A little telltale snippet from The Situation room : The Comma Effect

[BelgianMadCow]

CAFFERTY: Wolf, the question is, do you agree with President Bush when he told Wolf Blitzer that the war in Iraq will be recorded as nothing more than a comma in the history books? Charles in Washington, "I'm not surprised the president would make a statement like that. His inability to understand the damage he has done is further proof that he was never up for the job to begin with. His policies will have a ripple affect on generations to come. And when all is said and done, he'll be remembered as the worst president in American history." R.J. in Saugerties, New York," of course it's just a comma, as in, "Victory in Iraq would have been easy (comma), but Bush and Rumsfeld made so many bad decisions that turned into an endless bloodbath."

Lavon in Bedford, Texas, "No, the Iraq invasion will go down in history as a war crime committed by our country." Janel in Fredonia, New York, "I can't imagine any of the families who lost a loved one in this conflict would like to think of that loss resulting from a "comma" in U.S. history. A heartless remark from a heartless commander-in-chief." Michael, "I'm disgusted by President Bush's remarks. I'm an American soldier who's had many friends killed in Iraq, I spent 15 months there. Was all this for a comma in history? President Bush should be embarrassed."

And Paul in Bohemian, New York, I believe you misunderstood the president. Didn't he say he was in a coma? At least his policy in Vietnam; make that Iraq, seems to indicate that he is." If you didn't see your email here, you can go to cnn.com/caffertyfile and read more of these online. And we have a lot of them. Wolf?

BLITZER: A lot, hundreds?

CAFFERTY: Hundreds, hundreds, maybe more than a thousand in a half hour. I mean a lot of them. BLITZER: Any of them support Bush?

CAFFERTY: No. I mean, do you think anybody's going to write in and say, gee what an intelligent thing to say when you've got families of 3,000 kids out there that might be watching this. Families of 20,000 more wounded soldiers that might be watching this. How can you make a statement like that, this will be nothing more than a comma in history? Very insensitive I think.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0609/25/sitroom.02.html

As stated here before, all that needs to happen for november to be a landslide is one long unscripted Bush press conference with hard pressing questions.

It would be all over.

NGU!

[democrank]

1. A comma?

What a telling comment. George W. Bush, America`s favorite coddled bully, a man who has never known sacrifice in his entire pampered life, says his immoral invasion of Iraq will be but a comma in history.

Tens of thousands of dead people, our nation in astronomical war debt, our international standing ruined. Right, George, it`s just a comma.

[genie_weenie]

5. Despair not Because our Brainiac of a Leader is now reading

Polybius' Histories!

But when the sons of these men received the same position of authority from their fathers—having had no experience of misfortunes, and none at all of civil equality and freedom of speech, but having been bred up from the first under the shadow of their fathers' authority and lofty position—some of them gave themselves up with passion to avarice and unscrupulous love of money, others to drinking and the boundless debaucheries which accompanies it, and others to the violation of women or the forcible appropriation of boys

I think this sums up The Glorious Leader nicely...

[radfringe]

2. I sent the "TOON" to Cafferty... wonder if he looked at it?

[BelgianMadCow]

4. Great that you post that radfringe

I was thinking about your cartoon when I read the transcript, really :-)

So who knows... well done!
:yourock:

[Jacobin]

3. If IraqNam is so insignificant....

Then why are we destroying the military and bankrupting the country to participate in it?

Why not do something more meaningful?

Just askin'