Someone named Fred Kaplan, writing for Slate, denounces President Bush for a speech the president has not yet delivered, based on accounts from unnamed sources in an article he read in the Los Angeles Times. Clear enough?

The article is fairly dull boilerplate anti-Iraq liberation stuff, but it caught our eye as another example of the propensity for BDS* sufferers to say anything, without any regard for truth or reality. The entire article is based on nothing; it's the Seinfeld of anti-war articles. The president's critics could at least wait until he makes a speech before criticizing it.

But this line jumped out as a strong indicator of BDS:

Expect soon after (if not during the speech itself) the thing that Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have, just this month, denounced as near-treason -- a timetable for withdrawal of American troops.

But of course this is complete hogwash. Neither the president nor the vice president has said anything of the sort. It's pure fantasy. They have stated very clearly their disagreement with the idea of a withdrawal timetable. But the notion that criticism of those arguing for a timetable is akin to calling them "traitors" or amounts to "questioning their patriotism" is frankly just loony. This is just one more small example of the psychosis that has taken over President Bush's opponents.

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