Washington Times mocks 'Bush the bee killer'

by David Edwards and Muriel Kane

When NBC's Richard Engel interviewed President George W. Bush in Egypt during his largely unproductive Mid-East tour, Bush for the most part confined his remarks to repeating well-established positions on Iran and the Middle East.

However, Bush did respond with one interesting new metaphor when Engel suggested, "Many people say that [the war on terror] has not made the world safer, that it has created more radicals, that there are more people in this part of the world who want to attack the United States."

"This is the beehive theory," Bush replied. "You should have just let the beehive sit there and hope the bees don't come out of the hive."

"Haven't you just smashed the bees' hive and let them spread?" Engel asked.

"To suggest that bees would stay in their hive is naive," Bush replied. "They didn't stay in the hive when they came and killed 3000 of our citizens."

In an item headed, "Bush the bee killer," the conservative Washington Times called this an "odd exchange" and suggested that "apparently Bin Laden is the queen bee," implying that Bush's bee-killing has been ineffective.

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