"this is not an election anymore, it's an intervention."

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Posted at juancole.com

Journalist Bill Gallagher of Detroit's Channel 2News joins Andrew Sullivan in asking the increasingly unavoidable question: Is George W. Bush Criminally Insane? Gallagher writes:

Gushing over Rummy and Dick Cheney, the two principal thugs who lied to get us into Iraq and designed the disaster, Bush claimed they "are doing a fantastic job and I strongly support them."

The remark prompted conservative columnist Andrew Sullivan to raise the question of Bush's mental fitness. Sullivan told CNN Bush is so delusional, "this is not an election anymore, it's an intervention."

Sullivan, long a cheerleader for the war in Iraq, said Bush is "so in denial" he simply can't come to grips with his failure: "It's unhinged. It suggests this man has lost his mind. No one objectively could look at the way this war has been conducted, whether you were for it, as I was, or against it, and say that is has been done well. It's a disaster."

Sullivan added, "For him to say it's a fantastic job suggests the president has lost it. I'm sorry, there is no other way to say it."

And how many Republicans have joined him? I just had Cspan on - and here was "John Hancock" (R - something Missouri) saying that everyone wants bipartisanship - and it's all the fault of those ? liberal ? Democrats who won't come to the table and discuss anything.:eyes:

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1. though - as I have posted...

I can accept that Bush thinks that things are great in Iraq - if he wanted Iraq to be a disaster. Either way - he's unhinged.


http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HK03Ak01.html

Iraq: Bush has a plan, and it's working

"If you listen carefully for a Democrat plan for success, they don't have one. Iraq is the central front in the war on terror, yet they don't have a plan ..."
- US President George W Bush, campaigning for Republicans in next week's congressional elections.

So, does the Bush administration have a plan for Iraq, and if so, is it working? The answer to both questions could well be "yes". But it's not a plan that Bush could publicly boast about...

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2. good point - maybe things are going according to their plan