Republicans are incompetent, at governance. They are highly competent at stealing.
The cover story for Iraq was the marrying of 911 to Hussein. Without 911 there was no appetite in the US for toppling a third world country. The fear and stupidity created by 911 was the engine that drove everything in this country for the last 5 years. The fear and stupidity have started to subside so people are now, finally, a bit angry.
I don't think Bush drives things in the Republican party. I think he goes along, as he always has, and gets yanked this way and that by Poppy, by Cheney, by Kissinger (egads) and by his sociopathy and weirdnesses. Iraq was his way of getting out from under Poppy and see how that turned out.
I think #2 is the be all and end all of the leadership of the Republican Party. They're autocrats, fascists, dictators, wanna be aristocrats...it's all the same thing. They're not republicans, they're monarchists. They're not democrats, they're fascists.
They aren't even Christians as the love of money and the stomping on the poor define them. There is room in this world for evil little men and evil little women and some people are simply evil and little.
They've turned Afghanistan over to NATO. Is there a more glaring declaration of utter Republican failure than that? When they give up permanent bases in Iraq, that'll be the end of that misadventure.
These guys don't want a working democracy anywhere, including in the UK and the US. Democracy is beyond their paygrade.
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