War as an Excuse for Everything
Is it Just Me, or is President Bush's Demeanor a bit Napoleonic these Days?

by Robert Scheer

The enemies of the republic are everywhere, he says over and over, and only he stands between them and our utter ruin. Sunday on "Meet the Press," he could say nothing without also referring to military battles he is apparently fit to fight — presumably based on his stealthy stint in the National Guard.

I am a "war president … with war on my mind," he insisted to Tim Russert, dodging the newsman's every question, as if his trainers had assured him that the phrase was a talisman that would ward off all charges of ineptitude and bad-faith leadership. Yet it was hardly clear from his filibustering responses exactly what war it was that Bush thought he was fighting.

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