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Fck you and the horse you're soon to ride off on. The last day of your lies-for-access can't come fast enough. Rating yesterday's speech in the "top 5 of second term inauguration speeches" is a crock of twicefried bean poo.
No one believes Shrub means or intends to act on those things, so why does Safire? One more unreality-based dose of hot air on a cold January day is all that will be remembered of the speech.
Nevermind what Kos rightly identifies as the policy contradictions between rhetoric and action.
But what does Safire think Shrub says to his Saudi pals in private - what does Safire say in private to his Saudi pals? What does Rumsfeld or Porter Goss say when they speak to Musharraf? What would Bush say to Sharansky himself about Israeli violence and collective punishment? Talk is cheap.
Who thinks these guys have the spine to say now "You're on the wrong side of history" like Clinton said on live television when visiting China?
Good riddance Safire. Hated every minute of it.
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