Super Bowls and Surges

The Patriots did it again. They pulled out another win on the way to a SuperBowl game. It has been very exciting to follow this team as they muddled their way thru this season. When it comes to "playoff time" they seem to rise to the occasion and defy all odds.

Speaking of defying odds, the "Current Occupant", as Garrison Keiler calls Bush, once again has exhibited his inimitable stubborness and decided Iraq needs one more "surge". After three plus years of under manning the troops and leading us into a seemingly bottomless quagmaire, his deliberations with his "Selected" confreres has allowed him to conclude that perhaps more troops, especially in Bagdad, would turn the trick and bring a democratic government into being in Iraq. This time he is again depending on the Iraqis to show up. Their past perfomance leads me to be very skeptical of this scenario. Bush seems to have a simplistic notion that an election, then a government formation, equals democracy and democratic government. That does not appear to be happening in Iraq. The present Prime Minister, a Shiite, beholden in office to the support of a renegade cleric, alSadr, who controls a formidable Shiite militia, seems more intent on eliminating as many Sunnis as possible rather than establishing a "unity" government.
Bush claims suppression of violence will buy the time necessary for the formation of that "unity"government. I suspect also that Bush is moving in this direction to cover his ass when things don't work as predicted so that he can say it"ain't my fault, the Iraqis failed to do their part".

In a candid interview Bush gave for "60 Minutes" he exhibited very clearly his blind belief in his position. When asked if he were stuborn, he paused and replied "I am very flexible". When asked how he reacted to the families of killed soldiers he was very pensive but replied that he felt the sacrifice of those lives was very noble. Asked if he felt the war was a mistake replied "definitely not" and that the Iraqi people owe a great debt of gratitude to the Americans for liberating their country. Bill O'Reilly has a psychologist analyze the body language of various people. I wish someone would do that on Bush. His logic is so out of sync with reality that I suspect he has a deep personality disorder. It has%2