The branches of a purple and silver bush were gently pushed aside.

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The only silver lining for Mr Bush was that Mr Kay blamed intelligence failures rather than exaggeration about the Iraqi threat by the administration.

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Over the next few years, the emergence of banks like Spirit of Texas could prove the silver lining in the largely bungled Bush-Obama bail out of the big financial companies.

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To borrow a phrase from the late Ann Richards, former governor of Texas, about former President George W Bush: sometimes it seems he was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

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