Is the Bush Administration completely ignorant and unaware of the reality-based world?

Question

Or is it just so inherently inept and intentionally corrupt that everything it attempts is doomed to failure?


The Taliban has reestablished permanent control over 54% of Afghanistan and is increasingly gaining legitimacy in the eyes of the Afghan people.

http://www.senliscouncil.net/modules/publications/Afghanistan_on_the_brink/documents/Afghanistan_on_the_brink


Iraqi women (who had been the most emancipated in the Arab world; able to attend universities, work, and even file for divorce) are now threatened and attacked if they work, wear makeup, or walk around without a hijab.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZj0nsj2DyE&eurl=http://thinkprogress.org/

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commanderbuck383 --

Wrong (as usual) neocon:

1.) “Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush”

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html


2.) “Working with a fine coalition, our military went to Afghanistan, destroyed the training camps of al Qaeda and put the Taliban out of business forever.”

----President George Bush

http://www.neilrogers.com/news/articles/2003120706.html

http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/is-the-president-a-pathological-liar/2165/

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booman—

Basra and Baghdad are most of Iraq’s population. And, reduction in violence does not count if everyone is displaced and driven away.

The UN estimates that over 4 million Iraqis have been displaced by violence in their country Over 2.2 million have vacated their homes for safer areas within Iraq, 1.5 million are now living in Syria, and over 1 million refugees inhabit Jordan, Iran, Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen, and Turkey.

40% of middle class believed to have fled crumbling nation. About 50,000 Iraqis are fleeing inside Iraq each month

http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/article/detail/9679

Thousands of Iraqis, many hunted as traitors because they assisted America’s war effort, are finding the bridge to safety blocked. The United States has allowed only 466 Iraqis to immigrate under refugee status since 2003 -- including 202 out of 70,000 slots for refugees last year

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/opinion/19wed2.html

Answer 1

Is the Bush Administration completely ignorant and unaware of the reality-based world?
Or is it just so inherently inept and intentionally corrupt that everything it attempts is doomed to failure?

both true statements if we had a president that can read ( coming jan 2009 ) things would be better

Answer 2

The treatment of the Iraqi women in that way occurs almost exclusively in Basra, where shiite fundamentalists and religious zealots and extremists have congregated. It is not indicative of the entire country.

Answer 3

The first part of your posting...No, that's the space occupied by liberals in the order of the universe.

Part 2....54 %...get real ! Nobody said that the Taliban was extinct, but NO LONGER IN POWER !

The Afghanis have to do the job as part of the solution in MAKING the Taliban DOA!

Answer 4

you bet ye they are.