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Bushism of the Day

By Jacob WeisbergPosted Monday, April 16, 2007, at 6:43 PM ET

"Iraq is a very important part of securing the homeland, and it's a very important part of helping change the Middle East into a part of the world that will not serve as a threat to the civilized world, to people like—or to the developed world, to people like—in the United States." —Washington, D.C., April 3, 2007

Click here to see video of Bush's comments. The Bushism is at 36:50.

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Jacob Weisberg is chairman and editor-in-chief of the Slate Group and author of The Bush Tragedy. Follow him at http://twitter.com/jacobwe.
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