Bush Tries to Reassure Americans That He Knows What He's Doing

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Bush Tries to Reassure Americans That He Knows What He's Doing

by Sandeep Kaushik


The chattering classes have turned against him. The voting public thinks the country is headed in the wrong direction. The American media, which sees its role as comforting the comfortable until they are afflicted and then piling on, is now piling on. So George W. Bush is reduced to doing desperate damage control in a political crisis setting. On Monday night, in his first of a weekly series of high-profile speeches intended to show he sees a way out of the current mess in Iraq, he instead proved that he's as discombobulated by developments there as everyone else....

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The course hasn't worked so far, but we must stay the course, he said. Things are sort of bad, and likely to get worse, but then they will get better, he said. Just trust me. I have a plan. I'm not going to explain the important details, or address the difficult and controversial choices that loom, but don't worry, my plan will work because history demands it, because duty requires it, because only "killers," "terrorists," and "extremists" oppose it....

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It's not enough. Not anymore. When spin enters the outskirts of mendacity, it loses its rhetorical force, and Bush has been spinning a false optimism about success in Iraq being just around the corner for so long now (as the situation there has steadily deteriorated) that almost no one who matters believes him anymore....

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The only one who doesn't appear to realize this is Bush himself....

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http://www.thestranger.com/2004-05-27/city4.html

during various crisis days. Rove trying very hard to convince everybody a drunk CIC is OK? Rove having trouble keeping his boy on the wagon long enough to walk from helicopter to building? No hope left of pretending the shrub* is a former drunk?

Especially loved the diversionary story yesterday about how the pResident was gonna save us all from illegible prescriptions (by creating huge data bases of personal medical information). Earth to shrub*: We aren't worried about poor penmanship cuz we can't get in to see a doctor anyway!

There is no amount of spin gonna stop the train wreck for the junta.

but he don't know squat. He thinks we invaded Iraq because Saddam wouldn't let the inspectors in:

On July 25, President George W. Bush made a truly staggering statement to the press after a meeting with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

“The fundamental question is, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? And the answer is, absolutely. And we gave him a chance to allow inspectors in, and he wouldn’t let them in. And therefore, after a reasonable request, we decided to remove him from power, along with other nations, so as to make sure he was not a threat to the United States and our friends and allies in the region.”

This statement is worth reading carefully. The president of the United States has stated, in a public forum, that he invaded Iraq because Saddam Hussein would not allow weapons inspectors back into his country.

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When a single individual combines ignorance, immorality, dry-drunk syndrome, a publicly proclaimed commitment to perpetual military domination of the entire world by his country, a publicly expressed belief that God personally instructs him to make war on specific countries and a wildly irrational born-again brand of Christianity that views the Battle of Armageddon and the consequent end of life on earth as desirable developments and, at the same time, has command authority over an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction more than sufficient to achieve the end of life on earth, it is difficult to argue that this individual is not the most dangerous person who has ever lived.

this is a short commentary, well worth the read:
http://www.arabnews.com/services/print/print.asp?artid=30536&d=19&m=8&y=2003&hl=Idiot%20or%20Liar?%20Either%20Way,%20Bush%20Is%20Unfit%20for%20Office

when he took a hundred mile "shortcut" and my Dad was generally a lot smarter and wiser than this doofus. Mostly because he was a good man, just with too much confidence in his natural sense of direction and a postman's determination to finding the surest route.

But a hundred miles is a hundred miles. You don't look better by defending yourself. Cursing would win him more votes, actually.

Was Mr Blix and his team a figment of my imagination?

I am at the point now from believing that w is a shallow dolt to believing he is an insane, shallow dolt.

in pictures, anyway, and tried hard to imagine what might be going on inside that ruddy coconut. The sound of desert winds, perhaps. And I imagine that when a thought does pass through - when Chaney tells him something - it sounds like one of those old pneumatic tubes used in olde-tyme offices. Foomp!