Steve Gilliard has a creepy post on Bush's sinking ship, better than a night at the horror flicks. The suspense starts with this extremely weird pickup (from Atrios) from Bush's interview with ABC's Linda Vargas:
Does Laura have to call him Mr. President too: BUSH:
You know, it's interesting, you said that one of the things that we
love doing is to invite our buddies up from Texas. And I think about
the time we had Jones, Procter and Selee . These are guys we grew up
with in Midland, Texas. They are down to earth, you know, they have no
agenda, except being with their friends Laura and George. VARGAS: They call you George? BUSH: No, they call me Mr. President. VARGAS: I was going to say… BUSH:
They probably don't want to call me Mr. President, but they do call me
Mr. President. And we sit up there in the White House. First of all,
it's a great joy to see their joy about being here. It's a fantastic
experience for people to be able to come here.
We are aware that we are in the presence of a genuine fucking freak.
Bush is such a dry drunk his friends can't call him George. Which also means that no one can tell him about anything bad and that is a handicap.
The suspense heightens, with people in the wrong place in the wrong time getting it in the face:
Which means he can't deal with crises. Look at last month, Bush didn't get a good day of press. The month started off with Cheney shooting a man in the face and ended with a giveaway of American ports to the UAE. Leaving many GOP House members exposed to Dem challenges on national security. My God, that's like the GOP gaining the high ground on health care. This isn't a minor blunder, but a major strategic failure, and Bush is oblivious.
Oh yes, there will be blood:
But Iraq has gone horribly wrong and is about to end very ugly.
The US cannot stop the violence now, and every commander and soldier knows this. They admit it in polling. They don't have enough men or equipment and the men they do have are about to take a sharp decline in quality.
The scenes of evacuation from Iraq will make Saigon look like Spring Break. Thousands who worked with the US will be killed by all sides. Think Rwanda or Bosnia. Think piles of bodies, decapitated, shot. Abu Gharib will pale before the carnage.
And this is in an orderly evacuation with phased withdrawals.
In a full out flight, we will abandon our Iraqi allies wholesale. Iraqi units, already infiltrated, will turn on US forces and join the resistance en masse. US troops will abandon their equipment by the side of the road. Three years of war will catch up with them, and only the air cover of AC-130's will prevent massacres.
By the end of it, artillery will be taken out of storage and fired at fleeing troops.
Either way it ends, Bush will be held responsible. Whether it is a phased withdrawal or Chosen II, Bush's adventure in Iraq will fail and Osama will be chortling about it on video.
Sometimes the best stuff I read is in the comment threads (HT Sekmet):
He sat on the Carlyle Group board for three years and basically wasted everybody's time with his towel-snapping b.s.
http:// www.informationclearingho...article3994.htm
'Rubenstein said, "We put [Bush] on the board and [he] spent three years. Came to all the meetings. Told a lot of jokes. Not that many clean ones. And after a while I kind of said to him, after about three years - you know, I'm not sure this is really for you. Maybe you should do something else. Because I don't think you're adding that much value to the board. You don't know that much about the company.'
Rubenstein continued: "He said, well I think I'm getting out of this business anyway. And I don't really like it that much. So I'm probably going to resign from the board."
Nanny nanny boo boo, stick your head in doo doo.
Does that sound like the response of an adult? "And I don't really like it that much. So I'm probably going to resign from the board." It says volumes about how much American politics has degenerated that they took this childish butthead, cleaned him up, and somehow sold him to enough people as a mature adult who should be elected president. It is a triumph of the advertising and public relations arts.
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