“The Way It Is, Not the Way Somebody Would Hope It Would Be”
If there has been an administration in recent (or even ancient) memory that has based (1) an entire foreign policy and (2) the waging of war on the ‘way they hoped it would be,’ please e-mail me and name it.
In the be careful what you say department, particularly what you say in front of reporters, George Bush should have bitten his tongue when the words were halfway out. A kind of between breath ‘oh, oh’ might have fired off in the millisecond between intention and utterance to save him some embarrassment.
If there has been an administration in recent (or even ancient) memory that has based (1) an entire foreign policy and (2) the waging of war on the ‘way they hoped it would be,’ please e-mail me and name it.
Another Bushism announced itself just yesterday, as the president expressed the belief that
“this traumatic period in Iraq will be seen as "just a comma" in the history books.”
In his dreams.
History has yet to relegate the battle of the bulge or the retaking of the Phillipines to ‘j…