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Two former Bushies don't back claims of Bush/Israel "understanding"

By GottaLaff

Hear that ripping sound? That's the sound of BushCo continuing to shred itself in public:

Two key Bush administration officials — Condoleezza Rice and former National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley — are refusing to lend their support to the claim by Israeli officials, and some on the right, that there was an “understanding” between Israel and the Bush administration that Israel could proceed with certain types of settlement expansion. Spokespeople for both Rice and Hadley tell our reporter, Beth Marlowe, that they will be declining to comment.

Ri-i-p.

The impossible dream

By GottaLaff

Just a wild guess, but it might have been something Bush said... or did:

[Josh Bolten and Stephen Hadley] voiced frustration over their inability to improve Bush's popularity and to counter the administration's image of arrogance.

Utterly stupefying.

Hadley "Hooey"

By GottaLaff

Let it be known that the word "hooey" has always been a favorite of mine. The name "Stephen Hadley", on the other hand...

"One of the mythologies, is that it was the vice president that somehow was pulling the strings on foreign policy in the first term and made it very ideologically driven and that somehow in the second term, the vice president's influence is in decline and, therefore, somehow the real Bush has come forward, and we have a more pragmatic foreign policy. That's just hooey -- it's just hooey."

-- Bush National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, in an interview with the Washington Post.

hoo⋅ey  /ˈhui/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [hoo-ee] Show IPA Pronunciation
Informal. –interjection

1.	(used to express disapproval or disbelief): Hooey! You know that's not true.

–noun

2.	silly or worthless talk, writing, ideas, etc.; nonsense; bunk: That's a lot of hooey and you know it!

A new entry that IMHO would be an accurate addition:

3. The Bush administration from 2001-2009.