Poor George is ‘Weary’

Poor George is \”Weary\”

Things that make you want to hurl.

Well, boo frickin\’ hoo.

Poor Mr. Bush, just so much on his mind and so many decisions to make, not
to mention those mean Democrats coming into power in just a few days. I mean
really, what\’s an incompetent, escalating warmonger to do?

Never fear, the corporate hack pack is always near.

The stress of the job — so well hidden for much of the past six years — has begun to show on Bush\’s face. He often looks burdened, distracted, haunted by a question that has no good answer. When a photographer captures him at ease, as in a sweet Texas-romance picture of Bush and his wife, Laura, that appeared in People magazine last week, it\’s as if he has escaped the Iraq sweatbox. I grew up in a Washington that was struggling with the nightmare of a failing war in Vietnam. The government officials of that time were people who behaved as if they\’d never known failure in their lives. They had the rosy confidence of the chosen — \”the best and the brightest,\” as David Halberstam put it. But then the war began to grind them down. I see that same meat grinder at work now. Bush and his officials are strong characters; they work hard not to let you see them sweat. But the anguish and exhaustion are there. Bush is not a man for introspection. That\’s part of his flinty personality — the tight, clipped answers and the forced jocularity of the nicknames he gives to reporters and White House aides. That\’s why this version of reality TV is so poignant: This very private man has begun to talk out loud about the emotional turmoil inside. He is letting it bleed. … Bush\’s New Look on Iraq: Weary By David Ignatius

Bush is \”letting it bleed\”?

Our president has never shed one drop of his blood for this country.
He and his chickenhawk crew did everything they could to keep from shedding
their blood. But given the power and the opportunity they were all
too willing to shed other\’s blood for their ongoing, never ending, ceaselessly
careless blunder in Iraq.

Mr. Bush deserves to look \”weary.\” I only wish he was also worried,
but not just about his legacy. Bush should be worried about what he is doing
to this country and what his arrogant push to preserve his presidency through
a plan for escalation in Iraq will do to our military, not to mention to the Middle East at
large and American influence in that region.

\”Weary\”?

I\’d like to see that one explained to our troops.