Second verse same as the first

This Globe editorial gives us a tasty little sampler of classic Bush. First, there's the phony claim of the "compassionate conservative" aim of improving the lives of women with the ingenious tie to exhortation of warfare.

President Bush marked International Women's Day by touting his military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, claiming they have liberated thousands of women from lives of tyranny and oppression.

Then there's the deliciously ironic, but by now all too familiar, bait and switch move.

But the speech actually obscured actions the Bush administration was taking almost simultaneously in Santiago, Chile, where it dropped its commitment to the health and survival of millions of poor women abroad.

Add to that a touch of misogynist religious nuttery

But in Santiago, US diplomats tried to rewrite the Cairo agreement, eliminating all references to "reproductive health" and "family planning services." The Bush administration's hostility to the Cairo plan is well known, but rarely is it aimed so transparently at contraception and women's health. The proposed revisions were roundly rejected.

and I'd say you've got a pretty nice review of the good old Bush playbook we've all come to know and love. Hope you're paying attention. This will be on the test.