White House Press Corps grows a pair

Of course, iron­i­cally, it was Helen Thomas:

“Your deci­sion to invade Iraq has caused the deaths of thou­sands of Amer­i­cans and Iraqis… Every rea­son given, pub­licly at least, turned out not to be true. My ques­tion is, why did you really want to go to war?”

He didn’t answer her ques­tion, instead pos­tur­ing and act­ing offended that any­one would sug­gest that a U.S. Pres­i­dent would *want* war. But the room seemed to get in the mood, ask­ing him if Rums­feld should resign, and whether his domes­tic wire-tapping plan was legal, and if troops would ever leave Iraq. At which point he admit­ted that that would be a deci­sion for another Pres­i­dent. So, no.

Heh.

I hope Helen Thomas is still there when Jeb is President.

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