Thanks to Hunter over at Daily Kos for this bit of hypocrisy...

Do people in the Bush Administration understand that normal people have instant access to information now, and if they say things that are demonstrably not true or make little sense that this will come out?

Perhaps they do understand this but simply do not care.

Pretty soon they'll hire a guy named Winston to work at The Memory Hole and this won't be a problem any longer.

Anyhow, check out this bit by Hunter over at DailyKos:

Zarqawi
by Hunter
Tue Jun 28th, 2005 at 14:52:36 PDT

From the prereleased excerpts of Bush's speech:

"The terrorists can kill the innocent - but they cannot stop the advance of freedom. The only way our enemies can succeed is if we forget the lessons of September 11 ... if we abandon the Iraqi people to men like Zarqawi ... and if we yield the future of the Middle East to men like Bin Laden."

Ahem.

With Tuesday's attacks, Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant with ties to al-Qaida, is now blamed for more than 700 terrorist killings in Iraq.

But NBC News has learned that long before the war the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi himself -- but never pulled the trigger. [...]

Military officials insist their case for attacking Zarqawi's operation was airtight, but the administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam.

See also Media Matters.

You know what would really help us win the war on terror? Fighting the f---ing war on terror. Jackass.

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