"Kill the bastards! Kill the bastards! And you'll succeed." ' "

"Kill the bastards! Kill the bastards! And you'll succeed." ' "

Bush's love of liberty came with a lust for blood.

Meanwhile, Woodward reports that Casey, the president's commanding general in Iraq from 2004 to 2007, came to believe that Bush did not understand the nature of the Iraq war, that the president focused too much on body counts as a measure of progress.

"Casey had long concluded that one big problem with the war was the president himself," Woodward writes. "He later told a colleague in private that he had the impression that Bush reflected the 'radical wing of the Republican Party that kept saying, "Kill the bastards! Kill the bastards! And you'll succeed." ' "

Asked about his interest in body counts, Bush told Woodward: "I asked that on occasion to find out whether or not we're fighting back. Because the perception is that our guys are dying and they're not. Because we don't put out numbers. We don't have a tally. On the other hand, if I'm sitting here watching the casualties come in, I'd at least like to know whether or not our soldiers are fighting."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090403160_pf.html

books about THIS EGO-MANIACAL ADMINISTRATION!! Just started reading Suskind's "The Way Of The World" and stay "depressed" on a daily basis. For a long time now I've been cynical and angrier than I ever thought possible, but now I just wish I had "fangs" to tear the flesh off their faces!!

As a Boomer who thought the Viet Nam Era was horrible I simply CAN NOT UNDERSTAND how they keep getting away with ANY & EVERYTHING they want! This country had better wake up "like yesterday" but I fear it won't! I told my husband recently that if McCain wins I'm seriously thinking, and I mean SERIOUSLY that I want to just leave!! He just laughs it off because it's almost impossible to do, but I don't think I can take much more!

EVERY DAY there seems to be some NEW offense to the Constitution and MOST Americans while realizing their personal plight, loss of jobs, health care... the whole ball of wax, just don't seem to GET IT, or keep tightening those blinders on their face!!

JMHO!!