Words Like Locusts Flew From Her Fingers

Same Old, Same Old

I tell you, I look at that picture and I want to just slap the living shit out of the prick.

Disclaimer for the poor schlub whose job it is to wade through the gazillions of internet postings mentioning potential violence to Fearless Leader: No, I am not a violent person. No, I’m not going to actually track down Bush and slap him. No, I’m not associated with al-Qaida in any way. And aren’t you embarrassed to be working for an administration that’s brought your once-noble dreams down to this? To looking under the “Great Man’s” bed every night so you can assure him there are, in fact, no boogiemen hiding there?

It’s all just more of the same.

At war, in denial | Salon.com
Within months of the invasion, in August and November, the CIA station chief in Baghdad wrote urgent reports (called “aardwolfs”) detailing how U.S. missteps had destabilized Iraq and fueled the insurgency. When Bush was briefed he was furious, not at the blunders or those committing them but at the CIA chief for having the insolence to catalog them. “What is he, some kind of defeatist?” Bush said. Soon, the station chief was replaced.”