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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Boquacious who wrote (201283)	11/8/2001 5:36:39 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Respond to of 769670

re:Bush quote???? i thought it was reported by some senators that he said this and i found this to back it up: Here is the George Will column that the quote is taken from. Will used the phrase the Sunday prior on his talk show. That would have been Sept 16. The Netlore archive says Newsweeks Howard Fineman reported that Bush said it in their Sept 24 issue. I would guess Bush read or heard Will's quote and liked it... Fineman should have read it also.... washingtonpost.com Here's the paragraph containing the words from Will's Sept 20th column: "Bill Clinton is sticking to his story that the cruise missiles -- the weapon preferred by risk-averse leaders -- he launched against one of Osama bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan came within an hour or so of killing him. But million-dollar weapons were used to destroy $15 tents, and an empty pharmaceutical factory in Sudan. It was the most feckless use of military power since President Carter invaded Iran with eight helicopters."