Mike Shannon: 'Mr President, how dare you?'
Date: Thursday, July 03
By Mike Shannon
Even for a man who has made some of the stupidest, most ill-advised, poorly
thought out and badly constructed off the cuff comments ever uttered by a
high ranking government official, this was way over the line. For George
Bush to declare that "we have sufficient forces" in place to handle any
armed threat from Iraqi insurrectionists so "bring them on" is so lacking in
common sense, so devoid of compassion for those effected by the statement,
so willful a display of ignorance of how such a comment will be interpreted
by both foe and friend alike that it can be considered nothing but
indisputable evidence that he is by temperament and intellect grotesquely
unsuited for the office of the President of the United States.
For a man who has never heard a shot fired in anger to stand in a public
forum and deliberately goad others to take violent action against the men
and women he is directly responsible for is an abomination. How dare he be
so callous? How dare he be so hypocritical? How dare he be so stupid?
Laughing at his mangled syntax, absurd malapropisms and ever growing litany
of linguistic creations of Frankensteinian proportions is one thing. When
offered on topics of a purely political nature such remarks are merely the
window to a very underdeveloped intellect. But when he is speaking in an
official capacity as commander in chief of the American Armed Forces, and as
such every word he says directly impacts the very lives of thousands of
people, such incompetency cannot be permitted or tolerated.
Mr Bush should first and foremost be ashamed of himself. He should retract
the statement at the first available opportunity. He should apologize to
every man and woman of the Armed Forces of the United States who at this
very hour are directly in harm's way. He should get down on his knees and
beg the forgiveness in advance of every mother, every father, every boy
friend, every girlfriend, every husband, every wife, every brother, every
sister and every friend of every man and woman who will die because of his
vacuous, vainglorious idiocy. |
