Useless Idiots

There, right there on my teevee screen were Leslie Blitzer and John "Canadas' Rockin' VJ" Roberts talking about how
"THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DON'T LIKE BEING LIED TO". Oh really.

They went on about how the AMERICAN PEOPLE figures that the Prez was just confused, or disoriented or maybe just had his head up his ass all these years. BUT THEY GET PISSED WHEN THEY ARE LIED TO.

He wasn't lying to us. The man is totally dillusional, and apparently I'm not the first to think this.

From Americablog since it's behind the NYT wall.

IT turns out weÂ’ve been reading the wrong Bob Woodward book to understand
whatÂ’s going on with President Bush. The text we should be consulting instead is
“The Final Days,” the Woodward-Bernstein account of Richard Nixon talking to the
portraits on the White House walls while Watergate demolished his presidency. As
Mr. Bush has ricocheted from Vietnam to Latvia to Jordan in recent weeks, weÂ’ve
witnessed the troubling behavior of a president who isnÂ’t merely in a state of
denial but is completely untethered from reality. ItÂ’s not that he canÂ’t handle
the truth about Iraq. He doesnÂ’t know what the truth is.The most startling
example was his insistence that Al Qaeda is primarily responsible for the
countryÂ’s spiraling violence. Only a week before Mr. Bush said this, the
American military spokesman on the scene, Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, called Al
Qaeda “extremely disorganized” in Iraq, adding that “I would question at this
point how effective they are at all at the state level.” Military intelligence
estimates that Al Qaeda makes up only 2 percent to 3 percent of the enemy forces
in Iraq, according to Jim Miklaszewski of NBC News.

The bottom line: America has a commander in chief who canÂ’t even
identify some 97 percent to 98 percent of the combatants in a war that has gone
on longer than our involvement in World War II.But thatÂ’s not the half of it.
Mr. Bush relentlessly refers to Iraq’s “unity government” though it is not
unified and can only nominally govern. (In Henry KissingerÂ’s accurate recent
formulation, Iraq is not even a nation “in the historic sense.”) After that
pseudo-governmentÂ’s prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, brushed him off in Amman,
the president nonetheless declared him “the right guy for Iraq” the morning
after. This came only a day after The TimesÂ’s revelation of a secret memo by Mr.
BushÂ’s national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, judging Mr. Maliki either
“ignorant of what is going on” in his own country or disingenuous or
insufficiently capable of running a government. Not that it matters what Mr.
Hadley writes when his boss is impervious to facts.

That's right. Totally f'ng dillusional. Lucky us.