Dubya's Gift - To Drive The Train Wreck
Commentary By Thom Rutledge
23 Mar 2003

"The potential upside of this global mess George W and his cohorts have gotten us into can be found in the possibility of awakening."

My friend, Billy Bird, offered an uncharacteristically favorable comment about George W. Bush. He said, "Dubya is the perfect engineer to drive the train wreck."

I tend to agree. Maybe Dubya really is --- as he likes to think --- following his destiny in some way. And maybe that destiny really is to help save us all. Maybe he will save us, not from the Bush family arch enemy, Saddam Hussein, not from any axis of evil, and not from wimpy should-be allies who seem to think war should remain an action of last resort, but maybe he will help save us from ourselves. Maybe Dubya is here for one specific and very important reason: to drive the train wreck.r.

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