Just in case you were wondering what a moron would say about the war in Iraq…
President Bush today said mistakes were made in planning for the Iraq invasion, but he defended the troop level he ordered in the initial strike, saying he would have committed the same number if given a second chance.
Recalling his pre-war conversations with Gen. Tommy Franks, who led the invasion and is now retired, Bush told a business group in Irvine, Calif.: “The level that he suggested was the troop level necessary to do the job, and I support it strongly.” […]
Asked if he would have invaded Iraq, knowing what he knows now, Bush said: “We’re constantly adjusting on the ground to meet an enemy which changes. But on the big decisions of sending the troops in, I’d have done it again.”
Which proves that Bush is likely the most fabulously stupid human being to ever occupy any public office, municipal or federal, in the history of the United States. Quite a distinction. I’d equate his line of reasoning to shoving your arm into a running wood chipper to grab the cigarette you thought you dropped in the hopper and then declaring that it wasn’t such a bad idea after all, since it was your last smoke. Furthermore, even after learning that the cigarette was actually a lollypop that you dropped next to the wood chipper, you say that you would proudly use the same strategy the next time, because smoking makes you look cool and you still have one arm left. The profound inanity of it all would be hilarious if it weren’t for all of the dead people, maimed bodies, war orphans, tortured prisoners and mothers and fathers who have to bury their children.
Hey!! Whaddya got against smokers? (snark)
Don’t be silly, I love smokers. Mostly because they look so cool.
From Editor and Publisher
Talking to the Orange County Business Council:
All the people in those pictures in the Iraq War Grief Daily Witness diaries just ought to put things in the proper perspective, I guess.
He really seems to consider himself the world’s savior. He presents himself as believing that he went into Iraq to spread freedom and democracy, at whatever cost. Really makes you wonder if he has some kind of mental disorder.
And that’s if you believe what he says. There is also the chance this is all a smokescreen for his real aim (or his handlers’ aim) of trying to ensure a tight grip on the oil market.
Such scary stuff. Thanks for posting that James. I was going to write something about the God influencing foreign policy portion, but it just make me feel sick so I stopped.
H.L.Mencken has a wonderful quote that is very apropos for w:
Peace
There’s this other great quote by Mencken that relates perfectly to the Imbecile Bush and the people who support him.
I’m sure there are many examples and case histories referencing the particular dysfunctional pathologies exhibited by Bush throughout the entire breadth of clinical mental health textbooks and literature.
Predatory narcissism; dry-drunk syndrome; use of extremist religious zealotry as an anger managment mechanism; “mommy” issues; and massive breakdown of cognitive function due to emotional instability; Bush is a basket case and has no business being in charge of anything.
yeah. I’ve heard people talking for years about how it’s dry-drunk syndrome or this or that. I never really believed it for some reason. I always just discounted it as part joke, part tinfoil hat theory. But lately, after the mess of Iraq, with all the talk about Iran, it really is simply insane what he’s doing. You look at what’s happening in Iraq, the cold hard facts of what is happening there, and then hear Bush saying these warm soliloquies about how the Almighty has put the desire for freedom in everyone’s soul. There’s a complete disconnect with reality.
Bush’s ignorance has been weaponized to such a degree that he is incapable of connecting with reality in any functional way. He’s in far worse mental and emotional shape now than he was even at the start of his catastrophic presidency, and I fully expect him to have a complete (and unconcealable) mental/emotional breakdown before the end of his second term. He’s too far gone to be able to keep even the appearance of stability much longer.
And I’m sure there is an aide or two in the White House always at the ready with a tranquilizer dart in case they need to immobilize him in the event he flips out dramatically.
I don’t have a “formal” education but damn folks, I could even do a better job than this twit. I also wouldn’t complain and whine all the time that it is such hard work.
I also wouldn’t complain and whine all the time that it is such hard work.
That is all they do.
statement:
But it’s depressing as hell to think of the dearth of leading Democrats who’ll disagree with it on the record.
To the point you make about the Dems I remember when Kerry made his own version of that statement in front of the cameras on the rim of the Grand Canyon during his presidential campaign. I knew at that moment that he would lose. (I voted for him anyway, but I knew it would be for naught).
Isn’t there a quote; something about the definition of insanity being “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result”?
Steve Clemons, brings us this link to Lawrence Wilkerson, former State Department Chief of Staff under Powell. Wilkerson first spoke out about Cheney’s cabal hijacking foreign policy in October 2005 at a forum organized by Clemons.
Wilkerson wrote a piece in the Baltimore Sun ‘America is Losing its Goodness’:
Go read:
Is U.S. being transformed into a radical republic?
Chris, you’ve gone mainstream. You’re trackbacked at the WP, where everyone is coming here to find out what a moron would say. Bush…not you.
Ah, the mainstream. The sultry siren of wank and wankery calls to me through the haze with the sweet, sweet melody of the mushy middle, harmonized with artificial balance. Chain me to the masts and save yourselves.
Recalling his pre-war conversations with Gen. Tommy Franks, who led the invasion and is now retired, Bush told a business group in Irvine, Calif.: “The level that he suggested was the troop level necessary to do the job, and I support it strongly.” […].
Now it is a fact that the spineless Franks had first proposed an extremely large invasion force, on the order of the infamous Shinseki estimates, but Rummy rejected it, and indeed rejected two subsequent lesser force requirements, until Franks dialed it down to what eventually was approved, which in fact was/is demonstrably below that which was/is necessary to achieve Boosh’s so-called objectives: “regime change” and “democratisation and a free Iraq”.
Dude, Nice job on the trackback. And nice job on the post, you sounded totally like you and everyone got it.