More Lying

As the Bush Administration continues their Alice-in-Wonderland scenarios of why bombing Iran will make the Iranian people hate their government and loooooooooooove us, let us look again at the lying in their last invasion -- and last fantasy, Iraq. The "Q" is for Quagmire.

Let's see, how many times have we heard the ridiculous statement, "Iraq is peaceful in 13 or 14 of its 16 provinces?" Plenty, that in and of itself if true was still illusory given the population of those provinces -- and perhaps at one time, briefly, it may have been true.

But it is not now, yet it continues to be said:

An internal staff report by the U.S. Embassy and military command in Baghdad provides a snapshot of Iraq's political, economic and security situation in each of the 18 provinces, rating overall stability of six provinces "serious," one as "critical" and only three as "stable."

The report is a counterpoint to some recent upbeat public statements by top U.S. politicians and military officials.

In 10 pages of briefing slides, the report, titled "Provincial Stability Assessment," underscores the shift in the nature of the Iraq war three years after the toppling of Saddam Hussein. Warnings of sectarian and ethnic frictions are raised in many regions, even in provinces generally described as nonviolent by U.S. officials.

Wonder if ANYONE is going to call the Bush Administration on the carpet over this, other than the vast majority of the American public?

And they want to bomb another country?