Reply #3: Brain Damage Ravages White House

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Last week saw fresh evidence of irrationality from two of Dubya's closest advisers. First, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld appeared before the Senate Armed Service Committee. Despite all evidence to the contrary, Rumsfeld claimed that the U.S. is making progress in Iraq and denied that there is a civil war there. Newsweek editor Fareed Zakaria observed, " seems literally in a parallel universe and slightly deranged. If you listen to what he said last week about Iraq, he's living in a different world, not a different country."

Next, the perpetually perky Secretary of State Rice announced a ceasefire in Lebanon that wasn't actually a ceasefire. This followed on the heels of her announcement of a forty-eight-hour halt in bombing, where the Israeli's didn't stop their bombing. All the while, Rice greeted the press with a frozen smile and boasted of the excellent diplomatic progress she was making, even though she is now unwelcome in any Middle Eastern capital except Tel Aviv. Her boss, George W, was pleased with this phantom "progress," saw it as another sign that democracy will soon blossom throughout the Middle East.

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