You have to wonder
Checking the AOL article again a few hours later, the text had been changed:
"''We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of terror.''"
Now, with any other president, even Reagan for chrissake, I would assume that this was a typo on the part of the journalist. Fact of the matter is, though, that Bush has a track record of making verbal FUBARs that are quietly covered up by the media... even to the extent of editing news articles to say what the president intended to say, not what he actually said.
Which of course, is hack journalism at it's worst: when you're reporting the facts of an event, you report how it happened, not how it was scripted to happen.
Anyway, it's my assumption, until I can verify it otherwise, that the original statement was what he actually said.
"''We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of terror.''"
Now, with any other president, even Reagan for chrissake, I would assume that this was a typo on the part of the journalist. Fact of the matter is, though, that Bush has a track record of making verbal FUBARs that are quietly covered up by the media... even to the extent of editing news articles to say what the president intended to say, not what he actually said.
Which of course, is hack journalism at it's worst: when you're reporting the facts of an event, you report how it happened, not how it was scripted to happen.
Anyway, it's my assumption, until I can verify it otherwise, that the original statement was what he actually said.