You know, snarking is a hard job, people. Especially these days. It’s become an actual physical challenge to sift through the day-to-day detritus of the dumbest, most corrupt, most hideously incompetent presidential administration in the history of the United States of America and find stuff to laugh at. When confronted with a group of people fanatically determined to drive their own country right off a cliff, how do you keep laughing?
At times, the Bush junta’s mockery of all human hope becomes so disgusting that snark fails utterly. The last time it happened for me was August 29th, 2005. It took awhile, but over the intervening months, the natural tendency (common to all intelligent beings) to make fun of idiots in power returned in full force. The snark flowed fast and free.
And then I read this story.
President Bush said Tuesday the decision about when to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq will fall to future presidents and Iraqi leaders, suggesting that U.S. involvement will continue at least through 2008.
I would really, really like to find a way to humorously mock this latest outrage on the part of Dear Leader. But this one sentence is such a crystal-clear summation of his presidential administration, and indeed his entire adult life, that any snark by me would be redundant.
Here we have the pampered scion of an utterly unprincipled Old Money political family, a barely literate submoron with a room-temperature IQ, whose entire life has been spent in blissful ignorance of the disastrous fallout of his uncountable fuckups. He has never, not once, had to face the consequences of his actions. Whether it was his daddy pulling strings to get him into Yale and the National Guard during Vietnam and covering for him when he went AWOL, the local cops who shushed up his DUI’s in Kennebunkport, or the money men who bailed out the companies he ran into the ground, someone has always been around to clean up his messes for him.
So why should it be any different now?
Bush will not end this disaster now. He will not do it next year. He will never do it all. He doesn’t have the guts or the character or the morality. He will leave it to someone else. And then, when someone smarter and braver and more responsible than him finally makes the hard decisions that this stupid and dishonest war requires, Bush will annoyingly criticize those decisions from his boozy hideaway in Crawford, all the while claiming he is above criticism of people smarter and braver and more responsible than him.
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This is a guy who calls himself a “War Preznit”. This is a guy who’s supporters have worshipped him as a decisive “leader”. This is a guy who says he makes decisions in the Oval Office with War on his mind. And this is a guy who has “led” the country into two wars and not even had the decency to give up a single month long vacation to even try to win either of them.
And after two thousand dead Americans, 17000 horribly wounded ones, after 300 billion taxpayer dollars, for a war his administration campaigned for and he campaigned on, he says, well, whatever happens in Iraq is really someone else’s responsibility.
That’s leadership.
We shouldn’t be making fun of DubYa for his stunning admission. After all, it’s probably the first honest public statement he’s made in his entire adult life. He’s basically admitted that, once again, someone else will have to clean up his mess. We can all only hope and pray that this means he is following his usual pattern of getting bored and giving up on a task when it gets difficult. Perhaps this means that, for the last three years of his atrocious reign, he actually will do what he insists he’s been doing all along, and let the generals on the ground run the war.
Given his track record of unmitigated failure at everything he’s ever tried, having DubYa ignore Iraq for the next 34 months is about the best outcome we can hope for. If recent history shows us anything, the times he’s paying attention are the times we should be worried.
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