 
SCENE I: 2006, Diner in Kennebunkport, Maine, where George Bush the Elder (“Bush 41″) runs into the future members of the Iraq Study Group.¬†¬†¬†
BUSH 41:¬†My son, George W.¬† He’s got this rare immune deficiency¬† — he has no immunity to fantasy … the damnedest thing.¬† He¬†¬†lives completely in a bubble. Can you imagine that?¬† A bubble.
IRAQ STUDY GROUP(ISG): A bubble?
BUSH 41: Yes, a bubble! ¬†Ah, It’d break your heart seein’ him in there. It’s like a prisoner. No friends – just his mother and me. And I’m out there six days a week cryin’ Boo Hoo. We, not to mention Jeb, have sacrificed everything. All for the sake of our little … bubble boy.(breaks up in tears)¬†
ISG: You get in the bubble with him?
BUSH 41: No. I’m an Internationalist, coalition building, that kinda’ thing. Naga’ go it alone.
ISG: Is it like an igloo?
BUSH 41: Yeah, you can’t hear or see anything¬†out of it.
ISG: Who has the “nuclear football” — the emergency satchel?¬†
BUSH 41: He does.
ISG: The nuclear football works through the bubble?
BUSH 41: Yeah, he’s in the bubble with the nuclear football.
ISG: So you have no control over the nuclear football?
BUSH 41: No, it’s frustrating. So anyway, Baker, you’re his favorite “fixer,” since you saved his bacon in the Florida Recount. He laughed so hard the way you screwed Gore, he almost choked to death on his pretzel.
SCENE II: FLASHBACK, 2002, OVAL OFFICE: W. is playing¬†”Trivial Pursuit of a Tin-Horn Middle Eastern dictator with No WMD.”¬†
W.: OK, HISTORY … THIS IS FOR MY LEGACY … HOW YA DOIN’ OVER THERE, COLIN? … NOT TOO GOOD!
COLIN POWELL: All right Bubble Boy. Let’s just play… What two religious¬†factions have hated each other in Iraq since the¬†8th century?
W: THAT’S A JOKE. THE PRESBYTERIANS AND EPISCOPALIANS.
POWELL: Oh, Noooo, I’m so sorry. It’s the SHIA and SUNNI. The correct answer is, the SHIA and SUNNI.
W: SHIA and SUNNI?  What else does the card say?
POWELL: I’m sorry — the card says “OOPS.”
W: IT DOESN’T MATTER. THERE’S NO “OOPS” — I’M NEVER WRONG!
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BLOGWORTHIES:
BuzzFlash: Bush Listens to the New NeoCons, Same as the Old NeoCons. 
Norm Jenson and Lisa Casey on the Rumsfeld Farewell Tour.
Glenn Greenwald: The Washington Post and authoritarianism — then and now.
