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12/04/2005: the Real 'Education' of the Bushies...
A Strategy for No 8th graders left behind?
Or is that how to get more Remedial Educational Spin from the bAdmin on Iraq...and this ditty from ole Babbling Brooks himself:"...There was a vast gap between the eighth-grade level of some public statements and the graduate-school level of private White House conversations. It was about this time that a bewildered newcomer to the Bush administration interrupted an interview to ask me why I thought there was such a big difference between the probing and realistic President Bush he would see in the Oval Office, and the pat and repetitive Bush he would see at press conferences and on TV.
The president's Annapolis speech last week marks the start of the third phase of the Bush administration's efforts to function amid the fog of the Iraq war. John Burns and Dexter Filkins wrote that the speech was a watershed; for once the Iraq Bush described matched the Iraq his generals confront every day. I'd add that the speech was a watershed because more than ever before, the views the president expressed in public resembled the views he holds in private.
I think of this as the Khalilzad phase, because our current ambassador, Zalmay Khalilzad, is more intimately involved with all the Iraqi factions than any American has been before, and is taking more sophisticated information back to the White House.
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I still wouldn't say deliberation is this administration's strong suit. Nor is it really possible for anybody to fully understand reality in Iraq, where nothing is as it seems and the myriad of local conditions often don't cohere into one national picture.
But just as our troops and the Iraqis have learned to fight better, the White House has learned to think and communicate better. These days one at least has the sense we are putting our best team on the field - whether it is too late is another proposition lost in the shadowlands.
"the White House has learned to think and communicate better..."?
To WHOM?
Obviously those remedial 8th graders the Child-In-Chief THINKS he is speaking to. And the folks who think a Snazzie Stage Set with Lots of Repetitions of the Words *PLAN FOR VICTORY* is really a PLAN just cause the Bushies Say it's SO.
Hahahahahahhaha!
Or as Maureen Dowd put it her piece from yesterday:"...The Bush warriors are so deluded, they're even faking their fakery.
This week, the president presented a plan-like plan for "victory" in Iraq, which Scott McClellan rather pompously called the unclassified version of their supersecret master plan. But there would be no way to achieve victory from this plan even if it were a real plan. If this is what they're telling themselves in the Sit Room, we're in bigger trouble than we thought.
Talk about your unknown unknowns, as Rummy would say.
The National Strategy for Victory must have come from the same P.R. genius who gave President Top Gun the "Mission Accomplished" banner about 48 hours before the first counterinsurgency war of the 21st century broke out in Iraq.
It's not a military strategy - classified or unclassified. It's political talking points - and not even good ones. Are we really supposed to believe that anybody, even the most deeply delusional Bush sycophant, believes the phrase "Our strategy is working"?..."
Well, if only the bAdmin realized they aren't speaking to grade-schoolers - Then we might get some intelligent conversation about the situation and WHAT to do to deal with this mess and bring our troops home safely.
Karen on 12.04.05 @ 09:37 AM CST
