Opening The Files: 8/24/06
I haven't done an OTF in a while, mainly because I was fighting a cold all last week and all I really felt like doing was laying in bed in a NyQuil-induced coma. Anyway, here we go.
Petulant Presser
President Bush held a press conference on Monday in which he seemed awfully flustered at having to answer questions, mostly about the war in Iraq. Perhaps one reason for Bush's mood: more and more Americans seem to be waking to the realization that Iraq and the War on Terror are not as interconnected as Bush would have you believe they are. If the results from recent polls are any indication, expect to hear a lot more of the new "if we leave, the terrorists will follow" meme which Bush put forth.
Still many were obsessed with his irate admission that Iraq had nothing to with 9/11 or his proclamation that we will never withdraw from Iraq so long as he is president. But as I noted, his comment about the will of the people best illustrates his contempt for what it means to be a true democracy.
Ironic isn't, that in trying to give Iraq the sort of government that responds to the will of the people, Bush would ignore it here. I guess that's Bush Democracy for ya.
The President put heavy emphasis on not leaving Iraq before the "job" was done. This had the editorial board at the LA Times wondering "What job?"
Last week, Joe Scarborough wondered if Bush was an idiot. Andy Ostroy wonders if Bush is just plain losing his mind.
According to Will Durst, "wrong" seems to be the new Bush buzzword. Too bad at no point during his press conference (or ever for that matter) will it be preceded by "I was" or "I am".
Carpetbagger highlights a couple of sections from a Fred Kaplan piece in which Bush displays his apparent misunderstanding of the Middle East and the definition of "strategy".
And finally, Peter Baker reports for WaPo that Bush's new argument for Iraq seems to be "It could be worse". Yea it could. We could still have two more years left of Bush.....(expletive).
Petulant Presser
President Bush held a press conference on Monday in which he seemed awfully flustered at having to answer questions, mostly about the war in Iraq. Perhaps one reason for Bush's mood: more and more Americans seem to be waking to the realization that Iraq and the War on Terror are not as interconnected as Bush would have you believe they are. If the results from recent polls are any indication, expect to hear a lot more of the new "if we leave, the terrorists will follow" meme which Bush put forth.
Still many were obsessed with his irate admission that Iraq had nothing to with 9/11 or his proclamation that we will never withdraw from Iraq so long as he is president. But as I noted, his comment about the will of the people best illustrates his contempt for what it means to be a true democracy.
Ironic isn't, that in trying to give Iraq the sort of government that responds to the will of the people, Bush would ignore it here. I guess that's Bush Democracy for ya.
The President put heavy emphasis on not leaving Iraq before the "job" was done. This had the editorial board at the LA Times wondering "What job?"
Last week, Joe Scarborough wondered if Bush was an idiot. Andy Ostroy wonders if Bush is just plain losing his mind.
According to Will Durst, "wrong" seems to be the new Bush buzzword. Too bad at no point during his press conference (or ever for that matter) will it be preceded by "I was" or "I am".
Carpetbagger highlights a couple of sections from a Fred Kaplan piece in which Bush displays his apparent misunderstanding of the Middle East and the definition of "strategy".
And finally, Peter Baker reports for WaPo that Bush's new argument for Iraq seems to be "It could be worse". Yea it could. We could still have two more years left of Bush.....(expletive).
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