Freshman Senator Bob Corker (R – Tennessee)  stunned more than a few folks with his relatively honest assessment of aWol’s acumen re: Iraq…

“I was in the White House a number of times to talk about the issue, and I may rankle some in the room saying this, but I was very underwhelmed with what discussions took place at the White House,” Corker said.

Bob – if you continue down this path, we are going to have to show you the secret handshake known only to members of the “Reality Based Community.”

When sharks smell blood in the water, it matters not that the wounded is one of their own.  They tear the unfortunate creature  to bits anyway.  The Bush maladministration is experiencing a similar phenomenon.

Dead Certain, the new book by GQ reporter Robert Draper is a withering indictment of the inner workings of a White House suffering from ‘Mad Cowboy Disease.’  One of the revelations in the pages, is the denial by the Resident that he was “in on” the disbanding of the Iraqi military forces.  He disavows all knowledge of the decision-making process, and actually takes a page from Fredo’s book – actually saying he “doesn’t remember” the decision being made or even any discussion about it.  “The policy had been to keep the army intact; didn’t happen,” Mr. Bush told the interviewer. When  the president was asked how he had reacted when he learned that the policy was being reversed, Mr. Bush replied, “Yeah, I can’t remember, I’m sure I said, “This is the policy, what happened?’ “

Seriously – he wants one and all to believe that Paul Bremer’s acted unilaterally in the creation of a well-armed and well-trained insurgency that was at the ready to commence a guerrilla war against the occupying invaders in the wake of the dissolution. 

One little hitch in that get-along.  Bremer archived the correspondence, and provided it to the New York Times.  (As if we needed more proof that Bush is a god-damned liar and unfit to serve  you lunch, let alone as chief executive and commander in chief of the most powerful military the planet has ever seen.)

“We must make it clear to everyone that we mean business: that Saddam and the Baathists are finished,” Mr. Bremer wrote in a letter that was drafted on May 20, 2003, and sent to the president on May 22 through Donald H. Rumsfeld, then secretary of defense.

After recounting American efforts to remove members of the Baath Party of Saddam  Hussein from civilian agencies, Mr. Bremer told Mr. Bush that he would “parallel this step with an even more robust measure” to dismantle the Iraq military.

One day later, Mr. Bush wrote back a short thank you letter. “Your leadership is apparent,” the president wrote. “You have quickly made a positive and significant impact. You have my full support and confidence.”

Mr. Bremer appears to be at the end of a slow-burn over administration current and former officials backing away from  the decision to  disband the military like they have  just caught whif of a skunk.  “This didn’t just pop out of my head,” he said in a telephone interview on Monday, adding that he had sent a draft of the order to top Pentagon officials and discussed it “several times” with Mr. Rumsfeld.  Bremer is making it abundantly clear that he is pissed off unhappy about being portrayed as a loose cannon by various and sundry former administration officials.

Bremer said that he widely distributed a draft of the proposed order throughout the administration and the Pentagon.  Among those who received a copy were disgraced World Bank President

Mr. Bremer said he sent a draft of the proposed order on May 9, shortly before he departed for his new post in Baghdad, to Mr. Rumsfeld and other top Pentagon officials.

Among others who received the draft order, he said, were Paul D. Wolfowitz, then the deputy secretary of defense; Doug “stupidest f**ker in the world”  Feith, then under secretary of defense for policy; Lt. Gen. David D. McKiernan, then head of the American-led coalition forces in Iraq; and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  Bremer also maintains that Rumsfeld was briefed multiple times in the plan, and British military officials were briefed as well.  The Joint Chiefs responded with great detail, removing any doubt that they understood the proposal. 

What is emerging is a picture of a White House that has been in disarray and beset by infighting from the earliest days.  Some days I feel like I am watching four-year olds “play government” and other days I feel like I am helplessly looking on in horror as drunken monkeys play with loaded handguns.

He just stood in front of the VFW and did a backflip with a 180 and stuck the landing – and so far as I could tell, nobody noticed!

I actually think he freakin’ believes his own BS!

After rejecting parallels with Vietnam for the past four years, he is suddenly stripping to his skivvies and ready to climb into the sack with those very comparisons, albeit with a kinky twist.

Now it seems he thinks that we should have stayed in Vietnam – you remember Vietnam – that was the war that he, draft-dodging, war-mongering, chickenhawk that he is –  refused to fight, the draft he dodged – you remember Vietnam.  I certainly do, and so do my aunt and uncle who lost their oldest son….And Veterans of that conflict embarrassed me today by clapping for that SOB who so spectacularly  failed the test back then.

“Three decades later, there is a legitimate debate about how we got into the Vietnam War and how we left,” Mr. Bush said. “Whatever your position in that debate, one unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America’s withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms like ‘boat people,’ ‘re-education camps’ and ‘killing fields.”‘

And the idiots who voted for this clown called Kerry a flip-flopper.  None of them should EVER call a Democrat a flip-flopper in my presence again.  Not with this freakin’ political gymnast representin’ y’all.

Well – I am not the only one who was stunned speechless by the “say anything, what do I have to lose?” resident’s speech.  Noted UCLA historian Robert Dallek, who has written extensively about the conflict in Iraq as compared to Vietnam, accused Bush of playing fast and loose with  history.

“It just boggles my mind, the distortions I feel are perpetrated here by the president,” he said in a telephone interview.

“We were in Vietnam for 10 years. We dropped more bombs on Vietnam than we did in all of World War II in every theater. We lost 58,700 American lives, the second-greatest loss of lives in a foreign conflict. And we couldn’t work our will,” he said.

“What is Bush suggesting? That we didn’t fight hard enough, stay long enough? That’s nonsense. It’s a distortion,” he continued. “We’ve been in Iraq longer than we fought in World War II. It’s a disaster, and this is a political attempt to lay the blame for the disaster on his opponents. But the disaster is the consequence of going in, not getting out.”

So – will the mainstream media give him a[nother] pass, or will they finally call him on his delusional BS?  What will you bet he gets a pass?  But I think I have maybe figured out why…it is that he is just so  wrong, wronger than anyone has ever been, so wrong that  in the history of incompetence and failure he gets a special category…That there is just an air of “Holy sh**.  Where do I even start???“

Well – enough already with the feeling overwhelmed.  Pick a point and start making sense, and don’t stop. 

Remember this:  all they got is volume.  Funny thing about volume, though…It’s pretty much non partisan. 

In fact,  I got that, too.