"I am not a lame duck!" - George W. Bush

The prezident didn't really say that he wasn't a lame duck.

But here's what he might say if he were to tell the truth: "I am not a lame president and I'm not a lame duck, and I'm gonna blow up Iran to prove it!"

What?

We commented yesterday on reports that Bush was planning to attack Iran before his term is up. We also said that the White House denies that is the case. In fact, of the story in the Jerusalem Post, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino it's "not worth the paper it's written on."

What a clever, original comment!


According to Think Progress, Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) was asked on NPR's "Fresh Air" if he thought the White House was contemplating military action against Iran before the end of Bush's term.

Webb said, "It certainly seems that it's on the table," and referred to the fact that there are people in the Bush administration who are in favor of such an action.

That's not new, of course. Bush himself has repeatedly said that all "options" are on the table, and the neo-cons have been agitating for war with Iran for years.


More worrisome is this: "In April, a day after meeting with President Bush, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol said on Bill Bennett's radio show that he didn't think 'it's out of the question' that Bush would strike Iran before leaving office because 'people are overdoing how much of a lame duck the president is.'"


So, our suspicions are confirmed! The president is a psycho. Many well-grounded and quite sane people have been long convinced that one of the major reasons Bush felt it necessary to invade Iraq and "get" Saddam Hussein was to do his father one better. Daddy left Iraq before the job was done! So Bush the younger would "show" him who was the better president!

Now we get the same kind of sick macho posturing. Bush is going to attack Iran because he's gonna "show" all those people who think him to be presidentially impotent. He's not such a lame duck after all and he can "prove" it by attacking Iran.

I think a straight-jacket in a padded cell would be a nice quiet retirement haven for Georgie boy.