Kaleidoscope Eyes
RJ, over at Let The Record Show, found this unbelievable analysis of Junior's speech on MSNBC.
Now the 2004 election — little more than a year away — is shaping up as a referendum on Bush’s doctrine of pre-emptive war, the argument that he made in the year leading up to the invasion of Iraq that it would be too dangerous for the United States to wait until Saddam Hussein’s regime had developed weapons of mass destruction."
RJ says:
...is that what Bush said? No, what he said was that Saddam had endless supplies of WMD, poised at the ready, to attack us at any moment. The press are shaping up to be the chief revisionist historians.
That's for sure. Get a load of this bucket of crud, from the same article:
It will also be a referendum on America’s uncomfortable role as custodian of Iraq, a country whose citizens seem increasingly ungrateful for having been liberated from Saddam’s tyranny.
You invade and occupy a country that's been tightly controlled and highly repressed for 30 years, all hell breaks loose, the "uncomfortable custodians" stand around like a bunch of raccoons caught in the garbage and the citizens seem increasingly ungrateful for having been liberated.
The bastards.
The prism of Sept. 11 remains the key to understanding Bush’s policy. He believes he is deterring future attacks, not inviting more of them, by pursuing the occupation.
It seems to me that if Operation Iraqi Flytrap was his secret cunning plan all along, then he'd have been wise to have kept his piehole shut about it. Unless the terrorists are blind and deaf they're on to his little scheme now. Golly, I sure hope they don't decide not to cooperate. That would be bad.
(What's really weird is that the writer understands what the "prism" of 9/11 is. It's something about tilting the windmills of Rummy's mind where he left the cakewalk in the rain. I think.)
The electoral question for Democrats is: How can their presidential candidate profit from Bush’s agony in Iraq?
Those Democrats are always trying to profit from Bush's agony. It's so, like, totally unfair.
Supreme Commandante Flightsuit Arbusto would never, ever try to profit from the agony of others. Ever.
The assumption among all the Democratic contenders is that NATO countries and nations such as Morocco would be willing to chip in troops — if only a president other than Bush would ask them.
Morocco? WTF???
And yeah, maybe if the guy asking wasn't the smirking asshole who just told everybody in the world who didn't jump to attention when he whistled that they were "irrelevant" and "corrupt" they might chip in troops. Golly, they might even get some weird ferriners like Canada to join in.
The Democratic candidate will be at something of a disadvantage because Bush can control the timing of events, such as strikes on terrorist havens or announcements of the capture of key terrorist leaders.
uh huh. You betcha. Good point.
Democrats harbor deep distrust of what they see as Bush’s manipulation of the terrorism issue.
So, Bush controlling the timing of strikes at terrorist havens or capture announcements wouldn't be objective evidence of his manipulation of the terrorism issue. Democrats just see it that way. Interesting.
But as commander-in-chief, Bush will not always be the master of events — sometimes he’ll be at their mercy. He may again feel compelled to come to the American people and argue that their own survival is at stake in Iraq.
Ok. So, he's not just keeping these evil villains from attacking us on our homeland. He's keeping them from annihilating us. Except when he'll be at their mercy. Then he'll again be compelled to argue that our very survival is at stake.
In Iraq.
Smoking mushrooms on a cloud in the prism of 9/11, apparently.
Kookoocatchoo.