Best Keith Olbermann Special Comment Yet: "Mr. Bush, Why Did You Take Us Into Iraq?"

[Ed: Yes, the formatting is fucked, but Blogger servers keep going down so... uh... in the words of Bush, "What the fuck you I care if you're inconvenienced as long as I'm havin' a good time!"]

"Sir, you have been making it up as you go along."

"Where are the checks and balances?"

Keith Olbermann just said, in his "Special Comment" at the end of MSNBC Countdown, what I think most Americans would like to say to Mr. Bush. This, particularly after Bush told us over the weekend that the Iraq war WAS about oil.

Go here for it all.

Sir, you have been making this up as you went along.

This country was founded to prevent anybody from making it up as they went along.

Those vaunted Founding Fathers of ours have been so quoted up, that they appear as marble statues: like the chiseled guards of China, or the faces on Mount Rushmore. But in fact they were practical people and the thing they obviously feared most was a government of men and not laws.

They provided the checks and balances for a reason.

No one man could run the government the way he saw fit -- unless he, at the least, took into consideration what those he governed saw.

A House of Representatives would be the people's eyes.

A Senate would be the corrective force on that House.

An executive would do the work, and hold the Constitution to his chest like his child.

A Supreme Court would oversee it all.

Checks and balances.

Where did that go, Mr. Bush?

And what price did we pay because we have let it go?

Saddam Hussein will get out of Iraq the same way 2,832 Americans have and thousands more.

He’ll get out faster than we will.

And if nothing changes tomorrow, you, sir, will be out of the White House long before the rest of us can say we are out of Iraq.