Juan Cole tips his hat to wonkette... whatta gentleman!
Bush told Wolf Blitzer he thought Iraq was a comma <http://www.wonkette.com/politics/wolf-blitzer/if-iraq-is-a-comma--203036.php> (hat tip to Wonkette). But Iraq is very clearly an exclamation point. Now you know why the whole policy has been wrong. Bush has been trying to close off a dependent clause, not realizing he was forcefully making a declarative statement. <...> Well I do declare! If GWB had learnt his grammer the way he ought while at that fancy britches skool, whatsitsname, Yowl or somptin like that, no o this wereda ever happind. Leigh "I've got yer participle, dangling..."
