DUBYA IN DENIAL: HOW MANY MORE MUST DIE IN IRAQ TO INDULGE GEORGE BUSH? (Daily Mail UK)

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What if your neighbour suddenly announced that he had spotted fairies at the bottom of the garden, or thought he was about to give birth to an elephant? You would feel sympathy for his loved ones, and maybe suggest that he changed his sleeping tablets. There are lots of such people about the place, harmless and indeed often rather sweet.

But when America's President, leader of the free world, displays the same symptoms, we are entitled to take fright. On Thursday, George Bush gave a press conference at the White House, during which he asserted that the United States 'can succeed in Iraq'.

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In short, Bush remains in absolute denial about a reality which is apparent to most politicians and almost all senior soldiers on both sides of the Atlantic. The Democratic majority in the House of Representatives has just passed a vote calling for withdrawal, and hopes the Senate will follow suit.

Douglas Alexander, Britain's new international development secretary, delivered a speech in Washington on Thursday applauding the merits of 'soft power', which has been interpreted as a delicate but deliberate distancing of Gordon Brown from the blind embrace of American policy adopted by Tony Blair. Bush will ignore all this, of course, as he dismisses almost every message that his simple, obsessive mind does not wish to receive. With 18 months of his term of office still to run, this is his privilege. The consequence is that American and British soldiers, and above all Iraqis, will continue to die daily in pursuit of a mission that is achieving nothing.

Worse, at a time when the world faces all manner of problems which demand leadership to resolve, the U.S. cannot provide this. So discredited has the Bush administration become, and so threadbare is U.S. moral authority in consequence, that this great nation is incapable of addressing Sudan or Somalia, never mind Russia or China, with any prospect of imposing its will.

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We need a strong, confident America. Instead, what we have is a society plunged into deeper doubt and division than at any time since the fall of Saigon in 1975.

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[sam sarrha]

1. he isn't in denial... he doesn't care.. he is a Psychopath.. not a problem, means to an end only

he fits the profile, tormented and killed small animals as a young child, he put firecrackers up frogs butts and blew them up.. not only that but he organized the local children to join him.

he executed 152 people in TX, he mocked their fear.. he told torture boy Gonzales to minimize the summaries he had to read before the execution to a page or two cause he didn't want to be bothered by them.. he said that it didn't matter if the person executed was innocent, that justice had taken its course and if a mistake was made gOD would take care of them.

i could go on but it make me sick

he is a psychopath..

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2. Agreed. Nevertheless this is progress for the British press.

It seems like, from watching BBC this weekend, as soon as Blair left office the British press opened fire with both barrels on Shrub and there's no letup. I do wish the article had gone farther with its accuracy.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

3. Sounds about spot on. We have no credibility and

no good will left on our side. Thanks y'all -- BushCo, Neocons and all you Senators and Congresspeople that enabled this Corporotocrisy... yes you too you DLC money grubbing fucks! This last Senate vote on Iran is making me lose it :puke: :puke: :puke:

[calimary]

4. Truly. It's really saying something when our staunchest ally, Great Britain,

starts pulling away. Good grief...

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5. Yes Calimary, and what happens when to our supply lines when the UK abandons Basra?

The port feeding those 400-mile roads ending in the Green Zone gets left unprotected? Is the UK setting up the Administration? I'm hearing the Green Zone already has fuel shortages. What happens when the UK pulls out?

[calimary]

6. Seems to me that's all the more reason to start getting our people out of there, too.

Like maybe - um - well, how' bout NOW???

Let's organize a pull-out WITH the Brits - giving each other cover as we leave. Our guys shouldn't be left alone at the end, with no backup. Getting out will be truly dicey unless we can airlift them from wherever they are, rather than demanding they try to convoy out, becoming extremely vulnerable all along the way? Hell, let's call it - The Rapture!

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7. kick. Was it Eisenhower that called them the crazy aunts in the basement? nt