"...A Miserable Failure" ?

[kentuck]

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

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Maybe if I ignore this for a while it'll get better?

From USNews ...

White House advisers say Bush won't react in detail to the ISG report for several weeks, while he assesses it and awaits various internal government reports on the situation from his own advisers. Bush tells aides he doesn't want to "outsource" his role as commander in chief. Some Bush allies say this is a way to buy some time as the president tries to decide how to deal with rising pressure to alter his strategy in Iraq and hopes the critical media focus on the Iraq war will soften.

What a pitiful coward this man is. Maybe if I just sort of shuffle the papers a bit and clear my throat everybody will get off my case. That's his response.

Just above that passage there's this ...

"We have a classic case of circling the wagons," says a former adviser to Bush the elder. "If President Bush changes his policy in Iraq in a fundamental way, it undermines the whole premise of his presidency. I just don't believe he will ever do that."

I'm not sure I've ever heard anything truer said on the whole sorry topic of this war. And it gets to the heart of the issue. He won't ever change course. Not because there's anyone who can't see that the present course is a catastrophe, but because changing course would cut the legs from under the collective denial of the president and his supporters. As bad as things get they can still pretend they're on the way to getting better. It's a long hard slog to January 2009 when it becomes someone else's fault. Once they pull the plug themselves, though, they admit it was all a disaster, that the whole presidency was, in Dick Gephardt's half forgotten phrase, "a miserable failure."

That is why we're in Iraq today. Get your head around it.

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[The Count]

1. Still creating reality..."It's not about you" can't crack that skull

Also, the ISG changes were barely scratching the surface.
Fundamental would be: this entire war was a mistake. Out with us!"

[Missy M]

2. Bush is just waiting for everything to go by the wayside...

with the media and the American people. It should take a couple of weeks and all will be forgotten, so he can "stay the course" and not change a thing. It looks like we are in for two more years of the same old, same old.

[dicknbush]

3. Well like everything in his life he justs waits for someone.....

to come along and fix the problem but of course the solution has to benifit him. Don't like the the TANG any more.....get an early out and get into a prestige university by legacy of course. Not doing well in the oil biz ,,,,daddies friends will bail you out.......Want to make a lot of money on a baseball team get OPM invest it and then let the tax payers buy you out at a huge profit. Now we are stuck with this morons Iraq mess and daddies boys are trying to help out once again but of course there is no benifit to the idiot so he is not going to pay attention until something comes up that is going to make him look or feel better about himself....and of course more American soldiers will die today because of his ego......How do you ask the last man or woman to die for a man's ego?