Bush War Lies #31

Well, it's been a while, hasn't it? We went almost three weeks without catching George Bush in a bald-faced lie about the war. You know why? Because he's been letting others do the lying for him for a while, particularly Dick "Now Completely Out of Touch With Reality ... or Even the Administration Line" Cheney and Condi "I Said Rummy Was In the Loop But I Lied" Rice. Poor Rummy ... he doesn't get a chance to lie as much anymore. That's gotta hurt.

Remember those fake letters from "soldiers" claiming that everything was great in Iraq, the people welcome them with open arms etc? The ones that showed up with identical copy in at least a dozen newspapers? The ones that turned out to be written by one "colonel" who then "persuaded" his men to sign it?

Oops, says Tom Tomorrow, turns out that's not true either. USA Today reports that the officer who's going to take the fall on this sent out 500 identical letters, some of which were signed without the soldiers' cooperation.

How ... interesting ... that this "innocent PR campaign" should show up just as Bush is mounting his own PR campaign to deny reality in Iraq. How coincidental.