From President Bush’s speech last night: "If American forces step back before Baghdad is secure, the Iraqi government would be overrun by extremists on all sides. We could expect an epic battle between Shia extremists backed by Iran, and Sunni extremists aided by Al Qaeda and supporters of the old regime. A contagion of violence could spill out across the country, and in time the entire region could be drawn into the conflict."
I agree that such a scenario is entirely possible, but when I first heard the President say this, all I kept thinking was: "You’re the dumbfuck who got us into this mess! And now you’re telling us that we should still listen to you?" When the President’s supporters get indignant over people opposing his desperation ploy, as Liz Cheney did yesterday in the Washington Post, I get indignant over their indignation. We got into this fix by listening to these morons and now they have the nerve to say that we have to listen to them again or else we’re irresponsible and somehow helping the terrorists? No, I argue that we’re irresponsible only if we listen to these idiots again.
What is deeply insulting to me is that the President and his supporters somehow see themselves as the grown ups and see the American people as immature children who are too irresponsible and soft to see the war through. Uh, no, the President is more like the fuck-up son who has run the family business into near-bankruptcy, now telling us that we need to clean up his mess to save the business from going totally bankrupt. In reality we’re the grown ups and now we’re telling him that we’re not going to bail his ass out any more.