Brilliant Analysis Misses Some Key Points?

Comment by Larry Ross, August 4, 2006

Bush may be a man of very limited abilities who honestly makes huge mistakes. Paul Waldman brilliantly points these out below.

But also, lest people forget, Bush is a serial war criminal, who is robbing the U.S. Treasury, destroying America's tarnished record, and endangering the world's population by threatening to use nuclear weapons to build an Empire. He is totally unscrupulous and seemingly, will commit any crime to further his agenda - from false imprisonments - secret renditions - secret prisons - torture - and massive bombing of civilians and poisoning of their environment forever with D.U. weapon residue.

Many believe the Bush Administration engineered the 9/11 attacks and told a series of calculated lies to fool Americans into supporting an illegal and unjustified series of wars under the catch-all banner of "wars on terror". Although many doubt that he arranged 9/11, few can seriously doubt that his regime capitalise on 9/11 to falsely justify the war on Iraq and the coming war on Iran.

Paul Waldman tells us how decisions on foreign policy and waging wars, are made today in the U.S.A. It's very chilling and potentially very, very disastrous for the world.

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Things Get Ugly When Bush 'Trusts His Gut'

By Paul Waldman, TomPaine.com, August 3, 2006

When President Bush was caught on tape saying to Tony Blair, “See the irony is what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over,” more than a few progressives said to themselves, “Well that’s a trenchant analysis of the situation, Sherlock.” And more than a few conservatives said, “Damn straight”?or as Michelle Malkin put it, “Sometimes, profanity is called for.”

Not that in mid-2006 anyone needed more proof that Bush is, depending on your perspective, either a simpleton or an admirably forthright straight talker who cuts to the chase. But as more and more evidence of the administration’s incompetence and hubris is revealed, we are presented with more proof that under George W. Bush, U.S. policies are governed by a strange amalgam of impulse and fantasy.

As Newsweek told us this week, Bush “still trusts his gut to tell him what's right, and he still expects others to follow his lead.” One might have thought Bush would have learned by now to view the proclamations of his gut with some suspicion?but then, that would be asking the president to rely on evidence and experience to make conclusions.

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