HUFFPO 2.4.07

At his speech before Democratic lawmakers at their retreat in Williamsburg, VA, our Demander- in-Chief made this statement with a straight face:

"You know, I welcome debate in a time of war and I hope you know that."

I hope they had the foresight to pass out barf bags before he spoke.

How can he actually say out loud to the very people he has shut out of every debate on major issues that he WELCOMES DEBATE?
Pardon my skepticism, but he calls himself the decider for Chrissakes!
How many deciders welcome debate?

George Bush welcoming debate is about as plausible as Pat Robertson welcoming feminists or Ahmadinejad welcoming Jews.

Now I don't want to imply that he never debates.

I'm positive he exhaustively deliberated when we go into war with Iraq, not if we should. Surely he spent days kicking around who would be the best administration heavy to pressure scientists to alter their findings on global warming.

And he must lock a few horns every time he must decide which extremist ideologue should serve as a Supreme Court Justice or UN Ambassador.

I hope his dumbfounding rhetoric inspired a chain reaction of disbelief that involved eye-rolling and subtle nudging, especially in the wake of the CBO report claiming the Bush troop surge is a gross underestimation of troop number and cost.

If George Bush really welcomes debate at a time of war, then I hope the Dems first order of business will be not a debate to decide if we were lied to about this war, but how many times.