Yesterday in his press conference, President Bush asserted that Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell told him:
“we have new information†on Iran’s nuclear program, but “he did not tell me what the information was.â€
BUSH:
I was made aware of the NIE last week. In August, I think it was John — Mike McConnell came in and said, We have some new information. He didn’t tell me what the information was. He did tell me it was going to take a while to analyze.
Later, when a reporter followed-up on this statement, Bush asserted no one ever told him to stop ratcheting up the rhetoric against Iran:
REPORTER: Are you saying at no point while the rhetoric was escalating, as World War III was making it into conversation — at no point, nobody from your intelligence team or your administration was saying, Maybe you want to back it down a little bit?
BUSH: No — I’ve never — nobody ever told me that.
This morning, the cast of Morning Joe (Joe Scarborough) chided Bush’s claim. Co-host Willie Geist said,
“It’s just not a credible answer, I’m afraid.â€
Host Joe Scarborough ripped into Bush, saying that president is either “lying to the American people†or is simply “stupidâ€:
We are left with only two options here. Either the President of the United States is lying to the American people about what happened during that meeting, or the President of the United States is stupid.
Actually I would go with Both. Bush is a pathological lier and stupid.
[tags]Impeach Bush, Bush lies, Bush idiot, Traitor[/tags]
When we impeach Bush lets put a clause in there saying he has to leave Texas and take Chaney with him. He was born in Connecticut. Maybe they want him back.
He is a liar but not stupid…He is most devious and calculating. A bully in the truest sense of the word.