Pot, meet Kettle. Kettle, pot.
Originally Posted on August 22nd, 2007:
I was listening to 89.9 WCBU yesterday on my way home from work when I heard something so ridiculous I could have driven off the road: our dumbass president was mildly criticizing the Iraqi government. It wasn’t so much that he was criticizing them that got under my skin, but how he was doing it.
In the interests of being “Fair and Balanced” (sarcasm) I’ve copied the quote from foxnews.com:
“The fundamental question is, will the government respond to the demands of the people?” the president said, without mentioning al-Maliki by name. “And if the government doesn’t … respond to the demands of the people, they will replace the government. That’s up to the Iraqis to make that decision, not American politicians.”
Has anyone else noticed the irony of this situation? Is President Bush really chastising the Iraqi government about not responding to the “demands of the people?” Let’s talk about your approval ratings these days, Mr. Bush. That’s not even the worst of it. Here we have the man who forced a regime change upon Iraq telling the world that it’s up to Iraqis, not American politicians, to decide for themselves whether the government needs to go.
Then we have this turd:
“The Iraqis will decide,” Bush added. “They have decided they want a constitution. They have elected members to their parliament and they will make the decisions just like democracies do.”
Yes, they wanted it so bad that we had to go in and “liberate” them, right? This, coming from a man who has done more to undermine our own Constitution than any politician since FDR.
This is about as bad as a few months ago when the Bush administration threw a fit over China increasing their defense budget 17.8%. That brings the grand total of this grave threat’s defense spending to… $45 billion. When you add all supplemental funding, that’s less than a tenth of our total military spending for 2007, or perhaps even less than that according to some estimates.
The Bush administration may be losing support, funding and officials, but they’ve definitely retained the ability to bullshit the world with a straight face.