The New Bush Library

I see where there is great excitement about locating Boy George's library on the SMU campus in Dallas. There are university faculty concerns about having the University so closely allied with not only the library but also a Bush think-tank with an obvious ideological bent. That idea will be duly patronized and ignored by the powers that be.

In addition, since SMU is a metropolitan campus, there are concerns about traffic congestion, noise, etc. in the surrounding neighborhood.

If I were they, I would be more concerned about a more serious issue. That library will be a terrorist magnet. They might want to consider building the library in an underground bunker. The attack on the US embassy in Greece today with an anti-tank rocket shows that it can be done despite massive security.

After all, as Bush likes to say, everything changed after 9/11.

The Bushs' will probably move off his imitation Ronald Reagan ranch in Waco once he's out of office. They'll probably move into one of the posh neighborhoods in Dallas near the campus. I would not want to be his neighbor when an RPG grenade is fired through his front window.

Enjoy it while you have it Dallas. If I lived there I'd move to a very distant suburb when the Bushkin and his library move into the Dallas area.

The Iraq Study Group

If you read the first 36 pages of the Iraq Study Group Report that constitutes the "Assessment" of the situation in Iraq you would think it was written by the Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, and the SDS of the 1960's.

You know the US has a real problem in Iraq when you realize such pessimism reigns among, and was written under the auspices of conservative Republicans like James Baker, Edwin Meese, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Alan Simpson.

The result? Little numb-nuts Bush is going on TV tomorrow night to announce an increase in troop levels and will completely ignore the Study Group's recommendations. The only thing he will do is plagiarize part of its title. "The (New, Boy George's contribution) Way Forward."

Get ready for 4,000 dead Americans. It will happen much more quickly due to this acceleration of the war. That was the experience in Vietnam. Leaving our soldiers in posts within Baghdad will expose them to many more casualties.

Well, Daddy did the best he could to get the little boy back in tow, but Boy George is determined not to repeat Daddy's "mistakes". He wants to make his own, new ones. And he will.

Bush's "New" Strategy

Insane.

Fun, Fun, Fun 'til Daddy Took the T-Bird Away

Fun, fun, fun was what Boy George, Cheney, Rummy, Rove and the neo-con-artists were having until George the Elder finally stepped in and had his men take control of his son. The midterms forced the old man's hand, though the Baker-Hamilton Commission was already a precursor of Rumsfeld's departure.

It was incredible to hear that in Bob Woodward's "State of Denial" that the Elder "did not want to interfere" in his son's ruination of our armed forces in Iraq and the Republican majority. To paraphrase: He wanted his son to have a chance to do it himself. What in God's name was that all about?

That is what you're supposed to do when a teenager is learning to drive or your kid is trying to win the soap box derby. It's not what you do when he is running the most powerful country in the world into the ground. Wait and see if he could do it himself? What a pitiable excuse for not taking action before this.

Now, with the appointment of Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense, Bush's father has essentially retaken control of the government of the country. Bush the younger and his cohorts Cheney, Rove, and Rumsfeld did not even want the Baker-Hamilton commission formed, let alone to issue a report on Iraq.

To the contrary, yesterday at his press conference, little George sounded like he could hardly wait for the Baker-Hamilton report to save him from further humiliation. There is hope now that, between Daddy and the Democrats, the US will salvage something out of Iraq and start rebuilding badly strained relations with allies.

One thing is for sure. Little George won't really be at the wheel anymore. Daddy took the keys away last weekend. Now Boy George will just be pretending to drive the T-Bird while sitting still in his driveway.