nobody asked…

Didn’t intend to watch Bush’s babblings last evening, but the remote was across the room and I was too intent on my burger to walk over and get it. The only redeeming feature of this Bush appearance was its brevity - it beat my burger to the finish line. Can’t believe he’s still allowed to use the words “weapons of mass destruction.” My first reaction was “why did he bother making this appearance if he had nothing to say?” Guess it had been too long since the last photo-op, so he just decided to do it because he could?

He seemed totally confused, or maybe he just forgot which scare tactic he had used to justify invading and plundering Iraq in the first place. But he is absolutely resolute in his commitment to have American taxpayers (that’s you and me…) pay for a few more years of this madness (he won’t even set a target date…) and have hundreds or thousands more of our troops slaughtered for no discernable reason.

Nothing new was said … just a re-run of the same old tired rhetoric which we learned long ago is based on lies, half-truths and scare tactics. Although … this is the first time I remember him using the words “third world war” in reference to his “war on terror”, or the “battle for barrels” (obvious oil reference) as it is called in some quarters. It is difficult to make any rational response to what Bush says since his entire underlying premise is misguided at best, more likely fabricated, but wrong in any case.

South Knox Bubba says:

“This is a lot of meaningless, disconnected drivel. He doesn’t even know what he’s saying. Half of everything he said has been contradicted by his own top generals. It’s pretty obvious we had no plan, we have no plan, and we are screwed. We broke it, and we own it.” (Emphasis added)

On the day prior to the speech, CNN reported

“The number of Americans disapproving of President Bush’s job performance has risen to the highest level of his presidency, according to the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Monday.” (Emphasis added)

If we haven’t been scared before, we should be now. Not so much of the terrorists, but of the Bush administration and where it is leading us (I use the term full knowing there is no leadership). And I suppose as soon as all the Bush-negative blogs have been indexed, we will be shutdown and run out of town on some new perversion of the Kelo “eminent domain” decision.