[Marxism] heh, heh, heh "holding out for Cuba"

[Brian Shannon <Brian_Shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bush thanked Garner for his excellent service. Garner told Bush, “You 
made a great choice in Bremer.” Garner’s end-of-duty report had assured 
the President that most services in Iraq would be restored within a few 
weeks. Anyone listening to the conversation could only conclude that 
Operation Iraqi Freedom was a triumph.

“You want to do Iran for the next one?” the President joshed as the 
meeting came to an end.

“No, sir, me and the boys are holding out for Cuba,” Garner said.

Bush laughed and promised Garner and the boys Cuba.

Garner shook hands with the President, then with the Vice-President, 
who had said nothing the whole time. He told me that he caught Cheney’s 
“wicked little smile” on his way out, adding, “I think the President 
only knows what Cheney lets in there.”

On the day before the 2004 election, the senior Administration official 
told me that Bush “was enshrouded by yes- men and yes-women. George 
Tenet”—the former director of the C.I.A.—“is at the top of the list: 
people who can smell the political angle and furnish the information 
that will give the President what the political angle is. No one ever 
walks into the Oval Office and tells them they’ve got no clothes on—and 
persists.” He went on, “I think it’s dangerous that we have an 
environment where our principal leader cannot be well informed.”

http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/050704fa_fact3
(Too big to post. I can send it off-line to anyone interested.)

from Brian Shannon


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