Is This President F*cking Crazy?! Or Is He Finally Being Truthful?

"War critics can no longer credibly argue that we are losing in Iraq, so now they argue the war costs too much." President Bush March 19, 2008

Read that again. He's saying it today, the fifth anniversary of a war that in his own words means we were losing four out of those five years.

"War critics can no longer credibly argue that we are losing in Iraq..."

He now admits that those who questioned what he and his cronies had been touting for at least the first four years - that things in Iraq were going swimmingly - were right. Those who talk show Lords of Loud had called Defeatocrats and underminers of the military were, in fact, "credible."

WE WERE LOSING.

The President says so...now

For those who, like Bill O'Reilly, who ask for proof that the President had lied, now have it. From his own mouth.

For the first four years, he was LYING.

If the president is not lying now and my math is right, that means he lied for 80% of the war.

What would you call a person who lies about something 80% of the time?

But even if he is telling the truth now, it's a truth that is nauseatingly offensive.

"No one would argue that this war has not come at a high cost in lives and treasure, but those costs are necessary when we consider the cost of a strategic victory for our enemies in Iraq."

Mr. President...Are you saying your wholesale mismanagement of this war makes all the lives and treasures lost still "necessary"?

What a colossal insult to those soldiers and families whose losses were "necessary;" to those countless Iraqi civilians who lost lives and livelihood.

You may not be crazy, but you are cold beyond words. Beyond your own words.

March 19th means different things to different people. To those looking forward to Spring vacation, March 19 is the last day of the winter. To Hungarians, March 19 is the day that German forces occupied Hungary. To hotels and gamblers anonymous, March 19 is the day wagering was legalized in Nevada. To me, March 19 is my lovely wife's birthday. And being the true Philly guy, to celebrate, my thirteen year old son and I will be going to the Wachovia Center to catch Allen Iverson's first return to the Philadelphia in a visitor's jersey.

And, to some, it means we've been in Iraq for five years.

Five years and nearly 40,000 wounded (Pentagon #s) Americans.
Five years and nearly 90,000 Iraqi civilian deaths (Pentagon #s).
Five years and nearly 5,000,000 (35%) Iraqi children are orphans.
Five years and nearly 4,000,000 Iraq refugees.

The most difficult number to grasp is that on March 19th at a cost of $3,000,000,000,000 (the Bush Administration said it would run about $50,000,000....Hey, what's six zeros?) to find 0 weapons of mass destruction (Pentagon #s) and 0 Iraq and Al Quaeda connections (Pentagon #s), we have suffered nearly 4,000 American soldiers' deaths. Not numbers. Men and women.

And on this March 19th, our compassionate conservative president says that it was all necessary.

Later, after his speech, President Bush will dine and sleep well.

Tonight, will you be able to keep your food down?

Will you be able to sleep?

Steve Young is author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful."

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Comments

[Miket53]

What Liberals never understand is that this war will help all of us sleep better because terrorism is being dealt with unlike previous presidents who hid their heads in the sand....which led to both attacks on the World Trade Towers, all the US military baracks bombings, etc. And the Iraqi people do not have to live under a dictator who tortured(really tortured by raping, killing, beheading and disfguring thousands). We need leaders like Bush who stick to their moral ground unlike whimpy liberals who change with the wind so they "don't look bad" in the polls.
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Mike

[rickmarc]

The left in this nation is so sad , they have to resort to using profanity to attempt to get their point across. We can only blame the failure of the public education system.

[lisakaz]

He's lying then, he's lying now. He just moved the goalposts again, continuing to run out the clock so he can claim some successor "lost" the "war." He's pathetic and transparent in his arrogance and crass selfishness. Who are these idiots who think he is still a good guy, let alone effective as president? Do they have brain damage?

[transendentilist]

Sleep comes easily to those without a conscience.

[hip dibler]

crazy, dumb, evil, take your pick.


he's nothing good let me tell you that much.

[ericb321]

I'm not a fan of Bush, but his statement doesn't logically mean he was knowingly deceptive for the previous time. The only thing he admits here is that up till recently the arguments of war critics were *credible*, not that they were actually right. *Believable*, but not necessarily *true*. There's nothing in his statement that says he believed anything other than what he has claimed all along.

[Bhall35]

The point is: He doesn't know the difference between being deceptive and telling the truth, and when the hell as "logic" ever applied to these fools, anyway?

[MonoApe]

Neither.

He's a liar. He's wilfully ignorant. He's plain stupid. He doesn't care. Take your pick.

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[k6007]

No, Bush.

We're still losing, the Iraqis are still losing, and will probably continue to lose for decades to come.

When these people rave about the Success of the Surge, they always overlook one huge factor, one
THEY have absolutely nothing to do with.....
The Sh'ite Cleric Sadr's CEASE-FIRE!!!!!!!!!

How successful do they think the Surge will be the minute he decides to lift it????

[sugarmoes]

crazy and deluded to a historically high level.

may he never have a peaceful of happy moment until he admits his misdeeds and accepts his just due.

[desmirl]

This is what you get when you elect a high-functioning sociopath to the highest office in the land. For all the families who have lost sons and daughters to an unnecessary war, Bush has not the slightest hint of sympathy. And neither does Cheney.

[sugarmoes]

and they still love him because he indiscriminately allowed them their greatest fantasy... to indiscriminately murder many innocent brown people while lying to themselves that it was necessary to kill all those innocents in order to stop a handful of men who... weren't even in iraq to begin with.

this is the mindset in much of america in 2008.

sounds like the mindset that allowed slavery is still alive and well.

[Doofus]

He may *seem* crazy, but fifty years from now, people will be

shaking their heads in amazement and saying 'What a guy!'

Those are the people he's president of. Or maybe not.

[Singha]

I saw that movie, "Idiocracy." It was a comedy but seemed just a bit disturbingly prophetic.

[Singha]

I saw that movie, "Idiocracy."

[itmaybetoolate]

I vote for f*cking crazy!

[Nommo]

Like a loon!

[RumiSouth]

"Sociopath." Look it up; the definition fits.