Is Bush really as stupid as he appears?
He must be.
"I say to Bush: `Thank you,"' quipped Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi. "He motivated people to vote in retaliation."
The sharp barbs from President Bush were widely seen in Iran as damaging to pro-reform groups because the comments appeared to have boosted turnout among hard-liners in Friday's election...
The president's words sounded too much like the prewar rhetoric against Saddam, and many on-the-fence voters were shocked into action, said Abdollah Momeni, a political affairs expert at Tehran University.
“People faced a dilemma,” Mr. Momeni said. “In people's minds it became a choice between voting or giving Bush an excuse to attack.”
My real question after the fold.
Do you think that maybe Bush's earpiece told him
exactly what to say to stir up the hardliners in Iran?
Then Condi and (recess appointed) Bolton do their worst to cooperate with diplomatic overtures from the Iranian government.
(Bush in a future press conference)"We don't want to go to war... but ya see, these mullahs and jihadists and such just don't give us much choice...and gosh darn it, they just won't tell us the truth about those nukular weapons we know they have pointed at us."
Am I too far off the mark here?
If the past 5 years were some kind of mini series... this set-up really seems like a perfect next season.
R
From the fool's gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words