President's Chief-of-Staff Impressive on Meet the Press
Although I am hardly a fan of the Bush Administration, I cannot help but congratulate White House Chief-of-Staff Josh Bolten for his performance on Meet the Press this morning. He was everything that the President is not: thoughtful, articulate, knowledgeable, and measured. Here are a few of the highlights:
MR. RUSSERT: Is the Lebanese prime minister correct that the Israeli bombardments are creating sympathy for Hezbollah?
MR. BOLTEN: I don't know. They, they may be, and I'm sure the Israelis are aware of that. That's one reason why we have encouraged the Israelis as much as possible to minimize civilian casualties and damage to civilian infrastructure. But, but bear in mind, Tim, that's in this kind of circumstance that's difficult to do, because Hezbollah has intentionally interwoven itself into the civilian populations and, and made it's basically used civilians as, as shields for their terrorist activities.
MR. RUSSERT: The Iraqi prime minister, Mr. Maliki, has weighed in as well. Now this is someone who is supposedly an ally of the United States. This was his observation on what's going on. "The Israeli attacks and air strikes are completely destroying Lebanon's infrastructure. We call on the world to take quick--let's see--stands to stop the Israeli aggression."
MR. BOLTEN: Yeah, and that's, that's the kind of language you might expect to hear from sovereign leaders in, in, in Arab countries. Israel is not very popular in the region. The, the good news is that that is a sovereign, democratically elected leader of Iraq able to express his views. He'll have an opportunity to discuss that with President Bush when he--when Prime Minister Maliki comes here early this coming week.
To view the complete transcript for today's Meet the Press, go to: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13904922/
Bolten, Chief, President, Russert
MR. RUSSERT: Is the Lebanese prime minister correct that the Israeli bombardments are creating sympathy for Hezbollah?
MR. BOLTEN: I don't know. They, they may be, and I'm sure the Israelis are aware of that. That's one reason why we have encouraged the Israelis as much as possible to minimize civilian casualties and damage to civilian infrastructure. But, but bear in mind, Tim, that's in this kind of circumstance that's difficult to do, because Hezbollah has intentionally interwoven itself into the civilian populations and, and made it's basically used civilians as, as shields for their terrorist activities.
MR. RUSSERT: The Iraqi prime minister, Mr. Maliki, has weighed in as well. Now this is someone who is supposedly an ally of the United States. This was his observation on what's going on. "The Israeli attacks and air strikes are completely destroying Lebanon's infrastructure. We call on the world to take quick--let's see--stands to stop the Israeli aggression."
MR. BOLTEN: Yeah, and that's, that's the kind of language you might expect to hear from sovereign leaders in, in, in Arab countries. Israel is not very popular in the region. The, the good news is that that is a sovereign, democratically elected leader of Iraq able to express his views. He'll have an opportunity to discuss that with President Bush when he--when Prime Minister Maliki comes here early this coming week.
To view the complete transcript for today's Meet the Press, go to: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13904922/
Bolten, Chief, President, Russert
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