NYT Edit Rips Bush "Less in touch with reality than Nixon"

Editorial
Plan: We Win
Published: December 1, 2005

We've seen it before: an embattled president so swathed in his inner circle that he completely loses touch with the public and wanders around among small knots of people who agree with him.

It has been obvious for months that Americans don't believe the war is going just fine, and they needed to hear that President Bush gets that. . . . The address was accompanied by a voluminous handout entitled "National Strategy for Victory in Iraq," which the White House grandly calls the newly declassified version of the plan that has been driving the war. If there was something secret about that plan, we can't figure out what it was. The document, and Mr. Bush's speech, were almost entirely a rehash of the same tired argument that everything's going just fine.

. . . Mr. Bush hates comparisons between Vietnam and Iraq. But after watching the president, we couldn't resist reading Richard Nixon's 1969 Vietnamization speech. Substitute the Iraqi constitutional process for the Paris peace talks, and Mr. Bush's ideas about the Iraqi Army are not much different from Nixon's plans - except Nixon admitted the war was going very badly (which was easier for him to do because he didn't start it), and he was very clear about the risks and huge sacrifices ahead.

A president who seems less in touch with reality than Richard Nixon needs to get out more.

http://www.dailykos.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/01/opinion/01thur1.html?hp

**A president who seems less in touch with reality than Richard Nixon needs to get out more.**

I think he just needs to GET OUT!! Period!

even if someday he DOES " get it" it won't matter. I'd sooner support Quasimodo.

Put down the pretzel and back away slowly. We will cover you.

Message from Earth - WE ARE LOSING! Who is going to be the last one to have to die for your failed policy?

on Thorazine to be even more specific.

the truth hurts, doesn't it chimpster?