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" ) - - if that 's how you define modesty - - then , yeah , Bush is very " modest . The day after Katrina hit the Gulf Coast , Bush was playing golf . This April at a forum at Johns Hopkins , Bush was asked by a student about bringing " private military contractors under a system of law , " to which Bush replied , laughing , that he was going to ask Defense Secretary Rumsfeld , " I was going to - - I pick up the phone and say , Mr. Secretary , I've got an interesting question [ laughter ] . Instead of reversing that policy decision , Bush is now adding another enemy to the list , despite the fact that the Mehdi Army is also violently opposed to al-Qaeda . But on unfamiliar terrain , Bush is still learning and would be as president . " In this , Bush was echoing the criticism leveled at Clinton by American supporters of the ultranationalist Likud party , who saw in the arrival of James Carville among other top Democratic political consultants in the camp of Prime Minister Barak 's Labor Party evidence of Washington 's heavy hand . Now , nearing the end of his presidency , Bush is sending more American forces into Iraq with no apparent regard for the verdict of the American people , rendered in November 's election , that they've had it with his war . But by proposing a massive new government program that threatens increased taxes , greater deficits and inflation , Bush is robbing American taxpayers of their ability to realize their earthly ambitions . In admitting , in effect , that he is compelled to keep up the appearance of the pursuit of victory , Bush was echoing an eerily similar statement by the Lyndon Johnson administration official who became associated in the public mind with the Vietnam War : secretary of defense Robert McNamara . And now I 'm REALLY depressed : During DSO 's set break , Bush was declared the winner by whatever network was on the TV in the bar .