rferl.org — U.S. President George W. Bush said today the first he heard of a purported five-year-old U.S. threat to bomb Pakistan was when he "read it in the newspaper today." This is in response to the Musharraf's interview that he got the threat to bomb his country and send it back to stone age
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jcidiotashramSep 22, 2006Submitter
i don't understand why all of these people Musharraf, armitage and bush are talking to the press and denying it. i guess someone is lying and i'm not sure who
michalsonSep 22, 2006
Well, Bush claims he heard about it when he "read it in the newspaper today". That simple statement gives you a pretty broad clue about who is lying here, given the fact that Bush has publicly prided himself on not reading or watching news and instead relying on his advisors to tell him what's going on. Combined with the fact that he has trouble/dislikes reading to begin with (dating back to his time as Texas governor when he demanded aides give him an oral rundown in lue of reading their reports, even on death row cases), it makes the truth meter wiggle toward "lie" or half-lie.Kind of like Bush's describing how he reacted to 9/11 (<a class="user" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/12/20011204-17.html">http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/12/20011204-17.html</a> - fast forward to the question "And another thing is that, how did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack?"). The smaller things again betray the fact that he is telling some larger lie. He states that he saw the first plane hitting the tower on TV before going into the classroom and thought it was a bad accident: footage of the first tower being hit didn't appear on television until Sept 12, the footage coming from an amateur video camera.
donteSep 22, 2006
Great... another thread we can fill with nonsensical rants and little factual backing about why George Bush is a bad man and why America is the worst country in the world.I kinda miss the days of Digg where you only needed to avoid another Windows vs OSX debate... or the occasional ATI/NVidia battle. At least those sometimes involved *smart* people making stupid arguments. We don't seem to get a lot of that anymore (not calling myself smart... the smart people stopped reading digg a while ago... or at least stopped posting).