Bush
to Putin:
I talked about my desire to promote institutional change in parts of the world, like Iraq where there's a free press and free religion, and I told him that a lot of people in our country would hope that Russia would do the same.
Putin to Bush (while obviously doing his best not to explode into screaming and uncontrollable fits of laughter):
We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy that they have in Iraq, quite honestly.
So bad it's good, so awful it's pleasurable, so naive it's dangerous.
2 comments:
I saw this as well. Talk about living on different planets! We are winning the war in Iraq (if indeed it is a war, the definition seems kind of, er, flexible...
Ahhh, yes, the American governments slant on democracy leaves a lot to be desired...
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