Finally, The President's Sincere Apology to the Wilsons

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Finally, The President's Sincere Apology to the Wilsons

By Steve Young

Created Jul 14 2007 - 10:09am

Who would have ever expected that when the question was asked during

Thursday's press conference that President Bush would drop all the facades

and ingenuous Bushspeak to finally give his heartfelt examination of both

the country's and the Wilson's pain and frustration over the past four years

since "someone in his administration" outed an admitted covert CIA agent?

 

But there it was, as clear as a midsummers night dream...

 

Q You spoke very soberly and seriously in your statement about how you

weighed different legal questions in coming to your decision on that

commutation. But one issue that you did not address was the issue of the

morality of your most senior advisors leaking the name of a confidential

intelligence operator. Now that the case is over -- it's not something

you've ever spoken to -- can you say whether you're at all disappointed in

the behavior of those senior advisors? And have you communicated that

disappointment to them in any way?

 

President Bush: Thank you for the question. First of all, you have to

understand that I've had to hold my tongue for the past four years so that

we could allow the legal process to run its course. Having to watch my

spokespeople having to waffle their way through some half-baked duck and

cover non-answers to your very proper questions has been for me, to say the

least, hard work. I also know that it hasn't been easy for the boys down at

Fox and talk radio to come up with creative spin to explain away what was

egregious, if not traitorous, behavior. Certainly, pinning the fault on the

Wilsons was ingenious. Victims as culprits has always been a winner up here

at 1600, but I thought the "she wasn't covert" echo chamber, in spite of the

fact that the CIA and Ms Plame herself said it under oath that she was,

showed a spitting in the face of truth perseverance that I think even Helen

T. would appreciate. Honestly, I'm always shocked how well it continues to

do the job, but when something works...not exactly sure how that finishes -

but suffice it to say, it does.

 

First, let me address the Wilsons. Hello Wilsons. Heh-heh-heh. What they

have gone through was what my non-Christ believing friends call a "shanda."

I would have rather that it didn't have to come down to what it did but then

again if embryonic stem cells weren't potential human voters, we might have

a cure for whatever they're calling senility today.

 

Secondly, I want to offer my condolences to Scott McClellan. You couldn't

help but empathize watching that kid perspire a Katrina-sized pool of

flop-sweat though his corduroy Brook Brothers. I certainly know what hard

work that is having to wade more times than I many times than I care to

remember through the male-cow dung down at the Crawford North Forty. And we

don't even have any cattle. Heh-heh-heh.

 

Thirdly, and most important, I'd like to apo-lo-gize to the American people.

I don't think I need to get into all the specifics of the apology, mostly

because I really never grasped the concept. But I have been told that the

American people have always appreciated a good apology. Now while I'm not

going to take a poll as to who does and who doesn't appreciate an apology

'cause I don't believe in polls, except, of course, the ones where a goodly

portion of the votes get counted.

 

Finally, you asked if I was disappointed in those in my administration who

perhaps may have leaked Mrs. Plame's name of CIA employment. The simple

answer is "yes." I am disappointed. They have lied to the American public,

outed a covert CIA agent for political purposes and made me look even more

foolish than my handlers make me out to be.

 

And because of that I will be asking each of those men - which now only

means my good friend Karl Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney, who I'm told

is also my good friend, to immediately turn in their secret cabinet decoder

ring and leave public service for good, just thanking the good Lord that

they didn't end up at the bad end of a firing squad.

 

I have always believed that mistakes and failures are only that if we don't

learn from them. Hopefully we've all learned an important lesson. I

certainly have and to show the country that I have...

 

Helen I'd like to answer your next question...honestly.

 

That was about the time I woke up.

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"A little patience and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their

spells dissolve, and the people recovering their true sight, restore their

government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are

suffering deeply in spirit,

and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public

debt. But if the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have

patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning

back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at

stake."

-Thomas Jefferson