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George Bush let out a Freudian slip about Iraq? At the joint press conference held by Bush and Blair at Congress on 17th July 2003, George W Bush let out what could have been the most telling slip of his period of occupation in the White House: |
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"QUESTION: Mr. President, in his speech to Congress, the prime minister opened the door to the possibility that you may be proved wrong about the threat from Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. BUSH: Yes. QUESTION: Do you agree? And does it matter whether or not you find... BUSH: Well, you might ask the prime minister that -- we won't be proven wrong. BLAIR: No. BUSH: I believe that we will find the truth. And the truth is he was developing a program for weapons of mass destruction. Now, you say, "Why didn't it happen all of a sudden?" Well, there was a lot of chaos in the country, one. Two, Saddam Hussein has spent over a decade hiding weapons and hiding materials. Three, we're getting, we're just beginning to get some cooperation from some of the high-level officials in that administration, or that regime. But we will bring the weapons, and, of course, we will bring the information forward on the weapons when they find them. And that'll end up -- end all this speculation." [Transcript from CNN - http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/07/17/bush.blair.presser.transcript]
Was this just another Bushism? Or was Bush letting slip what he really knew - namely that if necessary the US forces will plant WMD in Iraq to prove the case for war after the fact? You can hear the stuttering Bush slip here - move along to 22 minutes 45 seconds.
Special thanks go to Dave vonKleist at The Power Hour for picking up on this. Click here to go to The Power Hour. |
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