I was just reading a gnostic's thoughtful diary "Gen Odom RIPS George Bush: 'gone AWOL'" (I'll update this with a link to the diary soon). My thoughts on Gen. Odom's and a gnostic's insights are sufficiently lengthy that I'll share them in a diary.
Like many in this community, I keenly dislike Bush. No, I loathe him. I believe he lied our nation into an illegal war for profit, and believe this was a treasonous abuse of power. Indeed, the cancer on the presidency is his malignant narcissism.
But, after reading a gnostic's diary, I began wondering about its last two lines:
No George Jr. isn't in charge.
Dick Cheney and Big Oil are in charge here.
As great as is my displeasure with Bush and the war, I'm under no illusion that Bush is solely responsible for this debacle. But something occurred to me after reading those two lines: that the architects of the war had intended that Bush be a lightning rod for anger from the very beginning.