Left Turn on Bird Street

Rumy pulls a Bush, Wolfowitz pulls a Fonzie while Berg’s father blames Bush

In what can only be described as a pathetic effort to stem the Bush’s slide in a public approval rating, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld traveled to Iraq yesterday. In his most telling comments, when asked how he dealt with the negative publicity surrounding the torture of Iraqi prisoners, Rumy stated “I don’t read newspapers.”

Well at least Rumy is behaving with the same head-in-the-sand approach of his boss. George W. that is, not Dick Cheney. The whole group has adopted an “ignorance is bliss” type approach.

Meanwhile Rumy’s deputy archetypical neo-con Paul Wolfowitz pulled a “Fonzie” while testifying in front of the Senate. The “Fonzie” response of course refers to the character on televisions “Happy Days” who was physically unable to utter the words “I’m sorry.” For Wolfowitz the word he could not utter was “inhumane” after being grilled Nevada Senator Harry Reid.

Speaking of inhumane, Nicolaus Berg’s father squarely placed responsibility of his son’s death at the feet of Bush. The more that is revealed in this story the fishier it gets. Hopefully the press will wake from their coma and look into this matter.