Olbermann: Bush cites bloggers to make case for Iraq [VIDEO]

Posted by Evan Derkacz at 7:03 AM on March 29, 2007.

Gen McCaffrey brings the dire reality home to McCain/Bush...

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As E&P's Greg Mitchell writes:

This is how far he, and his argument for continuing the slaughter in Iraq, has fallen: President Bush today was reduced to quoting two anonymous bloggers from Baghdad.

He cited them as evidence that his surge/escalation is working. One problem: their posts were written weeks ago, and re-published in the Wall Street Journal on March 7.

McCain's comments, the ones he's been forced to flee from due to their laughable nature, are also confronted with an assessment from General Barry McCaffrey (Ret.) portraying Baghdad as a severely dangerous place to be with few signs of progress.

In the clip, Olbermann and former Wash Post Iraq bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran discuss the gulf between reality and the Bush/McCain/Dentist blogger view...

Tagged as: bush, iraq, olbermann, mccain

Evan Derkacz is an AlterNet editor. He writes and edits PEEK, the blog of blogs.

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And... [Report this comment] Posted by: JoshuaLudd on Mar 29, 2007 8:03 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] How much did the admin pay those "bloggers"??? After all.. they've done similar things before. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] And, gee.. what are the odds... [Report this comment] Posted by: JoshuaLudd on Mar 29, 2007 8:09 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] These very bloggers Bush quotes.. actually met with him 3 years ago. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] close, but no cigar [Report this comment] Posted by: andrewstromotich on Mar 29, 2007 8:21 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] not a bad piece, but i did notice olberman call it a civil war again. why the hell are the supposed left implementing the whitehouse terminology: it's is an occupation that is fuelling a civil divide. This ain't RAWANDA. it amazes me that the fact that an occupational force terrorising the population doesn not seem to factor into any of the media's interpretation of the growing civil divide. it's basic divide and conquer and it's the only part of this occupation that is going right for the imperialists... [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: close, but no cigar Posted by: Mojoe » Excellent point, its the british and US soldiers aiding in the old death squads of south America... Posted by: Prophit » RE: close, but no cigar Posted by: hilaryuk Tal Afar [Report this comment] Posted by: andrewstromotich on Mar 29, 2007 8:29 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] hillarious that the story of tal afar only footnotes the huge offensive called "rivers gate" that terrorised Tal Afar in 05. it becomes a 'sectarian tit for tat" rather than a shell shocked society that has lost it's ability to remain calm (terror has that effect). You want to know what happened to Tal Afar? read how far in tal afar [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Truly pathetic [Report this comment] Posted by: helenwheels on Mar 29, 2007 9:09 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Wow, the lows that the shrub & his administration are sinking to these days is beyond the pale. Quoting bloggers! This has been the administration who HATES bloggers. I guess the shrub's not concerned how stupid he looks. What the hell was he (not) thinking? [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] McCain and Bush got the wrong country. [Report this comment] Posted by: kaosnnc on Mar 29, 2007 9:24 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] If you listen to each of them speak, without the maps and backgrounds, you could confuse their confessions for, say, New Orleans. "The shops are re-opening, people are returning to their neighborhoods, it's safe to walk along some of the areas". To complete this confusion all we would need would be a,"Way to go Brownie, he's doing one heck of a job". [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] If you can't trust an anonymous blogger, who can you trust? [Report this comment] Posted by: monkeywrench on Mar 29, 2007 8:21 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Anonymous bloggers?! Just where else could you find a more honest, straightforward group than anonymous bloggers? I assume, of course, that the group of bloggers Bush cited doesn't include sweaty old men posing as teenagers to date underage girls, scammers, spammers, or Nigerian "pidgeon drop" artists trying to dupe people out of their hard-earned cash. Those must be the OTHER bloggers on the completely honest internet –– right? [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] What else is new? [Report this comment] Posted by: xbj on Mar 30, 2007 6:51 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] "The Decider" ALWAYS makes his "decisions" by paying people to tell him what he wants to hear... thankfully, there's a consensus in this country that what he wants to hear and what he bases his "decisions" on are absolute bullshit, and lately, coming right from the Funny Farm. Oh, he still has that small 23% or so of certifiably insane people that believe him, but really, it's just their ego; they don't want to EVER admit their Godawful mistakes either, that the antichrist & crew they picked to teach Clinton and those "godless" blowjob-getting liberals a lesson turned out to be far far worse and actual, real life Nazis. That's what drives the support of this psychopath and his psychopath endless war(s). Bush's remaining male supporters: Testosterone-driven animals begging for an excuse to kill as many people as possible. Bush's remaining female supporters: Miserable man-hating witches OF ALL AGES that haven't had sex in years and DON'T WANT IT and place all the hatred they really want to place and that belongs on their cheating husbands, on Clinton. Like Hasslebeck on "The View". Bush support still is, and will now, and forever be, about the fucking blowjob. Pathetic. It's pathetic that Americans will NEVER grow up and NEVER achieve even HALF the maturity and realistic attitudes that Europe has when it comes to sex. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] McCain and Iraq [Report this comment] Posted by: xbj on Mar 30, 2007 6:59 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] McCain had either an undiagnosed stroke, or they're desperately keeping it secret... there's no other explanation. The man's mind (and who he used to be) is just absolutely completely gone. Basically, he's completely out of his mind. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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