Now he regrets something
President Bush regrets his legacy as a man who wanted war
I came across this courtesy of a link in a fellow poster’s comment over on Pharyngula, and I really had to try to keep myself from throwing something at my laptop screen. It covers an interview W gave in which he says that he regrets the "bitter divisions over the war" and "how his country has been misunderstood." I usually laugh at the idiocy that comes out of this man’s mouth, but this one made me genuinely angry. The things he says in the article are utterly ridiculous, and show that he has not been operating in the same reality that the rest of us inhabit. Here’s an example:
"I think that in retrospect I could have used a different tone, a different rhetoric." Phrases such as "bring them on" or "dead or alive," he said, "indicated to people that I was, you know, not a man of peace."
I wonder if this guy will ever get on the same page as the rest of us. He has somehow deluded himself into thinking that it was his rhetoric that people have become divided over, as opposed to his actual actions. He actually thinks that he is a man of peace, and what is worse, he expects us to believe him. Somebody should tell him that it is your record of action - not your record of rhetoric - that will determine your Presidential legacy. And in that light, his legacy would remain exactly the same, even if he had used "a different tone, a different rhetoric."
And his not-so-funny ignorance didn’t stop there, by any means:
Mr Bush is concerned that the Democratic nominee Barack Obama might open cracks in the West’s united front towards Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
Again, he is simply not paying attention, and has a ridiculous misconception of reality. To him, the "West’s united front" is defined as his narrow interpretation of the situation. Disagree with the way he wants to handle something, and you’re somehow opening cracks in our unity. And that is beside the fact that Obama has expressed just as much apprehension (shown here, in an article well over a year old) at the prospect of an Iranian nuclear weapon:
Obama said global leaders must do whatever it takes to stop Iran from enriching uranium and acquiring nuclear weapons.
But then again, W has never been one to pay attention to what others say or think, especially those who disagree with him. He goes on to say in the interview that he thinks Hamid Karzai - who admittedly allows "dirty deals" to continue as an official policy (because he says Afghanistan lacks the power to get things done in any other way…) - is an honest man. The idiocy just keeps piling up.
Then again, when you consider the fact that Bush lives in a world where he can claim - with a straight face, no less - to be a "man of peace," it isn’t surprising that he thinks a politician who endorses such corruption is an honest guy.
