I'd be willing to bet Bush took the seven day Ambien add seriously and had a full week of rest before Deciding to kill more people. I really think he likes killing people.

The angels are singing him to sleep!

Most of the time, people compare the Vietnam War to the Iraq "situation" as being similar. One stark difference, though, is that during Vietnam there were demonstrations and civil disobedience on a large scale. Not so, now.

However, after the Baker Commission and hosts of others recommended getting out in some fashion, if then Bush finally rejects it all and sends 25,000 or 40,000 (those are the two numbers I've seen mentioned) to obtain "victory" in Iraq, I think that the fit may finally hit the Shan. For one thing, there is going to be the families and friends of all those GIs who weren't counting on service in Iraq or counting on more or longer service there. Those folks may form the corps of the "Hell, no, I won't go" force.

And, the general public may finally get it that not even an election defeat can make Dubya see reality. If the killing is going to stop, people are going to have to go to the streets.

I also wonder when things may crack at the top of the military establishment. I don't think it's cowardice on their part for not saying "no." I think it's because they really believe that their C-in-C really is a civilian and they may not refuse even an order that they believe is manifestly wrong. But, at some point, some may finally say that there is a limit. They may then resign rather than give the order to send their troops to their deaths. (And, I don't think that the long-term effect if they do that will be happy.)

And, once the new Congress gets rolling, there will be all kinds of investigations of what Dubya's Administration has been up to. I, for one, don't think we know the half of the outrages they have been committing. Once that starts coming out, not only might Dubya's ratings perhaps fall to the deserved single digits, but people may finally vote with their feet in the streets that all this has to stop.

The next six months to year may be history-making.

Only a fool such as George Bush could sleep with hundred's of thousand's of innocent peoples blood dripping from his hands.This lunatic should be impeached then tried for war crimes be convicted and put away out of society. If Nancy Pelosi doesn't want to impeach this maniac then she should be replaced.

George Bush has a history of telegraphing the truth by publicly uttering remarks that are negatively responsive to his private truths.

I am a Uniter...........not.

I will hire the most qualified..........not.

I will return honesty and values to the White House.........,oh my god, not!

His best, among many, to my mind was when he, decided for no apparent reason to make (paraphrased) the false pronouncement that "it takes a warrant to eavesdrop on Americans and we always get warrants."

When Bush says that he knows why others would expect a person in his "I-screwed-the-pooch-again" position to sleep poorly, he is making an admission.

The comedians and psychologists understand this behavior of Bush. In comedy speak, Bush walks up to his friend and announces, "You know that I'm not sleeping with your wife, right?"

Oppositional Defiant behavior in a teen is a warning of bad things to come. In a president it leads to bombs, flames, international disgrace, hundreds of thousands dead and fleeing and just a tiny backward admission that this is all so very shameful.

It’s said that President Bush recently awoke and startled Laura, exclaiming, “I did not have sex with that country.”

( cognitorex blogspot )

The commenters today are buying that Bush is sleeping well. Please remember, this is a guy who lied like a dog to get us into this misbegotten war in the first place, and has repeatedly lied to us about many things ever since.

So assume he's tossing and turning. What am I going to do? he frets. And no answer comes, because of course he is, in presidential terms, a moron. He cannot see that this is not a conventional war and has not been since the Iraqi army laid down its arms. It's a "police action", a term erroneously applied to the Korean War.

Nor can he see that, because it's not a conventional war, "victory" in the conventional sense is impossible -- unless you want to ramp up toward genocide and call that warfare.

This conflict must therefore be settled, and that means devoting huge attention and resources to the diplomatic side of the conflict. Bush hates diplomacy. He is far too arrogant for it, as are the neocons. Their idea of diplomacy is attending a meeting designed solely for the other side to capitulate.

Above all, it is the belief that everything, the focus, the means and the outcome, are all things to be directed by the U.S., that puts Bush and the neocons outside reality.

So Bush yells at his people, Dammit, win this thing! And nothing happens, so he lies some more, and the voters get annoyed, and he loses a major election, and so he tosses and turns.

Eventually, he will listen to the "winners", the neocons. Bush will persist with no major changes. Things will get worse, unless the Iraqis settle it all themselves and order us out.

So the end will be either a great Democratic victory in '08 followed by radical change or an ignominious expulsion by the Iraqis.

Or, aggressive resistance by the current Democratic Congress, and maybe impeachment.

And that is something even the Mighty Moron can see coming, and lose sleep over.

Let the grownups take over.

I'll bet the troops in Iraq are tossing and turning in their bunks over the prospect that they could be killed or maimed at any moment, while Boy George "listens" to his sycophants tell him what he wants to hear.

I'm sure that the Iraqis are lying awake waiting for the next barrage, worrying about the next roadside stop when required to give the correct response to "are you Shiite or Sunni," not knowing when the occupation will end (80% want us O-U-T).

As for me, I've got insomnia over the recent posturing by the Saudis that they will fund the Sunnis in Iraq if we pull out, and the chatter that the military wants to increase its permanent standing force, which may require a draft. We may well be witnessing the start of WW3, all for the sake of a neocon fantasy and the outrageous profits of the oil industry.

There is no way in hell I'm going to let my 14, 12, and 10-year old children become cannon fodder as a result of this spoiled brat's failed policies. This is Bush's and the neocons' mess--send them over to Iraq to clean it up!