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By SusanG
02/01/2006 08:22:43 PM EST

We didn't mean Saddam had WMD literally.

We didn't mean the NSA spying was legal literally.

We didn't mean we didn't out a CIA agent literally.

Administration backs off Bush's vow to reduce Mideast oil imports
By Kevin G. Hall
Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON - One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America's dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said Wednesday that the president didn't mean it literally.

What the president meant, they said in a conference call with reporters, was that alternative fuels could displace an amount of oil imports equivalent to most of what America is expected to import from the Middle East in 2025.

But America still would import oil from the Middle East, because that's where the greatest oil supplies are.

Good Lord. Is this the new dodge for ... you know? Lying? That this silly country keeps thinking we should take the president at his word literally? This is really reaching stratospheric heights of bullshitdom.


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I'm sure you don't mean he (none / 0)
was literally lying. Do you?

Wow!

This administration is growing more pathetic with each passing minute.

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by Tom Ball on 02/01/2006 10:51:15 PM EST

Of course not ... (none / 0)
He was lying ... um ... figuratively. Or symbolically. Or something.

I'm wondering if the less-than-24-hour turnaround here means they're counting on the American attention span to be shrinking even more than I think it is.

by SusanG on 02/01/2006 10:54:44 PM EST

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I'm sorry (none / 0)
what are you talking about now?

You do realize that American Idol is on don't you?

SOTU is ancient history.

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by Embolden on 02/01/2006 11:04:14 PM EST

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Literally illiterate (none / 0)
no doubt.

My question is, how can anyone take this guy seriously.

Mo-Ron

by Embolden on 02/01/2006 11:02:04 PM EST

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