Maybe he's on drugs -- or maybe he ought to be.
In most countries, when people are delusional, they lock them in the looney bin and give them drugs. Especially if they are dangerous.
But here in the United States we elect them president. Even if they are dangerous. And I am beginning to think he has his own drugs.
On Sunday, Andrew Card, President Bush's chief of staff told the nation that President Bush thought Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was doing a "spectacular job."
Meanwhile, in the streets and alleys of Iraq, insurgents were busy killing nearly 70 people in a bombing and shooting spree.
But Monday morning, there was President Bush telling the world that Rumsfeld was doing "a fine job."
And that was after the news leaked about Rumsfeld using a machine to sign the death notices of the more than 1300 soldiers he sent to their death.
But hey, can you really blame them? Just weeks ago, the boss, Dick Cheney was telling them and the rest of the world that Iraq was an "outstanding success."
Now though, even some Republicans are starting to smell the stench of a corpse and are moving to distance themselves from Rumsfeld, and maybe beginning to wonder about the President's conduct of the war. Or maybe they just have better meds. Today in comments reported by Don Walton in Iowa's Lincoln Journal Republican Senator Chuck Hagel said," Deteriorating conditions in Iraq are a consequence of the arrogance and incompetency of the civilian leadership at the Pentagon."
And that was before the story on FBI allegations about the military's abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba broke in the New York Times and Washington Post.
More likely though, Hagel and other Republicans taking Rumsfeld to task got wind of the new CNN poll showing more than half of Americans disapprove of Rumsfeld leadership of the war in Iraq.
Maybe a lame duck president can afford to be delusional. Ambitious Republicans cannot.
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