Bush Quotes "Pre-Escalation" Blog Post

It seems that the blog entries that Bush quoted from in his speech the otherday, were a little stale. The posts were written weeks ago and re-published inthe Wall Street Journal on March 7.

Editor& Publisher has the complete story here.

So the bloggers weren't even talking about currentconditions in Baghdad. That left it to Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former Baghdadbureau chief of The Washington Post -- and author of the heralded 2006 book"Imperial Life in the Emerald City" -- who appeared on MSNBC's"Countdown" tonight to debunk this idea of a newly-safe Baghdad."I talk to Iraqis all the time," he said.

He revealed that there had been steady insurgent mortar shots falling in thesupposedly safe "Green Zone" all week, at least two Americans had diedthere in recent days, and U.S. Embassy staff had been instructed, in a switch,to wear their protective armor and helmets outside at all times. He alsodisclosed that the embassy's pool, scene of much partying in the recent past,has now been declared off-limits. All of this and more appears in a Post"Green Zone" article on Thursday.

Bush was pointing out some of the success's so far due to the escalation, theonly problem with that is the blog posts were "pre-escalation". Iguess we can tack that on to the presidentslist of Lies.