Bushs new look is the affect of a person on heavy antidepressants. His facial muscles are unresponsive to the emotions of his words. It is as though he has had a massive Botox injection.
By geoffnich | Dec 26, 2006 11:44:32 PM | Request Removal
Oh, poor Bushie! Anguish,huh? Gee, I see something else. Petulance. Gosh darn that reality thing... why doesnt it do what I say? Everyone else always has! Youre using the same old tired lines and quips to try and prove theres a flinty man under there-- that theres someone thoughtful and empathic. But youre just not getting there. You cannot persuade us with the same old lines hes been using and pretending theyre of great significance. Hes delusional. This terrible war was an explosion of his ego, and the victims of his pet war are the ones who deserve your sympathy-- not him. He chose to do this. He chose to do it very, very badly. He chose to do it dishonestly and dishonorably. You are delusional yourself if you think he is exhibiting some depth of character that hes never had before.
By rasley | Dec 26, 2006 11:51:12 PM | Request Removal
If youre trying to get people to feel sorry for this lying little fool, forget it! The only time I would even consider feeling sorry for this stupid little imbecile would be on the day of his sentencing for Treason.
By chasemonster | Dec 26, 2006 11:52:48 PM | Request Removal
Reading this makes me sad for Bush and sad for our country. Like a majority of people in the world, I felt like this war was folly from the beginning... Id watch the news and read it thoroughly each day for new developments, almost as a voyeur, and always with an I told you so attitude. This was interrupted with elation at times when the Iraqis held successful elections. But its depressing and heart-breaking now as we struggle to gain victory that may be unattainable, and as we suggest that the fate of the Iraqis are in the hands of the Iraqis -- after dealing them an impossible hand to win with.
By mcrcareer | Dec 26, 2006 11:53:18 PM | Request Removal
David Ignatius: I frequently wonder why you dont know that Bushs decisions are based primarily upon those made by the neocons. Yet you never mention this, and I cant help but question not so much your IQ but perhaps your bias. Isnt it time for the will of the American people to take precedence over a minority with dual loyalties? Whatever has happened to our American ideal of We the People? Admittedly, Bush looks tired, so why dont the neocons leave him alone? Let him listen to his father and Baker rather than Wolfowitz, Perle, Kristol, Kagan, etc - the whole PNAC gang and why not have more opinion pieces about which countries have the most nuclear warheads, what nations refuse to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaties, and which nations need oil, and how they aim to get it. Not another pre-emptive war, I hope. Its not the American way.
By dangerosa | Dec 27, 2006 12:04:10 AM | Request Removal
Start Geadon and Haldol but for its too late.
By hspimpact | Dec 27, 2006 12:10:12 AM | Request Removal
A truly pathetic column......Yeah Bush is playing to win. Hes flinty. Under the spotlight hell have to go it alone. ...Are you kidding me with this crap? Bush is a lying, draft dodging dolt, who is undermining our military. Hundreds of thousands have died due to his lies. Portraying him as some sort of introspective, anguished loner is laughable. Do any of the writers at WaPo have an ounce of backbone, or even a hint of a clue? Bush is far and away the worst president we have ever had, and you clowns are trying to make him into the Lone Ranger.
By rdric | Dec 27, 2006 12:10:25 AM | Request Removal
Worst President ever. Unfit to serve, incapable of leadership, advised and enabled by oil barons, weapons of death merchants, thugs, liars, and wanna-be warriors. Supported by the votes of cowards, crooks and criminal *christians*. May his dreams be ever filled with the cries and shrieks of the thousands he has sent to a meaningless death.
By munkle | Dec 27, 2006 12:25:01 AM | Request Removal
If Bush had any decency, he would apologize for the mess that he has made in Iraq and resign.
By rkerg | Dec 27, 2006 12:32:08 AM | Request Removal
President Bush dosent deserve our sympathy.He is the decider who started this war and he has never once admitted that it was a mistake.He has no human feelings for anyone except himself.The only reason he dosent bring the troops home is that he would be admitting defeat.Which he will end up doing anyway.More and more of our troops will have to die just to save his face.He stood up and lied time after time about the reasons for going to war.People have not forgotten all his lies.It is time he paid the piper.HE IS A DANGEROUS FOOL.
By nanturner | Dec 27, 2006 12:34:32 AM | Request Removal
If Bush had any decency, he,d realize what a horrible mess of death he has created, and immediately wrestle one of the guns from his SS guards and blow out his brains. Bush,s brains, not the SS man,s, of course. Unfortunately, there,s no danger of this happening because Bush has no decency.
By Bukkonen | Dec 27, 2006 12:35:27 AM | Request Removal
And with my scorn for Bushwit satisfied, let me heap a little bit on Ignatius. For instance, lines like ,,He is letting it bleed,,? WHO IS BLEEDING, YOU MORON?!? It certainly isn,t George Witless Bush. The people who are bleeding are the Iraqis who are getting electric drills shoved into their eyeballs, and cars full of children who are being machine-gunned because their father drove too close to an American checkpoint, or U.S. soldiers whose legs have been blown off by roadside bombs. George Bush is not bleeding -- he,s only pretending to be sorry. Ignatius, you should be sorry you put such crapp to print.
By Bukkonen | Dec 27, 2006 12:43:20 AM | Request Removal
Our Chickenhawk-in-Chief has lived in a fantasy world since infancy. Everything he supposedly has accomplished his whole life--from getting into Yale to getting rich through the Texas Rangers baseball club--is a product of either his father or his fathers friends. Hes never lived in a real world until now. Bush II is trying to become an adult after 60 years of having real adults bail his sorry butt out of failure after failure. This would be okay if he was learning how to balance his checkbook or capture an original thought or practice his diction. Unfortunately, our Chickenhawk-in-Chief is trying to run the United States and carry on the war he started to show Poppy he wasnt the wastrel, the substance-abusing son that the family had resigned itself to endure. Well, welcome to the real world, Bubble Boy, where your decisions result in death and your foolish immaturity will forever brand you as our most incompetent President.
By mikeasr | Dec 27, 2006 12:43:30 AM | Request Removal
He is flinty, all right. That is to say, his head has the same relative density as flint. In a just world, his pillow would snap shut like a beartrap on his flinty head and choke the life out of him.
By marknesop | Dec 27, 2006 12:50:57 AM | Request Removal
Mr. Ignatius, you are an inside-the-Beltway asskisser. Do you honestly think the rest of this country gives a damn about George W. Bushs delicate emotional life at this point, after the damage hes done? We just want him GONE. Stop the idiotic armchair psychologizing, stop buying the P.R. they feed you, and do some decent reporting for a change. You power-flattering Beltway courtiers have helped bring this country to disaster.
By corbettwd | Dec 27, 2006 12:59:08 AM | Request Removal
Mr. Ignatius, you and Jon Mechamsp? and George and Laura and Condi should hold hands together and all sing Kumbaya. What this man deserves after what he has done to this country and the world, and unfortunalely, will never receive, is not fit to print.
By rolandjn | Dec 27, 2006 12:59:43 AM | Request Removal
Another courtier insisting that the emperor is clothed in the finest silks. Wake up, Ignatius.
By dailykos | Dec 27, 2006 1:26:03 AM | Request Removal
Yes, Mr. Ignatius, Deputy Dubya Bush certainly would seem to need another couple of mattresses to go with the dozen or so that he already has between him and that damn little pea that keeps disturbing his pathetic, pampered sleep. Too bad. This victim/veteran of the Nixon-Kissinger Fig Leaf Contingent, i.e., Vietnam 1970-72, has no sympathy for the service-avoiding princeling, nor for five-deferment Sheriff Dick Cheney down in his bunker/crypt performing voodoo rituals at his shrine to Richard Nixon. Nor, for that matter, could I possibly have an ounce of respect for anyone still capable at this late date of writing such unctuous, unadulterated crap. May such unregenerate tush-smooching gain you all the access that I. F. Stone said separates your ilk from real journalists.
By m_r_murry | Dec 27, 2006 1:33:33 AM | Request Removal
This is one of Ignatius most pathetic articles in a long line of mediocre output. Read Timothy Garton Ash, the historian and Oxford professor, as an antidote. Speaking of Bushs Iraq adventure, he says: Never in the field of human conflict was so little achieved by so great a country at such vast expense.
By drburton | Dec 27, 2006 1:38:46 AM | Request Removal
ALL Americans should read The Greatest Story Ever Sold by Frank Rich. Bush and company should all be tried as a war criminals. People, Cheney is still talking about WMD. I hope every wrong thing that Bush has done since he stole the election shows on his face and cripples his body.
By zkatsrus | Dec 27, 2006 1:40:45 AM | Request Removal
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