Thwack!

Of course, they (and not alone of course) helped facilitate this gigantic clusterfuckery but the NY Times spares little in pointing out the continued empty statements, factual vacuity, and general ass-hattery of the Bush Administration on Iraq.

The address was accompanied by a voluminous handout entitled "National Strategy for Victory in Iraq," which the White House grandly calls the newly declassified version of the plan that has been driving the war. If there was something secret about that plan, we can't figure out what it was. The document, and Mr. Bush's speech, were almost entirely a rehash of the same tired argument that everything's going just fine.

. . . Mr. Bush hates comparisons between Vietnam and Iraq. But after watching the president, we couldn't resist reading Richard Nixon's 1969 Vietnamization speech. Substitute the Iraqi constitutional process for the Paris peace talks, and Mr. Bush's ideas about the Iraqi Army are not much different from Nixon's plans - except Nixon admitted the war was going very badly (which was easier for him to do because he didn't start it), and he was very clear about the risks and huge sacrifices ahead.

A president who seems less in touch with reality than Richard Nixon needs to get out more.

Let me tell you the Atta J. Turk, non-scientific, completely out-of-my-ass conjecture about George W. Bush. The Chimperor is, probably, our most "autistic" President (even more than John Tyler - that catatonic rat-bastard!). If he doesn't have the same routine every day, if he cannot be in a predictable, safe environment, he lashes out. They don't let him keep Saddam's pistol loaded after all.

Cheney, Rove, Rummy, Condi, Card they are pretty much his round the clock residential assistants. He cannot fire any of them, because if they are gone, it changes his routine and, well next thing you know he will be lashing out against the Mexicans like Lou Dobbs on a bender and claiming a beef processing plant in the Ottawa suburbs is making sarin and Canada must allow in weapons inspectors or we're bombing those Montreal cheese-eating surrender-monkeys. Unleash Operation, Maurice "the Rocket" Richard now termed "Shock & Eh".

Take that you Mackenzie King worshipping hosers! How "a-boot" that?

That is why Bush is kept in as controlled an environment as possible. And Laura too, but in her case it is because it keeps her batteries fresh.