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Bush: ‘We’ve Never Been Stay The Course’
During an interview today on ABC’s This Week, President Bush tried to distance himself from what has been his core strategy in Iraq for the last three years. George Stephanopoulos asked about James Baker’s plan to develop a strategy for Iraq that is “between ’stay the course’ and ‘cut and run.’”

Bush responded, ‘We’ve never been stay the course, George!’ Watch it:

BUSH: We will stay the course. [8/30/06]

BUSH: We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq. [8/4/05]

BUSH: We will stay the course until the job is done, Steve. And the temptation is to try to get the President or somebody to put a timetable on the definition of getting the job done. We’re just going to stay the course. [12/15/03]

BUSH: And my message today to those in Iraq is: We’ll stay the course. [4/13/04]

BUSH: And that’s why we’re going to stay the course in Iraq. And that’s why when we say something in Iraq, we’re going to do it. [4/16/04]

BUSH: And so we’ve got tough action in Iraq. But we will stay the course. [4/5/04]
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Video here
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/22/bush-stay-the-course/
 
Apples and oranges.

I see the use of 'stay the course' as having multiple meanings. It can be used,and was mostly be meant in the context of 'we will stay until we are finished' in the realm of toppling governments and general revenge for 9/11. The most recent use of 'we've never been stay the course' can be merely 'change what doesn't work' in the smaller sense. Would it have been better to choose a different phrase to divide the topics?... sure... its just a particular catch-phrase that is caught in his head and overused because he constantly has to make speeches in an election year. Thats all.
 
Holy Cow!!!! A politician changing his story because it's politically expedient. Whoda thunk it.
 
The lovely idiocy of politics. I'd like to know what they were discussing prior to this...it sets the stage to how the question was brought up.
 
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