This video is one of the Best of the Stupid President moments, when Bush tells a student he will phone Rumsfeld, "I was going to -- I pick up the phone and say, Mr. Secretary, I've got an interesting question. (Laughter.) This is what delegation -- I don't mean to be dodging the question, although it's kind of convenient in this case..."
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=58187&mesg_id=58187As Long as We're Talking Contractors . . .
09.27.07 -- By David Kurtz
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/054407.phpA friend of the site sent along a reminder of the exchange President Bush had with a student back in April 2006 while speaking at Johns Hopkins University:
Q Thank you, Mr. President. It's an honor to have you here. I'm a first-year student in South Asia studies. My question is in regards to private military contractors. Uniform Code of Military Justice does not apply to these contractors in Iraq. I asked your Secretary of Defense a couple months ago what law governs their actions.
THE PRESIDENT: I was going to ask him. Go ahead. (Laughter.) Help. (Laughter.)
Q I was hoping your answer might be a little more specific. (Laughter.) Mr. Rumsfeld answered that Iraq has its own domestic laws which he assumed applied to those private military contractors. ...
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