Bush vs. Reality

Bush has this really (not so) clever and obvious "trick" of simply repeating himself over, and over, and over again, until he thinks everyone MUST believe him, 'cause gosh darn it, he's said he, hasn't he? The DECIDER has weighed in on the situation, and he'll be damned if reality doesn't bend to his will.

And, the NIE report is pretty damning:

The war in Iraq has become a “cause célèbre” for Islamic extremists, breeding deep resentment of the U.S. that probably will get worse before it gets better, federal intelligence analysts conclude in a report at odds with President Bush’s contention of a world growing safer.

In the bleak report, declassified and released Tuesday on Bush’s orders, the nation’s most veteran analysts conclude that despite serious damage to the leadership of al-Qaida, the threat from Islamic extremists has spread both in numbers and in geographic reach.

Bush and his top advisers have said the formerly classified assessment of global terrorism supported their arguments that the world is safer because of the war. But more than three pages of stark judgments warning about the spread of terrorism contrasted with the administration’s glass-half-full declarations.

Yeah... I think I'm gonna go with the "most veteran analysts" in the nation over the C-average shoulda-been-a-cowboy who got us into this mess (and hence has every reason in the world to try to cover up just how badly things are going).

Check out the whole thing at MSNBC