Time/drudge: bush --'I'm the guy making history' [View All]

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http://www.drudgereport.com/flash5.htm

Sorry to make you look at drudge excerpts, but Time requires a subscription.

My nomination for doublespeak of the day:

As sure as I’m sitting here, the right decision was to remove Saddam Hussein from power. The tactics going into Iraq were based upon a certain set of assumptions, like refugee flows, hunger, oil destruction. Had we had to do it over again, we would look at the consequences of catastrophic success—being so successful so fast that an enemy that should have surrendered or been done in escaped and lived to fight another day. I couldn’t have sat down and said to you, By the way, we’re going to be so victorious so quickly that we’ll end up having to fight another third of the Baathists over the next year in order to bring liberty to the country. There’s an idea that you can chew on.

EDIT: Accidentally capitalized first letters in "drudge" and "bush".