The Madness Of Our King George Has Even Texas Friends Worried

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The Madness Of Our King George Has Even Texas Friends Worried
by Bill Gallagher | Jun 5 2007
— from Niagara Falls Reporter (posted with permission)

DETROIT -- President George W. Bush is miserable and mad. He's off to Europe this week for the G-8 summit, and the prospect of meeting with peers who refuse to hang on his every word and bow to his whims makes him moan.

He also has to eat foreign food, sleep in an unfamiliar bed and pretend he's engaged and interested in what the other heads of state have to say. For Bush, this is pure torture, though richly deserved.

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Now he wants to control regulations aimed at global climate change, claiming that "the United States takes this issue seriously." But talking about a heating planet will also divert the G-8 discussions away from the most important issue before the heads of state: putting heat on Bush to end the disaster in Iraq.

While at dinner, with Bush pretending to taste pickled eel, blutwurst and pig knuckles, the G-8 leaders should confront him on his failures and how the turmoil he's created in Iraq can get worse and cause damage for the economies of all the industrialized nations -- to say nothing of the humanitarian tragedies and tensions the war has brought the world.

We face a long summer of discontent and death in Iraq. George Packer wrote in his seminal book "The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq" about the oppressive summer heat there, where midday temperatures often top 120 degrees Fahrenheit.

Packer wrote, "A soldier once said that his deployment in the Iraqi desert was like being in the middle of a loaf of baking bread, thrown this way and that as the dough rose, with no idea of what was happening or where he was. To me, the Iraqi heat had the quality of a malevolent and inescapable tyranny, turning everyone stupid and passive."

Even our own malevolent tyrant knows there will be no ease this summer for those living in Iraq.ÊHe recently said, "It could be bloody -- it could be a very difficult August." He should know because, as he likes to remind us, "I am the president! I am the president! I am the president!"
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[Captain Hilts]

1. Well, he is our Third George. So, George 3rd! nt

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