By George!

        
    Sorry...  I don't mean to get ragingly political, but this was just too good to pass up.   

    So what do you do when you are the president of a country where the majority of its population is calling for, at the very least, an investigation into the last six years of your time in office? 

    Well, if you're anything like George W. Bush, you sit down with pen in hand and scribble out a message to the Wall Street Journal and its editorial page hoping to distract your constituents with tax cuts in the hopes that they might overlook the fact that you misled them time and time again in making your case for a bungled war that would eventually cost the lives of more than three-thousand of your citizens.

    How does it feel to be reduced to a blubbering, ass-kissing infant, Mr. President?  Personally, I think it looks pretty good on you.  But, let's take a look at some of the things you've said, shall we? 
   
    First, there's this little bit here:

Tomorrow, members of the 110th Congress will take their oaths of office here in Washington. I will have the privilege of working with them for the next two years--one quarter of my presidency, plenty of time to accomplish important things for the American people.

    Yes.  Let's not waste any time investigating "Curveball" or "Yellowcake" in your case for charging into a meaningless, misguided war that, as it turns out, everyone but you, your Vice President, and Donald Rumsfeld knew didn't need to be fought in the first place.  Let's accomplish "important" things.  Let's give Americans ponies and maybe they won't want to try you for treason and crimes against the Constitution.

    And then there's this:

I believe that when America is willing to use her influence abroad, the American people are safer and the world is more secure. I believe that wealth does not come from government. It comes from the hard work of America's workers, entrepreneurs and small businesses. I believe government closest to the people is more responsive and accountable. I believe government plays an important role in helping those who can't help themselves. Yet we must always remember that when people are hurting, they need a caring person, not a government bureaucracy.

    Yes, Mr. President.  It's clear, according the National Intelligence Estimate released earlier this year the repercussions of your using America's influence abroad.  You have not kept us safe.  You will continue to endanger America by giving those who wish to harm her a bottomless well of injustices from which to draw fodder for recruitment.  Good job, you bungling, half-witted man-child. 

    Oh, but wait.  In your little love note to America, you mention this unique little nugget:

Our priorities begin with defeating the terrorists who killed thousands of innocent Americans on September 11, 2001--and who are working hard to attack us again. These terrorists are part of a broader extremist movement that is now doing everything it can to defeat us in Iraq.

    Now, I understand you seem to believe in your twisted, misguided, little mind that Iraq is somehow synonymous with the "War on Terror," but what you fail to realize is that it has been proven many times that those two are NOT linked in any way whatsoever.  Hell, even you yourself have admitted this.

     So, forgive me, Mr. President, but I would like to see proof that defeating those who attacked us is a priority to you.  Your actions contradict your words in that you removed out troops from Tora Bora where the terrorists were largely believed to be and redeployed them to overthrow an innocent sovereign nation that had nothing to do with those who attacked us.  I don't understand how our presence in Iraq can be seen as attempt to bring the terrorists to some level of justice since they weren't there in the first place.  And now, thanks to the rhetoric of your bungling, impotent administration that preaches the philosophy that it's somehow better to fight the terrorists there than it is to fight them here, it becomes clear that your only intention was to use the innocent civilians as human shields in much the same way their recently executed evil dictator attempted to during your father's fight in the first Gulf War.  And what gives you the right to slaughter innocent bystanders in such a way as that?      

    Indeed, Mr. Bush, it would seem that the only person in this country who has forgotten 9-11 is you.  You've abandoned our pursuit of those responsible for the deadliest attack on American soil to, in my opinion, exact some pathetic, petty Bush family vendetta.

    So, perhaps you should have stated that our priorities began with defeating the terrorists; however, since then, you have taken our mission in a direction which has turned America into an untrustworthy nation and a global embarrassment. 

    I find this Ironic, Mr. President:

Our Founders believed in the wisdom of the American people to choose their leaders and provided for the concept of divided and effective government.

    You seem to have forgotten that you were never chosen to lead this once great nation which now stands red-faced because of your actions.  You were appointed by the United States Supreme Court, and through your subsequent and constant fear-based hectoring of the American people, you somehow managed to remain in a position for which you are wholly unqualified.

    Moreover, the fact that you possess the gall to evoke the Founders of this great nation to support you in anyway, I'm certain will have them spinning in their graves.  Your administration has stripped away the rights of American citizens, your duplicitous manner of doing business has created a untrustworthy government, and the corruption upon which you turn a blind eye is nothing, I believe, our founders would ever have endorsed. 
   
    Trust me, Mr. President, you have created a climate of mistrust among your constituents.  And, because of that, I hardly think that the majority of Americans will see your essay as anything other than an attempt to distract the prying eye of public opinion from your administration's incompetence by pleading for a "new direction" and a sense of bipartisanship which you have never once embraced for the past six years. 

    Personally, I hope these final two years of your administration find you suffering the disgrace you so richly deserve.  I hope you are held accountable for the countless American and Iraqi lives your irrelevant war has cost.  And I hope we return to hunting down the terrorists whom you, through your alacrity to invade Iraq, have unintentionally pardoned and allowed to remain free to grow. 

    So, George?  If you think the promise of tax-cuts is somehow going to lead Americans to ignore the inhumane atrocities, the duplicity and your failure to uphold your oath of office, I think you are considerably mistaken.

    Sucks to be you, Mr. President. 

"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror."—[President Bush in an interview] with CBS News, Washington D.C., Sept. 6, 2006

    I imagine it is, George.  I imagine it's got to be utterly baffling since no connection ever existed.

Tags: President Bush, The Wall Street Journal, The War on Terror, Iraq,