BUSH: My meetings with [Chalabi] were very brief. I mean, I think I met with him at the State of the Union and just kind of working through the rope line, and he might have come with a group of leaders. But I haven’t had any extensive conversations with him.
Really, Mr. President? I guess you didn’t talk much during all those times you were photographed together. And there probably wasn’t much conversation when you invited Chalabi, now being investigated for giving U.S. secrets to Iran, to sit just behind your wife at the last State of the Union speech. And I’m sure the $27 million you gave to his group, the Iraqi National Congress, was just left in a trashcan for him to pick up. And when he and his friends were giving you bogus intel that Iraq could attack with U.S. within 45 minutes, that was done with smoke signals. Nope, never spoke to him. Makes perfect sense to me.
Our President is a compulsive liar. But think about this: if you could lie constantly, about anything, with absolutely no consequences, wouldn’t you be at least tempted?