"Back in the Saddle" - Bush and the neo-cons now, from tompaine.com

A succinct and superb column from tompaine.com. Worth reading, and very insightful!

"Back in the Saddle"

Colin Powell's prostate problems might be the least of his worries. No doubt the redoubtable secretary of state is happy that we've got Saddam, but he's got to be concerned about at least one of the consequences of the Iraqi leader's capture. It will be a lot harder now for Powell, the realists in the administration and the Sphinx-like circle of advisers surrounding Bush Senior to persuade the president that his Iraq policy needs an overhaul. And so the likelihood that Bush will change course in Iraq before next November is very small indeed.

http://tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9637

people continue to maintain that Colin Powell is a stable "realist" as Dreyfuss puts it. I am sorry that I cannot agree--Powell went before the UN ina spectacular performance and lied, not once, but certainly more than five times, maybe even more than ten times. I cannot agree with his analysis of Powell. I think Powell is merely a hanger on with little ability to parse or analyse a thing because he seems too interested in his own career and does not seem to mind that he has, indeed, been reduced to the bat boy-or the office messenger.

But I do agree that Bush is in far over his head and is lacking or as the article says "limited" (trying to be kind to George?) in his intellectual capacity. He is indeed over his head, and indeed, the notion, in his adolescent mind that he, the big tough cowboy, "captured" Saddam when his daddy failed to bring Saddam to the gallows, well, we know that is what appeals the most to the pea brain, ride em up, lacking in intelligence, George Bush. He thinks he is the warrior president now and fails to realize that we do not care, Bush. American is not that impressed, George, as you are with yourself.