Is President George W. Bush Cracking Up?
Comments by The Parodist
It’s a sad day for America when the President of the United States must resort to either a blatant lie or has succumbed to mental lapses that could be revealing mental disorientation or worse, mental sickness. Another sad possibility is that George W. Bush is a dupe of others who are telling him what to say, what to do, and what to think—that someone else, like Karl Rove or Dick Cheney are telling him what reality is.
Take a look at the July 15th Washington Post article by Dana Priest and Dana Milbank: after a meeting in the Oval Office with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, Bush fielded questions from the press. First Mr. Bush defended the intelligence he receives, categorizing it as “darn good.” Then he said the CIA doubts about the uranium-buy scam in Niger came only after the January 28th State of the Union speech in which Bush endorsed the statement that Iraq was attempting to purchase uranium in Africa.
If that weren't enough to raise doubts about the state of the President’s mind, Bush then said the decision to go to war with Iraq was made after he gave Saddam Hussein “a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn’t let them in.”
The Washington Post gently wrote the truth: the events leading up to war were: “Hussein had, in fact, admitted the inspectors and Bush had opposed extending their work because he did not believe them effective.”
America is in trouble. Clearly both republicans and democrats must work together and empower congressional investigations into the workings of this White House. The questions are “Who is making the decisions in the White House?” Is it Karl Rove? Dick Cheney? Or a corporate group?
