ONE MORE CUP OF B.S. FOR THE ROAD. In his Sunday op-ed, David Broder gives George Bush and Tony Blair as much man-love as he can without making his readers throw up. According to Broder:
"History will record that both of them saw the threat to the West posed by terrorism and responded courageously. The wisdom of their policy and the conduct of their governments are not likely to be judged as highly."
That's nonsense. Bush leveraged the 9-11 attacks into the invasion of Iraq that neo-conservatives had been dreaming about since 1991. More than anything else, the invasion of Iraq was an exercise in self-indulgence and the only courage the Bush administration showed was the courage to pamper themselves.
DEFEATED BY DEMOCRACY. Broder doesn't mention that Bush and Blair have been defeated by the democracy that they so dishonestly promoted as a justification for the invasion. Blair was pushed out before he could get the Labor Party trounced in the next British elections and Bush has lost so much credibility that he's more of a national joke than a national leader. Ultimately, all Bush and Blair had was each other. Well, maybe Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and Alberto Gonzales as well. And of course, David Broder.
Maybe they can all get together for a group hug when Bush leaves office in January 2009.
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Oh you can bank on a reunion in which these good ol' boys get together and laugh out loud about how they put one over on all of us, and at our everlasting expense. I can hear them laughing already, in my midnight nightmares.
I tend to think that both Bush and Blair feel the weight of national rejection. I'm not sure that either of them will be laughing as they see their policies decisively repudiated.
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