A good article from the Economist

A good article I landed on while browsing the news magazines for world politics and such

here's a lil excerpt:

George Bush's long hot summer

"With Iraq, even Mr Bush's supporters admit that the administration exaggerated Saddam's ties to al-Qaeda. But in some ways, the current blithely optimistic doublespeak is worse. How can Mr Bush say he is “pleased with the progress” there, or Dick Cheney claim that the insurgency is “in the last throes”? Iraq is no Vietnam, but the sooner Mr Bush spells out the truth bluntly, the sooner he will recover his reputation as a straight-shooter with the American people and Congress."

http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?Story_ID=4105189