Outside the Spectrum

So now that the Iraq Study Group has come out and Drinky has summarily dismissed their ideas and, yet, desperately latched on to a few ideas he agrees with (“the Earth is round,” “the sun rises in the East and sets in the West,” “the United States needs to do better”) I and other commentators have come to a question.

When do we get to storm the White House with torches and drag the Preznit out by his large and irregularly-shaped ears?

Steve Young points to a fact that many have noticed: among many other things, the ISG points out that the White House was systematically and purposefully under-reporting the numbers of deaths and acts of violence in Iraq. Many others have noted it as well.

Let me put this in language more plain: the President and his people were lying their asses off.

So now that “crazy” estimate from the Lancet people of civilians killed (650,000) seems a lot less crazy when you figure that the Preznit’s people guesstimated 30-60,000 dead only counting ten percent of the dead.

Ridiculous. Impeachable. This presidency has surpassed routine badness: its existence long ago became an insult to the brave soldiers and patriots who defend us, a blemish on the country, a stain on our history, a blight on the World, an affront to the Constitution, a mockery of Christianity, and an insult to God.

The ISG’s caustic analysis of the Preznit’s work is remarkable, to me, because this was a bipartisan group made of Washington insiders. Truly, excoriation in Washington only comes when the president fucks up as badly as this one has.