Bush: Pathological liar or idiot-in-chief?

["Robert L Bass" <RobertLBass@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Bush: Pathological liar or idiot-in-chief?
Olbermann: Timeline for Iran's nuclear ambitions was clear, but he
kept on

SPECIAL COMMENT
By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, 'Countdown'
MSNBC
updated 9:28 p.m. ET, Thurs., Dec. 6, 2007

There are few choices more terrifying than the one Mr. Bush has left
us with tonight.

We have either a president who is too dishonest to restrain himself
from invoking World War III about Iran at least six weeks after he
had to have known that the analogy would be fantastic, irresponsible
hyperbole, or we have a president too transcendently stupid not to
have asked, at what now appears to have been a series of
opportunities to do so, whether the fairy tales he either created or
was fed were still even remotely plausible.
A pathological presidential liar, or an idiot-in-chief. It is the
nightmare scenario of political science fiction: A critical juncture
in our history and, contained in either answer, a president
manifestly unfit to serve, and behind him in the vice presidency an
unapologetic warmonger who has long been seeing a world visible only
to himself.

After spokeswoman Dana Perino's announcement from the White House
late last night, the timeline is inescapable and clear.

In August the president was told by his hand-picked major-domo of
intelligence, Mike McConnell, a flinty, high-strung-looking,
worrying-warrior who will always see more clouds than silver linings,
that what "everybody thought" about Iran might be, in essence, crap.

Yet on Oct. 17, the president said of Iran and its President
Ahmadinejad:

"I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War
III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from
have the knowledge to make a nuclear weapon."

And as he said that, Mr. Bush knew that at bare minimum there was a
strong chance that his rhetoric was nothing more than words with
which to scare the Iranians.

Or was it, Sir, to scare the Americans?

Does Iran not really fit into the equation here? Have you just
scribbled it into the fill-in-the-blank on the same template you used
to scare us about Iraq?

In August, any commander-in-chief still able-minded or uncorrupted or
both, Sir, would have invoked the quality the job most requires:
mental flexibility.

A bright man, or an honest man, would have realized no later than the
McConnell briefing that the only true danger about Iran was the
damage that could be done by an unhinged, irrational Chicken Little
of a president shooting his mouth off, backed up by only his own
hysteria and his own delusions of omniscience.

Not Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mr. Bush.

The Chicken Little of presidents is the one, Sir, that you see in the
mirror.

And the mind reels at the thought of a vice president fully briefed
on the revised intel as long as two weeks ago, briefed on the fact
that Iran abandoned its pursuit of this imminent threat four years
ago, who never bothered to mention it to his boss.

It is nearly forgotten today, but throughout much of Ronald Reagan's
presidency it was widely believed that he was little more than a
front man for some never-viewed, behind-the-scenes string-puller.

Today, as evidenced by this latest remarkable, historic malfeasance,
it is inescapable that Dick Cheney is either this president's evil
ventriloquist or he thinks he is.

What servant of any of the 42 previous presidents could possibly
withhold information of this urgency and gravity and wind up back at
his desk the next morning, instead of winding up before a
congressional investigation or a criminal one?

Mr. Bush, if you can still hear us, if you did not previously agree
to this scenario in which Dick Cheney is the actual detective and you're
Remington Steele, you must disenthrall yourself: Mr. Cheney has
usurped your constitutional powers, cut you out of the information
loop and led you down the path to an unprecedented presidency in
which the facts are optional, the intel is valued less than the hunch
and the assistant runs the store.

The problem is, Sir, your assistant is robbing you and your country
blind.

Not merely in monetary terms, Mr. Bush, but, more important, of the
traditions and righteousness for which we have stood, at great risk,
for centuries: honesty, law, moral force.

Mr. Cheney has helped, Sir, to make your administration into the kind
our ancestors saw in the 1860s and 1870s and 1880s, the ones that
abandoned Reconstruction and sent this country marching backward into
the pit of American apartheid.

Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland - presidents who will be
remembered only in a blur of failure, Mr. Bush.

Presidents who will be remembered only as functions of those who
opposed them, the opponents whom history proved right.

Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland ... Bush.

Would that we could let this president off the hook by seeing him
only as marionette or moron.

But a study of the mutation of his language about Iran proves that
though he may not be very good at it, he is, himself, still a
manipulative, Machiavellian snake-oil salesman.

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Regards,
Robert L Bass

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