Bush has found a way to dumbfound his self-appointed court jesters in the leftysphere: he makes his own irony.

What, I ask you, can you add to this?

President Bush said Friday the United States’ unsuccessful war in Vietnam three decades ago offered lessons for the American-led struggle in Iraq.

Why doesn’t he just bring a ventriloquist dummy and answer himself in a different voice: “Yeah, the lesson is don’t fucking do it!”

And what’s left to add, when Sgt. Awolski says this?

“Laura and I were talking about how amazing it is that we’re here in Vietnam,” the president said.

Why doesn’t he toss in the punchline, “Dick Cheney would have been here, but he had other priorities”? Because nobody could fucking fail to see what a sick joke these guys are, and how perverse it is that this clown is representing us — or, in fact, doing any job more demanding than clearing brush from his goddamn ranch.

The joke is that much sicker if you recall how Bush and his Swift Boat special ops team perverted history, so the official lesson of the Vietnam War is now that we should have napalmed the shit out of these people a lot longer and harder, while doing a better job silencing the traitorous American media, celebrities, and public who didn’t see the glory in destroying Vietnam in order to save it.

Then his irony hits a level where it must be affecting the magnetic poles:

“My first reaction is history has a long march and societies change and relationships can constantly be altered to the good,” Bush said.

What’s Vietnamese for “You lost your war here, you ignorant Yankee dickwad. Our graciousness to you today should humble you. If you see good in us now, it should bring you shame. How dare you come here, of all places, and peddle your plan to fight your latest Pyrrhic war of whim even more relentlessly than the one you personally skipped out of fighting against us.”

Then, the mind that brought us “I’m the decider” brings forth a new gem:

“I’m going to listen to our commanders. Ours is a conditions-based strategy.”

Hey, a shout-out to the reality-based community! Always a class move to nod to us folks who are watching from the cheap seats. Much appreciated, sir!

Finally, it’s now official that we’ve stopped trusting our Southeast Asian policy to “the best and the brightest.”

“We hear voices calling for us to retreat from the world and close our doors to these opportunities,” the president said in a speech at the National University of Singapore. “These are the old temptations of isolationism and protectionism, and America must reject them.”

If you’re a Baby Boomer like me, you’ve got to revel in the nostalgia. Throw that Jefferson Airplane longplayer onto your Zenith “Circle of Sound.” Or, maybe better, go with The Carpenters. Because it’s yesterday once more.