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LOCATION: The East Room
11:27 A.M. EDT
DATE: JULY 25, 2006
SPEAKERS: President Bush and the Prime Minister Maliki

He's doing it again!
But what’s new, pussycat?
The Long War President said, “Coalition and Iraqi forces will secure individual neighborhoods, will ensure the existence of an Iraqi security presence in the neighborhoods, and gradually expand the security presence as Iraqi citizens help them root out those who instiCate violence.”

I wasn’t sure that the Decider had said insticate instead of instigate. But sure enough, I listened a second time and the Long War President did say INSTICATE.

And there were other zingers as well:

"People fear democracy if your vision is based upon kind of a totalitarian view of the world."

Whose vision? The reference is ambiguous. When I first heard Mr. Bush say these words, I was jolted. My immediate thought was that the reference, even if subliminal, was to Mr. Bush’s vision. The one he got from God telling him what to do.

"Conditions change inside a country, Tom. And the question is, are we going to be facile enough to change with -- will we be nimble enough; will we be able to deal with the circumstances on the ground?"

Facile? The word facile is out of place.
And nimble? The subject here is not gymnastics or aerobics.
The Decider needs to carry an electronic Thesaurus.
And start reading more.