Check this headline:



Sigh.

There is no leadership from this administration.

Just salesmanship.

Everything is a public relations campaign.

Like here. And here. And here.

At least some of President Bush's fellow conservatives are waking up.

At least some of his fellow conservatives are running away from the idea of just doing more of the same.

Like here. And here. And here. And here. And here.

I blogged the following on the Reality Based News page after the most recent such public relations campaign in June.

This is what I find so infuriating about this administration. They are perpetually in campaign mode. Everything is about the sale, not the substance. There's no governing, no real leadership - just flacks, polls and fake town hall meetings.

They've had every opportunity to change some of the policies that have lead us into a quagmire - send more troops, send more armor, secure the border, cooperate with neighboring nations, require their top terrorism and Middle East intelligence hires to have a knowledge of terrorism and the Middle East, listen to (the few) dissenters within their own administration. But they refuse. They just change the words used to describe the situation, and the reasons we're there, for the thousandth time.

The White House even happily admits that Tuesday's address to the nation was the result of hiring a war PR team. And what has that team told them? That deaths don't matter if you just act confident.

Let me say that in another way.

Your tax dollars went to hire a PR team that told your president that if he addresses the nation with confidence, deaths don't matter.

Again: it boggles my mind that conservatives aren't more angry than liberals about this type of so called leadership. Especially during wartime.

And we have always been at war.

That I could just cut and paste those words with no editing so soon after they were first written to describe yet another PR campaign to turn public opinion on the Iraq war speaks volumes, methinks.

Within those two months, no changes in policy.

Just changes in words used to describe the policy. (Which the president soon changed back again. Zero sum.)

Just crossed fingers over a constitution establishing a government that looks more like Iran than America.

Sprinkled with a dash of more tired, sad invoking of the murder of 3000 innocents on September 11 that Iraq had nothing to do with.

In the meantime, a soldier speaks.

Go read it.

The whole damn thing.

Peace,

B.

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