I didn’t want to start a new thread on political issues, but if moderators want to split this off that’s fine by me.
President Bush seems to have an uncanny knack for counting his chickens before they hatch (and he doesn’t even want to use the stem cells from the ones that don’t hatch for medical research, either*).
In their first debate he famously nit-pickingly corrected Kerry by warning him not to forget Poland in the “Coalition of the Willing.”
Just days later Poland announced a time table for pulling all of their troops out of Iraq.
In their second debate President Bush held up Afghanistan as if it were some sort of model of how we can succeed in impressing democracy upon people.
This morning the 15 candidates campaigning against interim Prime Minister Hamid Karzai have denounced Afghanistan’s elections as fraudulent and illegitimate. This doesn’t bode well for the current administration, if
this is any indication of how elections might occur in Iraq in January (assuming they aren’t delayed or cancelled entirely due to violence and instability).
What claim or statement will backfire on him next Wednesday?
* - This zinger has been brought to you in whole by the one and only Jim Gold!