patience – noun

1. The virtue of believing indefinitely into the future that things will improve in six months.

2. The enabler's enabler.

COMMENT: A history of patience, told through headlines...

May 10, 2007: BUSH URGES PATIENCE WITH IRAQ PLAN

March 19, 2007: BUSH ASKS FOR PATIENCE ON IRAQ

Jan. 26, 2007: BUSH PLEADS FOR PATIENCE OVER IRAQ

Dec. 9, 2006: RUMSFELD THANKS TROOPS FOR SERVICE, CALLS FOR U.S. PATIENCE

June 15, 2006: AFTER IRAQ VISIT, AN UPBEAT BUSH URGES PATIENCE

March 14, 2006: BUSH URGES PATIENCE AMID IRAQ 'CHAOS'

Dec. 15, 2005: BUSH CALLS FOR PATIENCE AS VOTE NEARS

Nov. 30, 2005: BUSH: IRAQ CONFLICT 'WILL TAKE TIME AND PATIENCE'

Aug. 27, 2005: BUSH CALLS FOR PATIENCE ON IRAQ MISSION

June 29, 2005: BUSH URGES PATIENCE, LONG VIEW ON IRAQ WAR

June 13, 2005: VICE PRESIDENT URGES PATIENCE AS IRAQ PROGRESS CONTINUES

Jan. 26, 2005: BUSH SEEKS PATIENCE FROM AMERICANS ON DEADLIEST DAY FOR U.S. IN IRAQ

Aug. 20, 2004: RICE SAYS PATIENCE NEEDED FOR IRAQ

July 21, 2003: WOLFOWITZ CALLS FOR PATIENCE AS VIOLENCE CONTINUES IN IRAQ

June 12, 2003: "TIME AND PATIENCE" NEEDED IN IRAQ, BREMER TELLS HOUSE COMMITTEE

April 9, 2003: INTERVIEW WITH HANS BLIX: THE U.S. LOST PATIENCE WHEN IRAQ BEGAN TO COLLABORATE WITH THE U.N.

Jan. 22, 2003: BUSH TIRED OF SADDAM'S 'BAD MOVIE': PRESIDENT BUSH IS RUNNING SHORT ON PATIENCE WITH IRAQ

Nov. 26, 2002: U.N. INSPECTORS ARRIVE IN IRAQ, URGE PATIENCE