Bush Downgrades Self in Rare Hint of Fragmentary Self-Awareness

The First Lame Duck was interviewed on ABC yesterday, and the video is online if you can bear to watch it. I'm not sure I can.

"I think I was unprepared for war," Bush told ABC News' Charlie Gibson in an interview airing today on "World News."

"In other words, I didn't campaign and say, 'Please vote for me, I'll be able to handle an attack,'" he said. "In other words, I didn't anticipate war. Presidents -- one of the things about the modern presidency is that the unexpected will happen."

Seems like it wasn't that long ago this retard was convinced that though none of us understand his awesomeness right now, history would paint W as a daring hero and record his bold, visionary greatness. Now he wants us to think he was a miserable failure because life is unpredictable.

The implication is that if it hadn't been for a bunch of unforeseeable events like 9/11, faulty intelligence, hurricane Katrina, the global economic meltdown and so on, he would've been brilliant. It really should go without saying, but since nobody ever points it out, none of these things were unpreventable, and all may have been avoided by competent, dedicated leadership. Bush is not a failure because he was dealt a bad hand. Bush is a failure because time after time he FAILED.

I repeat: every catastrophe for which Bush should be held accountable could have been prevented...and most of them were deliberate.

We know that Bush refused to take the threats of terrorism seriously before 9/11, and that the attacks could have been prevented. We know that two of the hijackers lived with an FBI informant, that the hijackers boarded those planes using their own names, that an FBI field office was ignored when it informed headquarters that a suspicious dude was taking piloting lessons and didn't want to learn how to land. And about the PDB, the inter-agency difficulties, the mistakes, the seven minutes spent stupified in a school and so on.

We know that 'faulty intelligence' is a myth, actually a lie, fabricated as cover for the other fabrications that supposedly proved the claims that Iraq possessed WMD and/or the capacity to create them. All the claims like Al Qaeda's presence in Iraq prior to the 2003 invasion (made up), Saddam's nuclear program (nonexistent), attempts to procure yellowcake from Niger (forged documents), mobile weapons labs (firetrucks), anthrax (expired), all of the so-called evidence that Iraq constituted a threat to its neighbors and to the US was fabricated by the people who used it to justify an invasion, then complained that it was all crap and what a terrible shame that was. Such a terrible shame, in fact, that George Tenet was awarded a medal (for keeping his mouth shut while they lied about the 'intelligence'). It was all such a big terrible shame that they acted on 'bad intelligence' that the Bushies did nothing to alter their strategy for four years, and probably would have continued to 'stay the course' in Iraq had Republicans not lost seats in the 2006 midterm elections.

We know that a major American city was destroyed and its residents were allowed to drown not because of an unavoidable act of God, but because levees (managed by the Army Corps of Engineers) broke, and the city consequently was flooded. It's worth mentioning the Corps because for over 3 years prior to Katrina, billions every month were being spent in Iraq, and the Bush Administration didn't prioritize such things as maintaining levees (or caring for wounded vets like at Walter Reed). If those levees had been properly cared for, it's likely thousands of lives would have been spared from death or suffering. Bush even discovered that the levees were breached before the major of New Orleans did -- and chose not to raise the alarm. We know how the federal government reacted (or completely failed to) after the levees broke, and New Orleans became a Hell on Earth not for a few days, or a few weeks, or even a few months, but YEARS! Undiscovered bodies were rotting in homes over a year after the city was flooded. The President, on the day thousands of his fellow Americans faced death by drowning, ate birthday cake with John McCain. We know this. It's all on the record.

We know too that the current economic crisis was not a surprise, but instead was engineered by these people who valued a 'free market' ideology more than they respected its results, fiscal reality, or simple reason. The Bushies continued to push for deregulation after being warned of the inevitable results of their policies years ago. This we've known since yesterday, at the latest. Much sooner than that if you were paying attention.

I could go on like this. It would take many, many more words to deliver the full impact of the fucktitude of the Bush Administration.

And although we know all of these things and many more disgraceful, embarrassing things, Bush, as he's slowly shuffling for the door, still continues to feed us preposterous lies that no one could accept as anything but the most malodorous bullshit, and demonstrates quite vividly his regard for the public.

Since we're so well-aware of what "President" Bush thinks of the American people, it's our prerogative to let him know, for the rest of his days on Earth, what we think of him, the man who gave a bad name to all primates everywhere.