Eternal War

America's President inhabits a world the rest of us do not see – one filled with enemies around every corner, one where his perceptions are depressing perversions of the true world we live in. While there is danger in the world – there always is. America has coped and persevered in the past and there is no reason we cannot in the future. Chimpie is filled with a messianic self delusion that he has been given 'this mission' by God and he continues to plod onward regardless of the wrongheadedness that is apparent to all. Anyone who disagrees with his reality is labeled as naïve or traitorous or of enabling the terrorists. Since it appears most everyone is disagreeing with him - can the all these people be wrong? He is the real danger in America's reality as he is incapable of admitting error.

But Bush insisted Saturday that claims that the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq was helping foster anti-American terrorism were tantamount to buying "into the enemy's propaganda."

"The only way to protect our citizens at home is to go on the offense against the enemy across the world," the president said Saturday. "So we will remain on the offense until the terrorists are defeated and this fight is won."

The Republican president, who just two days ago branded opposition Democrats "the party of cut-and-run," argued an early withdrawal from Iraq, as suggested by some Democrats, would only embolden terrorists.

Democrats have long accused the White House of failing to foresee an Iraqi insurgency, create a viable international coalition behind the invasion, and of sending too few soldiers to do control the restive country.

Now they are also charging the president is in a state of denial. "He doesn't want to see the facts. He doesn't want to acknowledge reality," Carl Levin, the top Democrat of the Senate Armed Services Committee, insisted Friday.

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