TPM: Has Bush "checked out" of the war in Iraq?

[BurtWorm]

Is he pulling another TANG on us?


http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/011269.php


Is it just me or has George W. Bush checked out of the stumbling national crisis we know as 'Iraq'?

I know his name shows up in the headlines. He's meeting Iraq Prime Minister Maliki next week in Amman. Vice President Cheney is shuttling to Saudi Arabia. And all of this is being billed as a part of a new and broader 'regional' approach to getting the conflict under some measure of control.

But I don't hear the president. Not his voice. The one thing that's been a constant over the last three and a half years is the president as the voice of American Iraq policy. Whether he's the author of it is another question entirely. But the voice and pitbull of it, always.

And yet since the election he seems to have disappeared from the conversation entirely. Like he's just checked out. It's not his thing anymore.

To a degree, this has been the case since early 2004 -- the point by which it was clear the entire effort was a failure. But politics -- first his reelection and then the 2006 election -- has kept him powerfully in the game, constantly arguing staying the course or cutting and running or how a rebuke for his policies would amount to a win for the terrorists.

But now the rebuke has been given. And what is more than that he validated it, confirmed the rejection by summarily firing his Defense Secretary. By doing so, he admitted (even if he can't quite admit it to himself) that his war policy has been a failure.

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[hippiechick]

1. He's never ever never finished anything he's started ...

... in his whole miserably life. Why should he change now, when he knows that Poppy has JABIII and the clean-up crew on standby?


:shrug:

[Demeter]

2. Got to Wonder How Laura Produced Twins, Then

[madokie]

4. artificial insemination

[EST]

5. Immaculate consumption, mebbe?

Heehee!:bounce:

[whistle]

Artificial insemination or in vetro fertilization, those twins are not

....from Dubya's seed!

[Crankie Avalon]

8. The same way the mother of Michael Jackson's children did? n/t

[hippiechick]

11. ... spermies can be released before a man 'finishes' the job, y'know ...

:shrug: They're feisty buggers.

Jus' sayin' .... ;)

[Demeter]

14. But Dubya Would Have Had To Actually Produce Some!

You see what I mean?

[hippiechick]

16. chilling thought but i'm sure he's ... uhh ... you know ... done that ...

Eeewww. :puke:


:hi:

[madokie]

3. In an honest world bush* wouldn't make a pimple on a dog catcher's ass

Damn sure wouldn't have ascended to the pResidency

[maseman]

6. He's trying to figure out how he can

sell the Iraq war to someone just like he did the Texas Rangers.

[WinstonSmith4740]

7. Yeah, like the 2008 duly elected president!

He'll just bide his time until then...lots of brush to be cleared in Crawford, y'know!

[hippiechick]

12. BINGO!!!

:applause:

"Sheeit, I dunno what to do ... Prezidentin's hard work! Let the next guy clean it up!"

[elehhhhna]

9. He's outsourced the Office of the POTUS to The Carlyle Group.

Use the google. Same guys running POTSU as GC--exactly the same guys.

Self-dealing, anyone?

[Crankie Avalon]

10. "Like it's not his problem anymore." ANYMORE??? It never was!

He wasn't ever going to be the one to make the sacrifices or pay any sort of price. What does he care about how he's harmed America? He'd have to actually be a loyal American to care! It's not like he's ever given anything to America, ever. In fact, he's gone out of his way to avoid giving anything back.

[DemonFighterLives]

13. AWOL has no skin in the game

and from his perspective the croniea are making money by the fistful.
:dem:

[tabasco]

15. Bush already said it would be someone else's problem.

The neocons want us to stay in Iraq forever for their war profits.