As I sit here waiting on the cable guy to show up and get the new DVR box working on the new TV (the old one blew) so I can record the president’s speech tonight, I suppose it is time to change the subject from Alabama football to American politics.

Just to prove what a macho dumbass he is for his faithful mass audience, President George W. Bush will take to the public airwaves tonight to try and make the case that what we need in Iraq are more troops, not less.

The Washington Post is reporting today that this will be the first time Bush has gone against the advice of the military commanders on the ground, as he likes to call them. In one of his latest Bushisms, he told the Post: “I’m a strict adherer to the command structure.”

Bush To Go Against Generals With Iraq Troop ‘Surge’ Speech

Sources tell the Post that Bush will borrow from Newton’s third law of motion tonight and say, “… we have to go up before we go down.”

Righto, commander-in-poop.

More troops are not being recommended by the Pentagon or the Baker-Iraq Study Group or even the Iraqi government

It’s clear Bush has decided on this strategy because he is a selfish little frat boy who has not learned a damn thing in his tenure in the White House. And it’s clear Bush does not give a damn about the future of Iraq, American Democracy or even the Republican Party.

Virtually all the experts agree that an escalation of the war in Iraq will only hurt Republicans in the 2008 elections, since no amount of new troops in Iraq will save this debacle now. Perhaps if the U.S. had gone in with 400,000 troops in the beginning the outcome would have been different.

But then, that ignores the larger point that the invasion should never have happened in the first place. Saddam was not an “imminent threat” to the U.S. nor an ally of al Qaeda, which was responsible for the attacks of 9/11.

Too bad the new cable box won’t include a button for the American people to vote on whether to send Bush back to the ranch. Now that would be a cool innovation - in technology and democracy.

It will be interesting to see if the White House docs get Bush’s meds just right tonight. If he is too hyper or too relaxed, and slurs his speech again, we could get this impeachment movement off the ground sooner, not later…

Tags: Iraq War

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