Desiring Machine

This recent flap between Rice and Boxer just floors me. The audacity of the Bush administration would be hilarious if it weren’t so deadly serious. How dare you attack my womanhood? Is Condi for real here? All this distraction, all this dithering over the word escalation. The whole debate about the war has become a farce. But Bush must certainly understand that we the American public are deadly serious about this war. Get out now! No ifs, ands or buts.

To me the Senate hearing just shows how substanceless and trivial the Bush administration is. Instead of offering real points they just retreat to BS la la land. It is past the time for all that. Unfortunately, Bush is all too willing to pass the buck and pass this war on to the next president. And it looks like he has a willing accomplice in the next republican heir apparent John McCain. Even under the most optimistic conditions McCain will be come another Gerald Ford one termer who has to deal with the fall out of Bush’s policies. He may end up having to pardon Bush for war crimes and find himself shackled with an unpopular unwinnable civil war in the middle east. All for what? Because Bush’s team can’t admit fault or pursue diplomatic solutions? For what? Because they would rather throw childish taunts and parse over the meaning of words like escalation as gradeschool nuckleheads?

Come on! The American public deserves more than this. We deserved a real debate in the lead up to the war and we deserve a meaningful discussion on exit strategy now. Not coded signals that we are going to storm the Iranian and Syrian borders in the middle of the night.

Bush is a lame duck but his legacy and the future of the Republican party hang in the balance. BushCo defiant to the end. Well send them all to the guillotine I say. I am tired of their nonsense dismissal of substantive issues.