Commas

On Sunday CNN aired a portion of an interview with President Bush conducted by Wolf Blitzer earlier in the week. Blitzer asked about the latest setbacks in Iraq and indications that civil war may be at hand.

BLITZER: Let's move on and talk a little bit about Iraq. Because this is a huge, huge issue, as you know, for the American public, a lot of concern that perhaps they are on the verge of a civil war, if not already a civil war…. We see these horrible bodies showing up, tortured, mutilation. The Shia and the Sunni, the Iranians apparently having a negative role. Of course, al Qaeda in Iraq is still operating.

Bush, with a slight smile, replied,

BUSH: Yes, you see — you see it on TV, and that's the power of an enemy that is willing to kill innocent people. But there's also an unbelievable will and resiliency by the Iraqi people…. Admittedly, it seems like a decade ago. I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is — my point is, there's a strong will for democracy. (emphasis added)

We're all just commas to the boy king. 2700 dead American servicemen. 20,000+ seriously injured. And 100,000+ dead Iraqi civilians.

Commas.