An Hallucinating Legacy

[kentuck]

He had long sobered up from the drugs and alcohol when he entered the White House. He was no longer the party frat boy. He had found Jesus.

However, he had long had grandeur visions of supreme power over others. He had told people that he would have done things differently from his father, when he went into Iraq in the first Gulf War. To be considered a "great" President, one needed to be victorious in war, he said. That is the legacy he has deluded himself about for many years.

If he did not find a suitable war to fulfil his hallucinating dreams, then he would create one on his own. He would have his legacy no matter what. So he invaded Iraq, a sovereign nation, preemptively and unilaterally to fulfill his own distorted image of himself. That is his legacy.

[whistle]

1. He = George W. Bush

[soothsayer]

2. An hallucinating legacy? A hallucinating legacy? do the Brits say

the former, us yanks the latter?

[kentuck]

3. I debated that .... silent syllable rule or such....

I think either would work??

[Gruenemann]

4. The rule is...

Use 'a' before words beginning with a consonant
Use 'an' before words beginning with an vowel.
The only exception is for UNSOUNDED 'h' as in "an honest man."

Apparently someone decided it sounded right to use "an" before "historical" but there's no justification for it and it drives me up the wall.