Sharpening his rhetoric as the midterm congressional campaign season accelerates, Bush offered a robust defense of his decision to invade Iraq even though, ultimately, no weapons of mass destruction were found, and drew standing ovations for his attacks on those who question his leadership of the war or the fight against terrorists.It's not even July and the president is already into the campaign bullshit mode. This sort of demonization is usually off the table until the end of October when it becomes obvious that the polls are showing that the the incumbent is in big trouble. So out comes the demagoguery.
"There's a group in the opposition party who are willing to retreat before the mission is done," he said. "They're willing to wave the white flag of surrender. And if they succeed, the United States will be worse off, and the world will be worse off."
Never mind the fact that the Republicans haven't got any plan to bring the war in Iraq to a close; all they offer is more of the same: more deaths, more insurgency, more enabling of the puppetry in the new government in Baghdad. All the president can do is challenge the patriotism of his opponents. It would be really ironic if it wasn't so pathetic.
