Last Night President Bush continued to lie and spin the facts to the American people. In that his speech was just like most of his other speeches over the past 6 ½ years.
Lie ONE:
The success in Anbar, which is the major example Bush sighted, is the result of the American Troop Surge.
First, Bush only sent 4,000 additional troops into Anbar. The success against al-Qaeda elements in Anbar is the result of the local Sunni tribes that agreed to attack the foreign terrorists and not because of additional U.S. Forces. The U.S. Forces did support the actions of the local tribes but the surge troops in Anbar are not responsible for the success in lowering the violence in that region. In fact the Sunni tribal leader that was killed this week was responsible for getting about 25 Sunni tribes to agree and attack al-Qaeda elements in Anbar and those agreements were negotiated BEFORE the SURGE!
Lie TWO:
We are reducing troop levels because of the success of the Surge.
The success in Anbar is not because of the Surge and success in some areas in the Baghdad area are offset by increased violence in other areas around Baghdad and in both the northern and southern areas in Iraq. The TOTAL death toll is UP not DOWN and thus any claim that the Surge has reduced the Overall Violence is a LIE! The reason for reducing troop levels is because WE DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH TROOPS TO MAINTAIN THE SURGE! It has NOTHING to do with any so called success from the Surge. If there were NO areas where the violence was down we would still have to reduce the troop levels in Iraq.
Lie Three.
There are 35 Countries that supported our invasion in Iraq.
When the State Department was asked to list those countries they could only come with 20 some and most of then only sent a token number of troops. The two leaders that supported Bush in England and Australia did so despite their people DID NOT support the war. Blair lost his job over that support and the Australian PM is about to suffer the same fate.