Friends of his from Texas were shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated "I am the president!"
Context and corroboration would be nice, but the fact that it sounds credible and in character with his actions is bad enough. What may be even worse is this:
He also made it clear he was setting Iraq up so his successor could not get out of "our country's destiny."
This has been obvious for years, even before this week's willfully stupid revelation that Iraq is being envisioned as the next South Korea. It is not for nothing -- despite the empty clichés regarding the "will" of the "people" and "government" of "Iraq" -- that we have been building permanent bases there. We're going to be there for some time to come, in some form. The people may have spoken last November, but Bush has made it quite clear already that he has no regard for democratic expression that does not conform to his delusions of manifest density.
Again, I hope more corroboration and context for this ugly, creepy anecdote comes forth. This is a character issue that deserves to be plastered on the news every night, until even the sad weirdos who still hold out for this goofball get the idea.
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