I just read an article that has been confirmed by the Pentagon that Donald Rumsfeld had concluded that Iraq policies were failing. He apparently sent a memo to the president suggesting a new direction that included scaling back our troops there. Two or three days later Bush fired him.
This is in keeping with the other things that I've seen in recent days. The President is clinging desperately to the idiotic notion that Iraq is still winnable in a military sense. He is repeating "stay the course" in other terminology. It's like a worn out mantra. It has no significance any more in terms of credibility. But he just cannot admit that he was wrong, screwed up royally, then sat on his hands and watched all his precious delusions of statemanship degenerate into civil war. To this day he is apparently sufficiently delusional that he cannot bring himself to believe he's lost in Iraq.
So now we know the real reason Rumsfeld is gone. It wasn't as a sacrifice or because of the elections, but rather because he drew the same conclusion as the rest of us and Mr. Bush was not prepared to hear that from anyone, including Rumsfeld.
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Yup, I read that also. And I think that Bush is so stupid that he will remain delusional until his last day in office.
The asshat is into the Rapture and all that, he really doesn't care about any of this.
And the stupid fuck thinks that he will go down in history as being right and doing the right thing. Well, we shall see, but I'm glad that I'm not him heading for those history pages. Hugs.
I do agree with you there. I think that he truly believes he will be vindicated by history. My personal take on it is that he will go down in history as the worst and most delusional president in history.
The only up side I can see to this is that the electorate is turning off more and more to the extreme religious right. This can only be a good thing that will allow politics to return more toward the center ground where they belong.
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