Misleading the Country

Bush-style:

President Bush will tell the nation later Thursday that security advances in Iraq will allow some U.S. forces to begin returning home.

"Now, because of the measure of success we are seeing in Iraq, we can begin seeing troops come home," Mr. Bush will say, according to excerpts of the speech released by the White House.

That's just false. The whole premise of the escalation surge was to be a temporary increase in the number of troops. Regardless of whether they kicked ass were successful, the troops were due to come home because it is against regulation for them to be deployed for such long periods of time. The AP should at least bother to report that simple fact.