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Ahab pointed out the other day that I seem really negative towards President Bush, considering the fact it’s more of the people around him who are pushing him around and pulling his strings that make him a bad President. I totally agree with that - often, Bush himself is not deep or twisted enough sometimes to do the totally idiotic things he does alone. This is why I intentionally use the word Administration when I talk about the stupidity.

However, when Bush goes in front of a bunch of people and starts talking about how anyone who doesn’t agree with him is in collusion with the Enemy, I have to put the idiocy blame squarely on him. Because there are people who aren’t Democrats or MoveOn.org or Code Pink that don’t agree with the President or his Administration. So now we’re all working for the Enemy, apparently.

Questioning the Attorney General appointment based on his appalling lack of knowledge in several key subjects an AG should be caught up on is a good thing. Forcing a spending bill through because the President is unreasonable and somewhat unstable during a time of war is a good thing. Not violating the right of privacy by limiting wire-tapping is a good thing.

Yet, Bush continues to becry foul play when it comes to preventing him from doing something stupid. He’s still running the fearmongering racket at the White House. Which tells me he’s either dillusional at this point, being held at gunpoint to say these things, or he just doesn’t give a fuck about other Americans. I’m going to go with option three.

Speaking of the fearmonger racket, funny that there should be orders from Rumsfeld’s desk sometime ago that set the military on the path to making false links of problems in Iraq to Iran. Again, while Iran is a problem, trying to force something by lying about it isn’t going to impress people or even garner you sympathy when you want to go to war with someone.

Speaking of the military, all new lows are being reported in recruiting people during an unpopular, unncessary war. Maybe it’s because a lot of young people or potential recruits don’t feel like being particularly suicidal in the name of patriotism.

Speaking of suicide, diplomats are protesting their forced assignments in Iraq because it feels like being volunteered for a suicidal mission. My argument is if you didn’t want to have to go somewhere dangerous to try and bring peace, maybe you shouldn’t have signed up to be a diplomat in the first place. But that’s my opinion, really.