Nothing disturbs the Bush administration more than being quoted correctly, especially when the quote is a Karl Rove catchphrase. George W Bush has been preaching to anyone who will listen that the American policy in Iraq demands that we, "stay the course". He said exactly those words in June after returning from Bagdad. He repeated the thought in July in Milwaukee and in Salt Lake City in August. These are direct quotes from speeches. They are not, out of context remarks made as the president was crossing the White House lawn to board Marine One. The message seemed clear; we will continue to get Americans killed in an Iraqi civil war regardless of the stupidity of that plan.
But wait. According to Tony Snow, former FoxNews scihophant and current White House press secretary, that's not what the pres. meant at all. When George said, "stay the course" what he actually meant was, "a study in consistant motion by the administration". Well thank God for Tony! Without his brilliant insight into the mind of George W. we might have foolishly assumed that our Commander in Chief actuall meant what he said.
We are all aware of how GWB gets into Dan Quayle-like trouble when he wanders too far off the printed script. It would now appear that even the pre-written messages can't be trusted.
What next? Will we come to find that Don Rumsfeld's, "stuff happens" actually means that we screwed up the security of one of the most valuable and important museums in the world when we allowed the building to be looted and that we are sorry? Did DickCheney's, "we will be greated as liberators" really mean that Iraq has been a sectarian mess for years and, without a strong central government in place, civil war is inevitable?
It's hard not to smile while watching the administration grope for some acceptable language to explain the incredible succession of mistakes and bad decisions. The authors of "swift-boating" and "cut and run" appear to have better luck with catch-phrases when they afix them to the opposition.
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