Crocodile Tears From Bush

Bob Herbert, in today's New York Times (it is "TimesSelect" online, a real royal pain in the ass), makes the point that for all of the professed concern of Chimpy's henchmen that what they are trying to do is avoid a humanitarian crisis in Iraq, the crisis long ago arrived.

To wit:

Der Monkey Fuhrer's minions do their best to not know how many Iraqis have been killed since Bush began his war of choice. It is probably over 100,000, and may be far higher than that.

Nobody knows how many Iraqis have been maimed.

8% of the population of pre-war Iraq has fled the country. An equal number have been displaced internally by sectarian cleansing.

Approximately one-half of the doctors have fled.

Due to a lack of safe drinking water in a country that formerly had safe drinking water, cholera has appeared.

And that doesn't even get into child malnutrition or the collapse of the electrical grid or the scarcity of consumer-level petroleum products in a nation sitting on huge amounts of oil.

Let's scale those numbers so that we can apply them to the USA. If something like that was going on here, 24 million Americans would have fled to Mexico and Canada. 24 million more would have had to move in an attempt to escape death squads. 3 million would have been killed, maybe ten million. Major cities, such as New York and Chicago, would have one to three hours of electricity a day.

This is "success" according to George W. Bush.

Bush's definition of success is like praising a child for doing well when the kid got a D on a third of the coursework and failed the rest.