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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Miscellaneous ramblings written as my soul endures a long dark tea-time
 
Wednesday, September 22, 2004  
All hail the prophet George Bush Snr.

Sounds an unlikely title doesn't it? Well check this quote from Papa Shrub:

"Extending the war into Iraq would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Exceeding the U.N.'s mandate would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land."
-- From "Why We Didn't Remove Saddam"
by George Bush [Sr.] and Brent Scowcroft, Time Magazine, 1998

Doesn't that make his son sound like a dumbass? I know, it should go without saying, but really it does show how far a little intelligence goes and far from having any GWB is. And now the National Intelligence Estimate predicts three scenarios for Iraq which range from a tenuous stability to political fragmentation to the most negative assessment of civil war. And what does Bush say about this?

"The CIA laid out several scenarios. It said that life could be lousy, life could be OK, life could be better. And they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like,"

Excuse me? How does three predicted scenarios ranging from bad, to worse to really bad change into lousy, ok, and better? Its just another insert head up ass and lie through teeth 180-spin on reality. And who is Bush to accuse poeple of "guessing" as to what the conditions might be? When has Bush given the American people anything other than his off the cuff guesses about reality? When did he ever listen to the scads of studies who told him that WOMD evidence was tenuous at best, that conditions after invasion would be exactly as just predicted and that basically he never should have gone there at all.

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