Apparently a different one from Donald (“You bet!”) Rumsfeld, whose command of verbal
tactics challenges the basic meaning of words. For instance, when asked Tuesday whether the
Pentagon was considering the deployment of more
troops to Iraq, he replied: “Are we considering it? No. But have we
prepared? You bet.”
It would take the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary to parse the difference, and even
they couldn’t do it. Not when Rumsfeld also said that in case the top U.S. military commander in
Iraq wants more troops “we’ve made arrangements to have them replaced” and “were [he] to
require still additional forces, we have thought through that as well.”
Get it? Mr. You Bet is not considering additional troop deployments. He’s merely made
arrangements and thought them through. God help us if we ever get used to his equivocations.
Unless our “hopes and dreams” are no longer owned by him, or Mr. Waffles, or Crony in Chief Cheney, or anyone
else in the little fucker’s administration, we’re headed for worse troubles than troop deployments
in Iraq.
Which reminds me. Have you heard of the NO-CARB Diet for 2004?
NO
C-heney
NO A-shcroft
NO R-umsfeld
NO B-ush
Oh, and absolutely
NO RICE. This diet should take you through Janurary 2005.
