--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 1/24/07 1:48:01 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > "Asked to reflect on his Oct. 24 statement that > 'absolutely, we're winning,' Bush said that response > was 'an indication of my belief we're going to win.'" > > Hardly a comparison to prophetic speak that the world would > be rid of Israel and the US soon. Bush has the ability to > win in Iraq with the worlds greatest military, the question > is does he have the political will to win.
My *point* was, of course, that when he said "Absolutely, we're winning," we weren't winning by any stretch of the imagination. When he admitted this to the Washington Post, and they asked him why he had said we *were* winning, he responded that he believed we were *going* to win--i.e., he was being prophetic. You said Ahmadinejad would look like a nut if he were being merely prophetic about Israel and the U.S. being destroyed, as opposed to having in mind a way to destroy them (i.e., a threat). So I'm asking (you carefully snipped it), why doesn't Bush look like a nut as well?
