Churchill was a Texan
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060710fa_fact
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The Iranian regime’s calculations about its survival also depend on
internal political factors. The nuclear program is popular with the
Iranian people, including those-the young and the secular-who are
most hostile to the religious leadership. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the
President of Iran, has effectively used the program to rally the
nation behind him, and against Washington. Ahmadinejad and the ruling
clerics have said that they believe Bush’s goal is not to prevent
them from building a bomb but to drive them out of office.
Several current and former officials I spoke to expressed doubt that
President Bush would settle for a negotiated resolution of the
nuclear crisis. A former high-level Pentagon civilian official, who
still deals with sensitive issues for the government, said that Bush
remains confident in his military decisions. The President and others
in the Administration often invoke Winston Churchill, both privately
and in public, as an example of a politician who, in his own time,
was punished in the polls but was rewarded by history for rejecting
appeasement. In one speech, Bush said, Churchill “seemed like a Texan
to me. He wasn’t afraid of public-opinion polls. . . . He charged
ahead, and the world is better for it.”