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Bush's Not-So-Candid Chat

October 18, 2005 | ISSUE 41•41

A televised conversation between President Bush and American and Iraqi troops that was originally presented as a candid chat turned out to be carefully scripted to address Bush's goals for the war and the new Iraqi constitution. What do you think?

This would be a major problem for the president if anybody cared anymore about whether or not the things he did were fake.

Gerald Huppmann
Arbitrator
Oh, so that explains the part where the Islamic fundamentalist ran in with a bomb and was single-handedly subdued by the president.

Rainey Milford
Daycare Attendant
It just shows that he cares enough to pretend to like the troops. That should be worth something.

Sean Guidry
Realtor

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