The madness of Pope George

I know I keep harping on this, but it bothers me, and the press [or at least the headline-writing lackeys] don't seem to pick up on the subtleties of our president's so-called frankness. Take this story in yesterday's Washington Post... please!

President Says His Iraq Policy Was Failing

This was the headline, but what our president really said was...

"I had a choice to make," Bush said. "Do what we're doing -- and one could define that maybe a slow failure. Secondly, withdraw out of Baghdad and hope for the best. I think that would be expedited failure. And thirdly is to help this Iraqi government with additional forces -- help them do what they need to do, which is to provide security in Baghdad."

"One could define that maybe a slow failure..." one could, not I, George Herbert Walker Bush, define that as a slow failure. And, not definitely... one could define that maybe as a slow failure.

His reluctance to admit his own fallibility is frightening. Hmmm... Pope George.

The more one thinks about it the further one could maybe be driven into madness.