In an effort to ensure victory, Bush cans a couple of key players: Rumsfeld, Richard Myers, maybe Colin Powell (who will likely leave after the first term anyway).

Once the troublesome few whose “mistakes” led to the Iraqi quagmire are gone, Bush can claim it’s evidence of his leadership and thus advance his profile as the “leader” needed for the struggle ahead.

He might even — get this — do it by admitting that “mistakes have been made,” and use the firing(s) to show his willingness to correct them — without scrapping much of the actual framework of the near-Fascist cabal around him.

I bet that would gain him a few percentage points.

Get Cheney to step down for “health reasons”, put Giuliani in his place, and Iraq and roll is here to stay.

In an effort to ensure victory, Bush cans a couple of key players: Rumsfeld, Richard Myers, maybe Colin Powell (who will likely leave after the first term anyway).

Once the troublesome few whose “mistakes” led to the Iraqi quagmire are gone, Bush can claim it’s evidence of his leadership and thus advance his profile as the “leader” needed for the struggle ahead.

He might even — get this — do it by admitting that “mistakes have been made,” and use the firing(s) to show his willingness to correct them — without scrapping much of the actual framework of the near-Fascist cabal around him.

I bet that would gain him a few percentage points.

Get Cheney to step down for “health reasons”, put Giuliani in his place, and Iraq and roll is here to stay.

Was more random statements than a coherent message.

At least, it was meant to be.

Wasn’t it?

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Maybe my shrink is right — maybe I do still have issues about 9/11 that I haven’t dealt with.

I had dreams for the first time in ages about Ground Zero — and I realized, I think, why I can’t talk about having been there.

I keep coming back to Lovecraft: his insistence on speaking of the evil of R’yleh as being manifest in the way the architecture looked, how perspectives and angles were off in ways that the human mind couldn’t comprehend and therefore were prone to induce madness.

And I think that’s what I get from my memory of Ground Zero: the idea that facing it will induce madness.

That and the fucking smell.

I can’t use Lovecraft’s tongue to speak of this without trivializing — and yet, that’s where I keep going.

Jesus.

Was more random statements than a coherent message.

At least, it was meant to be.

Wasn’t it?

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Maybe my shrink is right — maybe I do still have issues about 9/11 that I haven’t dealt with.

I had dreams for the first time in ages about Ground Zero — and I realized, I think, why I can’t talk about having been there.

I keep coming back to Lovecraft: his insistence on speaking of the evil of R’yleh as being manifest in the way the architecture looked, how perspectives and angles were off in ways that the human mind couldn’t comprehend and therefore were prone to induce madness.

And I think that’s what I get from my memory of Ground Zero: the idea that facing it will induce madness.

That and the fucking smell.

I can’t use Lovecraft’s tongue to speak of this without trivializing — and yet, that’s where I keep going.

Jesus.