Is Howard Dean the only one popping off bizarre accusations against the Bush administration? I’ve written before that Wesley Clark is arguably far more loopy than Dean, more prone to paranoia, weird conspiracy theories, and reversals of opinion that are dizzying in scope. Chris Suellentrop has been on the trail and discovering more. My favorites: “[the president] is continuing to associate Saddam, Iraq, and the problem of terrorism. Yet the only terrorists that are in Iraq are the people that have come there to attack us.” Yeah, right. Abu Nidal was on a vacation in Baghdad. “Newsweek magazine says [Osama bin Laden] is in the mountains of western Pakistan. And I guess if Newsweek could find him there, we could, too, if we wanted to.” Sure, the president wouldn’t want to find bin Laden in an election year. Why would he want to do that?
THE SELF-ESTEEM OF BULLIES: They have plenty of it. But we knew that, didn’t we? “They don’t show any signs whatsoever of depression, loneliness or anxiety,” Dr Juvonen said. “They look even healthier than the socially adjusted kids who are not involved in the bullying.” Duh. They’re mainly boys; they have testosterone; their social cachet comes from becoming Alpha Male. The last thing you need to do is psychoanalyze them: they have to be disciplined. Like dictators.
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