One of the Biggest and Most Consistent Lies

Of the Bush Administration has been their repeated proclamation that foreign jihadists were running the show and doing most of the fighting in Iraq. We've know this is pretty much a lie for about two years now. But they keep pushing it, most recently in the "Plan for (so-called) Victory in Iraq". The Telegraph (as usual a British Paper -- we couldn't have such reporting here in corporate media land) has more:

Iraqis, rather than foreign fighters, now form the vast majority of the insurgents who are waging a ferocious guerrilla war against United States forces in Sunni western Iraq, American commanders have revealed.

Their conclusion, disclosed to the Sunday Telegraph in interviews over 10 days in battle-torn Anbar province, contradicts the White House message that outsiders are the principal enemy in Iraq.

Of 1,300 suspected insurgents arrested over the past five months in and around Ramadi, none has been a foreigner. Col John Gronski, senior officer in the town, Anbar's provincial capital, said that almost all insurgent fighting there was by Iraqis. Foreigners provided only money and logistical support.

"The foreign fighters are staying north of the [Euphrates] river, training and advising, like the Soviets were doing in Vietnam," he said.

We will be waiting for some time for Bush to actually be honest about what is happening in Iraq. It's currently quite cold in the Midwest, but only rarely do I consider it hell, so I don't have much hope for Bush coming clean.

Shit, Bush doesn't even know how to come clean -- I think he is creating his own fantasy land in the White House (or Crawford).