09.22.06
Bush’s backpedaling on the war in Iraq. By Michael Kinsley – Slate Magazine
Frankly, I would have pegged George W. Bush—whose awareness of his own weaknesses is one of his more attractive traits—as just about the last person in the world who would try this literary jujitsu. But in his own narrative of his own war (the one in Iraq), he has done it. If you trace the concept of “victory” in his remarks on Iraq, and those of subordinates, you discover a war that was won three and a half years ago, and today has barely started.
Bush’s backpedaling on the war in Iraq. By Michael Kinsley – Slate Magazine.