Okay...And?

The Shrub, in his first Press Conference in three aeons has taken "personal responsibility" for the infamous "16 words".

Okay, and...you have chosen to resign the office in ignominy? Okay, and...you have chosen to issue a personal apology to the families of each and every person killed and maimed in your execrable "war"? Okay, and...you're getting to work immediately in cleaning up the radioactive particles and unexploded munitions now lodged throughout Iraq? Okay, and...you're paying reparations to the people of Iraq for having destroyed their country? Okay, and...you're turning yourself in to the World Court to stand trial as a war criminal?

Er, not quite. "I analyzed a thorough body of intelligence -- good, solid, sound intelligence -- that led me to come to the conclusion that it was necessary to remove Saddam Hussein from power. We gave the world a chance to do it."

The obvious question of how his "analysis" of the "good, sold, sound intelligence" could have drawn him to the opposite conclusion to that of the professionals who had gathered the intelligence notwithstanding, the striking thing here is the openly totalitarian nature of Dubya's worldview.

I analyzed the intelligence, I came to the conclusion, we gave the world a chance. There's the basis for an operation entitled "Iraqi Freedom": six billion people are opposed to his war, but he alone decides the good. Being the benign dictator that he is, he "gives the world a chance" to, uh, ratify his decision to unilaterally "disarm" Iraq...otherwise, he unilaterally "disarms" Iraq without the warm-fuzzy imprimatur of world approval.

The assembled media's response? "Democracy kicks ass, dude!"

Posted by Eddie Tews at August 2, 2003 12:25 AM