text: President Bush calls on Helen Thomas during press conference; question stirs debate
  
  March 22, 2006 
  
  During a press conference on Tuesday, President George W. Bush called on veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas for the first time in three years. She asked, "... your decision to invade Iraq has caused the deaths of thousands of Americans and Iraqis, wounds of Americans and Iraqis for a lifetime. Every reason given, publicly at least, has turned out not to be true. My question is, why did you really want to go to war?" 
  Bush replied, "And when [Saddam Hussein] chose to deny inspectors, when he chose not to disclose, then I had the difficult decision to make to remove him. And we did, and the world is safer for it." 
  The exchange has provoked extreme responses in the blogosphere, with conservative commentators like Fred Barnes of Fox News portraying Helen Thomas as being "unprofessional" and "improper" in "accusing the President."
tokens: President Bush calls on Helen Thomas during press conference ; question stirs debate March 22 , 2006 During a press conference on Tuesday , President George W. Bush called on veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas for the first time in three years . She asked , " ... your decision to invade Iraq has caused the deaths of thousands of Americans and Iraqis , wounds of Americans and Iraqis for a lifetime . Every reason given , publicly at least , has turned out not to be true . My question is , why did you really want to go to war ? " Bush replied , " And when [ Saddam Hussein ] chose to deny inspectors , when he chose not to disclose , then I had the difficult decision to make to remove him . And we did , and the world is safer for it . " The exchange has provoked extreme responses in the blogosphere , with conservative commentators like Fred Barnes of Fox News portraying Helen Thomas as being " unprofessional " and " improper " in " accusing the President . "
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