Time: "Regards from President Bush" is a myth

[underpants]

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101031229-566025,00.html

U.S. government sources familiar with the accounts given by troops who helped capture Saddam tell TIME that the fallen dictator apparently made one feeble attempt at defiance. As soldiers were handcuffing him after he was extracted from his "spider hole," these sources say, Saddam spit on his captor. As the incident was reported by the military, according to a U.S. source, a soldier promptly slugged the old tyrant — probably the first time in more than two decades that Saddam was powerless to exact lethal revenge on someone who stood up to him.

An official military spokeswoman in Iraq claims no knowledge of the incident. "I think this is an urban legend," she says. But the full story is yet to be told. A U.S. intelligence official, meanwhile, casts doubt on another widely reported tale: that a U.S. soldier hailed the nemesis of two Commanders in Chief named George Bush by saying: "Regards from President Bush." This person says some officials suspect the story is "apocryphal."

[grytpype]

1. Can't the Misadministration tell the truth about any damned thing?

[NewJeffCT]

2. I guess not

No wonder everybody overseas believes that when Bush opens his mouth, he is lying.

[frylock]

11. i live in the continental united states, and believe the same thing.

[chimpymustgo]

3. No. But interestingly, both Anderson Cooper and Keith Olberman

Made note of the misadmin's constant need to spin and hype as they both reported the story of the made up quote.

Cooper was quite derisive.

[underpants]

4. No apprently not

When I heard this story (which is what it is) I could see some Joe saying that. I don't think it's all that bad those guys do see him as the #1 enemy not that his capture has really changed the situation very much other than morale. The problem I have is the repeated creation of stories that dont' exist.

[beyurslf]

5. Why do they have to lie about such mundane and stupid things?

This just makes the Admin look like children....making up stories to look stronger.

[rfranklin]

7. They do it because it works...

The B.S. (pure Roovian extract) was broadcast for days across the nation. The debunking will not make a ripple. It works like a charm!

[DemBones DemBones]

9. Sadly, you're correct about this.

It's a popular bit of the story that people love to repeat. I've heard it lauded as "the American sense of humor." (I managed not to laugh when this was said.) People have some sort of atavistic need to see Americans getting one up on the evildoers.

[peekaloo]

6. Jebus, anything to further inflate Boosh's crotch, er, ego.

:eyes:

[Zero Gravitas]

8. They are compulsive liars

they can't stop themselves from embelishing every story to try and make themselves look good.

[cosmicdot]

10. so, what do we say to him?

any ideas?

how about ... "regards from Prez Bush" as suggested by this memo from KKKarl Rove

that'll work

works for me, too

run with that

suppose we forget to say it?

don't worry, it's all been taken care of in the press release to the embedded press



mission accomplished

just another myth in the road