So, let me get this straight. The interim report on this criminal Republican regime's troop escalation policy shows that none of the benchmarks are met, but the Smirking Puppet nonetheless marks 8 of the 18 benchmarks as making 'satisfactory progress', with 2 more "too close to call". One would hope that the Iraqi Parliament- which isn't expected to hold session this week, and plans on taking all of August off- has some secret plan to cram all-nighters to make the grade by September.
Despite a CIA report from last November that the Iraq government was irreversibly damaged, this benighted boob playing President contends that progress is being made. In fact, he actually insinuated that CIA Michael Hayden was on board with his 'stay the course, keep the surge going' gameplan.
Enough progress, he insists, for Congress to release funds which were contingent upon Iraq successfully meeting these benchmarks. I am guessing that Iraq may need that money, because $282 MILLION (in American dollars, btw) was stolen from the Dar Es Salaam bank in Baghdad just yesterday. (A quarter of a billion dollars? Criminy, that's Neil Bush-type theft!)
Pardon me for saying so here, but it really seems like the bloviations of this criminal Republican regime are painting one picture, while reality indicates an entirely different, and decidedly more grim, situation. When a person cannot abide a reality, when the actual situation is so loathsome that the person cannot bear nor function within it, that person can have a psychotic break, where a more pleasing, tolerable, but thoroughly fictional 'reality' is created. Your Curmudgeon humbly submits that this criminal Republican regime is exhibiting signs of such a psychotic break.
Just this week alone, the American people have been treated to the head of Homeland Security hyping fears of more terrorist attacks based on his gut feelings one day. Two days later he finds himself insisting that al qaeda is substantially weakened entity, despite a new National Intelligence Estimate which says that it has regrouped and rebuilt itself.
We, the people, are thus left to trust a gut feeling rather than the NIE. Now, I am sure that the drool and crayon contingent will eat this crap up and ask for seconds. As for the rest of us? I don't know... how willing are you to continue to be led around in a psychotic's reality?
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