* If you're not familiar with history, don't get a job in politics. Barring that, don't try to incorporate snippets into your policy speeches.
* When you invade a sovereign nation, topple its government then declare it to be "not your puppet"... try and maintain continuity by shutting the fuck up on how its run... especially if you want so badly to refer to it as a democracy.
* Failure, apparently can be an option... it's just that most people don't seek it out with the same verocity as others do.
* Paramount goal; above all, to thine commodity be true. Afghanistan, still harboring terrorists and exporting more heroin than ever.
* Turkeys cannot fly and Allah has no f'ing sense of humor.
* Sssssh, be vewwy vewwy quiet. We'a stiww huntin' wabbits.
* Iraq, through selectively distributed deliveries, now has a second amendment and a well armed militia.