Wednesday, October 25, 2006

The new meaning of "contingency"

Adding to George Bush's collection of descriptions of what his job is came a new one in today's press conference --

Q What if there is a civil war [in Iraq]?

THE PRESIDENT: You're asking me hypotheticals. Our job is to make sure there's not one, see.


i.e. contingencies are irrelevant because if you do your job, they won't happen. Indeed one might extend that logic to say if contingencies can't happen, then they never have happened, and everything that has transpired has done so according to Bush's design.

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