Bush the Befuddled

That voice. That snide voice. That jeering, wasted-Yale-education voice, that lifetime of upward failure voice, shamelessly breathing new life into dead and discredited ideas, into failure and shame, into torture and death. It was too early in the day for that voice.

“Turn it off,” I yelled to my wife. “Please.”

Bush the Befuddled, holding another useless press conference, and insisting, despite graphic evidence to the contrary, that the “war” in Iraq is worthwhile, winnable, and key to protecting American citizens from those horrible people who ascribe to an “ideology of hate.”

If Bush believes his own bullshit he’s insane. Iraq was unnecessary, a waste of young lives, a waste of tax dollars, a waste of American moral credibility – and that’s just for starters from a provincial American perspective. It’s the Iraqis who have lost big time, Iraqis who fear for their lives in outdoor markets and office buildings, on street corners; Iraqis who are without basic human services, due in large part to American arrogance, ignorance and greed.

For Bush to stand there and state his belief that the majority of Americans don’t want US forces withdrawn, to stand and say that we don’t understand the consequences, is crazy gibberish. Bush is the one trying to beat his dead, maggot-infested horse to life. The people get it. Iraq is a lost cause no matter what we do, and has been since we toppled Saddam and unleashed bottled up sectarian strife.

US miscalculation placed Iraq on the path to civil war. The US is responsible for destroying a country that never posed a credible threat to our national security. Thanks to Bush and his cronies, the average Iraqi now has ample reason to distrust, despise, and discredit any move the US makes in Iraq.

Bush talks a lot of nonsense about liberty and freedom for Iraqis while he systematically dismantles Constitutional protections here at home. Enough already.

This unarmed, lower middle-class American citizen, an Air Force veteran, is sick of the bullshit, lies, posturing and criminal behavior of Bush the Befuddled and his cronies. I’m sick of Wolf Blitzer and Tim Russert and Brian Williams, just to name a few of the many blabbermouths in TV land who blithely lend Bush Administration fantasies credence.

The America that lives (only barely) in my imagination is a country with a moral reservoir deep enough to admit failure and make amends for its misdeeds.

Bush was a fraud from Day One and he remains a fraud now; he was unfit from Day One and he’s even more unfit now; he was an embarrassment to our country from Day One and so he remains.