Wednesday, March 22, 2006
The Emperor Has No Pants
By some sheer stroke of fortune, my Discover Journalism teacher decided we should watch Bush's press conference yesterday. What I saw was nothing special, but still made me sick.
Helen Thomas started off by asking Bush about why we were in Iraq if his main reasons for going in all turned out to be false. His answer was basically, "9/11. 9/11. Global war on terror. Taliban. Al-Qaeda. Iraq." The longer version was even more distressing, acting as a masterwork of evasion that probably left some lesser journalists unable to find their ass with two hands and a flashlight. When asked later about the timetable for getting out of Iraq, Bush said, "That, of course is an objective, and that will be decided by future presidents and future governments of Iraq." So, as far as he sees, no time while he's still in office.
I'm a little saddened that none of the other journalists descended on Bush for blatantly bullshitting Thomas, but I'm even more saddened by the mess that is our government. 2008 can't get here soon enough.
Helen Thomas started off by asking Bush about why we were in Iraq if his main reasons for going in all turned out to be false. His answer was basically, "9/11. 9/11. Global war on terror. Taliban. Al-Qaeda. Iraq." The longer version was even more distressing, acting as a masterwork of evasion that probably left some lesser journalists unable to find their ass with two hands and a flashlight. When asked later about the timetable for getting out of Iraq, Bush said, "That, of course is an objective, and that will be decided by future presidents and future governments of Iraq." So, as far as he sees, no time while he's still in office.
I'm a little saddened that none of the other journalists descended on Bush for blatantly bullshitting Thomas, but I'm even more saddened by the mess that is our government. 2008 can't get here soon enough.
