Bush quotes from Woodward Interviews

Someone, explain to me how this man is any smarter:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/cartoonsandvideos/telnaes/telnaes_main.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

*twitch*

I keep saying that I want to leave. That I want to go to Austria. And I know they have their own set of problems. But I don't know how they can be worse than America's. I'm so ready to be an ex-pat.

We elected him.

TWICE.

We deserve whatever we get.

I don't buy that Saint Tee, majority vote didn't elect him.

Namrok, not all of them are blatantly bad, but then you get something like this:

Woodward: And you were asking questions. "Well, how many have we killed?"
President Bush: I ask that on occasion to find out whether or not we're fighting back.
Woodward: Okay.
President Bush: Because the perception is, is that our guys are dying and they're not. Because we don't put out numbers. We don't have a tally. On the other hand, if I'm sitting here watching the casualties come in, I'd at least like to know whether or not our soldiers are fighting.

I mean, seriously.... he asserts that our soldiers aren't dying, but if they are he wants to be sure that they're fighting back. Because, you know, that's not normally what soldiers do.

Even when his answers aren't out and out nonsensical, he expresses himself in such a vague and rambling way that I have a hard time believing that he really knows what is going on.

Really, the worst thing about the Woodward interviews that I have read so far is that Bush and the other high-level guys readily admit to knowing that the strategy was failing, but refused to even discuss a new one for over four months because they were afraid it would have negative results for the Republicans in the coming election. Most of us already suspected this was the case, but in these interviews, Bush and others flat out confirm this. This meant they continued to execute a strategy that they knew was flawed and was resulting in thousands of casualties, both civilian and military. For that alone, these people should be tried and convicted of manslaughter.