Me Thinks The Job Is getting To Him?

Yesterday George out did himself. Instead of the righteous indignation I think, or better yet I HOPE, he was shooting for, Shrub came off more as unhinged. This is a developing and disturbing pattern in the presidents behavior as of late. Prompting right wingers, like Scarborough, to ask the nation "Is The Bush an Idiot?" (link to video).

Crooks and Liars (link) has video of yesterday's meltdown as well as a transcript. The Washington Post (link) has aditional video from an August 19, 2006 press conference were Shrub kinda... well ... looses track of what the hell he is talking about!

Bush: ...The terrorists attacked us and killed 3,000 of our citizens before we started the freedom agenda in the Middle East. They were …

QUESTION: What did Iraqi have to do with that?

BUSH: What did Iraq have to do with what?

QUESTION: The attacks upon the World Trade Center.

BUSH: Nothing. . . . .Except for it’s part of — and nobody’s ever suggested in this administration that Saddam Hussein ordered the attack. Iraq was a — Iraq — the lesson of September the 11th is: Take threats before they fully materialize,

WOW. DAMN.

Russert: Do you still believe there is no evidence that Iraq was involved in September 11?

CHENEY: Well, what we now have that’s developed since you and I last talked, Tim, of course, was that report that’s been pretty well confirmed, that he did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in Czechoslovakia last April, several months before the attack

January 2003 State of The Union

Bush: "Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of al-Qaida,"

Bush: The terrorists have lost a sponsor in Iraq. And no terrorist networks will ever gain weapons of mass destruction from Saddam Hussein's regime.

September 2003, televised address:

Bush: We've learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases. And we know that after 11 September, Saddam Hussein's regime gleefully celebrated the terrorist attacks on America.

Some citizens wonder, after 11 years of living with this problem, why do we need to confront it now? And there's a reason. We've experienced the horror of 11 September.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell in a presentation to the UN Security Council, setting out the US case against the Iraqi regime, February 2003.

The BBC from 09/18/2003 has a parade of quotes from Shrub himself either directly linking or heavily suggesting that Iraq and Al-Qaeda were tied at the hip. (Link)