On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:58:21 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
(Greg Kuperberg) made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

In article ,
Rand Simberg wrote:
The part that says it's a "direct and explicit promise from the
president of the United States to the American people." It's just a
frickin' policy statement. Policy statements are made to be changed.

That is just such lame backpedalling.

No, your comment is lame ignorance.

Unlike you, Bush isn't backpedalling from this at all.

Who said he was? Why would he?

I'm not "backpedaling" either. I'm simply explaining how policy works
to someone who apparently knows absolutely nothing about it.