Truth

For over a year I've been saying that every time President George W. Bush opens his mouth he lies. Those lips flap and lies come out. He can't help it, he's a lying machine. That's how he's been programmed or programmed himself, because like many in his Administration he is nothing more than an extremely lucky and well-placed corporate criminal.

Check out this clip from his press conference today, an extremely rare event for him, and even more unusual taking questions from hero reporter Helen Thomas.

If you can stomach it, there's the usual litany of lies about him not wanting to go to war with Iraq, the reasons we went, the disproven conflation of Iraq with "the terrorists", the rhetorical 9/11 crutch, the works. It's like he took Helen's question as a chance to reprise the greatest hits of his lying path to ruinous war.

The way he handles it, my God, if Bill Clinton made being President of the U.S. look easy (and inadvertently made it possible for such a soft-expectation candidate as GWB to be voted in), Bush makes it look awfully hard. "It's hard work to be President", he once said. Yeah, if you combine the morals of Kenneth Lay with the one-trick intelligence of an olde time traveling medicine salesman. He makes light of how winded he is just answering non-scripted questions from non-Fox reporters. Better take a breather there, pal, schedule your next press conference for '07.

What's striking is the admission near the end of the clip, in response to a reporter's question, that how long we'll be in Iraq will be a decision for future Presidents. Note the plural! The truth he reveals, that hurts (everyone but Bush himself), is that We the People are going to be in Iraq for a long, long time.

So once again in his luckyboy fuck-up life, Incurious George has made a catastrophic mess, and plans to just run off to leave the adults to clean up after him.