WLD:

Maybe, maybe....I have a similar hypothesis, that he went to war in Iraq in order to create a playbox into which to draw the forces of Al Qaeda, since there was no way to wage war against them in the usual way because of their diffuse nature. Make an artificial nature by borrowing Iraq's real estate and goading Al Qaeda to flood it and take it as their turf for purposes of confronting the great Satan, thus inviting them into a fire zone where they could be exterminated.

But, I had to ask myself whether it was possible Bush was capable of that sort of strategic subtlety, and honest;y, I kinda doubt it.

Well, if he wasn't pursuing as brilliant strategy that he just couldn't mention, because it would give away the whole trick, then what was he doing?

The knee-jerk liberal answer is, aggrandizing his ego and being a stupid jerk. Awfully judgmental, I know. But it may also be the case. I dunno the man personally but I have thought he was one short of a six-pack for some time now.

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