Statements such as "rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?" have essentially become the trademark signature of our commander-in-chief's public speaking deficiencies.,”It can be concluded by Barnes & Noble selling more than 860,000 George W. Bushisms products this past Christmas season that we Americans love the stupid things that come out of President Bush's mouth.

Statements such as "rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?" have essentially become the trademark signature of our commander-in-chief's public speaking deficiencies.

However, there are some things Bush says deliberately and with complete command of his words, and when these statements are on foreign affairs and national security they are far more terrifying than funny.

I believe these are the Bushisms that we should really pay attention to, and Bush's comments Sunday were purposely forceful and foreshadowed yet another possible future war.

It seems that our militant President has a new target: Iran.

Bush told Associated Press White House Correspondent Terrence Hunt Sunday that Iran is "the world's leading state-sponsor of terror" and that the United States is "rallying friends around the world to confront this danger before it is too late."

In addition to making currently unverified claims that Iran funds militant groups that send arms to the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Shiite extremists in Iraq, Bush also conveniently ignored the fact that the "dangerous" Iran completely ceased manufacturing of all weapons of mass destruction in 2003 – a feat the United States has yet to accomplish.

Iran is an unstable government, according to Bush's statements Sunday, and the cause of the instability is the "extremists embodied by Al-Qaida and its affiliates."

These statements sound dangerously familiar, and his Manichean mentality of "us vs. them," I fear, may lead to even more military action.

Some believe it's simply liberal propaganda that President Bush has been labeled as a warmonger.

My response to that is: let's see what the President himself has said on the topic.

On February 8, 2004 Bush made a public statement on MSNBC saying, "I am a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office and foreign policy matter with war on my mind."

In a speech in West Virginia on Jan. 22, 2002 Bush told the American people and the entire world, "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists."

"There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland," Bush said in a speech on Aug. 7, 2002.

Now you may be saying to yourself that President Bush may be right and Iran could really be supporting terrorism. This is absolutely possible, but Bush's claims have not yet been validated.

Moreover, let's not forget that this is the same President who said, "The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror." And then, after invading the Iraq on the basis that Saddam Hussein was connected with Osama Bin Laden and had weapons of mass destruction, made the statements "we have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th attacks" and "no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq."

I really hope we, as a country, will start thinking for ourselves instead of listening to this conflict-driven president. I hope we are smart enough to avoid a third war in seven years, but Iran apparently isn't going to take those hopes to the bank.

Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki's response to President Bush's comments infers that Iran may be preparing for conflict.

"Mr. Bush has tried unsuccessfully to undermine our relations with the countries of the region. We believe his mission has totally failed. We have been making strides in building ties with the region, politically, economically and even in security. It is much better if the Americans had stopped intervening in the region's affair," Mottaki said.

Frankly, I agree with Mottaki. Unless there is conclusive proof that Iran is supporting terrorists, we should leave them alone.

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