"George 'Machiavelli' Bush? Nah"

An excellent op-ed from Tony Blankley in WaTi, June 4:

Until about two weeks ago, our friends in the liberal media, the Democratic Party, the State Department and France had consistently accused our president of being a simpleton. He was not like them, with their beautiful, subtle minds that could see 12 sides to every issue and thus be paralyzed into inaction. George Bush — in their lofty view — saw everything as good and evil, black and white, right and wrong, friend and foe. He was, of all appalling things — a moralist, and heaven forfend, a practicing, believing Christian. He simply didn't have the intellectual firepower of his critics that permitted them to be devious, clever and amoral....

But after two years of being accused of being too stupid and moralizing to be president, George W. has passed two tax cuts, won two wars and maintained the highest sustained public job approval ratings in the history of presidential polling.

So, just in time for the 2004 model year unveiling, the liberal media, et.al have come up with an even more implausible description of George W. Bush. We are now to believe that the president is the devious mastermind of a mind-bogglingly complex plot to deceive the world into thinking Saddam Hussein had chemical and biological weapons. Not only did he have to deceive the credulous and naive French Intelligence Service, but also Russian and German intelligence, the U.N. Security Council and their inspectors, the State Department bureaucracy, including Colin Powell personally, and Tony Blair and the vaunted British Intelligence establishment. Because before the war, all those entities honestly believed — and consistently reported to the world press — that they believed Saddam had such weapons....

(See also "Too Smart To Be So Dumb".)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sat. 06/07/03 10:52:13 AM
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