Seattle Times: Heck of a Job, Mr. President

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Published on Sunday, March 5, 2006 by the Seattle Times (Washington)

Heck of a Job, Mr. President

Editorial

The Bush administration has a substantial credibility problem. Things it says turn out not to be true. Again and again.

Two troubling examples made the news last week, and they illustrate a serious problem rooted in a combination of political arrogance, incompetence and disdain for the audience. Often it seems the White House, or the president himself, offers the American public an incredulous shrug to punctuate the plea, "Who could have known?"

In Iraq, a virulent insurgency is killing civilians and American soldiers. Before the war, the Bush administration said the U.S. military would be greeted as liberators by a grateful public. Almost three years of mayhem and chaos later, the White House blames the insurgency on the residue of Saddam Hussein's supporters and foreign terrorists.

Who could have known?

In 2003, the White House was repeatedly warned the insurgency had deep local roots and could lead to civil war. Local conditions, not foreign terrorists, would fuel the flames. The information was prepared by a committee of senior intelligence analysts at the request of the U.S. military command.

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This editorial appeared Sunday in the more conservative Seattle Times.

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1. People are finally catching on.

The facts are undeniable - the man sitting in the Oval Office is a clown.

The last sentence of the editorial said it all:

Mr. Bush is good at sales - but he fails to deliver. Time and time again.

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2. He's a puppet. The military/petroleum/corporate complex that put ray-gun

in office got a bit overconfident with this one. Hell, if we can morph a "B" movie actor with Alzheimer's into the "Great Communicator," just think what we could do with the village idiot.