Bush of a Thousand Days by Frank Rich

[kpete]

Bush of a Thousand Days by Frank Rich

Like the hand that suddenly pops out of the grave at the end of "Carrie," the past keeps coming back to haunt the Bush White House.

Last week was no exception. No sooner did the Great Decider introduce the Fox News showman anointed to repackage the same old bad decisions than the spotlight shifted back to Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury room, where Karl Rove testified for a fifth time.

Nightfall brought the release of an NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll with its record-low numbers for a lame-duck president with a thousand days to go and no way out.

The demons that keep rising up from the past to grab Mr. Bush are the fictional W.M.D. he wielded to take us into Iraq. They stalk him as relentlessly as Banquo's ghost did Macbeth. From that original sin, all else flows.

Mr. Rove wouldn't be in jeopardy if the White House hadn't hatched a clumsy plot to cover up its fictions.

Mr. Bush's poll numbers wouldn't be in the toilet if American blood was not being spilled daily because of his fictions.

much more at:
http://www.edstrong.blog-city.com/frank_rich_lameduck_bush_of_a_thousand_days_and_no_way_out.htm

[leftchick]

1. yes indeed, the american palace we are building....

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It wasn't just the banner or the "Top Gun" joyride or the declaration of the end of "major combat operations" that was bogus. Everything was fake except the troops.

"We're helping to rebuild Iraq, where the dictator built palaces for himself, instead of hospitals and schools," Mr. Bush said on that glorious day.

Three years later we know, courtesy of the Army Corps of Engineers, that our corrupt, Enron-like Iraq reconstruction effort has yielded at most 20 of those 142 promised hospitals.

But we did build a palace for ourselves. The only building project on time and on budget, USA Today reported, is a $592 million embassy complex in the Green Zone on acreage the size of 80 football fields.

Symbolically enough, it will have its own water-treatment plant and power generator to provide the basic services that we still have not restored to pre-invasion levels for the poor unwashed Iraqis beyond the American bunker.

[babylonsister]

2. kpete, link not working for me. nt

[Loge23]

3. Good to see Mr. Rich back

It's been a few months without Mr. Rich's commentary.
Finally - maybe - the momentum for regime change is picking up some steam.

[Karenina]

4. The visual...