“The enemy only has to get lucky once, we must be right 100 per cent of the time.” – President George W. Bush
While paraphrasing Irish Republican Army spokesman P. O’Neil’s comment after the IRA failed to kill Margaret Thatcher, this quote from President Bush following the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center has been used a number of times by other leaders.
That luck ran out for French President Francois Hollande, his intelligence group, and the people of France yesterday when seven terrorists were able to wreak havoc in Paris, killing some 130 people and seriously wounding more than 300 others. Continue reading