Can It Get Any Worse?

As we watch the presidency of the worst ever to hold that office winding down, the descending level of discourse presages that they didn't care much to begin with, but the cabal cares less every day for America's interests.

There is every indication that those twisted minds are focused on 'victory' - a goal which is out of their reach in reality, but in the level of possibility if the concept is so warped inside their bubble that it can occur if the entire Middle East is obliterated.

The Jerusalem Post reported that Bush "intends to attack Iran in the upcoming months, before the end of his term, Army Radio quoted a senior official in Jerusalem as saying Tuesday.

"The official claimed that a senior member of the president's entourage, which concluded a trip to Israel last week, said during a closed meeting that Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were of the opinion that military action was called for.

"However, the official continued, 'the hesitancy of Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice' was preventing the administration from deciding to launch such an attack on the Islamic Republic, for the time being.

"The report stated that according to assessments in Israel, recent turmoil in Lebanon, where Hizbullah de facto established control of the country, was advancing an American attack.

"Bush, the officials said, opined that Hizbullah's show of strength was evidence of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's growing influence. They said that according to Bush, 'the disease must be treated - not its symptoms.'"

But in a statement released this morning, Press Secretary Dana Perino wrote: "An article in today's Jerusalem Post about the President's position on Iran that quotes unnamed sources -- quoting unnamed sources -- is not worth the paper it's written on. . . .

"As the President has said, no president of the United States should ever take options off the table, but our preference and our actions for dealing with this matter remain through peaceful diplomatic means. Nothing has changed in that regard."

Via Thinkprogress.org, here is CNN's Ed Henry with a few caveats: "A reporter pointed out to Dana Perino though that we heard these similar denials from the White House in the run-up to the war in Iraq. They insisted that diplomacy was the first option; military option was the last option." Henry said that there was no public word of such a meeting while Bush was in Israel, but he noted that "if -- and I stress if -- this had happened behind closed doors, this is not exactly the kind of story the Bush administration would have told us, because it's not the story line they want out right now." And Henry concluded: "The bottom line is that there's a broader fight going on -- which is the White House against the media."

The occupied White House has increasingly shown that it despises the public and tromples on it while spending its money. Another war doesn't seem like an impossibility, if for no other reason than to add to the distress of the public at being so badly used.

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Best wishes to Senator Kennedy. I met him in Wellesley's public square in his first campaign for the Senate. I was taking notes, and asked if he supported his brother's sending the troops into Little Rock. He commented on my lovely Southern accent, which I had exaggerated, and said yes, he did support his brother's action. I admired him then, and have admired him increasingly over the years.