dad.

Or maybe it's because Bin Laden doesn't have oil - but Iraq does.

daveemc2 wrote:

"Instead of spending billions of dollars on war for oil, lets start scaling back war plans in iraq and start building up government subsidies for alternative fuel research/development/infrastructure.


In WWII when Nazi's fuel supply was cut off they suddenly got creative - and they didn't have near the resources & technology USA has.

Without oil money these desert dwellers return to nomad lifestyle, only dreaming of what could have been. We can win war of ideology simply by ending support by way of oil revenue."

Agreed. The problem is those who control the Whitehouse - those who have made or who do make their money from oil.

They wouldn't stand for it because they'd have to start working for their money.

[daveemc2]

Instead of spending billions of dollars on war for oil, lets start scaling back war plans in iraq and start building up government subsidies for alternative fuel research/development/infrastructure.

In WWII when Nazi's fuel supply was cut off they suddenly got creative - and they didn't have near the resources & technology USA has.

Without oil money these desert dwellers return to nomad lifestyle, only dreaming of what could have been. We can win war of ideology simply by ending support by way of oil revenue.

Elaine5242 wrote:

"Do you know what Saddam was doing to his people before we invaded? Cutting their heads off, spying on them at every turn, shooting them in firing squads, gassing them."

So when does the invasion of Saudi Arabia begin?

They not only practice torture, but they frequently behead "criminals" including women. Before 1990, they used to shoot women.

Ahh, but the Bush family has dealings with the Saudis - they are his friends.

Let's look at Uzbekistan next.

The President of Uzbekistan has met with GW Bush and other US Officials on numerous occasions. Bush conveniently "forgets" that enemies of the President of Uzbekistan are routinely tortured, executed and in some cases, boiled to death.

In 2002, GW Bush rewarded Uzbekistan with $500 million - $79 million of which went to their "security service", the SNB.

Back to Iraq.

When GW Bush said "He has gassed his own people" about Saddam, he conveniently left out the fact that while Saddam was gassing the Kurds, Saddam was being supported by the Reagan Admin.

And lets not forget "extraordinary rendition" - the process of kidnapping and torturing prisoners.

Conceived by Clinton (a moron), the Bush Admin have relied on it.

Bush lies when he says the US doesn't torture.

But it seems as though you're prepared to accept that because you're a Republicanazi.

[jonfromcali]

I don't know if this has already been discussed in this thread, but I am furious that Scott Pelley--for as "fair" as he seemed at other points in the interview--betrayed his Republican bias in the last third of the broadcast interview. First, he used the word "Democrat" as an adjective, which no one but a cynical, childish Republican does--as in, "The Democrat leadership says..." That's just repugnant, Republican silliness, and it's not even well disguised. THEN, Pelley's immediate follow-up is, "There's no Democrat plan." Not a question--a comment. That's a Karl Rove talking point right there, plain and simple. Earth to George Bush, Scott Pelley and the Republican BS machine: the Baker Commission gave you a plan. Democrats largely support it. You ignored it, and purposely went in the opposite direction because your horribly flawed moral code tells you that if someone is talking sense, you must run straight the other direction.

This interview was certainly newsworthy--in a sort of Attila the Hun, "I'm gonna do whatever I want, and what the hell are you gonna do about it?" kind of way. But "60 Minutes" just lost a bunch of credibility with millions of its viewers for subjecting Bush to little more than Fox-News-puff-piece questioning.

[bjm100]

What an arrogant jerk! From responding to the "apology" question with a very un-presidential belligerent question in return, to adamantly refusing to apologize to the very people suffering from the mistakes he's admitted to, and then having the audacity to criticize these same people, whose country he invaded illegally and uninvited, this man is an embarrassment to his party, his country, and its history. We will be suffering the consequences of his arrogant actions, his incompetence, and lack of statesman-like leadership for generations to come.