You know what we need now?
KOS puts the cost of the war in perspective.
Key figures: Cost of War in Iraq (so far): $149 Billion. Cost of all law enforcement in the United States, including police, prisons and courts, is $167 Billion.
So when it comes to making Americans safer, where should we be spending our money?
If I know Bush (and I don't), then I know what's coming -- a tax cut!!!. What better time could there possibly be for a heavy tax cut for the wealthy, again? No time like now! Stupid socialists! Don't you know that if we give the wealthiest people in this country yet another tax cut, it will...well...turn out...better....for them? And maybe their heirs...but...you could marry into one of their rich families and then you'd be better off...and then everyone can do that! Yay!
Bush likes having his cake and his turkey, and he wants to eat them both.
This Presidency is turning out to be the biggest scam ever perpetrated on the American people.
From the Christian Science Monitor:
Bush was reportedly upset that he learned of the extent of the prisoner abuses and saw the incriminating photographs by watching "60 Minutes II" last week, with no advance warning. He is also reported to be upset with Rumsfeld that the Pentagon had not acted on recommendations that Iraqi prison conditions be improved. All eyes will be on Rumsfeld Saturday when he testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
That is an absolutely astonishing quote. What it means that Bush's team keeps key decision-making information from the President. They're either doing it because they have bad judgement, they're incompetent, or they're doing it deliberately. Take your pick.
Which makes me wonder: Exactly what else has Bush not been told? If we take a "delegating", CEO-style President who relies on and trusts the opinions of his inner circle and then combine that with an inner circle that is less than candid with their President, it starts to explain a hell of a lot about the continuing policy screwups of this administration.
My gut feel is that his inner circle people are not "bad people". My gut feel is that his inner circle people are gamblers. They don't know what's going to happen as a result of their policies, and they're willing to take the risk. They present to the President scenarios and characterize them as fact, when they are in fact supposition. I suspect that this behavior is not limited to the inner circle; it likely pervades the political structure in this White House.
Can anyone else apply Occam's Razor and find a simpler answer?
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"You know what we need now?"
"You know what we need now?"
Sure! We need Love. Love, Sweet Love.
Since I have a pick one of three, I'll take what's behind Door Three. They're doing it deliberately. Hasn't this been a recurring theme for this administration: Bush being surrounded by sycophantic yes men who insulate him from the gray so he gets everything in high contrast black and white?
There's the obvious answer -
There's the obvious answer - a whole fucking lot happens in the US government, and he can't know it all, and neither can his inner circle or their inner circles. Things slip through the cracks on the way up, and sometimes they don't get wherte they need to be to be solved. Do you know how many large problems were dealt with successfully for each screwup? I don't.
And really, it's not like this is the kind of information that will exactly be flying up the chain of command. You aren't exactly likely to hear grunts filling out daily reports on how effective their prisoner abuse was.
Also remember that the
Also remember that the military is the one that broke this story. Soldiers reported it, two investigations were launched. CBS picked the story up off a DoD press release, and many of the pictures are from the 2nd investigation.