Bush to Iraqis: Clean up my mess or I'm out of here!

Ever since he was sworn in as US President, George Bush has had a habit of making bizarre statements that leave you open mouthed in incredulity.

Today he significantly raised the bar with a series of statements regarding Iraq which implied that he lives, not merely on another planet, but in a different time quantum.

"I know many Americans are not satisfied with the situation in Iraq," he said. "I'm not satisfied either".

This is a well known tactic from the man who claims he is so powerful that he is above every law ever written in the US. He suddenly talks as if he, too, is a spectator and he shares our horror. He seems, at moments like this, to forget that he is the architect of the failed Iraqi policy, that every person who dies in that conflict dies as a direct result of decisions that he took. Decisions that many good people, like Colin Powell, begged him not to make.

It really is a startling abdication of responsiblity when he starts talking as if he's simply watching along with the rest of us.

He warned that if Iraq became a failed state, extremists could gain access to oil wealth and launch fresh attacks.

Again, he's sharing our horror at what might happen. Of course, the person with the task of ensuring that Iraq does not become a failed state is himself. He was the man who set out to build a new democracy in the Middle East and if a new democracy does not emerge then the buck stops at his desk... Not that you'd know any of this by listening to him. Maybe somebody should explain to him exactly what his job entails.

But he warned that if the US was not successful in Iraq, extremists could use it as a base from which to try to establish a "radical empire from Spain to Indonesia".

I haven't been in the states for a few years now, but are the population really that gullible? I mean, can the man get any more fantastical? There hasn't been an Islamic empire since the collapse of the Ottoman's, are we seriously to worry that from Spain to Indonesia a new Islamic empire could suddenly emerge? I mean, seriously, we have to ask - Is the man on smack?

But, like all great comedians, he saves the best to the end:

Mr Bush said that he was "making it clear that America's patience is not unlimited" with regards to Iraqi government efforts to gain control of the security situation, particularly tackling Shia death squads.

Did you get that? It's not the invading army that has to deal with the insurgency that it's invasion inspired, it's the rookies of the newly formed Iraqi army who are responsible for clearing up this US/UK inspired mess. And he's not bloody happy about how long they are taking to complete this task.

This is a fantastical. He's now making the Iraqis themselves responsible for the mess that his war has created. And he continues to talk as if he had nothing to do with it. It's North Korea all over again.

Once again, the office of the President is portrayed as essentially powerless. He gives that stupid, inane, college-prep shoulder shrug as if to say, "What the Hell am I supposed to do?" It's beyond the point where we need to even say that he's the worst man ever to hold that great office.

I thought he'd staggered me the other day when he claimed that his position regarding Iraq was "We've never been stay the course". Lies on that scale really do suggest that a sociopathic mind is at work.

However, the man who swore he would never "cut and run"; indeed, the man who wielded that phrase like a weapon against any Democrat who suggested that the war in Iraq was being incompetently fought, now has the nerve, the sheer jaw dropping gall, to warn Iraqis "that America's patience is not unlimited".

Did the Iraqis ask to be invaded? No. However, now Bush says of they don't clean up his mess quicker he might have to... well, "cut and run" is the only proper way to say it.

He ended with a promise to the American people:

Mr Bush assured Americans that they could have "confidence that we will prevail."

I know he lies without even thinking, but he's just given his clearest hint yet that he's got one foot out the door, and he finishes on a promise to "prevail"?

He has simply slunk into a mire of ridiculousness, refusing to admit that Iraq is his baby and threatening the sprouting of new Islamic empires from Spain to Indonesia. It was actually hard not to laugh.

Then you remember that hundreds of thousands of innocent people are dead because this half-wit is in the White House and you realise it's really not funny at all.

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