I cannot believe my ears.

Bush: ‘We’ve Never Been Stay The Course’.

I know this is old news in the blog-world, but I just had to say something anyway.

How can he sit there and lie like that? Does he really think no one is paying attention?

Even I was able to find several examples of him or Cheney saying "stay the course" by simply googling it. Some of them I found on the White House website, for crying out loud!

President Bush's Remarks Upon Arrival in Utah
Utah Air National Guard
Salt Lake City, Utah

"Iraq is the central front in this war on terror. If we leave the streets of Baghdad before the job is done, we will have to face the terrorists in our own cities. We will stay the course, we will help this young Iraqi democracy succeed, and victory in Iraq will be a major ideological triumph in the struggle of the 21st century."

President Addresses the Nation in Prime Time

Press Conference of the President
The East Room

Q Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. President, April is turning into the deadliest month in Iraq since the fall of Baghdad, and some people are comparing Iraq to Vietnam and talking about a quagmire. Polls show that support for your policy is declining and that fewer than half Americans now support it. What does that say to you and how do you answer the Vietnam comparison?

THE PRESIDENT: I think the analogy is false. I also happen to think that analogy sends the wrong message to our troops, and sends the wrong message to the enemy. Look, this is hard work. It's hard to advance freedom in a country that has been strangled by tyranny. And, yet, we must stay the course, because the end result is in our nation's interest.


Interview of the Vice President

by John King, CNN
The Vice President's Residence

"With respect to the overall course of the campaign, I think it's been very successful. With respect to this question of liberation, we have, indeed, liberated 50 million people -- 25 million in Afghanistan from the rule of the Taliban; 25 million in Iraq from the rule of Saddam Hussein, two of the worst regimes in modern times, a very, very significant achievement. But we have to stay the course."

Now forget you ever heard that phrase.