At a farewell reception at Blair House for the retiring chief of protocol, Don Ensenat, who was President Bush's Yale roommate, the president shook hands with Washington Life Magazine's Soroush Shehabi. "I'm the grandson of one of the late Shah's ministers," said Soroush, "and I simply want to say one U.S. bomb on Iran and the regime we all despise will remain in power for another 20 or 30 years and 70 million Iranians will become radicalized."So nice to see that the decider-in-chief can get all chuckly when faced with the reality of his foreign policy.
"I know," President Bush answered.
"But does Vice President Cheney know?" asked Soroush.
President Bush chuckled and walked away.
February 12, 2007
A Recent Presidential Chuckle
From a few days ago (via talkingpointsmemo). The article offers up some examples of how complicated things have gotten over Iraq, Iran and the rest of the region. At the tail end we see this:
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Just wait until American troops start dying in the streets of Tehran. He'll be laughing his ass off.
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