This is an excerpt from the press conference Bush held this very morning, clipped from an Associated Press report.

>On another foreign policy issue, Bush shot back at critics who suggest his diplomatic approach to North Korea is allowing the communist regime to expand its nuclear program. "If diplomacy is the wrong approach, I guess that means military. That's how I view it as either diplomacy or military. I am for the diplomacy approach," he said. "And for those who say we ought to be using our military to stop a problem, I would say that while all options are on the table, we've still got a ways to go to solve this diplomatically."

This is a perfect example of two things:

1. Bush believes the world is black or white. If it isn't diplomacy, then it must be military. His administration is so intent on portraying its critics as extremist that they suggest that any opposition to the President's plans is off the wall insane. In fact, there might be room for someone to suggest that Bush's diplomacy might be replaced, not with military action, but with better diplomacy. No?

2. Bush twists his statements to appear to hold a position he does not. "And for those who say we ought to be using our military to stop a problem" implies that his critics are suggesting this. In fact, the only people who might suggest attacking North Korea are the neocons in his own Administration! Was he deliberately calling them out in his speech? No, he was manipulating the American people into believing that he is a moderate man of peace. Tell that to the 1,000 plus dead Americans whose life _would not have been in danger_ if we had never gone to war with Saddam.

Bush just infuriates me so.