{"id":444,"date":"2004-08-31T12:12:10","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T16:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=444"},"modified":"2004-08-31T12:12:10","modified_gmt":"2004-08-31T16:12:10","slug":"the-meaning-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of ‘It’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, George W. Bush told Matt Lauer<\/a> on Today<\/i> that the “War on Terror” cannot be won.<\/p>\n

Actually, he said “I don’t think you can win it<\/i>“. Here’s the exact transcript:<\/p>\n

Lauer: \u201cYou said to me a second ago, one of the things you’ll lay out in your vision for the next four years is how to go about winning the war on terror. That phrase strikes me a little bit. Do you really think we can win this war on terror in the next four years?\u201d<\/p>\n

President Bush: \u201cI have never said we can win it in four years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lauer: \u201cSo I’m just saying can we win it? Do you see that?\u201d<\/p>\n

President Bush: \u201cI don’t think you can win it. But I think you can create conditions so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world \u2013- let’s put it that way.”<\/p><\/div>\n

Not being able to win this “war” is a new position for Bush who has said over and over that “we will win” it.<\/p>\n

As recently as July 30th of this year he said<\/a> in Springfield, MO., “We have a clear vision on how to win the war on terror and bring peace to the world.”<\/p>\n

And yet that’s not what he said on the bush to Matt. So the rest of the day Team Bush went apoplectic contorting to explain that Bush didn’t really mean we couldn’t win the war on terror…he was…referring to something else. To not being able to win, because there is nobody available to sign a surrender document. But other than that, we’ll win. Or something.<\/p>\n

They said a lot. They apologized a lot. They spun and danced and twisted and flip-flopped. Even McCain and Guiliani had to change their speeches to try and make sense of the torturued logic and apparent lack of clarity from the “Commander-in-Chief” they tell us should be re-“elected” due to his “clarity of vision”. Or something.<\/p>\n

Much was said. I’ll let you go and figure out how they’re now trying to spin it. Spinning is what they do well.<\/p>\n

The statement (and I not only read it, but saw it several times) seemed very clear to me, but the Bushies say it wasn’t. Bottom line: Apparently, it all depends on what the meaning of “it” is.<\/p>\n

Go figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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