The Denier-in-Chief obfuscates again
This guy spends more time skirting the truth than his predecessor did chasing skirts.Another speech, another pack of gung-ho bromides sprinkled with obtusely worded, strangulated mea-culpas: To wit, regarding his administration’s bungling of every aspect of the Iraq endeavor, he opined, “Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me.”
Well, no shit, Sherlock. It’s just a short walk from that awkward sentence construction to the words that will never pass His Excellency’s lips, “I made a mistake.”
See, he’s Responsible. He’s a Decider, but not a Mistaker.
It really must have taken an act of God to get this dimwit to admit he had a drinking problem – I’m surprised it only took 40 years of blackouts and DUIs for Laura to push him toward that epiphany.
And now, just like the drunk he is, he’s denying he has an Iraq problem. It’s not his fault, it’s those darned, ungrateful Iraqis!
Classic Alkie behavior. It’s never their fault, it’s somebody else conspiring to ruin their fun. Don’t they know who his Daddy used to be?
Seriously, a real change of course is not going to occur until another intervention is staged, this time a political one. Like Laura allegedly read him the riot act when he was 40 (shoulda had that pre-nup in place, Gee-Dub), it’s going to take a gang of his most powerful former supporters storming the White House to shake this guy out of his stupor.
Like the gaggle of GOP Goodfellas who were tasked with telling Nixon when it was time for him to go, it will take a similar group of conservative statesmen to likewise convince W that the time to pull out of Iraq is now. And “Now” will be timed to coincide with the 2008 elections. Nobody, especially McCain, wants to run in 2008 with the current situation in Iraq still existing.
We’ll get out, but it will be years too late, for all the wrong reasons, and Dumbleyou will be dragged kicking and screaming to the table.
And he will never, ever honestly admit his mistakes – he’s leaving that to the historians.
Salud!
posted by Fang Bastardson at 5:48 AM
3 Comments:
I can understand the validity and potentness of your argument against the Bush's claim "Where mistakes were made, the responsibility lies with me" in light of the prespective you've placed upon it. However, each man only sees what he wishes to see. I believe in your efforts to dename Bush, you have missed his point in this phrase. Out of the entirety of the government, bureaucracy, and media, is no one making mistakes but Bush? It would be insane to conclude that Bush is the only one who has/is made/making mistakes. When he say "Where mistakes were made..." he is taking about the multitude of mistakes made pertaining to the war in Iraq. Bush doesn't sign every order, give every battlefield command, or specify every reconstruction project in Iraq. As the Commander-in-Chief and Head-of-State, the outcome of all those actions are in some way his responsibility. In essence, the-buck-stops at his desk. He's responsible for both his mistakes and those beneath him. And with the thousands of government officials and military commanders, that's a lot of mistakes to take responsibility for. Most parents won't even accept the responsibility of more than three kids.
Yes, mistakes are made. And yes, someone has to take responsibility. But don't let your arrows fly at a target just because it has the biggest bulls-eye. Better yet, take a good look at your reasons for holding the bow in the first place. Until you have the opportunity to run a government of over 500,000 elected officials, don't dename those who are. You only hurt yourself by acting like a arrogant fool, pretending to know things you have no knowledge of.
And something else to think about... The whole of the United States was enraged by the 9/11 attacks and ready for war only a week afterward. The terror of 9/11 was not enacted with weapons of mass destruction. It was exectued by.... people. Yes, simple people with simple means. So no matter what excuse may have been given to the U.N. (...looking for weapons of mass destruction...), our real purpose in going to Iraq was to find people not weapons. To find those people who would do or support attacks like 9/11. That is why we have not pulled out of Iraq. The decoy search for Weapons of mass destruction may be over, but the troops won't be brought hope till they have as many of those terroristic people as they can find. And if Eric Rudolph could avoid legions of police for years, how long with it take to catch the unspecifiedly great number of terrorists?
- The Watch
7:56 AM
Son, I'm embarrassed to admit my 'arrogant fool' act isn't an act... But that's the beauty of the blog - no accountability. Come to think of it, that's also been the beauty of being the President for the last six years.
The times, however, are a-changin'.
Thanks for your input.
~fang
8:20 AM
"El gusto es mio" (The pleasure is mine)
Each man to his own opinion. And that's not satirical. For if each man doesn't have his own opinion, how can he be his own man? And if sphycologists and mentors would encourage us "find ourselves" and teens these days have "be their own person" pounded in their ears, then disagreeing opinions are encouraged! A field day for the discussionists!
FYI, I'm not a raving Bush fan and didn't intend to portray that. My biggest grudge with Bush is martyr attitude. If he's gonna be the most powerful man in the country, wield it with full length of his arm! He needs to argue with his opposition more. Then maybe we could get somewhere, both knowledge and policy wise....
- The Watch
9:03 AM
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