AP VIDEO
Bush Holds News Conference
And Some quotes from this interesting Press Conference that Bush had back in 2004...
"A Secure and Free Iraq is an Historic opportunity to Change the World"
"A Free Iraq in the Midst of the Middle East will have incredible change"
"We are changing the world"
"We will be there as long as necessary but not one day more!"
"I was disappointed in some of the performance of the troops"...of the Iraqi troops
"I went to the U.N and said if you don't take care of him I will"...in talking about Saddam
"The oil revenues will and are benefiting the Iraqi people"..on where the supposed oil revenues are going
" I grieve for the incredible loss of life"...on if he feels any personal responsibility regarding Osama
"In order to secure the country we must do whatever we can to bring these killers to justice"...but why haven't we brought Osama to justice 5 years later???
"We knew he had designs on us...we knew he hated us".....regarding Osama Bin Laden (But Bush said just two seconds prior to that quote that " the truth of the matter was we weren't on a war footing because we didn't know he was planning anything as spectacular as what he did....WTF?
"Nobody in our government at least, and I don't think in the "prior" government envisioned him flying planes into buildings on such a massive scale".....on intelligence prior to 911 (and is he saying that the Clinton administration was part of our government??)
"I want to know why we haven't found a weapon yet"......on weapons of mass destruction-this one should be self explanatory as there isn't one!!!
"The world is better off without Saddam Hussein"...but 15 years ago he was a friend??
"Had there been a threat that required action by anybody in the government, I would have dealt with it"....on the lack of intelligence that would warrant action before 911
"The coalition is putting "peoples in harm way"....when answering a question of the coalition troops being little more than "window dressing"-though he did correct himself a few seconds later with "People" and "Harms". He also said we really appreciate that they are in Harms way.
"They want us to leave and we aren't gonna leave...its our job!"...on why the coalition of the U.K., Italy and others are still there fighting the insurgents
"The legacy are troops are going to leave behind is a legacy of lasting importance, a legacy that is based upon our deep belief that free societies are peaceful societies"....oh how elequent..did he really say that?
"You will find that out soon"...when asked who he was handing the Iraqi government over to
"My LAST choice is to use Military Power"....did he say that??
"Nobody likes to see dead people on their television screens"...when asked if he feels the people might vote him out of office and that his poll numbers are lower and he says no he doesnt plan on loosing his job and that he has a plan to fight the war on terror
And one of the best quotes at around the 52 minute mark: "I wish you would have given me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it. Ahh, I'm sure something will pop into my head here but with all this pressure of trying to come up with an answer"..... and then he went on dribbling and not answering the question and just rambled and rambled about other things....On the biggest mistake he has made since 911 but he did say that he is confident that he has made mistakes but he just cant think of any right now and maybe that he just isnt as quick on his feet as he should be......he really said all that!!!
"The Greater Middle East Reform Initiative" he talked about. I will have to look into that one....
"We have an obligation to be the caregiver of the world and we will stay the course for freedom and peace"....towards the end of the speech. He was very passionate at this point and it was a very convincing act I have to say
"I hope you got a sense of my conviction on these things, and if you didnt, maybe I have to learn to communicate better"....he said as part of his closing remarks. I actually believe he said this on his own without any help from Rove or any handler or anyone else.
An interesting hour long press conference from 2004 that Bush gave on how the situation in Iraq was going at that time. The above quotes in bold are from the question and answer session after his speech. Some interesting quotes.
I have to admit his acting is pretty good at times and this has to be one of his better performances though alot of the answers in his question and answer session were pretty odd.
Was he answering all those questions on his own or did he have one of those "handlers" whispering in his ear.
The questions at the end of the speech (about 17 minutes into the video) are quite interesting and the one I like the best was when one reporter asked him what he thinks his greatest mistake since 911 was....
Watch and listen via the link below:
rtsp://cspanrm.fplive.net/cspan/archive/iraq/iraq041304_bush.rm?mode=compact
(The link above is not coming through as I thought it would-you will need to copy and paste it into your browser address bar and it should then open in Real Player (or an alternative player that handles "real files").
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