Ah, Those Rose-Tinted Bushies

From James Wolcott:

Last week an inside peep courtesy of the Washington tipsheet The Nelson Report made the blog rounds concerning Bush's see-no hear-no policy regarding the war in Iraq. According to The Nelson Report, Bush literally didn't want to hear any bad news about how thing going there, EVEN FROM SENIOR MILITARY COMMANDERS, only "progress reports" that played up the good things GE brings to life: new schools, etc. The Report went on to say that the sunshine policy wasn't the product of aides trying to filter news from Bush, that Bush himself insisted on accentuating the positive.

Iraq HAD schools that were open and functioning before the war. Only OUR war-mongering closed and incapacitated them.

Happy horseshit is great for a garden but really bad as a government tenet.