Letters to the Editor
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Once again
George Bush is buying time. He must keep the war going and here's why: He and his base of loyalists will wait until his term is up, the new administration will move in and withdraw troops. If it all goes to hell, the Bush loyalists will scream, "told you so!" If it all goes well and favorable, the loyalists to Bush will credit Dubya with doing the ground work. Either way, by keeping the war going until the end of his term, any outcome will preserve the legacy of this man.
The only thing that could harm his legacy is if he admitted defeat and withdrew the troops BEFORE his term is up.
So you see, the only interest is to preserve the George W. Bush legacy at any cost, the highest of course being the young men and women who have given their lives and the ones who will give their lives until January 2008, for nothing more than the legacy of a man who lied this country into war.
Hey Bush, what's it called when you kill people?
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The Real Reason
George is not mad. He has a completely different agenda: self preservation i.e. to avoid and/or delay congressional investigations. As soon as we employ any of "sane" options like talking to Iran or Syria, and of course, withdrawing American troops leading to even more chaos in Iraq, it will be obvious even to most of Bush's die-hard supporters that the emperor has no clothes. There will be little or no resistance to aggressive Congressional investigations and possible impeachment. The most effective tactic is to delay. Try to run out the clock for two years, never mind the costs in terms of American troops, money, and prestige. (Forget about the Iraqis.)
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More madness...
Well, if Bush keeps the war in Iraq going until the end of his presidency, the only thing he will cement will be his reputation as the worst president of all time.
It was only days ago that he appointed a member of the Baker group as his new defense secretary to replace the one he had promised would stay to the end of his administation.
Impeachment? No, in the last years of his reign King George III was locked away at Windsor Castle. Commitment is what is needed for our George, not impeachment.
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Kiss of Death
Everytime Bush says someone is "the right guy", they lose their job (Rumsfeld and Brown), morph into a threat (Putin) or disappear (Meiers and Chalabi).
Does anyone believe Bush's endorsement is a positive anymore? Is it even possible that he himself believes it?
I wouldn't put it on my resume for a job at Wal-Mart. Malaki will be gone inside two weeks.
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Clarification
I would suggest that most Iraqis and other Middle Easterners understand that the bully in the White House does not represent the average American. They also understand that the same bozo in the White House is a moron, a simpleton, and a reflection of the idiocy that pervades the evangelical community in general. (Too bad being born again doesn't endow one with a new brain.)
Well, the voters have finally had enough: Bush, Cheney, Rove and other assorted freaks of nature are living on borrowed time.
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Senseless for certain
An excellent analysis of our deranged leader. Bush
has lost all sense of direction, which is saying alot
since he never really had any, except in his own
mind. Being stubborn and arrogant has managed to
alienate the world and also the American people. That
Bush refuses to even acknowledge any mistake whatsoever
is a mortal failing of which he will be remembered
very badly in history.
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There's plenty of madness to go around.
The president's refusal to acknowledge that reality -- even as his friends in Baghdad pursue diplomatic solutions -- is worse than irrational. It is madness.
Yes, it is madness. But it's hardly a recent phenomenon.
Does anyone believe The Little Dictator was free of mental defects in December 2000 when he was handed the presidency against the wishes of voters? Was he sane while standing on the ashes of New Yorkers with his magic bullhorn? Or when he committed American men and women to the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq? Was he something other than mad as a hatter while strutting around the USS Lincoln with his Top Gun codpiece and Mission Accomplished banner?
When you’re fronting for neocons, corporate robber-barons, white supremacists and class warriors (sorry for the overlap), sanity is not an asset. It isn't even an option.
Possessing neither humility nor shame, W The Great has nothing to gain from acknowledging reality, not that anyone should assume he is capable of recognizing it. For six years, the Bush Cabal's delusional policies have been indulged and fashioned into reality by a submissive, complicit Democratic Party, a grossly corrupt Republican Party, an overtly corporatist media, and a bovine citizenry motivated exclusively by fear and comfort.
For destroying and diminishing the lives of millions – and, in the process, guaranteeing decades of catastrophic terrorist attacks in the U.S. and abroad – George W. Bush and his many co-conspirators will undoubtedly be free to enjoy the rest of their sorry lives on booze-soaked golf courses and cloistered estates. The more ambitious among them will return to pitch the next global bloodbath. I doubt we will have to wait long.
Some of us will seethe at the injustice, the absence of anything resembling official accountability. What we will not do, as a nation, is accept our own culpability for not having done everything possible to prevent Bush’s madness from being unleashed on the world.
Human life meant nothing to our "Unitary Executive" when he was governor of Texas and it means nothing to him now. But despite his emotional and intellectual disorders being on full display, George W. Bush has always been treated as a "normal" person by politicians, news media celebrities, and, consequently, much of the public. It is a troubling testament to America's collective psychosis.
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Impeachment
Conason's article underscores why George Bush should be impeached immediately. He lied to the American people about Iraq's fictional weapons of mass destruction in order to start a war with a sovereign state, resulting in the death of almost 3,000 of our best soldiers and tens of thousands of foreign citizens. He violated the Constitutional rights of American citizens with his Enemy Combatant nonsense and his Presidential Signing Statements, a cynical attempt to codify his belief that as President he can do whatever he wants. He flat out broke the law with his wiretapping program. Overshadowing all of that, as Conason shows, is the glaring, naked incompetence with which he is running the Executive Branch.
Unfortunately, as it was with his oil business and his baseball team, people with power seem content to let him ride out his f*uck-ups, then promote him up to something else. If history is any guide, Bush's next job will probably be president of a combined Haliburton/OPEC conglomerate that controls 90% of the world's fossil fuels.
I reject any ideas that the public is "weary" of the idea of impeachment, or that impeachment doesn't matter. A country that puts 1 out of every 32 of its citizens through its justice/penal system obviously has the will and resources to go after anyone. And if our government can't find it within itself to do something about someone with this bad a track record, then Presidents truly are kings and we should stop telling ourselves and everyone else this is a democracy.
Pelosi has already said that impeachment is "off the table," which is sad. I hope at some point someone in Washington has the courage to do what is best for the American people and at least start the process to remove the worst President in history.