Herbert: Bush Upbeat as Iraq Burns

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/24/opinion/24herbert.html?hp=&pagewanted=print&position=

George W. Bush was a supporter of the war in Vietnam. For a while.

As he explained in his autobiography, "A Charge to Keep: My Journey to the White House":

"My inclination was to support the government and the war until proven wrong, and that only came later, as I realized we could not explain the mission, had no exit strategy, and did not seem to be fighting to win."

How is it that he ultimately came to see the fiasco in Vietnam so clearly but remains so blind to the frighteningly similar realities of his own war in Iraq? Mr. Bush cannot explain our mission in Iraq and has nothing resembling an exit strategy, and his troops - hobbled by shortages of personnel and by potentially fatal American and Iraqi political considerations - are certainly not fighting to win.

As the situation in Iraq moves from bad to worse, the president, based on his public comments, seems to be edging further and further from reality. This is disturbing, to say the least. The news from Iraq is filled with reports of kidnappings and beheadings, of people pleading desperately for their lives, of American soldiers being ambushed and killed, of clusters of Iraqis being blown to pieces by suicide bombers, and of the prospects for a credible election in January tumbling toward nil.

[UCLA Dem]

1. Ouch!! Thats awesome!!

[UCLA Dem]

2. Go NYT!!!!

[BlueJazz]

3. Excuse me while I put my fingers...

in my ears....There..LA..LA..LA..LA..LA..I can't HEAR You...

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. "Upbeat" choke the chimp on his own key phrase!

He was "Upbeat" about florida in 2000. "A charge to keep" fuck you chimp.

[GainesT1958]

5. Looks like Dub's doing a good Nero impression. And to think...

All this time I pictured him as more like Caligula!:eyes:

B-)

[gardenista]

6. Yes, the phrase is sticking, "Out of touch with reality" repeat 12 times

and call me in the morning.

This is going to stick.