Dubya's detractors often go on about his supposed lack of "sophistication". Now (via BotW) get this from Howard Dean:
The key, I believe, to Iran, is pressure through the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is supplying much of the equipment that Iran I believe mostly likely is using to set itself along the path of developing nuclear weapons. We need to use that leverage with the Soviet Union, and it may require us buying the equipment the Soviet Union was ultimately going to sell to Iran, to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
As Best of the Web noted: "That's four times Dean mentioned the Soviet Union--a country that hasn't existed for almost 12 years. " One could be forgiven for wondering about Freudian gaffes.
And David's Medienkritik describes how the German media are trying to put a negative spin on Bush's Thanksgiving visit to the troops in Iraq by noting an analogy with "Lyndon B. Johnson, who visited troops in Vietnam and lost the elections the year afterwards (1968)". Only one problem: LBJ wasn't even running in 1968, and his fellow Democrat Hubert Humphrey lost by a hairbreadth from Richard Nixon. Oh those sophist-i-cated EUropeons...
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