There's a Nut in the White House

We are increasingly getting to the point that the cretin in chief's mental prowess is commonly accepted as having passed on into that other land he is fixated on. Yet this is the person who takes on himself the role of determining policy. His grab for power is yet another sign that the person who has control of the executive branch is not capable of handling that responsibility.

Yesterday's horrible beheading of its enemy and the recent taunting of Saddam Hussein by his executioners, carried out by the C-i-C's chosen government in Iraq is only one example of how free his allies feel to thumb their noses at the world, and most especially at the majority of U.S. citizens who are not represented by their president. Since announcing that he had looked into Putin's eyes and seen his soul, the conduct of foreign policy has followed this trend and become increasingly independent of the informed judgment of his advisors.

The growth of the threat to this country is another, and extremely grave, consequence of his allies holding the C-i-C in their grip.

The government in Pakistan is undermining the very war that the American public does support, and which is the result of the attack on us on 9-11.

THREE MONTHS ago the Pakistani government struck a deal with pro-Taliban leaders in the district of North Waziristan, bordering Afghanistan: It agreed to abandon military operations, withdraw the army and release prisoners in exchange for promises that the militants would cease cross-border attacks and disarm the foreign terrorists in their midst. That the extremists would not respect the accord, and that attacks on U.S. forces in Afghanistan would increase rather than decline, obviously seemed likely at the time. Yet President Bush, ever indulgent of Pakistan's autocratic ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, accepted his promises. "When the president looks me in the eye and says the tribal deal is intended to reject the Talibanization of the people, and that there won't be a Taliban and won't be al-Qaeda, I believe him," Mr. Bush declared when he met Gen. Musharraf at the White House on Sept. 22.
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By tolerating the general's empty promises and excuses, the Bush administration is putting its mission in Afghanistan and homeland security into unacceptable jeopardy.

Looking into some one's eyes and seeing their soul is hardly a sound way of formulating this country's foreign policy, and even less acceptable when it is used to justify throwing judgment to the winds and basing it on other countries' leaders promises they have already shown they will not honor. This is the tactic we see being used in throwing away 20,000 or 21,5000 lives in Baghdad's Sadr city and Najaf that are in disarray after the same surge already failed in August.



If the congress doesn't have the votes to impeach, and if the GOP is unwilling to make their head honcho an offer that will induce him to leave, it's time for the country to speak out.

January 27th there will be demonstrations everywhere. At Hecate's site, there are directions for the one in D.C. Molly Ivins gives a site organizing action there; http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3436.

I recommend, too, that you let all your friends and all the blogs you visit know, that we're in deep trouble. The cretin in chief has come unglued - if he ever was glued - and is taking the country into that other world where he's increasingly dwelling.