Bush’s “Ultimate Exit Interview”
After eight long, depressing and disappointing years, George Bush’s final days are among us and as far as I’m concerned, the next five days cannot come fast enough.
On January 12, George Bush conducted his final official press conference, where he repeatedly defended the time he spent in the White House and the choices he made during his presidency. Like most of Bush’s speaking engagements, his “Ultimate Exit Interview” was filled with memorable quips and lines.
We have all seen countless videos and read countless stories about how America is now viewed in a dim light by countries and people overseas. George Bush and his many cronies can spew lies about how “America stands for freedom” all they like, but the truth still remains–America likes to work as the world’s police, but only when it is convenient for America; when we have something to gain from destroying whatever stands in our way. Not only did George Bush feel the need to talk America up as a country loved by all other countries, he also declared that America helped advance the process of peace in the Middle East. But that is just the beginning of the George Bush Defend Everything Conference.
George Bush agreed with pretty much every other American by saying that putting ‘Mission Accomplished’ on an aircraft carrier sent the wrong message and was clearly a mistake. Ummm…You think?
The hole-digging really began as soon as Katrina was brought up and the federal response being slow, where he said:
“Don’t tell me the federal response was slow when there were 30,000 people pulled off roofs right after the storm passed. . . . Could things been done better? Absolutely. But when I hear people say the federal response was slow, what are they going to say to those chopper drivers or the 30,000 who got pulled off the roof?”
George Bush also “assured” us that the GOP will be back.
“This party will come back. But the party’s message has got to be that different points of view are included in the party.”
But what really struck me as odd, however, is what George Bush had to say about disappointments he faced throughout his presidency:
“Abu Ghraib, obviously, was a huge disappointment, during the presidency. You know, not having weapons of mass destruction was a significant disappointment. I don’t know if you want to call those mistakes or not, but they were — things didn’t go according to plan, let’s put it that way.”
How exactly does one believe that not having weapons of mass destruction was a significant disappointment? We, as a country, were put in significant danger by the Bush administration due to the war that was started based on the lie that there were weapons of mass destruction that would have been used against our country. However, after significant time has passed and this war is still continuing under the Bush administration’s reign, we know that weapons of mass destruction never existed; but if they had, we would have been in significant danger as a country. But according to George Bush, the fact that the United States was not in significant danger (due to an outside force) was a significant disappointment.
If you haven’t seen Bush’s “Ultimate Exit Interview,” you can watch the entire press conference below:
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