Great moments in unconscious irony

[Ian David]

Great moments in unconscious irony
by Weldon Berger | Nov 29 2006 - 7:27pm | permalink
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On the eve of a summit between president Bush and Iraqi prime minister Maliki, someone at the White House leaked a memo describing Iraq's prime minister as either clueless, deluded or impotent. The leak may have some bearing on the postponement of the Bush-Maliki meeting, although the primary reason may be the decision by followers of Muqtada al Sadr to protest the get-together by suspending their participation in the Maliki government.

But the meeting itself ranks way high on the "who cares?" scale, significant only in the fact that the two "leaders" are meeting in Jordan because Iraq is too dangerous. We're here for the unconscious irony list, the first item on which is the leaked memo, and the second, an op-ed from the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Kevin O'Brien.

The memo was written by national security advisor Stephen Hadley, who took over from Condoleezza Rice the role of ineffectually coordinating the nexus of military, diplomatic and executive lunacy that characterizes the Bush administration. Here's the money shot.

Among the concerns voiced in the memo was that Mr. Maliki was surrounded by a small group of advisers from the Shiite Dawa Party, a narrow circle that American officials worry may skew the information he receives.

Let's try another version: "Among the concerns voiced in the memo was that Mr. Bush was surrounded by a small group of advisers from the hospital for the criminally insane, a narrow circle that humans worry may skew the information he receives."

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