“I hear all these rumors about military attacks, and it’s just not the truth,” said Bush, who leaves Sunday for Europe to mend fences with allies. “We want diplomacy to work.”
That’s your president, speaking to a group of European journalists at the White House, quoted in an article in today’s San Francisco Chronicle. Mr. Bush went on:
Listen, first of all, you never want a president to say “never.” But military action is certainly not—it’s never the president’s first choice. Diplomacy is always the president’s first—at least my first choice.
Well I, for one, am thoroughly convinced.