Juan Cole quotes journalist Bill Gallagher (Detroit’s Channel 2 News)

Gushing over Rummy and Dick Cheney, the two principal thugs who lied to get us into Iraq and designed the disaster, Bush claimed they “are doing a fantastic job and I strongly support them.”
The remark prompted conservative columnist Andrew Sullivan to raise the question of Bush’s mental fitness. Sullivan told CNN Bush is so delusional, “this is not an election anymore, it’s an intervention.”
Sullivan, long a cheerleader for the war in Iraq, said Bush is “so in denial” he simply can’t come to grips with his failure: “It’s unhinged. It suggests this man has lost his mind. No one objectively could look at the way this war has been conducted, whether you were for it, as I was, or against it, and say that is has been done well. It’s a disaster.”
Sullivan added, “For him to say it’s a fantastic job suggests the president has lost it. I’m sorry, there is no other way to say it.”

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I agree.  There’s no other way to say it.  The only alternative to that is worse: that Bush says the only things that his mind can fathom to keep up the illusion that he has a clue as to what is happening.  And to the rest of us,  it is a clueless and futile attempt.  It blows my mind how the White house “all of a sudden” starts touting that “language has to change” re: “stay the course”.  It wasn’t a CHANGE IN LANGUAGE,  but a desperate attempt to cover for still yet another mindless, lying, denial by Bush that caused him to utter yet another foot-in-mouth gaffe (ie. ” I’ve never been stay the course”),  and so the White house is into emergency adjust/react mode to make it look like Bush is coordinated.