Bush's Puppet Government

Walter C. Uhler is an independent scholar and freelance writer whose work has been published in numerous publications, including The Nation, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Journal of Military History, the Moscow Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. He also is President of the Russian-American International Studies Association (RAISA).




Even Confiding With God Doesn't Compensate for Bush's Brain
By Walter C. Uhler

Writing in [yesterday's] New York Times, Bob Herbert observed: "There's a disturbing remoteness to President Bush," that has reduced him to "little more than a bundle of talking points." Reduced? Anyone even remotely familiar with the life story of this 43rd and worst of all American presidents knows that George W. Bush has never succeeded on his own.

Yes, he normally puts up a good, if false, front that initially fools most people until they are compelled to examine his actual performance. But make no mistake, Bush's string of failures—both of character and performance—would have long ago disqualified anyone else lacking his family's political and financial clout in our American plutocracy. As Senator Joseph Biden observed, Bush never worked to correct his massive flaws because "he always had someone there—his family or friends—to bail him out."

But, like America's evangelicals, we should have taken Bush at his word in 1999, when he smugly asserted: "Nobody needs to tell me what I believe. But I do need somebody to tell me where Kosovo is." Unfortunately, too few of us failed to state that what he was offering us—a core of ignorance and incompetence, especially in foreign affairs, shrouded by faith in Jesus—was inadequate for presidential decision making.
As a consequence, America not only got a President to whom God supposedly confides, but also a President who permitted a cabal led by Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and a handful of Zionist neocons to show him where Iraq is.

Now—given his debacle in Iraq—it should be obvious to all Americans that even confiding with God doesn't compensate for Bush's brain.

Yet, wasn't it vintage Dubya [Wednesday], when he revealed his "National Strategy for Victory in Iraq?"

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