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Manipulation by a Master
February 7, 2007

Somebody on President Bush’s staff recently devised and executed such a brilliant psychological plan to manipulate Congress that I am wondering “who” this genius could possibly be. Certainly not Bush himself. Our incumbent lame-duck puppet of the Pope is not capable of a plan this simple, profound and effective.

Actually, does the President have any staff members left? The last time I checked, they were all resigning. Even his own White House attorney self-pink-slipped. Doesn’t that say something significant when an attorney jumps ship on a client.

Anyway, I seem to remember a recent mid-term election during which the American people solidly bitch-slapped President Bush by deeding Congress back to the Democrats because of an unjustifiable war in Iraq.

The new Congress appeared poised to extract the U.S. from Bush’s pointless war. American voter spirits were high and there existed a glimmer of hope that Bush’s intentional manslaughter total would not reach 4,000 American service members by the end of 2007.

Then, as the new Democrat-controlled Congress wasted its time with inconsequential bills designed to draw public attention away from the reality that the Democrats themselves don’t have a solution for the U.S. adventure in Iraq; this happened:

CONGRESS: We intend to initiate action to extricate U.S. forces from Iraq.

BUSH: I will send 21,000 additional troops into Baghdad. I will call it a “surge.”

CONGRESS: Your plan for Iraq has not worked. Why would sending more troops to Baghdad change anything?

BUSH: I will send 21,000 additional troops into Baghdad. I will call it a “surge.”

CONGRESS: You should follow the recommendations of the Iraqi study group and negotiate with Iran and Syria.

BUSH: I will send 21,000 additional troops into Baghdad. I will call it a “surge.”

CONGRESS: We could deny funds for the surge.

BUSH: I will send 21,000 additional troops into Baghdad. Would you truly deny the support needed by our own heroic troops during the “surge?”

CONGRESS: Who do you take us for? We will support our troops. But we will pass non-binding resolutions to show you we don’t approve of this “surge.”

WAIT, WAIT . . . do you see what just happened here? Congress is now mired deep in it’s own inability to pass a non-binding resolution regarding the “surge.” Efforts by the Senate to pass this resolution have broken down and the House will begin debate on their own version of a non-binding resolution on the “surge” next week.

While the American public was distracted by Super Bowl fever and GoDaddy commercials, Bush manipulated Congress into a fight over the “surge,” instead of a fight over U.S. involvement in Iraq.” Congress still doesn’t realize what has happened. Then, to add insult to manipulation, Bush submitted a new budget request that infers U.S. military involvement in Iraq at least until the year 2009. Even Joseph Goebbels would be impressed by this psychological operation.

What a great manipulation. I see what has happened; I grudgingly congratulate the unknown official who devised this insidious ploy; I drop all pretense of confidence in Congress; and I mourn in advance the thousands of American soldiers yet to die in Bush’s unjustifiable war.

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