Laura was a librarian, not a mathemetician

Larry King: So (the Iraq war is) going to be going on when you leave office?

Laura Bush: Probably. I mean I have no idea and there's no way I could predict. But I hope not. I hope that they can build their government and reconcile with each other and build a country. This is their opportunity to seize the moment, to build a really good and stable country. And many parts of Iraq are stable now. But, of course, what we see on television is the one bombing a day that discourages everybody."

Goodness, just one bombing a day, eh, Laura?

source: Brookings Institution

DCup makes a great point that if this had been the Clinton White House and Hillary had said something like that, the right would have gone ballistic on her.

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