Coming up to the date when Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus will tell Congress the plans he has worked out for the U.S. Military’s future in Iraq, Dubbya has come out again to paint a lovely picture of the Iraq he views (based nowhere in reality) where things are really just ducky, and it’s Congress being overly critical of the gov’t in Iraq that’s causing so many problems. Way to win them over there George.

Bush rejected criticisms of the war’s progress on Thursday.

“Some members of Congress decided the best way to encourage progress in Baghdad was to criticize and threaten Iraq’s leaders while they’re trying to work out their differences,” he said. “But hectoring was not what the Iraqi leaders needed.”

Hectoring? WTF does that mean you ask? Did Bush just create another Bushism while trying to say something like “heckling”? Nope. Hectoring is a legit word, observe-

hec·tor (hktr)
n.
A bully.
v. hec·tored, hec·tor·ing, hec·tors
v.tr.
To intimidate or dominate in a blustering way.
v.intr.
To behave like a bully; swagger.
[Latin Hectr, Hektor, from Greek Hektr.]

To behave like a bully; swagger.

And if anyone knows how to bully and use swagger, it’s this guy-

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