:WOW: on FAUX NEWS NO LESS!!!
President Bush: State of Denial About Iraq
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,235767,00.html
Sunday, December 10, 2006
By Susan Estrich
FOX NEWS
Hold the melon, please, my daughter always asks, when she orders fruit salad. The problem, as only some waiters and waitresses bother to explain, is that most fruit salads are pre-made, and melon is usually the primary ingredient. Take out the melon and what’s left?
The White House should not treat the Study Group Report “like a fruit salad,” James Baker told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Wishful thinking. Until the president accepts the basic premise of the report, its recommendations are almost beside the point. The basic premise is that we’re failing. The president doesn’t see it that way.
The president is in denial. He has posed for the pictures, accepted the report, thanked the co-chairs. There might even be a few recommendations in there somewhere with which he agrees.
But he refuses to face reality. He rejects the fundamental diagnosis. He still wants to win.
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Denial is the first stage in dealing with death. The president still has to get through anger, bargaining, and depression before he reaches acceptance.
And there is no sign that he is listening to anyone.
He didn’t listen to the voters, who gave him a thumping because of Iraq. So much for democracy.
He isn’t listening to his own new defense secretary, who has testified that his Iraq policy isn’t working and won’t work. So much for his own advisers.
And he certainly isn’t listening to the Iraq Study Group, which most people have characterized as the last, best hope, or at least the best cover, for a change of policy. So much for blue ribbon bipartisanship.
What will it take to get through to this president?