Decision Maker

Today's news indicates Bush has got some grammar tutoring. He is now the 'decision maker', not the 'decider'. Maybe next month he will learn about the part of the constitution where it says Congress gets to declare war.

Bush quote from AP story: "Our policy is going to be to protect our troops. It makes sense." How about protecting them by bringing them home.

From Bush's January 10 speech: "our policy should focus on protecting Iraq's borders and hunting down al Qaeda".

November statement by spokeswoman: "our policy in Iraq must be determined by victory in the war on terror, not public opinion polls."

From the 2004 debate with Kerry: "I believe, that the Iraqis are ready to fight for their own freedom. They just need the help to be trained. There will be elections in January. We're spending reconstruction money. And our alliance is strong.
That's the plan for victory."

Isn't Google great? You can dig up all this shit so easily. What is not great is that it points out the Bush and his handlers are not only all over the map on Iraq policy, they can't be bothered to do even a half-assed pr job for their policy message.