I think I'm gonna hurl....
What malignant impulse drives Richard Cohen? What lunacy has taken hold of his fevered brain? One day after Memorial Day, Cohen pens this exculpatory piece of tripe on behalf of the Worst President EverTM, a paean to Bush's neoliberal "good intentions." WTF? Bush is a heartless sociopath, a dry drunk on a Messianic jag. Cohen needs serious shock therapy.
Richard Cohen - Bush the Neoliberal - washingtonpost.com
Allow me to make the case that this is also true when it comes to Iraq. I acknowledge that the war is a catastrophic mistake and was incompetently managed. But if you don't think it was waged on behalf of oil or empire, then one reason for our involvement was an attempt to do some good -- rid the world of a really bad guy and make life better for Iraqis and others in the region. This "liberal" intent may have left Dick Cheney cold and found Don Rumsfeld indifferent, but it appealed to Bush and it showed in his rhetoric and body language. Contrast it to the position of the so-called foreign policy realists, exemplified by the first President Bush and his trusted foreign policy sidekick, Brent Scowcroft.
