Dubya in Denial: How many thousands more must die in Iraq to indulge the vanity of this President?

[babylonsister]

This is about a week old, but nothing's changed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_article_id=468305&in_page_id=1772&in_author_id=464

Dubya in Denial: How many thousands more must die in Iraq to indulge the vanity of this President?
Max Hastings


Paralysed by record unpopularity. Facing a backlash from his own party. How many thousands more must die in Iraq just to indulge the vanity of this utterly discredited President.

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".

He restated his rejection of demands for withdrawal. Pulling troops out, he said, would mean "surrendering the future of Iraq to Al Qaeda".

If American forces quit the country now, it would mean they would have to return later, "to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous".

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.

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[Hobarticus]

1. Your answer: all of 'em...

As many as it takes. He is silver-spoon manor-born 110% entitled to be right, even when wrong, and he's willing to kill your family in front of you to prove it.

He's a freakin' sociopath.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

2. I'm convinced he's not in denial, he just doesn't give a shit...

This asshat has never in his life even taken responsibility for one f*cking thing he's ever done. He's a psychopath, pure and simple.

[Ilsa]

3. Regarding your first question, it reminds me of the stories

of truly evil royalty in Europe who would bathe in the fresh blood of servants. Bush is simply performing a modern ritual of that by proxy as others have to wade through the blood and death and other muck of his war.

[Peace Patriot]

4. 2 million.

Vietnam.