There are so few members of the cult of Bush Lovers left that we should feel honored to have one here demonstrating his or her skills at the patented Rove/Limbagh “spin ‘n smear” tap-dancing two-step.

About WMD: We had all better hope Bush was lying when he said Saddam had the weapons in 2002. If Bush was not lying — if he truly believed Saddam had chemical and biological weapons waiting on the skeleton crew he sent to invade in 2002, then he is beyond incompetent, and should be tried for gross dereliction of duty.

But he was lying — he knew the weapons weren’t there. He “fixed” the intelligence around his rationale for war. Remember that the UN inspectors in the late 1990s had accounted for 95% of the weapons, all of which had been destroyed. Bush, Cheney and Rice certainly knew that Iraq had no (zero) nuclear capaiblities when they warned us about “smoking guns being mushroom clouds.” They were lying. There was not a shred of credible evidence anywhere that Iraq had nuclear capabilities.

(Imagine for a moment what would have happened if Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter had invaded a country based on bad intel. The Traditional Media would have savaged them, for starters. Impeachment would have been a certainty. And rightly so. When our presidents make monumental mistakes — and none has made ghastlier mistakes than Bush — they should be held acountable in every possible way.)

Bush’s main motivation in invading Iraq was his personal, aristocratic desire to be a “wartime president” because being at war would give him carte blanche to consolidate the security state (and thereby enrich his cohorts in the oligarchy). He also knew being a war president would help him get reelected in 2004. Beyond that, it’s likely he hadn’t given much thought to how to “win” in Iraq. He intended for us to be there for the next 50 years so the deaths of thousands of people and the expenditures of billions of dollars in the short term were just nuisances along the way of his personal path to glory. Next stop: Mount Rushmore.

Bush doesn’t give a whit for the U.S. military. He is a sociopath who sends people to die for no other reason that to further his own personal and political goals.

Look at his own military service, such as it was. He was given a cushy slot in the “Champagne” team of Texas Air National Guard that had zero chance of being sent to Vietnam. He was often undisciplined and unruly, was apparently drunk all the time (probably telling fart jokes) and chasing after what he so eloquently called “pussy.” There is a rumor he damaged a fighter jet on landing by missing the runway because he was hungover or still high on coke. He got a girl pregnant (but Daddy paid for the abortion). Also was apparenlty busted for cocaine but got off with a slap on the wrist — did some comunity service time in Houston. He was transferred to Alabama so he could work on a Republican senate campaign, and made such a loutish impression that the local women called him “the Texas Souffle” — all puffed up but nothing but air inside. Finally, he failed repeatedly to show up for the new mandatory drug tests required of all fighter pilots, but was saved from a dishonorable discharge by his father’s connections. There has been a sizable cash reward available for many years to anyone who can verify that George W. Bush completed his TANG tour of duty but not one person has come forward.

The loss of support for Bush and the GOP has been reported in Military Times and elsewhere:

For the first time, more troops disapprove of the president’s handling of the war than approve of it. Barely one-third of service members approve of the way the president is handling the war, according to the [Dec. 22,] 2006 Military Times Poll.

When the military was feeling most optimistic about the war — in 2004 — 83 percent of poll respondents thought success in Iraq was likely. This year, that number has shrunk to 50 percent.

The fact is, Bush’s escalation has been in the works since last fall. All of the photo-ops of Bush “conferring” with his advisers, the Iraq Study Group, the meeting with Dem leaders after the election, it was all a show — a gag. None of it mattered because escalation is Bush’s only choice. His legacy is at stake. If he can quell the violence there for the last six months he’s in office, he can declare a false victory, go home to Crawford and work on his abs.

He’ll leave it to the next president to handle it when Iraq explodes again — and to the writers of history books to determine whether he was the Worst President Ever, or merely the second to worst under James Buchanan.

Open your eyes. The entire war in Iraq was contrived by the white house (according to Dick Clark, Chaney reqeusted intelligence linking 9/11 and Iraq on 9/12). The weapon inspections were made to fail by US policy (look for information from the US Marine who was in charge of the inspections pre-war).

The entire thing was a fear-mongering attempt to clear his family’s name while hiding strong ties between the Bush’s and the Saudi’s. Oh, and Jesus told him to do it.

Sorry you bought it hook line and sinker, but try looking for the real truth, not the comfortable lie.