IN SPEECH TO CHEERING MARINES, BUSH DERIDES "NERVOUS REACTION BY WASHINGTON POLITICIANS"

George Bush talking to a large group of cheering Marines today said that decisions about the war would not be left to "a nervous reaction by Washington politicians . . ."

Michael Fletcher and Ann Scott Tyson write in The Washington Post:

"In a meeting with a group of cheering Marines before departing Iraq, Bush said that a U.S. pullout from Iraq would not be based on fear or political considerations.

""When we begin to draw down troops from Iraq it will be from a position of strength and success, not from a position of fear and failure," he said. "The decision will be made on a calm assessment by our military commanders based on the conditions on the ground, not a nervous reaction by Washington politicians or poll results in the media.""

So in one phrase, Bush calls the anti-war movement "nervous," something akin to "effeminate," "weak," even "mentally unstable." How's that for speech-writing?

And how about the "cheering Marines?" It seems Bush's key supporters are soldiers and marines. Here is a man who has started an unjustified and needless war, resulting in the deaths of close to 4,000 U.S. military, and the rank-and-file turns around and cheers him!