The Lies Keep Repeating

General Peter "Iraq Is Going Very Very Well" Pace

From today's Maureen Dowd piece in the New York Times:

[T]he administration scorns introspection and originality. It sticks with the same worn themes: Stay the course. Victory's around the corner. Anyone who expresses skepticism is a defeatist, a softie on terrorism.

On ''Meet the Press'' on Sunday, Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Iraq was ''going very, very well, from everything you look at.'' And at a Pentagon briefing yesterday, Rummy, who should have resigned in shame long ago, tried to blame the press, echoing Gen. George Casey in saying: ''Much of the reporting in the U.S. and abroad has exaggerated the situation.''

He added, ''The steady stream of errors all seem to be of a nature to inflame the situation and to give heart to the terrorists.''

After all the horrible mistakes in judgment the defense secretary has made -- mistakes that have left our troops without proper backup and armor, created an inept and corrupt occupation, and confused soldiers into thinking torture was O.K. -- it takes humongous gall to suggest that the problem is really the reporters.

I'd give you a link to read the rest, but, alas, the rest is hidden behind the TimesSelect pay-for-knowledge firewall. Sorry, but you can read Arianna Huffington's take on the latest batch of "we'll be greeted with flowers" lies here.