Thank you, Donuel, for amplifying somewhat your source for the GWB almost-quote. I've been unable so far, on the web, to find anything to that effect, but that proves nothing of itself.

The statement as you report it is surely a "statement against interest", as the lawyers say, but then GWB, as we all know, doesn't have the greatest intellectual control over his mouth and he just might have slipped and said the truth. I can't believe that he'd have intended to say something so self-damaging.

Dave Oesterreich