President Bush ratcheted up his campaign offensive against Democrats on Tuesday with perhaps his bluntest rhetoric yet as he accused them of being "softer" on terrorists and willing to allow attacks on Americans rather than interrogate or spy on the nation's enemies.
For the first time in a long time, even though it's buried far down in the story, the Post actually allows some "analysis" of what Beloved Leader said...
Bush's language, though, characterizes Democratic positions through his own prism. Critics of the surveillance program have not argued against listening to terrorist phone calls but say the government should get warrants from a secret intelligence court. Likewise, many critics of the tribunal measure did not oppose interrogating prisoners generally, as Bush said, but specific provisions of the bill, such as denying the right of habeas corpus or giving the president freedom to authorize what they consider torture.
And yes, Preznit Karl Fluffer is still living in his bubble, well ensconced and comfortable.
Bush again remarked that it seems "like an eternity" since December elections in Iraq but predicted that "when this chapter of history will be written . . . it's going to be a comma -- the Iraqis voted, comma, and the United States of America understood that Iraq was a central front in the war on terror and helped this young democracy flourish."
American servicemen and women are not commas. There is no "young Democracy" in Iraq, just a violent sectarian meat grinder that's killing more people, both Iraqi and American everyday.
Oh, and I guess it's too impolite to ask his Royal Horses Assedness about that little mess in Afghanistan? Yeah, because then he'd be riding Denial again, in a boat with out a paddle.
