George W. Rathjens, MIT professor emeritus of political science, on Bush

[gristy]

Prominent LTTE in today's Boston Globe:

It's time to close the Bush regime

June 5, 2004

I COMMEND Robert Kuttner for forthrightly arguing that catastrophic as the Iraq war has been, the greater and transcendent tragedy in American political life has been the Bush administration's sheer incompetence ("Bush the war leader: losing key battles," op ed, June 2). This is in refreshing contrast to the line taken by many columnists who argue that, with our having gone into Iraq, whether wisely or not, priority must now be given to our getting out in some decent fashion.

Certainly this should be an objective, but in the total scheme of things, the defeat of President Bush must be seen to be more important. He has demonstrated incompetence not only in dealing with foreign policy and international security affairs but also in economic matters and in consideration of many of the treasured values of American and other civil societies. Particularly frightening is his incapacity to admit error and his apparent belief that God has ordained his presidency.

More: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2004/06/05/its_time_to_close_the_bush_regime/

[reprehensor]

1. Amen. n/t

[teryang]

2. "Uninformed and meglomaniacal"

I don't think he could be any clearer.

I think this should be brought up at the next WH press conference.

[indepat]

3. Willful destruction of the fiscal integrity of the Federal government, the

environment, international treaties and law, another sovereign nation in the absence of UN sanction, the value of the dollar, many civil liberties, and probably Social Security, Medicare, and the entire safety net not so far down the line would seem to be mission accomplished in splendid fashion rather than incompetent failure, especially since about one-half of the people purportedly still support him and media pundits still shill for him in far too great numbers. Of course, most of the aforementioned burgeoning disasters have not yet fully played out so it's surely going to get a mite hairy and dicey not too far down the road.