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The terrorist aspect of George Bush
To those not in the know, Jane Smiley is a well-regarded writer. She periodically blogs at The Huffington Post web site. Today, she captured the very essence of George Bush. In the paragraphs quoted below, she indicts Bush over the Iraq War and follows up with an impeachment of the soulless, heartless Bush persona.
My mother supports me in my view that Bush should never ever be given a break, even a break on account of idiocy. The reason he should never be given a break is the Iraq War. Let me be absolutely clear, here, for the sake of Johnny- and Sally-come-latelies to the anti-war majority: there was no excuse for the Iraq War. The Iraq War is and always has been morally wrong, intellectually misguided, prosecuted in ignorance, intellectually misguided, prosecuted in ignorance, intentionally corrupt, and motivated by opportunism at every turn. It's a whole package...Go here for the rest.
...But the worst thing Bush has done is to use the Iraq War, first and foremost, as a cynical bid to maintain himself and his faction in power in this country. It's not simply that he started the war for selfish reasons, it is that he set out to use the Iraq War to undermine the structure of constitutional American government to the advantage of himself and his transnational corporate and investment class. This is a patriotic crime, some, as they say, would call it treason...
...He would rather see people crippled and tormented than admit that he has been wrong -- in any particular! Is this not the definition of an evil person? Of a person with no conscience and no humanity?...
My take: George Bush is a dangerous child-man. A psychologically crippled one who values political opportunity over even relative justness or justice, whose grasp for ultimate, unchecked and unchallenged power reveals the frailty of his true self, whose fear of those he cannot lord over discharges itself in all his personal interactions, who parades his dysfunction through equal helpings of division and fear---all of this reveals the depths of his sickness.
Lyndon Johnson knew his time had passed and was sane enough to accept his fate. Richard Nixon needed a great deal of nudging and irrefutable evidence before he could be dislodged. Bush is more disturbed and afflicted than any former president. Even a phalanx of top level congressional Republicans approaching The White House to tell him the game is over will not be enough--Bush's aberration is too far along and the backing from the Dick Cheney wing inflames, rather than soothes, the savage beast.
Bush must be politically emasculated--an intervention is needed now. Somehow and some way. Two more years of his madness is something that cannot be tolerated. The pain and cost is already too much.
I just noticed David Ignatious' column in today's Washington Post. Generally a bit too cautious and mainstream for me, today he reiterates that George Bush is 'dead in the water' at this point. Here's a few excerpts:
The disconnect that is destroying what's left of the Bush presidency was clear in an image from the Oval Office this week...When you've lost Ignatius, you're sunk.
...Now, say what you like about Gonzales, but only a visitor from another planet would describe as "very candid" the responses of a man who, by one count, repeated 64 times during his testimony the phrase "I don't know" and similar variants....
...As Bush gave his manifestly inaccurate defense of Gonzales,...
...Something's got to give. That's the sense around Washington this week as the news from Baghdad worsens and the president defiantly continues an Iraq policy that many military leaders question. Unfortunately, what's giving way right now is the national interest. Bush is hunkered down with his troop surge strategy, and the military is expected to pay the price...
...I spoke with a half-dozen prominent GOP operatives this past week, most of them high-level officials in the Reagan and Bush I and Bush II administrations, and I heard the same devastating critique: This White House is isolated and ineffective; the country has stopped listening to President Bush, just as it once tuned out the hapless Jimmy Carter; the president's misplaced sense of personal loyalty is hurting his party and the nation.
"This is the most incompetent White House I've seen since I came to Washington," said one GOP senator. "The White House legislative liaison team is incompetent, pitiful, embarrassing...
...A prominent conservative complains: "With this White House, there is loyalty not to an idea, but to a person.
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