Today's task for Karl Rove: Spin MSNBC "Iraq Getting Worse" into Bush win

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

I'm not a betting man, but I would throw a few dollars down on increased talk of "staying the course, hearts and minds, firm resolve, making progress, and freedom-lovin' Iraqi people and the terrorists who hate us for our freedom" over the next few days:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6126518/



A growing number of career professionals within national security agencies believe that the situation in Iraq is much worse, and the path to success much more tenuous, than is being expressed in public by top Bush administration officials, according to former and current government officials and assessments over the past year by intelligence officials at the CIA and the departments of State and Defense.

While President Bush, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and others have delivered optimistic public appraisals, officials who fight the Iraqi insurgency and study it at the CIA and the State Department and within the Army officer corps believe the rebellion is deeper and more widespread than is being publicly acknowledged, officials say.

People at the CIA "are mad at the policy in Iraq because it's a disaster, and they're digging the hole deeper and deeper and deeper," said one former intelligence officer who maintains contact with CIA officials. "There's no obvious way to fix it. The best we can hope for is a semi-failed state hobbling along with terrorists and a succession of weak governments."

"Things are definitely not improving," said one U.S. government official who reads the intelligence analyses on Iraq. "It is getting worse," agreed an Army staff officer who served in Iraq and stays in touch with comrades in Baghdad through e-mail. "It just seems there is a lot of pessimism flowing out of theater now. There are things going on that are unbelievable to me. They have infiltrators conducting attacks in the Green Zone. That was not the case a year ago."

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Simple: "It's a sign of PROGRESS!"

[LisaLynne]

2. Stop listening to the FILTER!

Although, that one is sort of played. They might have to come up with something new.

[redstateblues]

3. All that proves is that we are winning-they are desperate

[The empressof all]

4. What they will say

Bush will come out and say "Well you know we are at war (smirk, smirk) and at war things change...(wink, wink). We are always getting new information and we need to make the big decisions based on what we know." (twist, twist)

[gratuitous]

5. It's Kerry's fault!

Yes, that's right. The stump speeches of the junior Senator from Massachusetts are so much more powerful than the man cowering under the desk in the Oval Office. John Kerry is so powerful, you wonder why he's taking a step down to want to be president?

Heck, Rove hardly needs to lift a finger anymore. The media chuckleheads know the script by heart now.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

7. Hey! Don't forget Bill Clinton.

Yeah, CLINTON...he's responsible. THAT'S the ticket...



:evilgrin:

[leftchick]

6. aWol* will say " War is hard!" " It is a hard job"!....

like he would have any clue!

[robbedvoter]

8. "be grateful they fight there and not here" - thanks to fearless leader

all this violence is kept far away in furriners land