In BushCo, a 'Policy of Incompetence' reigns. Despite increasing calls for Rumsfeld to step down due to his well documented, substandard handling of the Iraq war, we are told by CNN news that President Bush is intent on "standing by his man." Well, if "his man" is incompetent, and Bush chooses to "stand by him", what does that make Bush? You don't need a Logic 101 course to figure that one out.
Bush has presided over one fiasco after another, and yet, to this day, has held no one--including himself and save a scapegoat here and there--accountable for failures. How can we not think that this administration embraces a policy of incompetency"? Every fact feeds that conclusion.
The Katrina Catastrophe: We all know about the blatantly inept handling of the worst national disaster in our history by the department responsible for our homeland security. I'm sure watching Homeland Security set new benchmarks in bungling has, if nothing else, given al-Qaida more than a few good chuckles.
Yet, today, in the aftermath of the storm, the blundering continues. Government audits and outside analysts have concluded that the "hastily improvised $10 billion effort by the federal government has produced vast sums of waste and misspent funds." Dead bodies have still not been recovered. Government-pledged temporary housing for volunteer workers has been reneged. Instead of planning to rebuild New Orleans "as a model for how to protect our cities in the future," we are witnessing stop-gap, straw-house decisions lacking vision, intelligence, and pragmatism.
Pre-emptive War Fiascos: We set out to avenge 9/11 and make Osama pay for his evil deeds. Osama is still at bay. Afghanistan is still in turmoil. We diverted troops from Afghanistan, before completing that mission, to fight a war in Iraq over a series of now proven-to-be-bogus reasons. BushCo changed the rationale for war in Iraq as often as most of us change our dirty bed sheets.
Since the famous "Mission Accomplished" banner was flaunted in Baghdad to accomodate King George's daily photo op, things have dramatically and steadily grown worse. The death toll for Americans and Iraqis increasingly mounts.
So what does Bush do? Instead of learning from mistakes, listening to fresh ideas, re-evaluating strategies and policies, Bush is intent on "staying the course."
Somebody messed up? Give the guy a medal.
Then there are the issues of administration sanctioned torture, illegal eavesdropping on Americans, no-bid contracts for Halliburton, mishandled and lost taxpayer dollars, corruption, vote fraud--who can keep up with it all?
The worse things get, ironically, the more likely those responsible will hear from Bush, "Heck of a Job!"
It's time we stopped tolerating an administration built on lies, arrogance, and incompetence. An administration that has flagrantly rubbed our faces in its complete disregard for the Constitution, democracy, human suffering, and civil rights.
It's high time we realized that all the king's bombs and all the king's men can't put America back together again. Not when incompetence reigns supreme.
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