January 7, 2005


View from my window, March 04.


Shiny happy monkey-boy

There is rising concern amongst senior officials that [the Smirking Wonderchimp] does not grasp the increasingly grim reality of the security situation in Iraq because he refuses to listen to that type of information. Our sources say that attempts to brief Bush on various grim realities have been personally rebuffed by the President, who actually says that he does not want to hear “bad news.”

[T]his “good news only” directive comes from Bush himself; that is, it is not a trap or cocoon thrown around the President by [worthless] National Security Advisor Rice, Vice President Cheney, and DOD Secretary Rumsfeld. In any event, whether self-imposed, or due to manipulation by irresponsible subordinates, the information/intelligence vacuum at the highest levels of the White House increasingly frightens those officials interested in objective assessment, and not just selling a political message.

Well then, I guess he didn't want to hear about this:

Seven US soldiers were killed Thursday when their Bradley Fighting Vehicle hit an explosive device on a road in northwestern Baghdad.
In a separate incident, a US Marine was killed in action Thursday in the al-Anbar province west of Baghdad. Around 100 people, mostly Iraqi policemen, have been killed this week alone.

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