re: #143 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

For God’s sake, knock it off with “the daddy issue” already. It’s a ludicrous argument. It also implies that George W. Bush was actually the captain of his own ship. The Republicans were so gung ho to invade Iraq that W’s “daddy issue” is meaningless. Karl Rove spoke out loud of the Republicans’ dream of a lasting majority, in spite of the fact that W didn’t even win the majority of the votes, and that nationally, the congressional vote favors the Democrats. The only way to parlay their brief dalliance with power into a durable majority was to take advantage of the aftermath of 9/11. They needed war. While just about everybody was on board with the war in Afghanistan, the Republicans needed something that they could use to marginalize their opposition. Iraq was it.

Jesus, you might want to cover up that exposed nerve there, chief.

And, yeah, W was the fucking captain of his own ship. It’s called being “the President”. Even Cheney has acknowledged as much.

I wish people would knock off the whole “Bush was a puppet” nonsense.