Amazing! Bush Pulls a "Hastert" and Pretends Not to Know Chalabi!
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BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION
by Barry Baker
In another stunning rose garden performance, Bush amazingly tries to suggest that he hardly knew the man sitting in the box with the First Lady during the State of the Union Address. Here is the response from the "spontaneous" press conference:
Q: Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. Chalabi is an Iraqi leader that's fallen out of favor within your administration. I'm wondering if you feel that he provided any false information, or are you particularly --
THE PRESIDENT: Chalabi?
Q: Yes, with Chalabi.
THE PRESIDENT: My meetings with him were very brief. I mean, I think I met with him at the State of the Union and just kind of working through the rope line, and he might have come with a group of leaders. But I haven't had any extensive conversations with him.
Mr. Brahimi made the decision on Chalabi, not the United States. Mr. Brahimi was the person that put together the group. And I haven't spoken to him or anybody on the ground as to why Chalabi wasn't taken.
In terms of information --
Q: I guess I'm asking, do you feel like he misled your administration, in terms of what the expectations were going to be going into Iraq?
THE PRESIDENT: I don't remember anybody walking into my office saying, Chalabi says this is the way it's going to be in Iraq.
And here is the link to the remainder of this fictional account: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/rele...
Their complete lack integrity is astonishing! What is more troubling is the media and the American public fail to hold these miserable failures accountable.
Barry Baker
Bethel, CT
A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION
BuzzFlash Note: Perhaps we should all send Bush an email containing the link below, which is a web page with photos of Ahmed Chalabi with Bush, Rumsfeld, Powell, Bremer, Wolfowitz, and others, as well as him seated directly behind Laura Bush at the 2004 State of the Union address. Bush is lying, again.
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