Bush: I'm trying to figure out a matrix that says things are getting better

[Crankie Avalon]

Bush: In search of "a matrix that says things are getting better"

In an interview with "conservative journalists" Wednesday -- he must have checked the "liberal media" off his list with Wednesday morning's press conference -- George W. Bush complained that his administration's decision not to brag about enemy body counts in Iraq has made it hard for him to persuade the American people that the United States is winning the war in Iraq.

"We have made a conscious effort not to be a body-count team," the National Review's Byron York quotes the president as saying. Bush says the administration's restraint "gives you the impression that are just there -- kind of moving around, directing traffic, and somebody takes a shot at them and they're down."

Of course, the administration hasn't been as body-count-free as Bush suggests. Among the top stories on the Defense Department's Web site just now: "Coalition Soldiers Kill Six Insurgents, Seize Weapons."

But Bush says he has "thought long and hard about this" and realizes that Americans are getting frustrated. "A lot of people are just saying, 'You’re not doing enough to win. We're not winning, you're not doing enough to win, and I'm frustrated, I want it over with, with victory.' And I'm trying to figure out a matrix that says things are getting better. I think that one way to measure is less violence than before, I guess."

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/

Incredible. :wow:

[Turbineguy]

1. Do what your idiot supporters do!

Listen to O'Reilly, Coulter, Hannity and Limbaugh. If they say it's so, it must be so!

[ashling]

2. Obuscate and Deny

"And I'm trying to figure out a matrix that says things are getting better. I think that one way to measure is less violence than before, I guess."


Catapult the propaganda

:puke:

[liberalmuse]

3. What?

What the hell is a "matrix that says things are getting better"? Jay-SUS, this man is an idiot!

[Crankie Avalon]

7. He cares more about dreaming up some way to spin things getting better...

...than about actually doing concrete things to truly make things better.

It's like presenting a Christmas gift to someone and expecting them to care more about the pretty bow and giftwrapping than about the ten pound turd that's actually inside the box.

[kenny blankenship]

11. I think he meant 'metric' --something to measure by, but then again

maybe he meant 'matrix' in the sense of an array of variables used to form a judgment about "progress" in Iraq. But in this case that would be an array of variables created by excluding items that would otherwise ordinarily be used, but which are trending negative, and instead, using only variables that are positive, or which are irrelevant and would not ordinarily be used, to give a misleadingly positive picture of developments in Iraq.

[drm604]

14. It means he's trying to find a way to put a positive spin on the Iraq war.

Of course telling us that he's doing that is just fucking stupid.

[livetohike]

4. He doesn't know how to measure success or failure

A matrix??? He must be trying to fit the war into some kind of MBA business model. All his "benchmark" talk. Well, he ran down several businesses probably because he couldn't measure failure.

[genie_weenie]

5. Why worry about a Matrix? Why not

just continue to lie and state things are getting better? It's been the standard play for the last 3.5 years...

[tanyev]

6. Too many 'Murricans taking the red pill!

Stop it, get back in the matrix!

[donco6]

8. I think he means a rubric.

Rubric: a scoring guide for evaluating the quality of work or products to answer the question: What does mastery, and varying degrees of mastery, look like? Has three essential features: evaluative criteria, quality definitions, and a scoring strategy, which may be either holistic or analytic.

Actually, it would be kinda nice to see such a rubric - though why he thinks we'd be scoring above "Needs Work" I dunno.

[warrens]

9. "The longer we hold onto control, the less likely the nation

will ever elect fascist thugs again."

See, things ARE getting better. If you look at it right.

[Avalux]

10. That man loves to catapult the propoganda.

In other words - the lies aren't working anymore; gotta be another angle that'll work. :eyes:

[Virginia Dare]

12. Just slap up more signs that say "Mission Accomplished"

or "Path to Victory". That ought to do it. :eyes:

WORST.PRESIDENT.EVER.

[walldude]

13. I guess this will be his next speech:

"The first matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect, it was a work of art, flawless, sublime. A triumph equaled only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is as apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human being, thus I redesigned it based on your history to more accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of your nature. However, I was again frustrated by failure. I have since come to understand that the answer eluded me because it required a lesser mind, or perhaps a mind less bound by the parameters of perfection. Thus, the answer was stumbled upon by another, an intuitive program, initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human psyche. If I am the father of the matrix, she would undoubtedly be its mother."
:rofl: