Something tells me he's a lying stack of shit when he says.....

[kentuck]

..he wanted to give freedom to the Iraqi people. When he talks about freedom being a "gift from God", he is ladling it on like butter on a biscuit. All he wanted to do was to get rid of Saddam Hussein because he hated him for one reason or another. All the other crap reasons for going into Iraq are steamin hot bullshit. And that's the way I see it.

[Coventina]

1. Don't forget the "sea of oil"

that Saddam was sitting on.

[mike1963]

2. He didn't say it until after the WMD claims were shown to be lies.

PNAC is damn sure involved.

[seabeyond]

3. look if he was such a fan of freedom

he wouldnt be restricting ours with such glee, selfrighteousness and irrelevance

[CatWoman]

4. From Today's Salon

Some observers have read George W.'s obsession with ousting Saddam Hussein as motivated by revenge for Saddam's attempted assassination of his father. It could also be seen as the determination to pull off something that his father failed to achieve. But dig a little deeper and it also looks like an attempt to exorcise what must be one nasty case of Oedipal resentment. By Frank's formula, families like the Bushes, where difficult emotions are banished, produce children who cast other people as the symbols of their own unintegrated negative urges and feelings: "I don't want to kill my father, he does, and to prove that I'm devoid of such bad impulses, I'll take him out."

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/06/16/bush_on_couch/index1.html

[merh]

10. I've always thought he just wanted to show Poppy up . . .

Like his statement about one term presidents this weekend, a definite slam to his Poppy. He has always resented the fact that he was seen as the son that wouldn't make it. He is such a creep. He sold his soul to the devil to show Poppy that he was better than he was.
He is trying to sell our nation to the devil to complete the deal!

[Don_G]

5. Don't Forget

He has complete control of their oil revenue and the billions Congress handed him to "get the job done" without any oversight.

[Gman]

6. Heard Bob Scheiffer on CBS radio

this evening talking about the 9/11 commission report "destroying the last surviving reason for going to war in Iraq, the Saddam-Bin Laden connection". I'm not certain he used the word "destroying" but the concept is the same.

Bushco started shifting to the freedom for Iraqis thing last fall in order to shift the focus from no WMD's being found. These guys will do and say anything.

[buycitgo]

7. schieffer is as full of schiet as they come

his brother is pals with dumbo, via the Rangers deal, right?

he always excuses him, at the end, just as he fawned all over Reagan, despite "disagreeing" with him on many issues

he's a highly paid coward, and a buffoon

where were you FOUR YEARS ago, you quisling?

[Gman]

8. Well that's your opinion...

Scheiffer called the Saddam-Bin Laden link "the last surviving reason Bush had for going to war against Iraq.

Where was I four years ago? I'm wondering if you were even born more than 14 years ago. I don't put a lot of credibility in someone like you that's only been on this board for 6 months or so and has over 4,000 posts then acts like you do.

The fact is, Sheiffer made a pretty damning statement on national radio about Bush and you don't appear to like it. Get over it.

[maggrwaggr]

9. guys like him will still call the war in Iraq "the war on terror"

Anyone who says the war in Iraq is part of the president's "war on terror" is part of the problem, part of the pathological lying that's infected this entire country.