Bush Surprised Saddam Didn't Believe Attack Ultimatum

[CJCRANE]

In a two-part interview to air on CBS' "Sunday Morning" and "Face the Nation," President George W. Bush tells CBS News' chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer that he was surprised to learn Saddam Hussein did not believe he would take military action in 2003.

"You know, when he was captured -- I was told that the FBI agent that talked to him, he said, 'I just didn't believe Bush,'" he said. "And it's hard for me to believe he didn't believe me."

Mr. Bush also said he has no regrets about going to war.

"No, I think it was the right decision," President Bush said. "My regret is that -- a violent group of people have risen up again. This is 'Al Qaeda plus.' I put it in the book, they need to be defeated. And I hope we do. It's - I hope that the strategy works."

More: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bush-surprised-saddam-didnt-believe-attack-ultimatum/

[tontonmacoute]

1. He's got bigger balls than his mom...

No Shame when he should be in a prison cell. This must be part of the rehabilitation of the Bush brand so that Jeb can take over the White House in 2016.

[malaise]

2. Fuck that fucking war criminal

[Rex]

3. Oh I bet Saddam was more than surprised when the hangman put the noose around his neck.

What does Saddam and Bush the Lesser have in common? Both were born without a soul.

[CJCRANE]

4. Saddam was a slow learner.

He was played twice by the Bushes, the first time by GHWB, the second time by GWB.

I have a Kurdish acquaintance who told me that after the first Gulf War started Saddam came on TV every day saying how Bush Snr had said it was okay for him to invade Kuwait. He couldn't understand Bush Snr's reaction. (This might have been his interpretation of the notorious April Glaspie comments).

[Octafish]

5. Just like Poppy didn't hear Saddam say he would withdraw from Kuwait.

When Saddam said he'd move out, Baker said, "Too late."

From Chomsky:

...The Times of India described Bush's curt dismissal of Iraq's February 15 offer to withdraw from Kuwait as a "horrible mistake," which showed that the West sought a "regional Yalta where the powerful nations agree among themselves to a share of Arab spoils.... [The West's] conduct throughout this one month has revealed the seamiest sides of Western civilisation: its unrestricted appetite for dominance, its morbid fascination for hi-tech military might, its insensitivity to `alien' cultures, its appalling jingoism...." A leading Third World monthly condemned "The most cowardly war ever fought on this planet." The foreign editor of Brazil's major daily wrote that "What is being practiced in the Gulf is pure barbarism -- ironically, committed in the name of civilization. Bush is as responsible as Saddam.... Both, with their inflexibility, consider only the cold logic of geopolitical interests [and] show an absolute scorn for human life." The "Business Magazine of the Developing World" predicts that the Arab states will "in effect...become vassal states," losing such control as they once had over their resources (South, London).2...

http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199105--.htm

And war was there.

Oil. Must. Be. Ours*.

* Rockefeller and Associates'