Bush's Iraq Speech

The President's facts check out, though he leaves out some inconvenient ones.

President Bush's sobering address to the nation laid out his plan to rescue Iraq by sending in more troops at a time when polls show the American people want just the opposite. Is his approach a significant change of course? Will it work? We leave that to others to chew over. What we can say is that he was right on the facts he cited, although there were some notable omissions. While he highlighted the planned distribution of oil revenues to the Iraqi ... Full Story »

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Joseph Duemer
3.3
by Joseph Duemer - Oct. 1, 2008

Factcheck faults politicians for leaving out "key facts," but their definition of a fact is rather narrow. The key fact behind the president's speech is that he elected to attack a country that posed no direct or immediate threat to the US and he did so with such sloppy incompetence that the US Army and Marines are now being ground up by the Iraqi insurgency even as the president pushes his chips all in trying to pull something that he can describe as victory out of what everyone else sees as crushing defeat. That is the "key fact" left out of this piece, but which loomed large to anyone listening to George Bush's speech the other night.

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