Misleader Home A Daily Chronicle of Bush Administration Distortion
Photo: Collage of President Bush and White House
Navigation: Who We Are Navigation: Special Reports Navigation: Ask the Experts Navigation: Feedback Navigation: Donate Navigation: Tell a Friend Navigation: Contact Us

Receive the Daily Mislead
Get a look past the rhetoric, every day, delivered to your inbox.

your email:

Member of the press?


             Privacy policy


In the Spotlight
Bush Campaign Ads . . . Brought to You by Special Interests
As President Bush's $10.5 million campaign ad blitz begins, Public Citizen released a report outlining who helped pay for the campaign ads and what favors they have received during his presidency.

Special Reports
No Child Left Behind? The Funding Gap in ESEA and Other Federal Education Programs
The current reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), raises high expectations for achievement and imposes stringent measures of accountability on students, teachers, and schools.

See the Ad


A Daily Chronicle of Bush Administration Distortion September 23, 2004
Send The Misleader to a Friend | Printer Friendly Version | Want the Mislead on your site?



     

Iraqi Prime Minister Parrots Dishonest Bush Talking Points



Today, speaking before a joint session of Congress, Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi parroted the Bush administration's talking points: "We are succeeding in Iraq."1 The facts on the ground, however, suggest otherwise.

Over the last year the number of insurgents in Iraq has quadrupled.2 Attacks on U.S. troops are up 100% since last winter.3 Major Iraqi cities such as Fallujah have become havens for insurgents and are completely inaccessible to U.S. troops.4 Security situations have stalled reconstruction - Iraq still has less electricity than they did before the war.5 Even some Bush administration officials have acknowledged that elections planned for January may have to be delayed.6

Sources:
  1. "Allawi Says Elections Will Happen as Scheduled," Washington Post, 9/23/04.
  2. "Mission Still Not Accomplished," Time Magazine, 9/20/04.
  3. "Iraq: A Quantitative Assessment," Brookings Institution, 9/17/04.
  4. "Green Zone is 'no longer totally secure'," Financial Times, 9/15/04.
  5. "Iraq Power Grid Shows U.S. Flaws," Los Angeles Times, 9/12/04.
  6. "Bush puts Iraqi leader forward," International Herald Tribune, 9/22/04.



Send the Misleader to a Friend | Print It | Misleader Archive