El Presidente thinks dictatorships are funny. Anyone laughing now?

Courtesy Buzzflash back in 2002:

"You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier." Describing what it's like to be governor of Texas. (Governing Magazine 7/98)

-- From Paul Begala's "Is Our Children Learning? "

"I told all four that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator," Bush joked.

-- CNN.com, December 18, 2000

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it, " [Bush] said.

-- Business Week, July 30, 2001

You know what they say about many a truth being spoken in jest, right? Apparently after 9/11, he saw the opportunity to stop joking and start doing.