Bush’s secret plan for victory

Are you in the know? I'll admit it, I'm not. I'm among the 61 percent of Americans who just don't know what President Bush's plan is for victory in Iraq. The White House keeps saying that, "the strategy is to win." But that confuses outcomes with the strategies for achieving them. Well, rest easy, friends. U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns says there is a ...

Are you in the know? I'll admit it, I'm not. I'm among the 61 percent of Americans who just don't know what President Bush's plan is for victory in Iraq. The White House keeps saying that, "the strategy is to win." But that confuses outcomes with the strategies for achieving them.

Are you in the know? I'll admit it, I'm not. I'm among the 61 percent of Americans who just don't know what President Bush's plan is for victory in Iraq. The White House keeps saying that, "the strategy is to win." But that confuses outcomes with the strategies for achieving them.

Well, rest easy, friends. U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns says there is a plan. It's just that it's a secret plan. And only he, Bush, and small handful of others are in the loop. The rest of us don't need to know what the plan is. In fact, it's better if we don't, because we might share the plan with the enemy. Here's Burns speaking about Bush and the secret plan this week:

He's got one, but he's not going to tell everybody in the whole world…. We're not going to tell you … because you'll go out there and blow it."

Check it out for yourself:

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