Bush Proves His Harshest Critics Right
by Paul Craig Roberts
On March 17, William Rivers Pitt wrote that Bush is “deranged, disconnected, and dangerous.” In his March 20 Cleveland speech, Bush proved Pitt right.
Bush gave a delusional speech that shows he is detached from reality. “We’re going to help the Iraqis build a strong democracy that will be an inspiration throughout the Middle East, a democracy that’ll be a partner in the global war against the terrorists.”
Has no one told Bush that the Iraqis cannot even agree to form a government?
The day before Bush’s delusional Cleveland speech, Iyad Allawi, the former prime minister of one of our make-believe Iraqi governments, said that in Iraq the casualty rate from the sectarian strife is so high that “if this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is.” (more…)