Get ready for the next big scandal of the Bush Administration, according to Newsweak Magazine,
The Bush administration is starving for good news out of Iraq, and it may finally have some: new U.S. government statistics showing that violent attacks of all kinds are down to levels not seen since 2005. But until recently, the administration appears to have resisted acknowledging a key element of the new data, because it flies in the face of President George W. Bush’s ongoing rhetorical confrontation with Iran’s clerical regime.
That’s right, Bush is downplaying good news in Iraq in order to attack Iran. Uh-huh.
And you dear reader get three guesses at the sources behind this brilliant theory,
According to three senior U.S. officials, who asked for anonymity when discussing sensitive information, the decline in Iraq violence also includes a decrease in the number of attacks attributable to insurgents backed or armed by Iran. Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell confirmed to NEWSWEEK that “there has indeed been a drop” in such attacks, but he added that “it’s not entirely clear what the reason for that is.”
Ok fine, you only needed one guess, “anonymous sources”.
Greyhawk at the Mudville Gazette has more on “never-before published quadruple super secret” information from the United Nations here.
Later in the same story, Newsweak outs itself as a member of Bush’s Vast Necon Conspiracy,
…trends show a significant drop in violence over the last several months, according to previously unpublished military statistics obtained by NEWSWEEK.
It’s getting harder all the time to tell the difference between the MSM and Scrappleface.