Grim NIE

The much anticipated National Intelligence Estimate has been released. It makes for grim reading. The New York Times reports on it here: Intelligence Report Predicts Spiraling of Violence in Iraq The whole point of the ridiculous surge tactic being pressed by our fearless monarch is that the kind of violence the NIE predicts would be prevented. Apparently not. The NIE explicitly says that sectarian violence, and ‘civil war’ [yes it actually uses those dreaded unpatriotic words], will not be forestalled by the surge.

So Bush’s hopelessness continues to engulf us all. His feckless tactical change is already being seen as a failure before it even starts. Couple that with news from Iraq that the Iraqis don’t want the surge anyway, and you have to wonder why we’re doing it. Except, of course, for Bush’s madness.

And he’s the decider.

Meanwhile the Senate is behaving stupidly: McCain in particular is sounding more rdiculous by the day. His verbal lashing of General Casey was hypocrisy personified: he apparently forgot that we can check what he said a couple of years back. As in: “everything is getting better because of the admirable plans now in place” [that him talking in 2004], as opposed to: “everything is getting worse because of the horrible plans that have been in place” [that’s him trashing poor old Casey yesterday]. Casey’s only fault was being a limp yes man. He looked dumb trying to justify a policies and troop levels he is already on record as being opposed to.

Oh well. The surreal and the real are melded into one gigantic mess down there in Washington. And we’ll be stuck cleaning it all up long after King George has ridden off to his ranch.

There are no words to describe the contempt I have for Bush. The worst president ever. The consequences of his multiple incompetencies will eat away at us, at our wealth, at our reputation, and at our safety for years if not decades.

Is there no way we can get rid of him?