George W. Bush, Average AmeriKKKan

The WaPo has the vaguely interesting story of Bob Woodward's latest book; more in the long & horrifying tale of George W. Bush & his absolute ineptitude & idiocy. Any AmeriKKKan who'd like to put a candidate in the White House on the basis of the candidate being "just like me" ("jes' lahk me-yuh") or understanding their problems "'cause she's a pitbull w/ lipstick" or anything similar is too stupid to understand the need for a rational member of an elite to be in charge. And it is shameful that only the elites (well, the cosmopolitan liberal elites, educated & knowledgeable, not the "My daddy the admiral married an heiress," or the "My family's rich, w/ a long political tradition, & we've been supporting the Nazis since they started" elites – that is, the ones who try to convince Mr. & Mrs. Middle Class Oinker that they aren't members of a self-perpetuating, power-crazed elite) are capable of running This Great Nation of Ours™ anywhere but into the ground. A shame, yes, but it must be faced that the average AmeriKKKan is far, far below average. Stupid enough to believe that somehow John Sidney McCain III is not a member of an arrogant elite, but the other guy is. Enough for now w/ the horrors of today & the future, let's dip into the horror of the past, as we return to Washington, D. C., in the yr. 2006.

By mid-2006, Casey, a stout four-star general with wire-rim glasses, had been the commander in Iraq for two years. As American military units rotated in and out, Casey remained the one constant. He had concluded that one big problem with the war was the president himself. Since the beginning, Casey felt, the president had viewed the war in conventional terms, repeatedly asking how many of the various enemies had been captured or killed. Casey later confided to a colleague that he had the impression that Bush reflected the "radical wing of the Republican Party that kept saying, 'Kill the bastards! Kill the bastards! And you'll succeed.'" Casey was troubled by the thought that the president didn't understand the nature of the fight they were in. The large, heavily armed Western force was on borrowed time, he believed. The president often paid lip service to winning over the Iraqi people, but then he would lean in with greater interest and ask about raids and military operations, grilling Casey about killings and captures. Months earlier, during a secure video conference with top military and civilian leaders looking on, he told Casey that it seemed the general wasn't doing enough. "George, we're not playing for a tie," Bush had said. "I want to make sure we all understand this, don't we?" Later in the video conference, Bush emphasized it again: "I want everybody to know we're not playing for a tie. Is that right?" In Baghdad, Casey's knuckles whitened on the table. The very suggestion was an affront to his dignity that he would long remember, a statement just short of an outright provocation."Mr. President," Casey had said bluntly, "we are not playing for a tie." Asked later about Casey's perceptions, Bush insisted in an interview that he understood the nature of the war, whatever Casey might have thought. "I mean, of all people to understand that, it's me," he said. But several of his on-the-record comments lend credence to Casey's concern that the president was overly focused on the number of enemy killed. "I asked that on occasion to find out whether or not we were fighting back," he said during the May interview. "Because the perception is, is that our guys are dying and they're not. Because we don't put out numbers. We don't have a tally." He said his overall question to his military commanders was, "Are we making progress in defeating them?" "What frustrated me is that from my perspective," he said at another point, "it looked like we were taking casualties without fighting back because our commanders are loath to talk about our battlefield victories."

Never in human history, since some of the inbred, retarded Roman emperors, has there been as obvious a cretin in a position of such power. (Maybe George III of Britain, when his brain was being eaten away by syphilis or whatever his problem was.) Perhaps had Bush served or paid any fucking attention during AmeriKKKa's adventurism in Vietnam he would have been slightly aware of the trouble "body counts" led to in that all-AmeriKKKan failure.