Bush in Fantasyland

The fact that Dubya lives in a fantasy bubble of his own making is a weakness that should be exploited futher. He is divorced from the reality that the rest of us live in and his mistakes have no repercussions for him... but they do for us, deadly ones. That is how you broach the question of trust with regard to Dubya, not in respect to 'resolve' but with regard to 'reality.'

The closest Dubya has ever come to our reality is the seven minues on 9/11... and what did he do? He went AWOL as usual -- first with the pet goat, then in air force one.

"...At the root of this folly is a continuing refusal to face uncomfortable facts. Confronted with a bleak C.I.A. assessment of the Iraq situation - one that matches the judgment of just about every independent expert - Mr. Bush's response is that 'they were just guessing.' 'In many ways,' Mr. Cordesman writes, 'the administration's senior spokesmen still seem to live in a fantasyland.'

Fantasyland extended to the Rose Garden yesterday, where Mr. Bush said polls asking Iraqis whether their nation was on the right track were more positive than similar polls asking Americans about their outlook - and he seemed to consider that a good sign...."