Comments on: What Ben Stein Thinks Bush Should Do

It Is Time For Rumsfeld To Go And For The President To Admit That Iraq Is A Mess, Says Stein

There are a couple of problems with the speech... namely Bush will never admit to making a mistake and Bush actually does believe he has a pipeline to God.

Both of those reasons are why we're still in Iraq. He honestly thinks he's doing God's work over there.

[sharncedar]

Hah - CBS filter is great. I just noticed this one:

*** Cheney, *** Cheney, *** Cheney

I love *** Cheney

I want to shake hands with big *** Cheney.

[sharncedar]

My new idea on Iraq is we should just flat-out seize the oil there and otherwise withdraw. I see a new policy, that natural resources belong to the world economy, not to the countries that happen to be over them. It's a shift needed because of the interdependence of people across nations; it makes the nation-state system outdated.

Probably a liberal politician could present this new concept best - basically we are saying that oil is a heritage resource that belongs to the whole world, not any one country. Too bad Bush is soo soo soo soo soo soo dumb and his people too because this kind of justification for the new world order makes more sense that his weird rhetoric about "free people and free nations blah blah blah".

Seize the oil, it belongs to the whole world, thats the ticket.

[bodidr]

Ben Stein 'cuts and runs' but wants to make it 'non-partisan'? If any Democrat would have proposed this, Ben and Bill and the rest would have been all over it like white on rice, but since Ben did, its OK. What are the chances it will actually happen? Zip to none because Cheney wouldn't allow it. This has always been a war of choice, W's and Cheney's, but the American public, individually and collectively have and will suffer because of it. Regardless, get out now, we should have never gone in the first place.

[diamtool]

Ben Stein is a right wing dolt. He pushed this Bush agenda for the war and against the middle class. Funny how the slightly more intelligent of these goons (Will,Buckley,Hitchens) are actually starting to FIND CLUES. now that the damage is done.
Too bad Kissinger is bush's guru. That idiot still thinks we are winning in Nam!

[oldanalyst]

Congratulations Ben! You finally make sense.

In passing, a commission made up of Republicans, Independents and Democrats is non-partisan, not bi-partisan.

[robbiedean2]

Bush's decision to invade Iraq has always reminded me of the statement made by the new Kindergartener's mother to his teacher:

"Johnny is very sensitive. If he acts up, just paddle the little boy behind him and Johnny will straighten right up!"

Great minds make great decisions.

[threegoal48]

Missing is any mention of the big elephant in the room, VP *** Cheney. He and his staff has played too bid a role in this mess, including a well known alliance with Rumsfeld, to be ignored.

To be complete, Mr. Stein's otherwise excellent, and somewhat unexpected, essay needs to make it clear that he is assuming that Mr. Cheney, also, must come around to this viewpoint, or whether he thinks that Bush should break with him and marginalize him for the rest of their terms.

[bluestardad]

who cares?

[ademeyer]

I was against the invasion of Iraq from the beginning. I wrote letters to the editor, demonstrated (peacefully) in the streets and called my congress people. I remembered what happened in Vietnam and I did not have a good feeling about this invasion.

Where was Ben Stein then? Where was George Will? Where were any of the Republican pundits before we went to war? These guys ridiculed us, they failed to raise any questions or entertain doubts. Now they are taking the language of the Democrats to try and humanize the arrogant creep who took us into this mess. Get off the stage Ben, I couldn't care less about what you think.