There is a fantasy world in Iraq which is visible to George W. Bush that most Americans can’t see. It is propped up by a “coalition” of forces (Bush claimed 37 countries… yet most of these have fewer than 30 soldiers committed to the cause) including the mighty Fiji… and Bosnia… Kazahkstan… the list goes on and on.
This Iraq, we are told by Bush, is getting better all the time, like a Beatles song. The schools and markets that were closed in Baghdad are now reopening (and people are being shot there daily, or being blown up like the Sunni leader, Abdul Sattar Buzaigh al-Rishawi, in Anbar Province that we were apparently depending on who bought the big one yesterday.)
Fantasy Iraq is a place where we are building an “enduring relationship”, which means we will be there until Hell freezes over (a long time), with young Americans providing training targets for insurgents.
And although Bush said some troops would be home by Christmas, and others would be back by July, according to his plans the number of troops in Iraq could be higher in the summer of 2008 than it was in the fall of 2006 before the surge began. It is a very special kind of reduction where the quantity goes up instead of down. It takes a special vision to view troop reductions this way… Bush’s Vision.
I think Bush has lost his mind. The world that he sees and whose existence he tries to show to us, does not exist for anyone else. And while Republicans, through the sheer political will power of Party support, still bolster his Presidency, they are falling away in flakes, like paint chipping off an old house. One day there will be nothing but exposed wood and we see what has been underneath all the time.
We press on with a madman in charge, ready to push his legacy upon us.
“The way forward I have described tonight makes it possible, for the first time in years, for people who have been on opposite sides of this difficult debate to come together,” he said.
Hopefully, they will come together to strap the straight jacket on the Commander in Chief.
I agree completely. I kept thinking how difficult it would be to fact check his speech. In order for something to be demonstrably wrong it has to at least exist in the same reality as observable data.
Fred Kaplan at Slate has a take down of chimpy’s liefest last night:
Recommended reading.
lTMF’sA
You gotta give the guy a break. Earlier in the day news came “Mr Bush, your sheikh is dead” – his one Poster Boy of Success in Iraq was blown up.
Next he’s told, “Alan Greenspan’s book is out and what he wrote is not very kind.”
Are we surprised? Nah. Everything under this president ia a pile of merde. If the Iraq adventure is a failure, we ain’t seen nothing yet – dire economic consequences ahead. The worst president EVER.
He’s protecting his legacy. (of death and destruction)
Everything Bush has said since he has been Resident has always been lies. (Negligible snippets of truth may slip through now and again.)
I didn’t see the speech, but I suspect that what’s changed isn’t that Bush has even less contact with reality now than he did before, but that it has become clearer to more people just how full of lies everything Bush says is.
There’s no more reason to doubt Bush’s sanity now than there ever was. He’s a sociopath, so he doesn’t see anything wrong with lying. About his only concern at this point is to continue the war through the end of his presidency, so that he will be able to maintain the big lie that he did not lose the war that he started. (The war was to be his big success, to make up for everything else he ever did, which was failure.)
How else can he continue the war other than by lying through his teeth?
maybe this documentary will have an effect to motive an end to Iraq war:
G.W. was a spoiled pampered child who never matured even as his chronological years increased into middle age. The term delusional applied to him is 100% correct. As a rehabilitated alcoholic, he developed new coping strategies to deal with the outside world. The character of these strategies are quite common and similar as adopted by people in similar recovery circumstances, and often take on the purpose of a religious crusade. The individual generally adopts the uncompromising idea that he/she has been selected as a special instrument by (their concept of) God for a mission which will ultimately save some portion of the human race. Every success achieved by the individual is taken as a sign that God is re-affirming the righteousness of the individual’s mission, and serves to harden the individual’s resolve and belief in his/her mission or quest.
Hence G.W. has always had essentially the appearance of a dual personality, the G.W. that the public hears and sees, and the G.W. the personal agent of God. G.W. the Holy Agent, is the one person in the world who has special dispensation to meet and plan strategy privately one-on-one with God. He believes that the public has a “thirst” to see and hear him and that unquenchable desire is stimulated by God. So during his speeches, photo ops or other public appearances, the little smirk on his face mirrors these thoughts in his mind. He is thinking, “y’all know that we are just having this meeting because God has directed it to be part of my holy mission. So since I am the Holy Agent in control of this mission, there is nothing that y’all really need to know. Take what ever I tell you, don’t pay too much attention to it and go along on your way comforted in the knowledge that you have seen God’s agent and he has told you every thing’s ok.”
America is a great and powerful nation and it has had the resources to accommodate G.W.’s fantasies and halucinations up to the present time. Currently G.W. has committed America to an active two front war. An embarrassed Congress is praying and hoping that G.W. will restrain himself and simply be content to play troop numbers games with the deployment in Iraq from now to the end of his presidency. The real question facing Congress is “What if G.W. pulls the trigger on the Attack Iran plans and opens up a third war front in the middle east?” The real question here is not G.W.’s sanity, but whether America has the resolve to reclaim her sovereignty and not continue to be dependent on hope and fervent prayer to save the country from destructive consequencies caused by the catastrophic actions of a delusional despot?