From an online transcript of an interview with Jacob Weisberg and Ann Coulter, CNN. Aired July 3, 2003 - 20:37 ET:
WEISBERG: I think this cowboy rhetoric may have some cost. I think it certainly had cost going into the war when we were trying to gather support for going to war with Iraq. And because of Bush's unilateral stance and his hostility toward the Europeans, and his attitude that we didn't care what nobody else thought, I think we went to war with less support than we could have had. I don't think that makes sense. It's fine to strike a pose and say we want Osama bin Laden dead or alive, we still want him dead or alive. But I don't think it helps when you look at the bottom line ...
Of course, this might have been a mistake on the part of the transcriptionist...
Posted by Mark Liberman at April 30, 2004 05:15 PM