Bushism of the Day

George W Bush’s malapropisms aren’t really terribly interesting anymore. (And, to be fair to the President, he’s a much better speaker now than he was eight years ago.) Still, this one seems especially unfortunate given that he was speaking to Lt-Gen Ray Odierno, the former commander of the multinational corps in Iraq:

“I appreciate the fact that you really snatched defeat out of the jaws of those who were trying to defeat us,”