Bush Deserves "Golden Sombrero," Striking Out In Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt

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"There will be no legacy for Mr. Bush."

Conservative icon William F. Buckley summed up the Bush foreign policy pretty well. We are engaging in a "Murphy's Law" policy -- whatever can go wrong is going wrong.

In baseball, getting a "golden sombrero" is striking out four times. Amazingly, when it comes to Bush's execution of a Middle East foreign policy, the hat fits.

To read a review of all that's gone wrong in the region, click here.

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1. Only four?

Seems to me he's struck out at everything. Well, except for the "fear and smear" part, where he's cowed people into submission so they won't go after him for multiple counts of
obstruction of justice...

KEEP VISUALIZING...

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2. strictly talking middle east policy

... not the entirety of the administraiton

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4. i just hope

that people realize what's going on in Egypt, with apparent consent from the administraiton.

I'll bet only about 1% of Americans are aware of what's happened there in the past few weeks.

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3. and thousands of counts of negligent homicide.

He also face hundreds, if not thousands, of counts of authorizing the use of torture and other war crimes.

And then there are millions of counts of violating the FISA and other federal wiretap laws.

It'll be the Year One Billion AD before he's eligible for parole.

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5. the conservative response

MrToffeeLovesYa said...
Liberals may cite a lot of facts to argue that the Bush Administration has made mistakes in the Middle East.

The conservative response remains simplistic and straightforward: these "mistakes" only look like mistakes for the short-sighted. For the long-sighted, things don't look nearly as bad.

As Secretary Rice said in March: "I know we've made tactical errors, thousands of them I'm sure. But when you look back in history, what will be judged will be, did you make the right strategic decisions."

How much clearer do you need it, liberals? Come November, right-minded Republican voters won't remember, and those that do probably won't care, whether Secretary Rice was shuttling about the Middle East within a day or two of the first missile launches into Israel, or whether she waited a week or so to fly over. And that's going to be four-month-old history. Liberals can't possibly expect voters to remember the history that came during Bush's first term, right? Pow!

Like Rice said, Hamas and Hezbollah have existed for decades. Conservatives know, and if not they'll certainly be reminded by November, that Bush shouldn't be blamed for their existence now. At the same time, Bush has said that he is pro-Israel. Which is going to resonate more with the American people -- liberal finger-pointing, or Bush giving a speech at AIPAC, in front of American and Israeli flags, denouncing terrorism? Do the math, liberals.

thewaronterrible asks: "Can Bush's approval ratings go even lower than the 31% reported by CBS news yesterday?"

Wake up and smell reality, liberals. Bush has said he doesn't pay attention to polls. Polls don't dictate policy. Liberals who expect Bush to change his ways, even when the liberal "present-time" thinkers think things have gone wrong, just don't understand how this administration works. The wronger things get, the more conservatives look to Bush to not change course. They know that at some point in the future, perhaps long after we're all dead, they'll be proven right.

When the liberal poll-takers at CBS News ask: "Is it possible that at some point, long after we're all dead, President Bush's policies will be seen as a success," and a majority of respondents answer "Yes, it is possible," then maybe such a poll will be worth discussing.

Until then, conservatives will continue to trust what the hear from Bush, Cheney, Rice and Rumsfeld, and those that echo their words on talk radio and tv.