Bush: 'I'm Not Making This Up'

[RBHam]

Plaintive president pleads case for war, wiretapping

by James Ridgeway
January 5th, 2006 10:52 AM

WASHINGTON, D.C.—No doubt reassuring millions of Americans, President Bush yesterday defended his program of legally dubious wiretapping at home and strategically dubious regime change abroad for fighting terrorists by insisting he isn't in la-la land.
Terrorists want to use Iraq as a home base, Bush told reporters on Wednesday. He then added:

"I'm not making this up."

So now you know: This time it's for real.

Fighting a credibility gap, the president has steadily insisted he needs the National Security Agency domestic wiretap program so as to ferret out information on terrorist plans and empower the government to prevent future attacks. But the kind of power Bush wants amounts to a family coup, carried under the pretense of defending the homeland.

"They attacked us before, they'll attack us again if they can," Bush said in San Antonio over the weekend. "And we're going to do everything we can to stop them."

If Bush is to be king, he'd better get his act and that of his courtiers up to par, at least. All the evidence is that the government knew in one case after another well before 9-11 that we were going to be attacked and did nothing about it.

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http://www.villagevoice.com/news/index.php?issue=0602&page=ridgeway&id=71574

[adarling]

1. Can he beeee anymore obvious on how much they are lying

its like they are so lazy with it now they aren't even trying to cover it up...seems to not be working anyways haha.

[dchill]

2. Oh my God...

A chill down my spine simultaneous to the instant connection to the Little Boy Who Cried Wolf.

[xchrom]

3. 9-11 = bush not saddam.

no mihop or lihop there -- just theplain old idea that it happened on his watch.
with warnings that something was going to happen.
and with illegal wiretapping.

[Jade Fox]

4. That's like saying, "For once I'm telling the truth!"

Sadly, he's most likely lying some more.

[undeterred]

5. Its tough to be "the boy who cried wolf" isn't it?

[louis-t]

6. "Terrorists want to use Iraq as a home base"

And who's responsible for that happening? Dumbass.

[havocmom]

7. BINGO! Bin Ladan wanted Saddam out and bush obliged/obeyed

Terrorists in Iraq? The PNAC Junta made sure they would be in Iraq. War is good for the bastards who make the ingredients for war. They have assured business will be good for a LONG time.

[Lisa]

8. how many US presidents have had to reassure us of that?

"I'm not making this up" -- does he think he is Anna Russell? (a former opera singer turned comedian who wrote a book with that title)