A very good read.

[--Pete]

Hi,

Your misunderstanding is that you ignore the following: President Bush has assembled a considerable team of people whose efforts go into the information shaping campaign (spin?) to portray various issues in a preferred light. To accuse "Bush" is to give him credit for wit and cleverness he does not possess. A number of old political hands who have been around Washington for decades are involved in crafting"The Official Story." To accuse "The Bush Administration" would be a very accurate piece of fingerpointing, just as blaming "The Clinton Administration" for enabling the creation of a Muslim client state in Bosnia is more accurate than accusing "Clinton."

Occhi

Quite right, except that in this case eppie did say, "The Bush goverment . . ." in his earlier post. So I guess he's covered B)

Of course, it is his 'administration' (as you point out) rather than his 'government' (we don't use the parliamentary system). But that's a veeeeery small nit.

--Pete