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Bushism of the Day

By Jacob Weisberg
Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008, at 5:23 PM ET

"Take the Middle East seriously because that's the center of—that's the place where people get so despondent and despair that they're willing to come and take lives of U.S. citizens."—on advice he would give the next president, Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008

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Jacob Weisberg is editor-in-chief of the Slate Group and author of The Bush Tragedy.
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