Thinkprogress:
As the clock winds down on his presidency, President Bush has begun sitting for valedictory interviews. He refused to reexamine his most controversial decision — to go to war in Iraq — during last week’s interview with Charlie Gibson, saying, “That is a do-over that I can’t do.” In a new interview with editors and writers for conservative magazine National Review, Bush similarly refused to rethink his choices, “saying only that a president doesn’t ‘get an opportunity to redo a decision.’”
Though Bush wouldn’t reexamine Iraq, he happily defended other failures from his presidency, including his short-lived nomination of then-White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, whom he said “absolutely” would have made an “excellent” justice:
Asked whether he believes Harriet Miers “would have been excellent on the court,” the president quickly responded, “Absolutely. Absolutely, no question in my mind . . . and there’s no doubt in my mind that my dear friend, Harriet Miers, would have had the same judicial philosophy 20 years after I went home, and had the intellectual firepower to do the job.” […] His regret about the Miers case, he told us, was that “this really, really good person got chucked out there and, man, the lions tore her up.”
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Bush is still high on drugs and drinking with this last comment. Now Meirs just broke the law by refusing to testify and what would see say to a defendant who did the same thing? Justices are support to direct the Law of the Land not break laws. Meirs has bigger problems. She helped Bush set up the torture policies and much more. She should do what Karl Rove is doing for his legal fees, write a tell all book and hope it sells.
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