Destroyed the village …

An unnamed major in Vietnam told correspondent Peter Arnett that they had to destroy a village in order to save it. That, in a nutshell, is how George W. Bush views the economy, telling CNN:

I’ve abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.

He is literally beyond parody.

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