Democrats not so good with words.
Salon's War Room has a painfully funny translation of a press release from Rep. Ike Skelton. This is the original:
"We need a new national security strategy ... It should include an effort to create political conditions of stability in Iraq ... such a strategy must also address the transnational challenges at the root of global terrorism and should include many enlightened nations with the same goal ... Such a strategy would combine military capabilities with diplomatic and economic strategies in recognition that this confrontation is ultimately a battle of ideas. Without such a comprehensive vision jointly embraced by enlightened nations we will find ourselves where we are today, slogging it out without a light at the end of the tunnel."
Michael Scherer's translation:
"Bush has made Iraq a mess. If other nations help us, then we can win.""The war sucks. I wish I knew what to do. I will use words like 'enlightened,' 'strategy' and 'transnational' instead."
"I need to respond to the Bush press conference, but I don't know what to say. Help me."