“I want to be the peace president” – Bush

Bush has tried to capitalize on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for his election campaign. Back in February of this year, he said, “I’m a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind” and on May 1, 2003 he landed in a flight suit on an aircraft carrier to declare that “major combat operations have ended” and that the war in Iraq was a “mission accomplished.”

With the American death toll in Iraq getting close to 1,000 and the war being the main reason people want to vote against him, Bush seems to have had a change of heart. He told a campaign rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on July 20, that he was a reluctant war-time president, saying, “Nobody wants to be the war president. I want to be the peace president.” Just when you thought he couldn’t outdo the lie about Iraq’s WMD, he pulls another one out of his ass. The chances of anyone believing this one are, thankfully, slim to none.

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