Just Imagine

Bush in the debates, as envisioned by Will Collier:

"Senator, you say we need to repair relations with our allies, but you've spent your own campaign insulting America’s best friends in the world. You may think we really need the help of people who wouldn’t join us when we asked them to, but I'll take allies like Australia and Italy and Great Britain any day of the week. You seem to think we ought to throw our truest friends overboard in favor of governments and organizations that'd rather pursue pacifism and appeasement, or who've made corrupt deals with our adversaries. I think that's a poor choice.

"I also think you owe our real allies, the ones who've fought and bled right alongside our own troops, an apology. It does not befit a United States Senator, much less a president, to refer to the British and Poles and Australians and Japanese and South Koreans and all our other truest friends as 'fraudulent' or 'coerced.' They are free people who have honorably fought at our side, and they deserve our deepest thanks, not your insults."

The only unlikely thing about that statement is that I can't imagine Bush making even that mild of an indirect attack on the French.

Posted by Bruce Gottfred at August 23, 2004 02:26 PM | TrackBack