After more than five years of incoherent actions in Iraq, the most incompetent president in living memory has decided to lock the door and tiptoe quietly away, leaving the incoming president to deal with the mess.
He has, however, graciously decided that members of the US military will henceforth only have to spend 12 months out of every 24 on the Eastern Front. I’m sure they’ll be over the moon.
The symbolism is instructive:
After Petraeus and Crocker finished their first progress report to Congress in September, the president addressed the nation in prime time.
Bush is set to head to Texas later Thursday for a few days of rest at his Crawford ranch.
I guess after all that incredible mental strain the poor bugger deserves a bit of time off. After all, he feels their pain (the American soldiers’ families’ pain that is … I don’t recall him ever expressing much in the way of sympathy for the invisible millions of dead, injured and displaced Iraqis).
