It is obvious to the majority of Americans who want our troops redeployed and brought home from Iraq that President Bush, the weasel-in-chief, cares nothing about American troops serving in Iraq or Afghanistan, now numbering 3,782 dead, except as props for photo ops.  One photo in particular captures the superficialty of Bush and his administration: a phony president holding a phony turkey. His policies also show that he is contemptuous of our veterans.

This warmongering president's right wing Republican, inside-the-beltway, chickenhawk toadies, the Kagan family: Fred, a war planner, Robert, and Kimberly and their fellow Bushite sycophant, Bill Kristol, are the ultimate  cheerleaders for this four year invasion and occupration of Iraq and prevaricators about it. Glenn Greenwald shines the spotlight on their hypocricy and crap.

Then there is General David "I-want-to-be-president" Petraeus, the nakedly ambitious, political, fawning Bushite stooge, who stretched the truth like a rubber band, and gave his version of reality in his testimonies before the Senate and House.  His rendition of the situation in al-Anbar province, for example, was the ultimate spin.  As Pepe Escobar wrote in the Asia Times, "Petraeus framed it as if this 'sustainable' solution was a huge counterinsurgency success of his own making. Nothing could be further from the truth."

Bush and his flunkies want the horrible disaster in Iraq, that he and his supporters created, to continue until the entire mess can be left for the next president to clean up.  Which is nothing new.  Democratic presidents have been cleaning up after Republicans' disastrous presidencies: Roosevelt after Hoover's debacle, Clinton after Reagan and George H.W. Bush's catastrophes.  Leaving others to clean up after him and his failures has been Bush's standard operating procedure throughout his adult life.  Only this time, with his pre-emptive, unnecessary war, Bush has the blood of thousands of US troops and almost a million Iraqis on his hands.