Bush: "You can’t lead unless you have courage"

[sabra]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15969546/site/newsweek/page/2/

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When it comes to leadership, Bush sees Maliki as his most promising student—someone with character and potential, rather than a fully formed savior of the mission in Iraq. “He’s been in power for six months and I’ve been able to watch a leader emerge,” the president replied when NEWSWEEK asked him why he was so confident about Maliki’s abilities. “No question it’s a violent society right now,” Bush continued. “He knows that better than anybody. He was explaining to me that occasionally the house in which he lives gets shelled by terrorists who are trying to frighten him.”

For some leaders, the story of a prime minister coming under fire might be seen as a disastrous lack of security. For President Bush, it’s an inspiring story of personal strength. “You can’t lead unless you have courage,” Bush said. “And he’s got courage, and he’s shown courage over the last six months.”

[9119495]

1. But as the movie said, you also have to have a heart and a brain

and a little girl with a dog if possible.

[Frustratedlady]

5. Love it!

[displacedtexan]

10. You just made my day!

Hell, you made my week!

:yourock: :yourock: :yourock:

[grytpype]

14. .

[notadmblnd]

16. I've always thought of GW as the wicked witch character

and the people surrounding him as the flying monkeys.. if you listen carefully, you can hear them chanting now.. Oh we loath the dumb one... oh we loath the dumb one. C'mon everybody.. sing it with me.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Well, we certainly know that Bush lacks courage, so I guess he isn't a leader after all.

[seabeyond]

13. i think it takes an extraordinary amount of courage to be imcompetent

stupid, ignore all people even the most brilliant not to mention the masses and face that camera and not only consistantly look the fool but on top of it continuely tell blatant lies. i do not have the courage to face a nation with all that baggage

[SharonRB]

3. Yeah, courage like Bush had during Vietnam!

[malaise]

9. Bingo n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

17. Or on 9/11!

[Captain Hilts]

4. In his case, it's called "blind faith." nt

[Missy M]

6. Just like the courage Bush had not to meet al-Maliki in Baghdad!!!

[Jacobin]

7. So, does this mean he's going to see the Wizard?

:eyes:

Methinks he's confusing stupidity with courage

[jwirr]

18. No Cheney is doing that.

[EstimatedProphet]

8. Then you can't lead, Bush!

[no_hypocrisy]

11. And you can be a foolish egotist like General George Custer

and have your ass handed to you by the enemies you've chosen to fight. Courage is a luxury, not mandatory trait.

[Skidmore]

12. This is from a guy who has to sneak in and out of the cities of his

own nation and won't meet with fellow citizens unless they have been handpicked and screened. A man whose only displays of confidence comes from being surrounded by sycophants and hired audiences? A man who fears hearing truth? Someone who wouldn't recognize courage if it slapped him upside the head?

[Quantess]

15. The lemming at the front

certainly has courage to lead the rest of the lemmings off the cliff.

Except, if Bush were a lemming, he'd just lead the others off the cliff while he stayed safely behind.

[Octafish]

19. Thus spaketh the Cheerleader.

The Coward of Crawford (Thanks, Stephanie!) was then known as...



The Lip

FUCK YOU, BUSH!

[ComerPerro]

20. its true. Bush has no courage, and he clearly can't lead

[flordehinojos]

21. another statement from booosh which serves to point to his own delusional self.

boooooooosh's courage hid with the WMDs he looked for under the tables once upon a time. he found neither. he thinks he leads. in actuality--he dictates.