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Posted on 09/16/2001 10:57:03 PM PDT by kattracks

Bush: 'When I take action I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.'

Washington and the liberal media may be getting the message: George Bush is for real and he's no Mr. Nice Guy when it comes to war.

Even Newsweek's Howard Fineman, a liberal Bush-basher, has had to do a double take this week.

Writing in his column of an Oval office meeting with four U.S. Senators -- including Hillary Rodham -- Fineman described Bush "relaxed and in control."

Fineman, drawing a comparison with Winston Churchill's defiance during World War II, quoted the president as telling the Senators: "When I take action,” he said, "I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.”

No doubt, Hillary must have shuddered when she heard that, a clear hit on her husband's eight years of appeasement with terrorists and their backers.

Fineman says Bush is "exceeding expectations, learning on the run before our eyes. . . . his feet were on the ground, his bearings set: a late bloomer blossoming in the nick of time. ... Cheered on by voters’ hopes, he’d become, in the words of a priest at the National Cathedral, "our George”: the designated dragon slayer, a boyish knight in a helmet of graying hair."

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