Here’s the video [1]. Lots of heat and no light. That seems to be Bush’s strategy these days. He gets himself all bent out of shape over a question that was not asked.
I’ll translate the gibberish you hear out of Bush’s mouth: “Did I hold any such meetings? No.”
What you actually hear Bush saying on this video are things like this:
“We must be on the offense against an enemy that wants to do us harm.”
and
“I don’t have enough time to finger-point.”
As I’ve argued before [2], the press should have to courage to point out when politicians refuse to answer clearly stated questions. In this case, I would be delighted if the press reported Bush’s answer as follows: “Bush refuses to answer whether he held any meetings regarding Bin Laden for nine months after Bill Clinton left office.”
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