The most recent 20 comments posted to Electrolite by Leah A.:

If only Karl Rove would get overconfident and let El Presedente do a whole long press conference. Bush was very close to fully revealing that truest part of himself - the mean, thin skinned bully.

There was a swagger in Bush's manner that might have embarrassed Patton. Maybe not Patton. Me, definitely.

Almost no pundit gasbag energy expended on this, at least that I caught.

I wish some of those military families would speak up, tho I'm sure it's difficult for them.

What might Iraqis be thinking, if any of them picked this up on their dishes? Does it get any more arrogant, ignorant, ugly American? Did Bush forget it's still supposed to be their country.

Seems that Rove's response to the increasing criticism of how reconstruction/occupation is being handled is to ignore the actual questions raised, and the policy changes proferred, in order that Bush not have to admit any mistakes were made, and to frame the critics in a Vietnam War framework, as being those who want to cut and run, while Bush won't leave Iraq till the job's done. Well, none of the critics are talking about the US leaving right now; they're talking about including other countries, the UN, and most of all the Iraqis in this transition period. Instead, Bremer cancels local elections through-out the country. Does Bush even know what's going on there? Does anyone know if he reads any newspapers, I mean on his own, not a White House clipping service?

Wonderful find, Patrick. Thank-you.

To charlie b:

Words matter, surely, at least as much in judging the heart and the efficacy of a "politician," even one who is our first unelected President, as in judging those qualities in a Lt. Col.

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