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George W. Bush
John Kerry is telling the truth about what's happening in Iraq, and if there's one thing the Bush Boys don't like, it's truth-telling. Last week an editorial in the Washington Post said that recent accounts of events in Iraq are "bland to the point of dishonesty." Wrote the Post, "Not only has Mr. Bush not said how, or whether, he intends to respond to the worsening situation - he doesn't really admit it exists. This duck-and-cover strategy may have its political advantages, but it is also deeply irresponsible and potentially dangerous." Bush's two-faced approach to Iraq is indeed dangerous. First he said there were weapons of mass destruction, and there weren't. Then he said there were connections between Iraq and al Qaeda, and there weren't (even the State Department didn't think so). And now he says that democracy is on the way in Iraq, and everything is just peachy-keen there. News flash: it isn't. At the time of writing, September is the fifth worst month for American soldiers in Iraq, with 63 service members killed there since the end of August. Overall more than 135 foreigners have been kidnapped - several have been beheaded this month alone. But Bush is clearly living on his own little fantasy planet. Last week he said, "I saw a poll that said the right-track/wrong-track in Iraq was better than here in America." You know, I'm not sure what's more disturbing about that statement - Bush pretending that Iraqis think they're heading in the right direction, or Bush being proud of the fact that Iraqis are more confident about the future of Iraq than Americans are about America. Still not delusional enough for you? On Fox News last week, Bush was asked whether he would still put on a flight suit and make the Mission Accomplished speech. 900 dead soldiers later, Bush's response was "absolutely." And Our Great Leader also brushed off a recent CIA National Intelligence Estimate which claimed that scenarios in Iraq ranged from "****ty" to "wow-that's-****ty," saying that just a "handful" of terrorists are operating in Iraq (despite Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi saying last week that terrorists are "pouring in"), and that the CIA was just "guessing." Oh, well, gee - guessing? I feel so much better.