This is progress, of a kind. Regarding his confident assertions that Donald Rumsfeld would not be resigning and was expected to remain war secretary for the next two years,
Asked about that comment, Bush said he made it because “I didn’t want to inject a major decision about this war in the final days of a campaign,” Bush said. He appeared to acknowledge having misled reporters, saying, “And so the only way to answer that question and to get you onto another question was to give you that answer.”
He added later, “Win or lose, Bob Gates was going to become the nominee.”
As reported in the Washington Post, quoted by Glenn Greenwald.
Tell us more, John.
So if the only way you have to get me to stop asking you a question is to tell me what you think I want to hear, then we aren’t having a conversation and you didn’t want a conversation anyhow. Do I have that right?
But eventually there will be some explaining to do, and everyone knows that if you put it off for later it’s just going to be a lot harder to convince anyone to trust anything you say. And you know there will be some questions you’re going to be unable to duck unless you resign, and that’s no better because you’re looking at real prosecution that will follow you anywhere you go, even to the ends of the earth.
So now is the plea bargaining.
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