Editorial: Bush talks nonsense about situation in Iraq

If there ever was a time for the 25th Amendment to be considered, it is now. The President is clearly out of touch with reality and is scaring the entire world.

Unfortunately, it is up to his own cabinet to bring up the 25th amendment. How likely is that?

I wonder, can they be held accountable for not doing the responsible thing?

Editorial: Bush talks nonsense about situation in Iraq:

When President Bush pronounced Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki 'the right guy for Iraq' Thursday, it recalled Bush's infamous 'heck of a job' comment about FEMA Director Michael Brown's incompetent response to Hurricane Katrina. Both comments say more about Bush than Brown or Al-Maliki: On Iraq, as on Katrina, Bush has completely slipped the moorings of reality.

Even as the president was speaking to Al-Maliki in Amman, Jordan, rival Shiite and Sunni groups in Baghdad -- including those controlled by Al-Maliki's patron, cleric Muqtada al-Sadr -- were massing for all-out battle. Bloodshed in the capital has reached its highest level since the American invasion. Whatever happens now in Iraq will have little to do with what the United States wants to happen.
Bush showed the clear unreality of his views during a stop in Latvia earlier in the week. He refused to acknowledge the civil war that is plain to see; pronounced, incredibly, that Al-Qaida is the major threat in Iraq, and pledged, again, that he would 'not pull American troops off the battlefield before the mission is complete.'