Delusioned

I was at my real job (haha) when the president made his 75th speech today about Iraq. Not that understanding this president requires you to actually listen to his prepared speeches. In case you missed it here we go: don't worry we know what we're doing and don't ask any more questions.

That is the gist of the Bush presidency. It truly is a neotheocracy. It's all the worst presidential tendencies wrapped into one; the delusional paranoia of Nixon, the dedication to continued failure of LBJ (plus the large spending devoted to such failure), the politicized PR campaign overkill of the Clinton years (i'm not saying Clinton is in the worst category).

As yours truly has said in this blog space before, this guy doesn't change for nothing. Dead soldiers approaching 3,000? they fought and died for freedom and they will continue to do so until I say so. Our continued practice of torture (waterboarding is torture Wall Street Journal!)? 'We don't torture.'

When Bush ran in 2000 I knew we were in trouble. His compassionate conservatism I knew was for lack of a better word, bullshit. Yet somehow he still beat Gore. Flash forward to last year, where the very conditions we face we were facing then, surely America will realize we are being led by a man who's only claim to fame was his ability to sound tough on a bullhorn? Right? Wrong. America choose imcompetence and fearmongering (If you elect Kerry we will get hit again, i'm looking at you Cheney VP of torture).

Never did I think we would be in this place. Where staged photops are crushed with simple fact. Where we are doing exactly what Al-Qaeda wants us to do. Where the US policy for victory in IRAQ (not against Al-Qaeda as Russ Feingold pointed out today) is declared three years after a premptive war is waged.

By the way Hillary, there is no triangulation to be done in regards to this war. You voted for the authorization to give a man you knew was a baffoon to tools he needed to wage this country's first premptive war. You cannot and must not now say we can't leave. We can and we must: NOW. I'm of the mind of Murtha. Americanlogic will not vote for anyone who voted for this exercise in disaster whether they are democratic, GOP, green, worker's world, communist, socialist etc.

When American troops are deployed back to where they belong on our soil, maybe then America will truly see what Bush has wrought. He will have turned a capitalist secular regime into a terrorist playground and destabilized the Middle East for years to come and in the process placed America in the league of torturers.

God bless the next president, as he will truly need God's divination.