Bush syllogism

I’m not entirely sure that President Bush knows what a syllogism is, but he seems, in this list of the top 10 Bushisms for 2006 to have come up with the first two thirds of a most intriguing one:

I want to be a war president; no president wants to be a war president.

Logic dictates that the proposition that can be inferred from these two premises is:

Therefore, I am no president.

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