Fabulist. He lies, but he may (or may not) believe his own lies. So says
Richard Cohen in today's Washington Post. And I agree:
Who'd like to be the last man to die for that? I'm looking for a show of hands. But more than that, I'm looking for someone to raise questions that go to the heart of this matter of life and death. In this sense, Iraq is fast becoming Vietnam -- only the stakes are higher. (Vietnam had no oil.) It is also Vietnam in the way the presidential campaign is handling it. Once again the GOP is playing the odious patriotism card to silence dissent. As for Bush, he talks about Iraq with the same loopy unreality as he does his National Guard service. He's a fabulist.
And in the same vein, Tony Auth's editorial
cartoon in the Post puts it all into perspective. Fabulist, indeed.
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