WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush on Thursday sought to put to rest the controversy over his decision to spare a top former White House official from going to jail, saying it was time to move on. He also called on the nation and skeptical lawmakers to stand with him on Iraq, despite a new report showing only mixed progress.

“There’s war fatigue in America. It’s affecting our psychology. I understand that. It’s an ugly war,” Bush said.

The president also said that, while al-Qaida remains a threat to the United States, it has been hurt by his war on terrorism and is “weaker today than they would have been” otherwise. He spoke as a new U.S. threat assessment found that al Qaida had rebuilt its capability to mount attacks to levels not seen since 2001.

President Bush is talking out of his ass again…

Yes, there IS a war on terror, but Iraq wasn’t it, not in it’s inception, our own House and Senate investigations said so, a Republican controlled House and Senate I might add…

If al-Qaida is presently a threat to us here in the United States it’s because our own government, namely the HSA, and the Bush administration as a whole, have screwed the pooch and allowed al-Qaida to either enter this nation or has failed to ferret their operators out and remove them from this nation…

At a news conference lasting over an hour that was dominated by questions on Iraq, Bush was asked about his decision ten days ago to commute the 30-month prison sentence of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.
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Bush acknowledged publicly for the first time that someone in his administration leaked her name to the news media. “And, you know, I’ve often thought about what would have happened had that person come forth and said, ‘I did it.’ Would we have had this, you know, endless hours of investigation and a lot of money being spent on this matter?”

I can tell you exactly what Bush’s reaction would have been, “Damn Dick, don’t say that too loud, those damned bloggers will give me holy hell over this, they don’t really like us, you DO know that don’t you Dick? Hell, if I was The Dictator instead of The Decider I could go nucaler on their asses, I hate those damned bloggers.”

Scooter was a good little troop, he fell on his sword and took one for someone else, and he was properly rewarded FOR that action, and that’s the way it goes, it’s called politics…

Bush would not directly address answer a question about whether he is disappointed in the White House officials who leaked Plame’s name.

Disappointed?? You have got to be kidding, they laugh their asses off in private about this, you can bet on it, and it’s not over, look for a full pardon as Bush goes out the door, that way Scooter can have a completely clean record, life will be good and Scooter will have been paid in full…

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Bush Seeks to Put Libby Issue to Rest

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