Transcript of British Press Conference with Shrub 11/12

[librechik]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/11/20031114-2.html

How duplicitous and lame is this pathetic man? He begins by claiming to have "grown up" in Midland (when? on vacations from Andover?)

Check it out...(British press ask some tough questions!)

excerpt:
Q: Mr. President, to focus it back on Mr. Blair and Britain, here is a guy who has lost two Ministers, who has lost a large part of the Parliamentary party, and who -- it could be said, polls -- has lost the faith of a large part of the country over Iraq. He's still, as you saw the other night in the Lord Mayor's Banquet speech, 100 million percent there -- and this against the great tide of popular opinion. What have you got on him? What's the relationship? And what's the --

THE PRESIDENT: Well, that's just Tony --

Q And what's the pay-off? (Laughter.)

THE PRESIDENT: Freedom and peace. Tony Blair is making decisions for the right reasons. He is a -- in my relationship with him, he is the least political person I've dealt with. And I say that out of respect. He makes decisions based upon what he thinks is right.

He's plenty independent. If he thinks -- if he thought the policy that we have both worked on was wrong, he'd tell me. He believes it's in his country's interest that we work for a free and peaceful Iraq. He, as much as any world leader, saw the consequences of September the 11th, 2001. Obviously, there are more -- those consequences and that moment has directly affected my foreign policy. See, it changed the nature of the presidency. It changed the security arrangements of the United States of America. I vowed to the American people I would never forget the lessons of September the 11th, 2001. And that is, we are no longer protected by oceans. We're vulnerable to attack by terrorists.


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do they never update their scripts?

[wabeewoman]

1. Pretty enlightening....

Reading this I wasn't sure if I was in an alternate universe or I'd been knocked unconscious by bush's lengthening nose....

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Anyway, Lincoln, is this country's greatest President, so I put him on the wall. I think he was the greatest President, because the job of President is to unite the country to achieve big objectives. It's hard to achieve big things if you're not united
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At home, a compassionate America is a big objective. In order to do that, a President must call upon people to serve their neighbors in need.
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But my job as the President is not to promote a religion
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I thought Churchill was a clear thinker, I thought he was a -- the kind of guy that stood tough when you needed to stand tough; he represented values that both countries hold dear -- the value of freedom, the belief in democracy, human dignity of every person.
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