Reply #13: You mean, like he springs a big flabbergasting surprise?

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Drops a peace bomb?

I guess that at least statistically the possibility exists...on live and worldwide is the most seductive ad-lib scenario there is. For that matter he might come out and propose/reveal/admit any number of things.
I hope that he clearly has a prime-time *break* of some sorts---if he goes nuts in the TV pulpit, he's outtahere---in his own words, and there for all to know...but I expect it'll be another marionette performance of spin, code, denial, and unintended irony.

How would I react to W "ending" the war on TV?

1)I'd laugh at the naivete of the gesture: could he really think any speech---of his??---could have any such impact? That he could stop the animosity, the killing, the decline of US respectability worldwide with some sort of a sermon or revelation?

2)I'd say (to the TV, naturally) "Prove it!" and "Nobody can believe you and yours anymore!"

and

3)I'd continue to read and post here and do all of the other things I can do to promote the real, other, pre-GWB-era America.

That said...always up for a pleasant-sounding surprise. And am always on pins and needles when this idiot gets near a microphone (though it was more fun before I knew he was radio controlled.)