Yet more proof that W is an idiot...

[amjucsc]

A quote from the a New York Times article on a pro-Syrian demonstration in Lebanon:

"Freedom will prevail in Lebanon," Mr. Bush said today. "The American people are on your side. Millions across the earth are on your side."

<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/08/international/middleeast/08cnd-beirut.html?hp&ex=1110344400&en=f2c28560482d39f2&ei=5094&partner=homepage>

While I agree with the sentiment, you'd think that Bush or someone on his staff would have the common sense to realize that having the President state publicly that the United States supports a political movement in a middle eastern country is not likely to help that movement win domestic support.

In fact Hezbollah may use the statement to great effect in defeating the Cedar Revolution. Cross your fingers that isn't the case.

[rzemanfl]

1. Common sense is such a reality- based thing. * has faith, God

tells him what to say. Why do you hate freedom?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. Bush is still a local Texas politician

I think he only cares about political events in the U.S. and the effect on his so-called base. If he appoints such an extremist as John Bolton as UN Ambassador, it doesn't seem to me that he cares at all what the rest of the world thinks, nor of the consequences of his acts.

[opihimoimoi]

4. Why do the Pubs hate Common Sense and Reason???

that should a question for them

[mikelewis]

3. He's not an idiot...

He's insane. Appearantly, 100's of thousands of people marched to oppose Syria's withdraw and our government is claiming that demostration was a show put on by the Syrian's. He honestly believes this. The guys nuts, completely nuts. He wants another war. What kind of psychopath is this guy?

[Skittles]

6. he's a complete moron

I imagine his puppet handlers just cringing at the stupid shit he manages to say when a teleprompter is not available

[Martin Eden]

5. Bush: Idiot or Liar?

I've posted this August 2003 commentary before, but it still kicks ass IMO:

by John V. Whitbeck

On July 25, President George W. Bush made a truly staggering statement to the press after a meeting with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

“The fundamental question is, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? And the answer is, absolutely. And we gave him a chance to allow inspectors in, and he wouldn’t let them in. And therefore, after a reasonable request, we decided to remove him from power, along with other nations, so as to make sure he was not a threat to the United States and our friends and allies in the region.”

This statement is worth reading carefully. The president of the United States has stated, in a public forum, that he invaded Iraq because Saddam Hussein would not allow weapons inspectors back into his country.

So far as I am aware, this statement has not been the subject of any serious critical analysis in the mainstream American media.

I will therefore provide my own brief analysis.

Assuming, as seems reasonable, that the president of the United States was neither drunk nor on LSD, there can be only two possible explanations for this statement:

Explanation 1: The president of the United States believed what he said. In this case, he is so dim-witted and/or totally divorced from reality as to be mentally unfit to hold his current job — or, indeed, any job — and should be taken into medical care.

Explanation 2: The president did not believe what he said but, rather, believes (unfortunately not without compelling post-Sept.11 evidence) that the vast majority of the American people are so dim-witted and/or uninformed and the vast majority of the American media is so sycophantic and/or terrified of being branded “unpatriotic” (or simply losing White House “access”) that he can now tell any lie, no matter how obvious and outrageous, and get away with it. In this case, he is morally unfit to hold his current job and should, by constitutional means, be forced to relinquish it as soon as possible.

Either explanation should scare the wits out of anyone who is not comatose.

When a single individual combines ignorance, immorality, dry-drunk syndrome, a publicly proclaimed commitment to perpetual military domination of the entire world by his country, a publicly expressed belief that God personally instructs him to make war on specific countries and a wildly irrational born-again brand of Christianity that views the Battle of Armageddon and the consequent end of life on earth as desirable developments and, at the same time, has command authority over an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction more than sufficient to achieve the end of life on earth, it is difficult to argue that this individual is not the most dangerous person who has ever lived.

When (if ever) will the American people wake up to the real threat facing America and the world?

http://www.arabnews.com/services/print/print.asp?artid=30536&d=19&m=8&y=2003&hl=Idiot%20or%20Liar?%20Either%20Way,%20Bush%20Is%20Unfit%20for%20Office

[Bellamia]

7. I'd go with both explanations.....

Bush is both mentally & morally incompetent.
When will America wake up???????????????? Good question, I can only say that a lot of Americans have to GROW UP first, to be mature enough to wake up.

[Disturbed]

8. The problem is

that millions of Amerikans are as ignorant &/or stupid as the Silverspoon Sociopath is or even more so.

[bush_is_wacko]

9. As if MORE was necessary!

I still appalls me that bushitler is taking credit for this in the first place. Does he really think Syria and Lebanon BELIEVE he talks to God or that he is one? He seems to think that since they speak Arabic they have the mentality of a newborn!