Aides Prodded Reluctant Bush on Iraq Trip

[pistoff democrat]

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - For a president fond of a tough-guy image, George W. Bush was uneasy when an aide casually asked him, "You want to go to Baghdad?"

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Seven months after his dramatic landing in a flight suit on the USS Abraham Lincoln with its "Mission Accomplished" banner, Bush conceded about the Iraq visit, "I was the biggest skeptic of all."

Instead of a flight suit, Bush wore a standard Army jacket to meet with the troops, and acknowledged he thought "all along" it might be too risky and that he "had a lot of questions" about security.

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Rice denied the trip was politically motivated. "This was generated out of the president and the policy side," she said, but declined to say if political adviser Karl Rove or Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman were among the handful of aides who knew about the trip.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=584&ncid=584&e=1&u=/nm/20031128/pl_nm/bush_iraq_dc

How do they sleep?

[arwalden]

1. "How do they sleep?" --- Do Automatons Sleep?

[maddezmom]

2. dupe, but good article

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=790610

[pistoff democrat]

4. oops! sorry

I plead turkey hangover!

[calimary]

7. Don't apologize - I got a chance to read the article, here.

The Reuters link in the other thread didn't open for me. This one did. So, dupe or not, I appreciate it!

[maddezmom]

8. no need to apologize to me either

Thought it was an excellent article. Glad more are able to read it. :)

[agingdem]

3. But...

don't you find the whole photo-op pathetically comical? Boy George, wearing a flack jacket, swoops into a fortied airport hangar, spends 150 minutes in a country that "liberated"?

[pistoff democrat]

5. That's the one thing about Kerry or Clark...

I'll give them that...

Man, could either one of them make Bush look like an ass over the military jazz?

[frylock]

6. they all use ambien..

Colon-blow admitted to it a few weeks back.