Comments on: Bush on ‘60 Minutes’ Highlights Video

By: Oldcrow

Oldcrow — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:55:40 +0000

I don't know either but I can tell there are 60% who do feel gratitude but it is probably allot more Link And Another

By: DC Loser

DC Loser — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:37:37 +0000

Oldcrow - not a student of history, are you? Anderson was of course referring to the eternal gratitude the Fraternalist Socialst States of the Warsaw Pact owed the Soviet Union for libertating them from the yoke of Nazi Fascist tyranny. I'm not exactly sure how many percentage of Iraqis right now are feeling a mood of gratitude for the democracy (the messy kind, ala Rummy) we've given them.

By: Oldcrow

Oldcrow — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:35:25 +0000

Ah. This would be like the great debt of gratitude that Eastern Europe owed the Soviet Union?
Posted by Anderson at January 15, 2007 10:57 Permalink

This statement shows you are a moron. We have given the Iraqi people a democracy how exactly does that compare to 60 years of authoritarian rule? What an ignorant statement!

By: PoliBlog ™: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts » Disagreement Between US and Iraq over “Surge” Plans?

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:34:15 +0000

[...] There is also a growing “blame the Iraqis” theme that I have noted over the last couple of weeks (see, for example, the clip of the President from 60 Minutes last night in which he chides the Iraqis for not being more grateful). The statements in the President’s speech about rules of engagement also fit into this notion. [...]

By: Anderson

Anderson — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:57:14 +0000

Perhaps most interesting is the president’s assertion that the Iraqi people owe us a “great debt of gratitude” for our liberation and that he therefore owes them no apologies for the ensuing mess.

Ah. This would be like the great debt of gratitude that Eastern Europe owed the Soviet Union?

By: LJD

LJD — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:01:47 +0000

...he therefore owes them no apologies for the ensuing mess.

Not exactly. He was asked if he owed them an apology for not doing a better job. He questioned whether WE didn't do a better job, or THEY didn't do a better job.

Is our intel in Iraq so poor now that the CIA couldn’t get its own copy from the Iraqi government?”

We didn't hang him.

I also heard the following:

I am your scapegoat for the current situation.
We are not going to blame our troops.
Pulling out would be much, much worse.
We must succeed.

Some of the things he DID say, left out of the commentary, seem to be the same things he is often criticized for NOT saying.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:59:00 +0000

It takes minutes to download anything onto the net.

True enough. Still, there was an official video taken at the time that could have been made available to the U.S. government instantaneously, too. The cell phone video was of inferior quality and took 24 hours or so to get on the 'net.

By: Stormy70

Stormy70 — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:38:08 +0000

He could watch it faster, since it was filmed on a cell phone and hit the internet. Info moves fast, why is this concept so hard to grasp? It takes minutes to download anything onto the net.