Will Bunch:
Tonight was the eighth major prime-time TV address of President Bush’s tenure that dealt with the same subject -- Iraq. Only a handful of times has he used the bully pulpit of network TV to talk about any other issue, and that has mainly been the threat from al-Qaeda.
Most of the eight were slightly different variations of the exact same theme, "stay the course." About the only way the message hasn’t yet been delivered has been for Bush to appear on Univision to declare: "Permanezca el curso!"
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...Meanwhile, while Bush was crossing the “t”s in “stay the course,” Hurricane Humberto was forming in the globally over-warmed waters of the Gulf of Mexico in a record-fast 18 hours, shocking the weather forecasters.
In five years of little else besides Iraq, how many other gathering storms are we not picking up?
More amazing to me is the Team Bush mule-headed insistence on sticking with things doomed to fail, while ignoring if not scorning things that would bring them success. I mean, c'mon: US Gulf Coast recovery and restoration is truly a drop in the bucket compared to the Mesopotamian Madness, and a damn good investment as well. But they really are the moral if not economic equivalent of Trust Fund Babies, wasting lives and money as fast as they can...without realizing that Mommy and Daddy aren't there to clean up the mess for them anymore...
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