It's as clear as it's ever been. George W. Bush has no idea whether he's on foot or horseback.
Two days last week are perfect examples.
On Thursday, trying to sugar-coat the passing of the fifth wasteful and tragic year of the nation's involvement in Iraq, Bush once again told us how swimmingly everything is going in that war-torn country.
"Normalcy is returning back to Iraq," the commander-in-chief declared in his usual convoluted jargon.
Yet, as he was speaking, all hell was breaking loose in Baghdad and other parts of the country. The so-called "Green Zone" of security for Americans and Iraqi officials in Baghdad was pummeled with rockets and mortar fire.
So much for "returning back to normalcy."
Just 24 hours later, Bush showed us how distorted his sense of "normalcy" is. The situation, he intoned Friday, remains "dangerous and fragile."
Imagine that.
And once again he hyped yet another "defining moment" in this seemingly endless war.
In one day's time, the president of the United States' assessment of the war he and his henchmen got us into went from supposedly approaching normalcy to keep ducking and keep covering.
He asked for American patience. But patience is something the good people of this country gave this crowd for the five-plus years we have sent men and women to die in the Neocons' Delight. These characters have no problem volunteering others' lives and the nation's resources for their own corrupt ends.
We're supposed to be comforted that Bush spends a few moments each day thinking about the human carnage he's inflicted. We're not.
If he were honest, he would simply say that he and Dick Cheney have sold this same snake oil for their entire failed presidency. Further, he'd admit, that he, Cheney and their coterie of chicken hawks duped the country all along.
No weapons of mass destruction.
No ties to al-Qaida.
No involvement with Sept. 11.
No plan to get the troops home.
And no concept of reality. After all, it was nearly five years ago, that Bush -- in his bubble and in front of Karl Rove's red, white and blue "Mission Accomplished" banner -- strutted down the deck of the Abraham Lincoln to declare major combat operations over in Iraq.
It clearly makes no difference in Bush's world today that more than 96 percent of the battle casualties occurred since that shamefully boastful day off the California coast. Instead we're told to shut up and -- patiently -- stay the course
The Bush administration may be a joke, but what it's done to this country is hardly amusing.
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