Logical Conclusions: Taking the True Measure of the Situation
Not a day goes by without someone in the Bush Gang telling us that things are “getting better” in Iraq, that every new terrorist bombing or insurgent attack is actually evidence that “the insurgency is weakening,” growing more desperate, in its “final throes”. (Even if, as Condi Rice notes, those throes may last for 10 years or more.)
Of course, we’ve been seeing this same witless cud dribbling out of Bushist mouths for years now. Below, in an excerpt from the Empire Burlesque book, we see this logical conclusions applied, er, logically, to other