>  I turned on the TV in the middle of it.
>
>   He was talking about Iraq and how much better it is now, how before
> women were oppressed, little girls couldn't go to school, etc. (of
> course that was their culture, their way of life. If another country
> didn't agree with the USA and our way of life and culture and started
> bombing and talking over, what would happen? Taking over another
> country "for it's own good", isn't that dictatorship?) And, it's
> already come out that Iraq wasn't being 9-11 and didn't have WMD.
>
>   He was also talking about the economy and how we should be
> optimistic, because how people feel about it is going to effect what
> they do (and probably effect the economy more, like the domino effect)
> LIke people should pretend it's differnt than it is, like he does.
>
> Then he started JOKING with the reporters. Laughing. One woman asked
> another question and he joked (I wasn't sure at first he was joking,
> even though he was laughing) about how she had already asked a
> question and he hadn't let others ask more, or sub questions, etc. He
> was LAUGHING and joking and having a good old time.
>
>   He was talking about Iraq and it going on and on (and the need for
> this and how it's doing good and it shows)  and even though (he didn't
> say this outright) people were dying and getting blown up and a
> country being literaly destroyed, and the terrible economy (probably
> due to all the expense in Iraq, which doesn't even make sense) he was
> laughing and joking.
>
>    I've noticed this before how lightheated he is, he chuckles and his
> eyes twinkle, no matter what subject he's talking about.
>
>  How do people watching this, who have lost loved ones, family
> members, or they've come back with serious wounds and handicaps (even
> the emotional and mental ones that don't outwardly show) feel when
> watching this?
>
>   How do people barely getting by, doing without food (or heat) or not
> enough money to repair a car to get to their job feel about this?
>
>   It's like a kid playing a video game (war games) who's getting a
> high score, and thinks he's winning. And if he loses he can restart
> and all his lost lives come back to start over.
>
>   Maybe he was doing it to distract from serious questions? He didn't
> like what the reporter was asking so joked how she had already asked
> ONE question and he hadn't let the ones on the other side ask two, or
> something.
>
>    What do other world leaders think, watching this? What the
> President says, if not broadcast (or watched) live all around the
> world, is picked up and shown.
>
>      Maybe this is off topic with ACIM, but it does talk about the ego
> world of illusion as being "insane".
>
>     I watched him laughing, in a light hearted and jolly/fun way, not
> just optimitic and hopeful, but almost silly- in the middle of the
> press conference about Iraq and the economy and thought "this is
> insane".
>
>      I don't know what happened before or after that, I turned it off.