WP editorial slams the chimp....(snips and link)

[diamond14]

the major newspapers are not only slamming shrub on WMD, but, the economy, medicare, and the whole cabal....this editorial summarizes the whole shrub mess, and it comes from shrub's supporters...

-snips-
Editorial

Why the CEO in Chief Needs an Audit

By Richard Cohen
Thursday, July 10, 2003; Page A23

The Bush administration's interim business plan called for the capture or killing of Osama bin Laden. On account of a botched operation in the Tora Bora area of Afghanistan, this now has to be restated. Similarly, the proclaimed determination to rid the world of Saddam Hussein also has not succeeded. As with bin Laden, this failure will be restated as not being all that important. You learn this sort of thing in business school.

In fact, the entire business plan for Iraq has to be restated. It turns out that the country simply will not govern itself, that some elements resent the U.S. occupation and that it will take more troops to administer the country than originally thought. In some way, this abject failure to plan for an occupation -- despite repeated warnings -- will have to be creatively restated. To paraphrase the president, bring on the restatement.

The dangers of an immense budget deficit have been restated. Rising unemployment has been restated to blame the Clinton administration. The critical importance of relations with Mexico has been restated. The evils of affirmative action were -- after the Supreme Court ruled -- restated and so, of course, were the reasons for going to war in Iraq. Now it is to rid that country of Saddam Hussein and establish the predicates for a Middle East peace. I like them both.

Still, all these restatements suggest a business plan that was both flawed from the start and implemented with an appalling level of incompetence. Despite that, the CEO of this mismanaged operation is not held accountable and remains popular with the shareholders. It used to be that the buck stopped with the president. To state the obvious, that's been restated.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35747-2003Jul9.html

[Stumpy]

1. Heh.

Slamming the Chimp sounds sooooo euphamistic.

[diamond14]

3. Hi Stumpy...welcome to DU...I TRIED my best euphemism...

hope it didn't sound too harsh...

welcome :hi:

:toast: :toast:
:toast:

[dennis4868]

2. Richard Cohen....

the author of this editorial was banging the drums for war before the war started and often would say that we have to go to war because the President said that Sadaam is an imminent threat. Why would anyone ever believe anything Bush has to say....the fact that he took over the white house on fony grounds is enough for me not to believe anything he says.....

[diamond14]

5. what's notable is that cohen has changed his tune....this is

shrub's own shills turning against him (while shrub is off toddling around in Africa...lalalala dada lalala)....

[quispquake]

7. That's the best part...

If Cohen trusted Bush, and Bush lied to him, I imagine he is VERY pissed off right now...and this is happening on a pretty large scale...

I think many of the people that believed Bush (like Tweety) are getting angry at how they were led around. I certainly would be (if I had been stupid enuff to believe Bush in the first place!).

This should be an interesting ride for a couple of weeks here...

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[Beetwasher]

4. Holy Shit!

That is one whopper of an editorial!

[Gloria]

6. This is really an op-ed piece since Cohen is a

a columnist. As an op-ed piece, it's great....if it were an editorial ....ah, incredible....

[Beetwasher]

8. Of course, you're right!

I meant op-ed...