"Because I told them it had to." ????

Jesus. It's one thing to admit that privately to Dick Cheney. It's quite another to say it to Pelosi. These guys are losing their grip.

That really is the kind of sound-bite that leaves one speechless. Where are the right-wing bloggers on this one?

And this guy wants to start a war with Iran. Congress?? Where are you? Time to start discussing the *I* word in earnest, I think.

I wish he had invoked this secret weapon a couple of years ago!

Well, at least he's now choosing from among the plans that are the most likely to succeed. He seems ealier to have been drawing from the "Certain to Fail" pile.

Mark W

I've not been on the impeachment bandwagon before, but man, I'm not sure we can afford two more years of this delusion. He's made plenty of "decisions" in the last 6 years, very few of them have "worked" and yet he still thinks that he can make things happen the way he wants just by willing it to be so.

For the safety of our country, we've got to get this man out of the White House. He's delusional, and his Vice President is bitter and hostile. Neither one is capable of making reasonable decisions - Bush makes decisions out of a desperation to be right, and Cheney out of bitter anger towards Democrats. That's too dangerous; these two have to be removed from power.

Strike a deal with the Republicans and let a Republican take over, John Warner maybe, I don't care who is president for the next two years - these two just need to go and go quickly, and be replaced by someone who retains a grip on sanity and 100% certain that his way is the only correct way.

...why didn't W. told them that "it had too" in 2003? We would not have 3,055 dead soldiers, 25,000 wounded soldiers and countless dead and wonded Iraqis, one trillion US$ spent and our international reputation in shred?

Did he forget at that time that "it had too"? Possible as he is probably not able to keep more than one thought in his mind at a time!

If we just tell Bush we won the war on terror, he'll bring the troops home. Why hasn't anyone thought of this brilliant exit strategy already?

For example, say Bush and the "Bush of drug use past" share a spliff. And Past George asks, "If there was a conditional plan that you were absolutely certain would work - it would end all strife and get a functioning government running in Iraq - how many people and dollars would you be willing to part with to make it happen?" Present Dubya would say, "You mean, I'd have to just hand over cash and troops and the Iraqis and evil-doers would lay down their arms and pick up a mop and bucket?" "Yeah," says Past George. "Well, I guess 'as much or many as necessary'" would probably Bush's reply.

I don't think that's what Americans were willing to commit, are currently willing to commit, and certainly not, what they were LED to believe they would have to commit.

You gotta love that Harvard MBA management style.

I guess this falls into the "be careful what you wish for" department. It was bad enough that this brush chopping yahoo left all the decision making to incompetent, wrongheaded, and downright evil underlyings, but now this?

Bush has no military experience, no diplomatic experience, no idea of the politics, religious or social history of the Middle East, let alone Iraq, and not one day of experience at actually running something let alone successfully. Now the guy who didn't even "sleep at a Holiday Inn" will be flying the plane.

This will make a great Greek tragedy/farce some century.

Oh. OK. That's different then. If you did'nt tell them it had to before that completely explains this clusterf*ck.

Surely you can all rally behind the fact that Bush failed the troops because in the previous troop surges he FAILED to say the magic words, "Because it has to!"

Jeeze, Molly Ivins was right: we have a three-year-old running the country.

Irony.

It was, after all, "the decider," "the desision maker," who came up with the way forward that got us into this disaster in the first place.

He sounds like a fumbling idiot...which just means he can't really tell the truth: "Cheney told me what to do."

This is all too typical of Bush. He constantly makes assertions about what's true or what's going to happen simply on the basis of what he WANTS. The problem is that when what he wants doesn't match up with reality disaster is what happens!

"I had to come up with a way forward that precluded disaster."

Does it strike anyone else that speaking of yourself in the past tense about a subject that has yet to occur is some kind of narcissistic conceit at best, and perhaps an indication that Bush is completely unglued?

It's as though he has already begun to sit down and write his memoirs, making up the future as he scribbles.

It leads me to think that he has been stumbling around the White House talking about himself in the future tense:

"And then I got the news that my plan worked and I defeated Al Qaeda and Bin Ladin's severed head was brought to me in a box of dry ice as I had ordered."

I hope somebody with a clearer head is keeping an eye on our little dry drunk cokehead, Jesus-freak nut job. Keep him away from sharp objects and the big red button.

abbada-abbada-abbada, that's all folks. der fuehrer has mumbled. fall in line. smoke if ya gottem. Chuck Hegel shows promise, but it's time for someone like him to start seriously pursuing the "I" word. No, not idiot; impeachment.

What the hell are they going to put in Commander Cuckobanana's Presidential Library, anyway?

Monday, May 28th, 2012: Sounds from the Bush Presidential Library, Christo Corpus, Jesusland:

http://www.pca.state.mn.us/kids/crick2.wav