I'm sorry, you just don't sit the biggest boss in the land in a supreme court just to ask 'did you nail this fat piggy'? The friggen pope woulda denied layin it down to Ms. lewinsky, I woulda denied it, so would you. Nobody died in doing so. Fast forward a term or 2...
Many politicians have been very corrupt over the last couple hundred years, some, like huey long (or stalin), have even been able to maintain the guise of competency, actually working, and even maybe made it seem like things were done for the betterment of the nation (or bayou).
Bush, through his appointees (Rumsfeld, Brownie, Ashcroft, homeland security bungholewhatshisname) and himself have proven imcompetent, reckless, corrupt, lazy (can we PLEASE stop with the vacation days! No more vacation for 3 years motherf...), and seemingly working only for corporate america. They've sent at least 3 of my close friends to a ****ty nation, for a ****ty reason, with a ****ty plan. And then they've tried to use 9/11 as a complete and total reasoning for why they should have a blank check to do it with.
the first iraq war cost 5 billion dollars...we're now going on 300 billion. Someone needs to call their daddy.
Also, hypothetically someone else comes out in objection of something the president is saying...The president decides to 'declassify' something else...that gets someone killed or actually does jeopardize the security of our nation (or it's american agents), are we going to do something then? or just wave it by again? In ww2 this would have been treason on anyone less than the prez...but I guess those were pre 9/11 times.
Only in amurica can the best tactic in spinning something is to call it something else...that's not leaking, it's declassifying, it's not torture, it's only stressful, not civilians, insurgents, it's not a deficit, it's an antipositive budget plan...I can't wait for bush to get busted picking his nose so he can reply that he's only pointing at his brain...