Bush (on the Titanic) defends "staying the course"....(must read)

[veracity]

Once again, despite the release of the devastating report of his failing policy in Iraq, Bush is defending his policy. Stay the course. Resolve. Whatever the mantra, that's the message. That's what so many of the unclued actually admire about this madman.

If you missed it...here's what Bush is doing....as he takes us to total disaster:

STAYING THE COURSE
WITH BLIND MEN AT THE HELM!

Staying the course? So did the Titanic!


Less than a year ago, George Bush spoke to reporters at the White House about his strategy for dealing with insurgency in Iraq. In a moment of embarrassing bravado he snarled to the world: Bring ‘em on! And guess what... they came.

They came from every quarter: the Shia who hated Saddam and the Sunis who supported him. They came from newly recruited terror groups, and from across unguarded borders. Roadside explosions and suicide bombs took their daily toll, and Iraq gradually spiraled into a region of greater and greater chaos and death. Today, as new battles erupt each day, and no one knows for certain the face of the insurgency, the quagmire deepens. Today, close to 900 coalition troops and thousands of Iraqis have died, and so very, very many have been maimed for life.

And today, more than 82% of Iraqis oppose the occupation of their country. And guess what…George Bush is clueless. Despite the morass, despite the warnings, despite the handwriting on the wall, George Bush is clueless. Despite the rumblings of his own military leaders, and despite the growing whispers that the war – both militarily and politically - is rapidly being lost, George Bush is clueless.

With a refusal to deal with any reality whatsoever, the Bush bravado continued. Despite all that happened, - despite the absence of any preplanning, it continued. Despite the failure to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people, it continued. Despite the absence of a plan to whom to hand over sovereignty, it continued. Despite any semblance of an exit strategy, it continued.

Despite depletion of our armor and the exhaustion of our troops, - and despite the recent prison scandal, the bravado continued. Despite the hundreds of billions of dollars still needed to fight a war that is going nowhere, it continued. No matter how drastic the situation became, it continued. It continued, and continued because George Bush does not make mistakes. No matter what the cost, George Bush never makes mistakes, so there would be no change in strategy.

There would however be a change of mantra – not strategy, mind you, only mantra. Listen closely to every speech he makes. You will hear George Bush, in the same egotistical bravado as before, parroting his latest Karl Rove phrase: We must stay the course! We must stay the course! We must stay the course!

Never mind that the course is leading this nation and Iraq to an inevitable catastrophe. Never mind. Just stay the course. Never mind that the leaders at the helm are blind. Just stay the course. Never mind that they have been blinded by their own greed, their own ambitions, and their own mistaken sense of invincibility. Just stay the course, at any price, right or wrong. Or not….

More..
http://tvnewslies.org/html/staying_the_course.html

[Davis_X_Machina]

1. There is no "course" to stay. n/t

[veracity]

2. but....

....half the country doesn't understand that the 'course' leads to total devastation. Polls this morning have 72% of the country trusting Bush to lead them. That's Zogby. I cannot understand that. It's insane.

[Bandit]

3. He may have ran us into a brick wall but by golly he didn't blink

That is the mentality we are up against.

[ComerPerro]

4. There are some MAJOR problems with the "Titanic" analogy

Here is how things would have gone on Bush's Titanic.


"Captain Bush" was asleep when he was told we were going to hit the iceberg, was too busy with other things when being warned repeatedly about it, and didn't do a god damn thing when he finally was told that we hit an iceberg.

His first reaction was to promise that we would make the iceberg pay, but this was just nonsense that we knew he had no intention of carrying out. Then, high ranking members of his crew set out blaming everyone, from the ship-builder to weathermen, anyone they could blame except themselves and the Captain.

Of couse, those on board who tried to warn others that the ship had hit an iceberg were slandered. They were called "doomsayers" who were spreading negative lies and rumours in an effort to get people to abandon the ship, and were depressing people with their negative talk. After all, so what if we had hit an iceberg? Everything is fine, as long as you trust the Captain.

Meanwhile, the Captain, top members of his crew, and the richest passengers were escaping in the only lifeboats with all of the food and money they could carry, even if it didn't belong to them.