bush just never stops rewriting history

there's an article in today's des moines register from john carlson, a reporter who went to iraq and is making sure everybody knows it. he points out the things bush left out in his 'major speech on iraq' on wednesday.

well, john, here's your chance to come clean and proclaim your allegiance to truth and honesty in journalism. and you barely passed.

President Bush was delivering what was called "a major speech on Iraq" on Wednesday when he mentioned a very familiar name and spoke a few somewhat familiar words.

The president was discussing the training of Iraqi security forces and, to demonstrate the success of the effort, quoted Lt. Col. Todd Wood, an Indianola native who commands the Army's 2-7 Infantry Battalion based in Tikrit.
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Bush's speech plucked Wood's quotes from four different places in the article and made it appear to be one statement.

The quotes accurately represent Wood's view of the Iraqi soldiers that his battalion has spent the better part of a year training. It's just that Bush's speechwriters carefully avoided the chief frustration faced by the American soldiers — at least the ones in Tikrit.

hey john, it's called cherry picking. something the bushisistas have mastered. they do it all the time to mislead you into thinking one thing, while the truth is something else.