Letters to the Editor
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Gregory's Questioning is Stupid
What is the point of asking Bush about an event in 1981? I actually like that Bush was smart enough to see that the question was framed as a "what did you think then?" instead of "what do you think now?" He should have gone on a 5 minute wistful monologue on the dry weather in Midland. Make those jackass "gotcha journalists" sit through boring story after boring story and then go have a beer with Cheney.
As for the WW3 comment, I think most people would think that Iran dropping a nuclear weapon on Israel would lead to a really bad situation with an Israeli nuclear counter strike. The use of the term "World War 3" is a metaphor for nuclear war. I suspect that if India and Pakistan came close to a nuclear exchange again, then people would also call that WW3. I think it is silly for someone to argue that Putin would think that Bush is referring to a nuclear exchange between the US and Russia.