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President Bush is upset that a modicum of truth about his policies has made it into the press.

September 26, 2006

Bush Disagrees That Iraq War Raises Threat of Terrorism
By BRIAN KNOWLTON

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 -- President Bush said today that he had ordered the declassification of key parts of a major intelligence report that reportedly found that the Iraq war has helped produce a new generation of Islamic radicals and increased the terrorist threat.

The president was clearly unhappy that findings from the document, a National Intelligence Estimate completed in April, had made their way into news reports. The New York Times disclosed some of the findings in its issue on Sunday.

Noting that evidence-gathering for the assessment had concluded in late February, and that the report itself had been finished two months later, he said: "Here we are, coming down the homestretch of an election campaign and it's on front page of your newspapers. Isn't that interesting?"

Interesting? It's a freaking miracle. The ugly truth about the Bush Administration's Iraq adventure appearing in the mainstream press? No wonder he's surprised.

Or maybe he's just perplexed that a government leak was printed in the Times with Judith Miller no longer there.

Surely heads will roll. Maybe the guy who wrote the report will come forward and confess it was all a mistake, in a Soviet-show-trial-like way, as John DiIulio did. Or maybe the Times editor who ran the story will find himself covering cricket in Somalia.

In any event, this President will never stand for the American people knowing the truth. As he's said many times, he swore an oath to protect the safety of his own rear end.

Or something like that.