Priceless as usual. Here’s one ideal Bush response to Terry Moran:
And while I agree that ordinary citizens have protested our government in foreign capitals, I’d ask you why American security should be determined by 26 year old Belgian college students, and I’d also note that these rallies have been organized by people who’d dance in the street if someone set off a tactical nuclear device in the lobby of the Monsanto corporate office. But more to the point, Terry, I’d ask: What went wrong in your education that you believe that the disapproval of China constitutes failure?
YOU ON THE PRESS CONFERENCE: Many of you don’t seem to think he looked exhausted:
He just seemed very, very sad that it must come to this. Very sad to have to admit that France and Germany are likely never going to be ‘allies’ of ours again. Forcing the vote will force their hands…they will reveal whether they are with us or the terrorists…then there will be a break. Bush seems full of regret that this break will happen. I think he’s disappointed in Putin, too, whom he trusted. But he didn’t seem defeated to me. Howard Fineman said it best. He was grim, somber, inexorable…he was Shane, the reluctant cowboy, strapping on a gun to protect his family. I didn’t think he looked tired…just terribly regretful and thoughtful.
Sure. But tired as well.
NO MORE SADDAMS: Far from being celebrated as a resister to American power, Saddam is getting less popular in that part of the world:
The latest issue of the Saudi-owned weekly magazine Al-Majalla reports that 500 Egyptians whose parents had named them Saddam have sought legal name changes in recent months. “I was among hundreds of thousands of Egyptians who went to work in Iraq before the (1990) invasion of Kuwait. We saw Saddam then as a leader who loves Arab nationalism and then I had my son and named him Saddam,” the magazine quoted the father of a 15-year-old as saying. “But we were surprised by his invasion of Kuwait and the destruction of Arab solidarity, and he is the one behind our division now and the war that threatens the Iraqi people.”
Imagine how they’ll feel about him once he’s found hanging from a lamp-post in Tikrit.
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