President Bush: State of Denial About Iraq (FAUX NEWS...WOW)

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:WOW: on FAUX NEWS NO LESS!!!

President Bush: State of Denial About Iraq
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,235767,00.html
Sunday, December 10, 2006
By Susan Estrich
FOX NEWS

Hold the melon, please, my daughter always asks, when she orders fruit salad. The problem, as only some waiters and waitresses bother to explain, is that most fruit salads are pre-made, and melon is usually the primary ingredient. Take out the melon and what’s left?

The White House should not treat the Study Group Report “like a fruit salad,” James Baker told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Wishful thinking. Until the president accepts the basic premise of the report, its recommendations are almost beside the point. The basic premise is that we’re failing. The president doesn’t see it that way.

The president is in denial. He has posed for the pictures, accepted the report, thanked the co-chairs. There might even be a few recommendations in there somewhere with which he agrees.

But he refuses to face reality. He rejects the fundamental diagnosis. He still wants to win.

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Denial is the first stage in dealing with death. The president still has to get through anger, bargaining, and depression before he reaches acceptance.

And there is no sign that he is listening to anyone.

He didn’t listen to the voters, who gave him a thumping because of Iraq. So much for democracy.

He isn’t listening to his own new defense secretary, who has testified that his Iraq policy isn’t working and won’t work. So much for his own advisers.

And he certainly isn’t listening to the Iraq Study Group, which most people have characterized as the last, best hope, or at least the best cover, for a change of policy. So much for blue ribbon bipartisanship.

What will it take to get through to this president?

[Mythsaje]

1. Yep...Bushco has reached the end of its rope

the masters have truly spoken and now we're going to watch them feed him to the wolves (the wolves being us, if you want to know the truth). They're going to tattoo the failure of this war and the policy decisions that lay behind it straight on HIS pale scrawny ass and wriggle out from any sense of responsibility on their part.

I've been saying it for days. Stick a fork in him...he's done.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2891200&mesg_id=2891200

[HCE SuiGeneris]

2. The personal propaganda machine is dead?

This story is unbelievable coming off of Faux presses. Holy f'ckn batshit!

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3. :smirk: must have slipped past the bush censors...

tomorrow we'll find out the writer has left FAUX for "personal reasons"...

[SmellsLikeDeanSpirit]

4. Wow. That's how bad it as gotten if Faux News is turning on you.

[Roy]

5. This was written by Susan Estrich, part time DLC........

and tolerated by Fox as is Alan Colmes.

This won't stay up long!

[brokensymmetry]

6. What will it take? Articles of impeachment.

It has been said that before one can communicate,
one must first get the other person's attention.

The nation has failed to get Dumbya's attention.

Perhaps articles of impeachment will do so.

And if the articles fail, then remove him. Say,
on charges of treason.

We all know what the legal penalty for treason is,
don't we?