The invaluable Pierre Tristam lays out Bush’s most recent lies about the occupation of Iraq and refutes them one by one. Read it all at The Smirking Chimp.

A Brookings Institution survey of Arab opinion in six countries last year showed bin Laden’s popularity never breaking five percent. Bin Laden’s popularity in the Middle East is itself an invention, convenient to the Bush administration’s offensive posture there, inconvenient to Arabs who must pay its price. Bin Laden is the Arab world’s Timothy McVeigh, a fringe loon, but one lucky enough to be constantly revalidated by Bush’s monomaniacal war on Islamowhatever …

Peace isn’t breaking out in Iraq. A colder, longer war is. It’s further miring the United States in the shards of the Sunni-Shiite divide. And it’s confirming once again in Arab eyes that America’s end game is control of the Middle East’s authoritarian houses of cards. If Enron were an emirate, Bush would be its principal shareholder right now, with America’s foreign policy as collateral …

Posted by Jerome Doolittle at December 11, 2007 06:38 PM

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