Did George Bush make you feel special today when he told you he’d declassified their secret successful war plan just so you could read those documents at the Why-aaaate How-oooose Why-eb site?
Here’s what Richard Wolffe, Senior White House Correspondent for Newsweek, told Keith Olbermann last night:
OLBERMANN: This document, the “National Strategy for Victory in Iraq,” one would guess that it describes withdrawals but not timelines. Have any of its other contents leaked out? Do we know what it might be, what role it might play in the president‘s speech tomorrow?
WOLFFE: Well, it‘s nice of Scott to sprinkle some hocus-pocus about declassified documents around. But this is not secret stuff. For a start, this isn‘t a hostile government where you have intelligence operations on the ground, and you don‘t want to compromise sources and methods, and they‘re not going to publish the military options, i.e., you know, if we reach this point we can see this many troops come home.
And those military plans are under draft. They are being drawn up inside the Pentagon. And there are lots of different ones. We‘re not going to see that.
We‘re going to see basically what you and I would call propaganda, and what the administration calls public diplomacy.
Yup.
I’ve always had a fond appreciation for the term perception management
I say they’re having a bit of trouble with that concept. Someone should tell them they’re trying to polish a turd.
You know, it’s almost insulting that they think they can tell us the same shit again, and convince us that it’s really new shit.
Riffing on the Who: “Meet the new plan, Same as the old plan”…
…and even more insulting as to the inferior quality of the original shit they expect us to believe.
I’m tired of all of us paying the price for the bizarro-world BushCo lives in. Consecutive Consevatives on Hardball are singing his praises.
Bush has no problem sending as many people off to die as he needs to in order for him to be victorious….bastard
Sadly, there aren’t enough bodies in the world to make Bush anything but a loser.
The day he sends his own will be the day he might understand. Yup,…never understand, always the loser.
As for me, I can’t stand to listen to the Gwib, can’t even stand to look at his monkey face. However, as I channel-surfed past preznit eyesore on 5 different channels this morning, it occurred to me that “the American people” must be getting heartily sick of a “leader” who only speaks to the military. How about the other 99.9% of the country?
Obviously he does this for two reasons: 1) he’s guaranteed a subdued audience with no anti-bush signs, t-shirts, or bumper stickers allowed, and 2) he’s clinging to the shreds of his “war president” image as he plummets into ratings free-fall.
It also occured to me how out-of-touch he must look, even to the Nascar Moms and Soccer Dads (LOL) who elected him. Since most of the country now knows that he lied us into war, want the troops home now, and have heard ominous anti-war rumblings coming from even as far afield as the U.S. Congress, they must be wondering whether Bush ever watches the news, reads a newspaper, or talks to anyone who isn’t an ass-kissing, koolaid-drinking sycophant.
(He doesn’t.)
BushCo is beginning to fail in the managing expectations department. Currently only 1/3 of the country expresses any support for the administration’s handling of the War on Iraq. Even after all we’ve done over there, it will still take years and years (and years and years) for Iraq to be able to exist independently. That’s a very frustrating feeling for those of us who wants our sons and daughters home NOW. Damn them for putting us in this position.
I heard part of this meaningless speech this morning and I have to say it only reinforces a particular perspective of mine.
Forget about impeaching this flaming imbecile. The odds of that succeeding are virtually nil. No, I say, have him declared mentally incompetent, since this is certainly the overriding problem that exists within the Bush personna.
He needs to be “Baker-Acted”, the sooner the better if for no other reason that to save some lives and possibly begin stopping the hhemorragingof the treasury into the coffers of the corporate imperialists and defense contractors.
Additionally, if we can somehow get the idea of challenging his mental incompetence into the MSM news stream, such talk, if it reached Bush’s ears, might hasten his crackup and force him to depart office sooner rather than later.