Top Ten Cloves: Since Petraeus Can't Say That We Are Safe, The President Will Have To Change His Slogan To ...

News Item: Petraeus: 'I Don't Know' if Iraq Victory Will Make U.S. Safer

10. New intelligence shows that, even if we fail, the terrorists won't follow us home, so we don't have to worry about fighting them here

9. Operation Iraqi Freedom has many facets, not just fighting them over there, instead of here

8. You know, my advisers tell me, fighting isn't the only way to deny the terrorists a safe haven in Iraq...

7. Advancing the ideal of democracy and self-government can be achieved in other ways, not just fighting

6. We'll fight whoever we can fight ... Wherever we can fight'em!

5. We don't have to fight them ... We can "Surge'em"... And we'll Surge'em over there, not over here

4. Forget what I said before ... We'll fight them there, instead of over here ...

3. We'll "Progress" them ... Progressing them is even better then fighting them ... We can show Progress all the time ... Never get tired ... Fighting them all the time, we'll get tired ...

2. We'll fight the mushroom cloud... See, it's a cloud ... A cloud shaped like a mushroom ... And we need to fight it before it becomes the form of a mushroom cloud ... Before it takes the shape of a mushroom cloud ...

1. Maybe we can live with all of Iraq not being free... It's not written in stone all of Iraq has to be free ... We can fight for a partially-free Iraq here, just as well as over there ...

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