George Bush actually said...

"The Berlin Wall has affronted the free world with an alien vision of closed societies where basic freedoms are denied."

"He will bring leadership, insight, and wisdom to our efforts to keep our military strong and ready, prepared to defend our security and to safeguard the peace."

"The life of every single one of these people is too precious for me to be sticking my head in the sand and miss some subtlety in this highly complicated corner of the world."

"I'm not going to do anything that would put some other American, perhaps in some other place, at some other time, at risk."