UPDATE: Kerry responds :-)
The man may have just signed his political death warrant, IF the Dems pounce on this now, and I think they will. Kerry - the new Kerry - has been fast and furious, jumping quickly on every gaffe Bush has made over the past two weeks. But on this one, Bush may have just handed Kerry the keys to the White House. The Bush campaign has been quite adept at making Kerry squirm for his past support of the war resolution, but now it's Kerry's turn to put the screws to Bush. Does Bush still think that 150 deaths at the time he said Mission Accomplished, as compared to over 1,000 deaths today, still somehow marked the end of the war? Is he absolutely out of his mind?
And oh wouldn't it be juicy if FOX News helped him do it. His arrogance, his bravado, his stupidity, and his stubbornness is going to get us all killed.
President Bush said he had no regrets about donning a flight suit to give his "Mission Accomplished" speech on Iraq in May 2003 and would do it all over again if he had the chance, according to excerpts from an television interview released on Sunday.Someone is DEFINITELY getting fired at FOX. Though I now read that it was O'Reilly who did the questioning. Hmmmm. O'Reilly's a funny one. I've been on his show probably 7 or 8 times and while I know a lot of you don't love the man, he sometimes can surprise you, in a good way. Meaning, sometimes he comes up with the darndest things, like coming out relatively in favor of gay marriage (not opposing it at least), in favor of gay job protection legislation, etc. He's not a FOX clone, though he sometimes plays one on TV.
When asked by Fox News if he still would have put on a flight suit to declare major combat operations in Iraq over, Bush replied, "Absolutely."
When Bush gave his May 1 speech fewer than 150 Americans had died in the war. Since then more than 900 have died.
The big unknown here is two-fold.
1. How did O'Reilly react? I can't imagine he let that one go by without expressing some shock.
2. How will this play out during the week? It's totally possible the prez said this on purpose, i.e., it was planned. Karl Rove has an uncanny knack for sticking with a lie until it's perceived to be the truth, and perhaps Rove has decided it's time to take "Mission Accomplished" on, big time. Take Bush's biggest negative and somehow twist it into a positive. The thing is, how do you twist 900 dead soldiers, and all the recent violence in Iraq, into something good?
But if anyone can do it, it's Bush & Co.
