"Bush reminds me, in doing this escalation, of a gambler who came to the table and was given a lot of chips and repeatedly made what, at that time, were foolish bets, what everyone looking on at the time knew were foolish bets. And he depleted all of those chips. And he's now left borrowing chips in a last, double-down attempt at a very remote possibility of leaving the table with some chips, with some face."
In order to save face, he is not only borrowing money, our grandchildren's money, by running up the debt. But he's also gambling with the lives of Americans; he's gambling with the lives of Iraqis; and he's gambling with U.S. national security."
-- Richard Clarke, former chief counter-terrorism adviser on the U.S. National Security Council, delivering remarks on terrorism at The Center for American Progress, 1/9/07
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