If false, it may reflect a desire to silence one of the greatest embarrassments to the Bush administration.

" If as president I could have done one thing to have helped the country more ," Mr. Bush told the gathering, " it would have been to do a better job in finding a way, either through speaking out or through raising a moral standard, to strengthen the American family.

The expression was used at least once, though, by Vice President Dick Cheney, in a June 2003 speech in which he said, " If there is anyone in the world today who doubts the seriousness of the Bush Doctrine, I would urge that person to consider the fate of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq.

If Florida's 67 counties had carried out the hand recount of disputed ballots ordered by the Florida Supreme Court on December 8, applying the standards that election officials said they would have used, Bush would have emerged the victor by 493 votes.

In April 2003, following warnings by the Bush administration to the government of Syria, Eagleburger condemned the possibility of military action in Syria or Iran, saying that public opinion would not support such a move and that " If President Bush were to try it now, even I would feel he should be skinned alive.

Frank Rich called it a " must-read bestseller " while Michael Hill stated: " If Bob Woodward is the chronicler of the Bush administration, Ron Suskind is the analyst ...

:" If Mr. Kerry is, by contrast Mr. Bush, a ' liberal ,' at least his policies make sense and would benefit all Americans.

According to General Kennedy: " If Mr. Bush becomes president, his campaign platform says he will move us back to a much earlier time.

In February, 2003, Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa, sharply criticized Bush and his drive for war, saying, " If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

) Consider this conditional sentence: " If George W. Bush hadn't become president of the U. S. in 2001, Al Gore would have.

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Bush was quoted as telling Mexican media, " If there has been American approval for this policy, that is reprehensible.

" If, as Bush has urged, the tax cuts were to be extended, then " the budget outlook for 2015 would change from a surplus of US $ 141 billion to a deficit of US $ 282 billion.

" Indian leftist writer Arundhati Roy, writing on September 29, strongly condemned both the attackers who had " blown a hole in the world as we knew it " and Bush for reacting by going to war against Afghanistan: " President Bush's ultimatum to the people of the world-' If you're not with us, you're against us ' - is a piece of presumptuous arrogance.

If the advertisement is not in English, the phrase is given in the same language ; in the 2004 presidential election for example, George W. Bush's Spanish-language advertisements ended with the message Soy George W. Bush y aprobé este mensaje.

In 1988 Michael Dukakis, in a debate with George H. W. Bush during that year's United States presidential election, said, " If Bush keeps it up, he's going to be the Joe Isuzu of American politics.

If this had not come out until mid-Nov. or later, in the politicized lens of Baghdad ( where the chief of police does not allow his name to be made public and where all the newly trained Iraqi soldiers I saw had bandannas to hide their faces to avoid their families being murdered …) this would have been seen as the researchers covering up for the Bush White House until after the election and I am convinced my Iraqi co-investigators would have been killed.

If a settlement freeze could not be obtained from Israel, Bush and Baker wanted the issue off the agenda.

" If I may be characteristically blunt, the next American president will not have the same sunk costs in the US-India civil nuclear agreement that this president ( George W Bush ) and the top of the administration has ," Blackwill said.

If Bustani had succeeded, this would have placed a formidable obstacle in the path of the Bush administration's war plans, by removing their ostensible motive.

If successful, shifting Ohio's 20 electoral votes in the 2004 presidential election would have had the effect of shifting the overall election from Bush to Kerry.

President George W. Bush said on March 11, 2006, " If the allegations are true, Claude Allen did not tell my Chief of Staff and legal counsel the truth, and that's deeply disappointing.

If the dealer does not bust, each remaining bet wins if its hand is higher than the dealer's, and loses if it is lower.

If a player wins two sets, or gets a win and a tie, that player wins the game.

If each player wins a set, or both sets end tied, there is a 3-end tiebreaker to determine a winner.

If the shooter " hits " the point value again ( any value of the dice that sum to the point will do ; the shooter doesn't have to exactly repeat the value combination of the come-out roll ) before rolling a seven, the Pass line wins and a new round starts, usually with the dice staying with the current shooter.

If the roll is any other value, it establishes a point ; if that point is rolled again before a seven, the bet wins.

If a 7 is rolled instead of the point being re-rolled, the don't pass bet wins and is paid even money.

If a 7 or 11 is rolled on the first round, it wins.

If a 2 or 3 is rolled in the first round, it wins.

If more than one civilization remains at the deadline, the player with the highest score wins.

In an article about the film, it is incorrectly stated that there were two endings and " If you see King Kong vs Godzilla in Japan, Hong Kong or some Oriental sector of the world, Godzilla wins!

If the Sentinel wins, Master Mold lifts off.

If the time limit is reached and only one competitor has a point, that competitor wins.

* If Article III's original jurisdiction is an exhaustive list, but Congress tries to modify it anyway, who wins that conflict, Congress or the Constitution?

On the day of the general election, The Sun ran an " infamous " front page featuring Kinnock ( headline: ' If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights ') that he blamed in his resignation speech for losing Labour the election.

If the rules specify that ties are not acceptable, then a swing player must clearly win both directions: even a tie in one direction means he wins nothing.

If a player's front hand beats the dealer's front hand, and the player's rear hand beats the dealer's rear hand, then that player wins the bet.

If one hand wins and the other loses, the player is said to push, and gets back only the money he or she bet.

If, however, an opposition party wins a majority of seats in the House of Commons, the prime minister may resign or be dismissed by the governor general.

If each of the player's now-separated hands beat the banker's corresponding hand then he wins the bet.

If only one of his hands beats the banker then he pushes ( ties ) in which case neither he nor the banker wins the bet.

If a team wins all its games, they are said to have won a ' Grand Slam '.

If a boxer trails by more than 20 points, the referee stops the fight and the boxer that is leading automatically wins ; bouts which end this way may be noted as " RSC " ( referee stopped contest ) with notations for an outclassed opponent ( RSCO ), outscored opponent ( RSCOS ), injury ( RSCI ) or head injury ( RSCH ).

If the second service is also a fault, the server double faults, and the receiver wins the point.

If the leading player wins that game, the player wins the set 7 – 5.