Faulty Bush administration analogy number 94
"The comparison between Iraq and the Philippines may be more accurate than the one between Iraq and West Germany, but it is hardly more comforting. In fact, it is so discomfiting—it implies such a dismal forecast for America's occupation in Iraq over the next several years (for that matter, the next few decades)—that it's hard to imagine Bush would have made such a remark if he'd understood its full implications."
Read the whole damn thing - and don’t forget to read the two other articles on comparing Iraq with Germany.
Meanwhile, in other Bush administration standing reality on its head news, the increasing sophistication of Iraqi terrorist attacks is painted by the Bush administration as desperation. (Both via Calpundit.) Then again, this isn’t exactly a rhetorical departure for BushCo. And 2001’s witch hunt against Bill Maher for having the intellectual honesty to point out that suicide bombers aren’t cowards merely proves that the Bush administration has consistently refused to use words consistent with their dictionary definition.
Update: Teresa Nielsen Hayden ponders anthrax and restrictions on sending postal mail in the US, before moving on to the Republicans’ attempts in 2000 to steal the election:
I think they’re planning to systematically rig the coming election. As we saw during the last presidential election, you don’t have to rig an election well enough for it to pass muster during later investigations. You just have to rig it long enough for the general public to perceive that the election is now over. The citizenry doesn’t know what to do at that point.