Carrying George Bush’s Water: GAO Shoots Holes In Bucket
August 30th, 2007 | by Daniel DiRito |Oh I just can’t wait for the good news…you know…the good news about the success of the surge and the progress being made on the political front in Iraq. With every nugget of good news, the Bush administrati on apologists race to report the shifting tide while also chiding the defeatist Democrats. You have to admire their fortitude…th eir undaunted willingness to push the rock back up the hill over and over again…as if to be reenacting the plight of the mythical Sisyphus.
Unfortunatel y, the rock appears poised to slide back down the hill once again with the release of the Government Accountabili ty Office (GAO) report. According to a draft of the document, the White House has apparently engaged in an effort to offer an assessment that may well conflict with the more negative views found in the administrati on. In other the words, the spin doctors have been very busy in anticipation of the GAO report as well as the findings to be offered by General Petraeus in September.
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