This article could just as easily have been headlined: "Bush acknowledges hole, vows to keep digging."
Although his tone was restrained, Mr. Bush did express confidence in the ultimate outcome in Iraq. Responding to a question about a remark he made in an interview with The Washington Post that America is not winning, he said, “I believe we are going to win. I believe that — and, by the way, if I didn’t think that, I wouldn’t have our troops there. That’s what you got to know. We’re going to succeed.”
To quote a Vietnam vet named Kerry from his testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971: "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"
Posted by Linkmeister at December 20, 2006 11:35 AM | TrackBackBush acknowledges hole, vows to keep digging
LOL...sob...LOL.
Posted by: Shakespeare's Sister at December 20, 2006 12:43 PMI call him evil, and I call him stupid, but my wife says you can't be evil AND stupid. That's one area where we disagree - another is whether or not the Three Stooges are funny.
Posted by: Serge at December 20, 2006 02:26 PMCite Mussolini as an example of both evil and stupid. He's been portrayed as a comic-opera buffoon, but that's not accurate.
Posted by: Linkmeister at December 20, 2006 03:17 PMFunny how nobody took the Italians very seriously in those old WW2 movies, where they were usually depicted as dupes of the Nazis or ineffectual bumblers. I'm not sure why that is. After all, didn't their fascists take over a government long enough before the Nazis suceeded?
Posted by: Serge at December 20, 2006 07:09 PMThere was Franco as well, although I don't think he was portrayed as stupid. In fact, I don't remember reading much of anything about Spain during WW2 except as an entry point for people escaping France through the Pyrenées.
Posted by: Linkmeister at December 20, 2006 07:40 PMI probably could ask my father-in-law about Spain during WW2. He might be able to tell me how it managed to maintain its neutrality, and whether or not it could have kept on doing so much longer. (On the other hand, he doesn't have a what-if kind of mind, at least based on what little SF he does read.)
Posted by: Serge at December 21, 2006 04:34 AM