I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this Reuters article on bush’s latest desperate attempts to justify the Iraq debacle.

In a speech in which he sought to cast the conflict as the modern day equivalent of America’s World War Two struggle against Japan, Bush said Americans “once again” had a stark choice to make.

“Now as then our enemies have made their fight a test of American credibility and resolve. Now as then they are trying to intimidate free people and break our will,” Bush said.

First of all he equates his invasion of Iraq with our involvement in WWII. There may very well be a WWII analogy in play here but it is far more likely that bush’s Iraq invasion has more in common with Germany’s moves into Austria, Hungary and Poland that with our late entry into WWII after the fires were already burning hot.

But be that as it may for him to suggest that staying in Iraq bolsters American credibility when the reality is that invading Iraq in the first place did more damage to our credibility around the world than any action we can take now can repair, shows just how painfully out of touch he is. It also illustrates pretty clearly that our out of control administration is likely, as a friend’s very Republican father just said the other day, what makes America the greatest danger the world faces right now. Between bush and Osama the world is getting tag teamed by terrorists.