Bush Speech Full of Victorious Lies
Oh right, so the President's Iraq talk. We were at a party, we did not actually watch it, but we read the transcript. Or at least the WashingtonPost'ssummary of the transcript. The first couple paragraphs, anyway. It's all pretty confusing!
Did he mean to say that Iraq's government was "getting things done" and then list things that they specificallyweren'tgetting done? Like "oil revenue sharing" and "not getting blown the fuck up"? ThePostlists other examples of Bush's speech contradicting government reportsandshit Bush said himself like a week ago.
* Baqubah -- it's a city? -- apparently stopped being an al-Qaeda stronghold between the State Department's August 27 briefing and last night's speech.
* There just aren't 36 countries with troops in Iraq, unless there actually are many more than just two Americas.
* When Bush pointed out that "ordinary life is beginning to return" to Baghdad, he neglected to mention that his definition of "ordinary" is "violent."
The only way, it seems to us, to make sense of Bush's speech, announcing, as he did, the end of the Surge before it had time to work, is that this week we finally won the war. Congratulations America!