red room (syd2006)

June 2007.

Helen Thomas: Are there any members of the Bush family or this administration in this war?

Tony Snow: Yeah, the President. The President is in the war every day.

Helen Thomas: Come on, that isn’t my question –

Tony Snow: Well, no, if you ask any president who is a commander in chief –

Helen Thomas: On the frontlines, wherever…

Tony Snow: The President.

April 2007,

First Lady Laura Bush: “no one suffers more than their President and I do.”

Feb 2007,

G.W.Bush:
"I can only tell you what people on the ground, whose judgment — it’s hard for me, living in this beautiful White House, to give you an assessment, firsthand assessment. I haven’t been there; you have, I haven’t."