Surprising Statements at the End of an Administration
Published in Adevarul
(Romania) on 28 December 2008
by Unknown (link to original)
(Romania) on 28 December 2008
by Unknown (link to original)
Translated from
by Andreea Muntean.
Edited by Louis Standish.
The consistent effort that was made in order to shed a good light on the Bush administration on Judgement Day, came up with some surprising statements from George W. Bush and vice-president Dick Cheney, says AFP, quoted by NewsIn.
ON THE WAR
"I think I was unprepared for war. In other words, I didn't campaign and say, 'Please vote for me, I'll be able to handle an attack'. "In other words, I didn't anticipate war”, said Bush for ABC, on December 1st.
ON IRAK
"The biggest regret of the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq", said Bush. "Intelligence - it's not a science, it's an art form, in many respects, and you don't always get it right”, was Cheney’s response for ABC News, on December 15th. “But I'm not one of those who believes nothing good happened in Iraq prior to 2007”, he added, for Fox News, on the 21st of December.
ON COUNTER TERORISM
"Yes”, responded Cheney on December 15th, for ABC News, when asked whether the submission of Khaled Cheikh Mohammed – the assumed organiser of 9/11 – to drowning simulation was justifed for the purpose of getting information.
ON GUANTANAMO BAY
"I think that would come with the end of the war on terror”. When? “Well, nobody knows”, said Cheney on December 15th, for ABC News, after being asked when Guantanamo Bay would be shut down.
ON U.S.’S IMAGE IN THE WORLD
"I think it’s more important that we be respected”, were Cheney’s words, for the Washington Times. He had been asked whether he believes it is important for the United Stated to be loved around the world.
ON THE ECONOMIC CRISIS
"I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system," Bush told CNN, on December 16th.
"I decided I didn’t want to be President during a depression greater than the Great Depression”, was one of Bush’s statements during a public question event in Washington on the 18th of December.
“I believe that it is good policy to not dump a major catastrophe [on the new president] in his first day in office", said Bush, to justify his plan of saving the car industry, before the investment of Barack Obama.
ON THE IMAGE BUSH WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE
“I’d like to be a president [known] to be somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace; who focused on individuals rather than process; who rallied people to serve their neighbor, who led an effort to help relieve HIV/AIDS and malaria in places like the continent of Africa”.
“I would like to be a person remembered who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process”. “I came to Washington with a set of values, and I’m leaving with the same set of values”, Bush declared on November 12th, in an interview with his sister, Doro Bush Koch and Storycorps, a nonprofit project.
ON THE WAR
"I think I was unprepared for war. In other words, I didn't campaign and say, 'Please vote for me, I'll be able to handle an attack'. "In other words, I didn't anticipate war”, said Bush for ABC, on December 1st.
ON IRAK
"The biggest regret of the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq", said Bush. "Intelligence - it's not a science, it's an art form, in many respects, and you don't always get it right”, was Cheney’s response for ABC News, on December 15th. “But I'm not one of those who believes nothing good happened in Iraq prior to 2007”, he added, for Fox News, on the 21st of December.
ON COUNTER TERORISM
"Yes”, responded Cheney on December 15th, for ABC News, when asked whether the submission of Khaled Cheikh Mohammed – the assumed organiser of 9/11 – to drowning simulation was justifed for the purpose of getting information.
ON GUANTANAMO BAY
"I think that would come with the end of the war on terror”. When? “Well, nobody knows”, said Cheney on December 15th, for ABC News, after being asked when Guantanamo Bay would be shut down.
ON U.S.’S IMAGE IN THE WORLD
"I think it’s more important that we be respected”, were Cheney’s words, for the Washington Times. He had been asked whether he believes it is important for the United Stated to be loved around the world.
ON THE ECONOMIC CRISIS
"I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system," Bush told CNN, on December 16th.
"I decided I didn’t want to be President during a depression greater than the Great Depression”, was one of Bush’s statements during a public question event in Washington on the 18th of December.
“I believe that it is good policy to not dump a major catastrophe [on the new president] in his first day in office", said Bush, to justify his plan of saving the car industry, before the investment of Barack Obama.
ON THE IMAGE BUSH WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE
“I’d like to be a president [known] to be somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace; who focused on individuals rather than process; who rallied people to serve their neighbor, who led an effort to help relieve HIV/AIDS and malaria in places like the continent of Africa”.
“I would like to be a person remembered who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process”. “I came to Washington with a set of values, and I’m leaving with the same set of values”, Bush declared on November 12th, in an interview with his sister, Doro Bush Koch and Storycorps, a nonprofit project.
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