A Brave, Brilliant Bush?

Sometimes, you have to cruise the land of the wing nuts, just to see what the opposition is thinking. They aren't.

I'm sure you remember Susskind's report in the NY Times magazine in which he quoted an administration official asserting their power to define, and redefine, reality.   Looking at their comments on Bush's jaunt into Iraq, you'd have to conlcude that they had overdosed on this concept and like Alice, had a bit too much at the Queen's Tea Party.
A lot of the right is amazed at the bravery W displays by going there. ( The reality is that their being so impressed shows that they had really suspected him of being a complete coward).

Confederate Yankee wrote that "President Bush again showed, rather convincingly, that he is no way, shape or form a physical coward." Because he had to sneak into our embassy in the Green Zone? But isn't this in Baghdad, where we were to be greeted with candy and flowers? Isn't this in Iraq, where everything is going so well? Where the only problem is the cowardly press who are afraid to leave the Green Zone to go report how wonderfully things are going? But aren't there press people on that same plane with Bush, exposed to the same risks as Bush? Aren't there more dead reporters being flown home from Iraq than from Viet Nam, or WWII? I get confused about this cowardice argument.

In her post, Atlas Shrugs scoffs at the press,and asserts that they will not consider it newsworthy that "70,000 coalition forces, most of them Iraqi, to begin crackdown on insurgents in Baghdad on Wednesday."  But wait; more than a year ago our Vice President told us that the insurgency was in its last throes. I don't get it. Does she mean that it's newsworthy because it's so unnecessary? Seventy thousand to fight an inurgency that must be over by now? Or is it newsworthy that coalition forces are beginning a crackdown? Or that a crackdown is even needed three years after we invaded Iraq?

The insightful california conservative has the same trouble as the Shrugging Atlas, when it wrote:

I wish we could make all of Baghdad as secure as the Green Zone. I suspect that that’s what President Bush and al-Maliki are talking about today. Al-Maliki has recently said that he wants to squash the insurgency. I suspect that that’s what they’re planning at this meeting.

Three years after that statue fell, Bush has to be smuggled into Baghdad so that he can  have a meeting to make plans to secure the city?

Blogs for Bush is sure that it must be more important than that. "Something big is brewing - you don't go half way 'round the world for nothing." In reality, this should be true. But remember the only time Bush interrupted one of his vacations was to fly up to Washington to sign the Bill regarding Terri Schiavo.

The Political Pit Bull isn't so sure something big is happening, he thinks "It's largely a symbolic gesture", although an important one.

Oddly enough Michelle Malkin comes closest to reality - she supports a commenter who speculates as to "how long it will take the Democrats to accuse the President of making the trip as a publicity stunt?" Not very long at all. But what we're saying is not an accusation, it is simply a factual description.

If only we could get our friends on the right to stop peering through the looking glass, and take a realistic assessment of our President: A man who refused to fight for his nation, who has lied us into war and who is still lying to us about the tradgedy, and who believes that he can once again win an election with deception and publicity stunts.

Comments

[Judith]

Yeah, braver than any of you sniveling cut & runners. Do you ever read your comments, I wonder if you are all nutz!

[sybil]

What a peculiar response you give Judith. I can't figure out what it has to do with anything bustard wrote.

I do not understand what justification there was to this jaunt of Bush's. If you think it was brave, do you think he should have made such a stunt? It was an entirely unnecessary and irresponsible risk; one that the american public would have had to pay for dearly if anything had gone wrong. I fear however Bush has consistently not thought about the risks he takes and the implications they will have on others.

I do not believe that this was just an act of misguided heroics but rather sheer stupidity and arrogance. Once you have finished with name calling Judith please tell us what on earth his visit accomplished except an enormous expense to the American Tax Payer? and what is this 'sniveling cut&runners' have to do with anything? I would like to understand.

[Rick]

I am sure the list of that which you "would like to understand" is lengthy dear Sybil.

[bbbustard]

sniveling cut and runners are guys like Jack Murtha (37 years with the Marine Corps, fought in Korea & VietNam Bronze Star, 2 Purple Hearts) and John Kerry (4 years in the Navy, 2 tours in Viet Nam, 3 purple hearts,1 Bronze Star, 1 Silver). Brave people are guys like 5 deferment-Dick Cheney, or Bush who skipped out on his National Guard Duty, or Karl the Rover who spent three years running from the draft. See, the brave guys never fire a gun; never get shot at.
Sybil - you just don't get it: People like Rick and Judith have nothing but disdain for those who actually serve. They think being in the miliary and being awarded medals is some kind of a joke.

[sybil]

Well I am not sure you are correct bbustard about Judith and Rick, but i also don't understand what they are so patronizing about.Yes, Rick there is a lot I don't understand, especially why righteous arrogance can take the place to some sort of humanity. what do you care about or stand for?

[Rick]

You know nothing of serving Skippy. Nothing. You know not honor; nor sacrifice; nor tradition. Nothing. De oppresso libre.

[bbbustard]

Ms Coulter.
Thanks for your comment of 4:40 pm.
I have to disagree. You know nothing. Nothing of service, nothing of honor, nothing of truth, nothing of honesty nor of value. Nothing of the world. Certainly nothing of me. You judge others based on infantile stereotypes. Your lack of knowledge would be frightening,if your inability to think, to analyze,and to learn were not even more terrifying.
You are unable to make an argument, and are ignorant enough to think that smears and slanders are acceptable substitutes.
If you had been born a Muslim, I have no doubt that your would have grown into a jihadist.
Trading insults seems to amuse you; making substantive comments on posts clearly does not. If at some point you would like to engage in a discussion or a debate, please let me know.

Trading pomposity is tedious, and I learn nothing from it.

[Rick]

You learn nothing from everything Skippy. You cannot see that which lays clearly before you. It's not that you are clueless. Pax tecum.