Bush's July 13 Speech

Juan Cole has an excellent vivisection of Bush's The World is much safer now speech on Tuesday. Professor Cole discusses dubya's claims about Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Pakistan. I can't really add anything to what he said so go read the original.

I would like to comment on one statement in the Cole piece however:

Bush must think we are a nation of retards if he believes we will buy this language of Saddam having the "capability" to produce weapons of mass destruction. All countries have the "capability." The point is that Iraq had given up its WMD programs and destroyed the stockpiles. The US was not in any danger from Iraq, and so cannot be safer because it was invaded.

The reality is if you look at the polls this is the one thing Bush may be right about, we are a nation of "retards". To see why this is so all you have to do is look at the coverage of the speech in the mainstream media. There was no questioning analysis of the blatantly ridiculous claims dubya made. We are a nation of retards because that's what the government and the media want us to be.