President Bush: Blowing the Job

By Susan Lenfestey

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As this administration bungles from one disaster to another, our president urges us not to look back at how we were bamboozled into this holy hell of a war, but to look ahead to the plan for victory -- as if there were one.

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With old feuds to be settled and the likelihood of a civil war, American bombs, they say, will hit increasingly indiscriminate targets.

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"Our leadership is distracted." Politics and pork have trumped national security, leaving chemical plants unsecured and first-responders unable to communicate with each other but police dogs wearing Kevlar vests.

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The primary responsibility of government is to protect its people. In 2004 Bush managed to convey enough of a tough-guy image to convince a slim majority of Americans that he was the best man for the job.

But he has failed at every turn and now seems incapable of grasping the enormity of the crisis he's brought down on our country. He should be declared a disaster, but that would bring in FEMA.

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as possible. You know that's one of the only ways to get a scandal going about an American president.