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December 26, 2006

Late Nite FDL: Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

Posted in: "War on Terror", BushCo, Iraq

the last advisor

Ye gods.  This gets my nomination for Headline of the Weak.  "Rethink"?  That would imply that he's ever thought about it before.

Take it away, Swopa!

The closest advisor
By Swopa
Dec 26 2006 – 7:59pm

Remember what Bob Woodward said, talking about Dubya on "60 Minutes" last October?

"Late last year he had key Republicans up to the White House to talk about the war. And said, 'I will not withdraw even if Laura and Barney are the only ones supporting me.' Barney is his dog,"

Cut to the photo above.  Aaaaaaaaand, wait for it!
I guess he wasn't kidding. But does this mean Laura wasn't even willing to talk about it?
Hooray for Swopa!  He did the heavy lifting on that one.
 
Seriously, though.  Does anyone besides Laura and Barney still believe that Pres. American Psycho has anything constructive to add to the Iraq debate?  We've watched him disregard the advice of everyone short of God, including the military, his father's clean-up squad, the Iraqis themselves, the American people, and, well, anyone who has attempted to tell him anything other than what he wants to hear, which is exactly the process that drove us into the war to begin with.
 
It's time for an intervention.  We need to gather his family, friends, and a counselor all together in the great-room at that Crawford pig-farm and just lay it out on the table.  "George, we think you've got a war problem."
 
"What?  I do not.  I can stop any time I want.  It's not an addiction.  It's…it's…it's for my Legacy."
 
"That's what we're here to talk about today, George.  Your actions don't just affect you.  They affect us all…"
 
And so forth and so on. 
 
AlterNet gets it: 

Here we go again: A new secretary of defense and yet another call for ending the war in Iraq by escalating it. What are they smoking in the Bush White House?

Even as government statistics now show marijuana is America's No. 1 cash crop, it is important to remember that militarism is the most dangerous drug threatening our sanity. Yet even formerly sober folks — first Colin Powell and now new Secretary of Defense Robert Gates — get a contact high from cozying up to the walking hallucinogen that is our president.

(snip)

The convenient lie behind all of this is that U.S. military occupation is the indispensable agent of Mideast enlightenment. No, we have become the enablers of Iraqi madness, be it in the form of torture or the ascendancy of religious tyranny in Iraq, where daily life has been reduced to an unmitigated horror.

Yet, like a junkie who needs one more hit to get his life in order, Bush is hooked on the drug of military might. If the Democrats continue to feed his dangerous habit they will only help Bush visit greater mayhem upon Iraq while undermining the core values of our own country.

Is there a twelve-step program for delusional chief executives?  It's time to send the BushBot to rehab.  It's not a decision to make lightly and it will be difficult for us all, but I have faith that if we work together, we can all get through this.  As a nation.  As a family.  Easy does it.

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