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Sunday, August 15, 2004
 
But, Remember Larry, The OTHER Guy is the Flip-Flopper

On Larry King the other night, Bush actually said this:

KING: You first were opposed to the 9/11 Commission and then changed.
Why?

G. BUSH: Not really.

KING: You weren't opposed?

G. BUSH: Well, I just wanted to make sure that it was done the right way. I
felt like that -- one of my concerns was that it would usurp the Congress' need
to fully investigate.Then I recognized this was a good avenue -- a good venue
and a good way to really get out the facts. And they did a really good
job.

KING: What did you think of the report?

G. BUSH: I thought it was a great report. I read it.

KING: Are you going to implement most?

G. BUSH: Well, we have already implemented a lot of their recommendations.
And the other day I announced that we would have a national intelligence
director.

Hmm. Maybe this was somebody else, back on May 23, 2002:

President Bush took a few minutes during his trip to Europe Thursday to voice his opposition to establishing a special commission to probe how the government dealt with terror warnings before Sept. 11.

Oh. So this must have been somebody else, back on September 20, 2002:

President Bush told Congress he now supports creation of an independent commission to probe the September eleventh attacks.

And on the issue of letting Congress investigate 9/11, I believe the President also opposed a Congressional investigation as well. And, of course, we know that the President HASN'T implemented many of their recommendations, at in the way that the 9/11 Commission has recommended them. (The other question, of course, is WHY the Bush Administration was so opposed to an investigation of the events leading up to 9/11 and the answer, as we all know now, is Richard Clarke and his devasting account of an Administration completely unconcerned with global terrorism -- at least that that didn't have anything to do with Iraq.)

Paging Moveon.org. Looks like this could be a pretty good ad...



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