I was just thinking this morning about that slide show Team Bush put together for the White House press corpse regarding WMDs in Iraq. Remember how Bush smirked and giggled his way through that series of slides showing him looking around the White House for those missing WMDs? Remember how the intrepid and fearless reporters who were present yukked it up along with him, even as soldiers were dying in Iraq?

And here he goes again, poking fun at how Team Bush outed a CIA asset in the run up to that same war. "Tee hee hee. Here's another way we pulled one over on the American people. Guess how many have died over this one! Haw haw haw!"

And, of course, the press will let them get away with it.

[As an aside, did anyone else watch CNN's Prime News last night? There were at least two segments wherein the reporters actually did their jobs. In the SUVs-are-deadly segement, they held the industry spokesmodel's feet to the fire, and in the tax reform segment, they really emphasized how the changes would hurt the lower and middle classes while helping only the wealthy and huge corporations - all without a "balancing" opinion from the trickle-down crowd! And this, after reporting well on Harry Reid and the rest of the Senate Democrats' courageous stand. For a minute there, I almost felt a flicker of hope for our democracy.]

Next to Karl Rove, the most disgusting person on the face of this earth is George Bush. The man kills thousands of innocent people so that he and his rich buddies can make billions, and he has the nerve to lie and joke about it.

Remember all the "honor and integrity" he was going to restore? All lies, people. Do you like being lied to? I sure don't.

I feel for all the families of the people he's killed. And mark my words, people, he's just getting warmed up. There's lots more people to kill, to torture, to steal from. Lots of money to be made.

How many ways can I say "We need to impeach this moron"?

Remember when he pulled his "looking for WMD's" comedy act at the National Press Club Dinner? No collective gasp from the assembled Washington Press Elite. They're likely to ignore this one too. What'll it take for the whores of the Washington press corps to wake up to the fact that this guy is a callous s.o.b. frat boy who uses people, including our 2030 dead soldiers, as interchangeable litle pawns in his and Cheney's power fantasies? Does he have to piss on a dead soldier to get their attention?

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In response to wlmaroney's criticism, "What'll it take for the whores of the Washington press corps to wake up to the fact that this guy is a callous s.o.b. frat boy who uses people..."

They won't because the whores of the Washington press corps are the same as Bush, callous s.o.b. frat boys. I would also add that they don't have the integrity or the honesty to admit their own gullibility and their own superficiality.

Robert

When Bush says "OK, well, I'm not going to ask you who they are, of course. . . . Inside joke here, for my team.", is Bush admitting that he acted like the defence lawyer who tells his client, "I don't want to know if you are guilty or innocent"?

Guess all that talk about wanting to get to the bottom of it was just for the peons, otherwise known as the American people.

I think Dubya can't help but smirk and laugh once in awhile because he really has pulled the wool over the eyes of the American public. I believe the war in Iraq has accomplished what it was intended to accomplish. War presidents are more likely to get elected. The Dubya crowd new they did not win in 2000 and 9/11 gave them an opportunity to good to pass up. The "war on terrorism" needed a face and a location. Iraq served that need better than Afganistan. The Dubya crowd created a phony pretex for going to war knowing that it would last through the election of 2004. It worked! Dubya and the boys and girl went laughing into a second term which is all they wanted. That's why they have lost interest in Iraq. They will leave it to be cleaned up by the next administration while they make billions for their cronies (Halliburton) and tax the poor to favor the rich. If I had pulled off such a momumental hoax on America, I would be laughing too!

Tim Grieve this is why I love Salon.com.

Concise, current, insightful, and funny.

You are a great writer - please keep up the great work.

- Justin

Memo to the President George W. Bush: I'm not laughing.

Once when writing an article about my Marine son who served in Ramadi last year, I researched Bush's activities during the dates and times that my son's comrades were being killed. Many died during the last two months of the election campaign.

It was startling in that context to match his campaign promises and repeated affirmations of his decision to go to war in Iraq,

against the stark realities of daily events on the ground in Ramadi.

"To save your world, you asked this man to die:

Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?" WH Auden

Will no one rid us of this troublesome clown? Due process, of course. Junior thinks this is all a big circus. For the rest of us, the show has left town. The magic's gone. What remains, is to clean up the detritus.

Dr. Tom Coburn is an Oklahoman Senator not Nebraskan.