Danger: Tough Talk & Wishful Thinking

[Consortiumnews.com]

America has paid a high price in the Iraq War because of the Bush
administration's dangerous tendency to mix tough talk and wishful
thinking. But George W. Bush and John McCain were at it again in
speeches given on opposite sides of the world.

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[Consortiumnews.com]

In a speech to the Knesset, George W. Bush mocked a long-dead U.S.
senator who was surprised at Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland in
1939. But Bush might have used the occasion to apologize for his
family's worse misjudgment in profiting off the Nazi war machine.