Good Fucking God

A rather alarming find by Digby:

If President Bush copied Julius Caesar by ordering his army to empty Iraq of Arabs and repopulate the country with Americans, he would achieve immediate results: popularity with his military; enrichment of America by converting an Arabian Iraq into an American Iraq (therefore turning it from a liability to an asset); and boost American prestiege [sic] while terrifying American enemies.

He could then follow Caesar's example and use his newfound popularity with the military to wield military power to become the first permanent president of America, and end the civil chaos caused by the continually squabbling Congress and the out-of-control Supreme Court.

President Bush can fail in his duty to himself, his country, and his God, by becoming “ex-president” Bush or he can become “President-for-Life” Bush: the conqueror of Iraq, who brings sense to the Congress and sanity to the Supreme Court. Then who would be able to stop Bush from emulating Augustus Caesar and becoming ruler of the world?

The piece, which was posted by the conservative group The Family Security Foundation, Inc. and authored by a contributing editor to their website (and from which that's only a small excerpt), is entitled, I shit you not, Conquering the Drawbacks of Democracy. You can't make this stuff up.

FamilySecurityMatters.org is, by the way, evidently a front group for the conservative Washington think tank Center for Security Policy, among whose members can be found senior members of the Bush administration (and my fuckwit of a governor). Additionally, Dick Cheney "was an early member of Center's Board of Advisors (which is now called the National Security Advisory Council)."

A group affiliated with members of the administration right up to the vice president himself are advocating Bush becoming "President for Life" of the country. Anyone concerned about that at all, by any chance…?

[H/T Jill.]