Saying it again and again don't make it true

This morning's drive music song is retroactively dedicated to our darling President George W. Bush, who continues to insist that we are making progress against the insurgency and towards establishing democracy in Iraq. He says this even as the insurgents have taken to chlorine gas explosions and as American soliders continue to die by the dozens each week. Apparently he's decided it isn't necessary to pay attention to pesky things like "facts" and "statistics" and "reports from the front"...after all, why start now?

My favorite part of his completely BS speech is this choice quote:

"There will be good days and bad days ahead as the security plan unfolds."

I can't decide which part of this is worse, the part where he's basically saying he plans to ingore the daily signs that things are continuing to spiral out of control and lives will continue to be needlessy lost by shrugging and saying "eh, guess today's a bad day," or the ridiculous notion that we actually have an unfolding security plan. Oh really, now we have a plan? Finally, 4 years after this quagmire began, now we finally have a plan? Well halle-friggin-lujah.

Meanwhile his darling mother reveals her inner Marie Antoinette by saying on Good Morning America that she doesn't want to see news about how bad the war is going because it interferes with her happy place:

“Why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s going to happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?”

We used to think you were the sweet white-haired old grandmother, Barb, but now we all know you're just that nasty self-righteous heartless old biddy who sits in the corner whining about how everyone else is ruining your life by failing to cowtow to your every whim. My paternal grandmother was one of you, and I do not intend that as a compliment.

That takes me to this hilarious and yet at the same time depressing picture that I saw via Blog for Democracy. Sums up my feelings precisely. I'm fucking tired of protesting this shit.