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Tuesday, April 13, 2004

Actually, I’m not sure how I would feel if I were occupied

I’m sorry, everyone, but I’m having an out-of-body experience.  Did Bush really just say he wouldn’t be happy if he were occupied?  (It’s still Tuesday night here even though the blog says Wednesday, because the server goes by Greenwich Mean Time for some reason.) Did he really say “I plan on telling the American people that I’ve got a plan to win the war on terror”?  Did he really suggest that everyone who opposed this war believes that “brown-skinned” people can’t be free?

And are Peggy and company really going to trot out the comparisons to Churchill tomorrow morning?

UPDATE:  It’s now Wednesday morning, and the full transcript is here.  The “brown-skinned” line is actually

Some of the debate really center around the fact that people don’t believe Iraq can be free; that if you’re Muslim, or perhaps brown-skinned, you can’t be self-governing and free.

And I’d missed this one:

One of my hardest parts of my job is to console the family members who have lost their life.

No comment here.

Posted by Michael on 04/13 at 03:55 PM
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