Here's some highlights from Bush's recent chat with right-wing media types, with commentary by Editor and Publisher's Greg Mitchell. The overriding theme seems to be that Bush knows nothing about a lot of subjects, most notably US history and Islam.

Bush on the Iraqi barbarians at the gate:



Presidents don't swear:



Bush builds a straw man:



Bush does the thing he says he never does, yet does all the time -- suggests Iraq was behind 9/11:



Incurious George:



That might be my favorite one of the bunch, since it shows that Bush doesn't care a whit about the beliefs and motivations of those funny brown people we're killing. A point driven home by this:



Here's a fun exercise: figure out exactly what the President means by "they" in the above quote.

And finally, Bush offers perhaps the truest expression yet of the Bush Doctrine:



There's a reason why what most of what the administration does stubbornly resists any effort to understand it using our crude tools of logic and analysis -- they don't care about such things. Exercise and maintenance of power is a prime motivator, but so is gratification of base impulses. Bush and his followers like to deride the Sixties counterculture and its "do what feels good" credo, but you only have to look at their policies to see that this might be one of the most indulgent administrations in recent memory. They invaded Iraq, after all, primarily because they simply wanted to.

If cartoons are the metaphors of the day, then Bush must be the King of Id.