Couple of things:

1. I believe that Abu Ghraib is kind of like sinking the eight-ball when you are doing so well. It doesn't matter. The game's lost. Start over.
2. As Bush refuses to fire Rumsfeld and Rumsfeld looks more and more like part of this problem, it only makes Bush appear to be covering up for Rummy. Like an archbishop, refusing to punish a priest.
3. This from Josh Marshall's TPM:
This from George Will's columnof August 12th, 1999 ...

[Tucker] Carlson reports asking Bush whether he met with any persons who came to Texas to protest the execution of the murderer Karla Faye Tucker. Bush said no, adding: "I watched (Larry King's) interview with (Tucker), though. He asked her real difficult questions, like 'What would you say to Governor Bush?' " Carlson asked, "What was her answer?" and writes:
" 'Please,' Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, 'don't kill me.' "

Hughes, who says Bush's decision not to commute Tucker's sentence was "very difficult and very emotional," says Carlson's report is "a total misread" of Bush. Carlson, who describes Bush as "smirking," says: "I took it down as he said it."

I'm still searching for the simplest explanation of what exactly is wrong with Pres. Bush. This is some kind of crassness that has not been seen on such high of a level of world-power before...
4. Chomsky is starting to re-surface as a reference to the current situation in Iraq and Abu Graib. While lacking any desire to compare our abuses against abuses by other governments and regimes, Chomsky is quite accurate when it comes to describing US Government and its policies.
5. Some other words used to describe GW Bush: 'cocksure, incurious and lazy.'
6. Words that won't be used to describe the greatest president of the 21st century: Curious George.
7. Seems to me that defending the Administration line is getting more and more difficult. And therefore people doing it are looking stranger and stranger. Check out Rush for instance.



Gary Bauer, then running against Bush for the 2000 nomination, called the Bush's comments "inappropriate, disgusting and profoundly disturbing."