WTF Is It Now?!?

Marching off the cliff
"Bush did not provide the midcourse correction that even some Republicans had called for in the face of increasingly macabre violence in recent weeks ... nor did Bush try to answer some of the looming questions that have triggered growing skepticism and anxiety at home and abroad about the final U.S. costs, the final length of stay for U.S. troops, or what the terms will be for a final U.S. exit from Iraq. After promising 'concrete steps,' the White House basically repackaged stalled U.S. policy as a five-step plan." - the WaComPo.

"George W. Bush began and ended his speech with a brazen lie. He claimed that the United States is in Iraq to fight al-Qaida... The shamelessness is matched only by his contempt for the intelligence of the American people." - Michael Lind.

"pResident Bush has a five-step strategy toward Iraqi deoccupation. The soldier-scholars in the Army War College audience must have been wondering, "Where’s the rest of it?" Bush again asked the American people to be patient. After listening to his vacant, unrealistic and uninspired presentation to a controlled military audience, I think I understand why." - Karen Kwiatkowski, lieutenant colonel, US Air Force (ret.).

"The gap between rhetoric and reality in pResident Bush's speech to the nation on Monday night was like a walk with Alice through Wonderland." - Sandra MacKey.

"WTF???' - shorter Lawrence Korb, former assistant secretary of defense in the Saint Ronnie of Reagan administration.

- More here.


pReznit Pinhead after the speech.