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Bush seeks ‘anonymity’

Former US president George W. Bush told a group of his White House aides at a breakfast Friday that he is "trying to regain a sense of anonymity," an event attendee confirmed to AFP.

Bush also told the group that he was pleased former vice president Dick Cheney had taken a lead role in defending their national security policies, declaring: "I'm glad Cheney is out there."

The former president, who also touted his administration's domestic agenda, said he was resolved to keep a low profile and indicated he did not want to be a thorn in the side of President Barack Obama.

"I have no desire to see myself on television. I don't want to be on a panel of formers instructing the currents on what to do. I'm trying to regain a sense of anonymity," Bush said.

"I didn't like it when a certain former president -- and it wasn't 41 or 42 -- made my life miserable," he said in a reference to Jimmy Carter, who infuriated the Bush White House in 2007 when he accused the administration of allowing the use of torture on terror suspects.

The online political publication Politico first reported the remarks at the breakfast, which was closed to the media.

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Going through the “Bloggers for Sarah Palin” Blogroll…

...and found three links that TIN readers might really like:

All American Blogger, "Who's Best at Stopping Roadside Bombs?" - fta: For those folks who spend all their free time donning the headset, logging into XBOX Live and playing HALO, believe it or not, you will not see the roadside bomb that takes out your truck. You spend too much time narrowing your vision to the confines of a television screen...
Blatherings, "Cheney on the dithering Obama" - fta: dick cheney says we can win in afghanistan if we have courage. i believe that don’t you? but apparently the obama administration has little courage when it comes to afghanistan. they seem to be able to only muster a smug-like bravado over the war with foxnews! their constant dithering and indecisiveness signals to our enemies abroad that we are weal, making us vulnerable and less safe.
Caffeinated Thoughts, "The Final Word on the Palin in Des Moines Controversy" - a story proclaiming that Sarah Palin had charged an outrageous speaking fee for an Iowa appearance turns out to be less than truthful. Check out the details at this link.

Hope all of you enjoy those links: don't forget to leave a comment at those blogs if you visit (might even want to mention how you stumbled upon them). If none of that suits your reading pleasure, there's always this Commentary on the Gettysburg Address I wrote some time ago.

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Cheney: Congress Won't Stop Us

Via: Newsmax Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday dismissed as "hogwash" criticism that the Bush administration led the United States recklessly into war in Iraq and had lost credibility because of its blunders there.

Cheney, a driving force in the decision to invade Iraq in 2003, vehemently defended U.S. Iraq policy in a sometimes testy television encounter a day after President George W. Bush urged a skeptical Congress to give his retooled war plan a chance.

"We have to have the stomach to finish the task," Cheney told CNN's Wolf Blitzer as Bush pressed ahead with plans to send 21,500 more troops to fight in the increasingly unpopular war.

Cheney was asked about the Democratic response to Bush's State of the Union speech, in which Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia declared: "The president took us into this war recklessly. ... We are now, as a nation, held hostage to the predictable -- and predicted -- disarray that has followed."

Cheney, also questioned about the impression of a credibility problem over Iraq, replied: "I simply don't accept the premise of your question. I just think it's hogwash." ...More