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The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Nuclear Fiction

Maureen Dowd really doesn't say anything new here, but oh my, she does say it well! For example, pulling out all the alliterative stops, she writes;

George Bush is not giving an inch on Iraq. He's toughing out the cascade of confirmation and criticism from his own people about the hyperpower hyperbole that led to an unnecessary war and an unruly occupation. His advisers say it's better for the president to appear out of touch than apologetic. He'd rather seem delusional than deluded.

And she concluded with a little down home logic:

W. should have followed his father's policy on hypotheticals. As Poppy Bush would say, when someone asked him to be speculative: "If a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump its tail on the ground."