American President Pleads Guilty to Hopeless Idealism By MAUREEN DOWD Published: June 18, 2008 LONDON President Bush was in one of his... his 2006 assessment that the president was an "absolute [expletive] catastrophe" ...the prime minister greeted the toxic president too warmly. Britain is still ... diplomatically." W. confessed only to "hopeless idealism" on Iraq and Afghanistan ....