Bush Weasels Out Of Pledge With Regard

Juan Cole 07/19/2005

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Bush Weasels out of Pledge

With regard to the Karl Rove leak scandal, President Bush had earlier pledged to fire anyone with responsibility for the leak of a CIA operative’s name..

But now he is revising his criteria to say that he would only fire the person if they were shown to be guilty.

Satire alert:

You can only imagine the 2006 newspaper headline: “Bush Pledges to Fire anyone Proven Guilty of Genocide.”

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page