Sites Holmquist trys, and often fails, to go no more than a couple of days without visiting (some of which Holmquist regularly swipes links from without attribution)
Ambassador Bremer sat right here yesterday and talked to me about the Iraqis' desire to be more involved in the governance of their country. And that's a positive development because it's -- actually, that's what we want.
That's a "development"? I thought the Team Bush Line was that every man, woman, child and small animal wanted the U.S. of A. to give them Jebus' gift of freedom in the form of a government that does what the U.S. wants it to do. Bush even says as much later in the same transcript:
I am so pleased to be going to a country which says that people are allowed to express their mind. That's fantastic. Freedom is a beautiful thing. And the fact that people are willing to come out and express themselves says I'm going to a great country.
And secondly, I don't expect everybody in the world to agree with the positions I've taken. But certainly, those should agree with the goals of the United States, which is peace and freedom. You see, we believe that freedom is not America's gift to the world, we believe freedom is the Almighty's gift to everybody in the world. We believe free societies are peaceful societies.
He seems to have the fundamentals down. Now Bush should just raise his ambitions.