ISG: "Iraq Doomed"; Bush: "That’s Interesting"

All morning and half the afternoon yesterday, CNN reported on the Iraq Study Group Report. CNN interviewed ISG members, CNN interviewed people who had interviewed ISG members, it interviewed people who had views on the ISG, it interviewed people who had views on CNN, it interviewed people who knew people who had views on the ISG, CNN interviewed each other. But when it came time for the White House to respond to the ISG report, the Bush administration couldn’t find anyone higher up than Press Secretary Tony Snow to speak for President Bush on-camera. Snow said Bush had been implementing most of the ISG suggestions for months already. Even Bush couldn’t have come up with a more stupid thing to say. When the ISG members handed Bush the report yesterday morning, he said, “we will take the proposals seriously and we will act in a timely fashion.” Translation? Fuck you ISG. The New York Times this morning reported that one ISG commission member said, “Mr. Bush was very gracious and did not push back.” Oh really? And can you guess why the president seemed gracious and didn’t push back? The asshole-in-chief who got us in this mess in Iraq hadn’t been given a cue card with politically correct words on it, so he had nothing to say. But it is absolute and sure that the one person who will not stand down on this Iraq debacle is George W. Bush. And although some (like a reporter from “The Chicago Tribune”) are saying Bush is taking on the look of “the last man standing”, George W. Bush still has the firm support of fascist neocons like William Kristol, the author of the Bush credo--The PNAC Statement of Principles. William Kristol and Robert Kagan wrote in “The Weekly Standard” on December 4, 2006, “right now we can only applaud the president's courage and determination and his willingness to resist the pressures of those who would now sound the retreat.” And on the same day, Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe advised the president to “Politely accept the ISG report and then do the opposite of what it recommends.” Which is exactly what the worst and most delusional president the United States has ever had the misfortune to inflict on itself, intends to do. The problem with that strategy is that American voters won’t vote for people who fall in line with the Bush administration’s plan for staying in Iraq in perpetuity and for telling the whole Middle East to piss up a rope. So the president really has only one option: Take the ISG’s advice or end the careers of every Republican in Congress. It’s up to you, Chief. But watch your back.