The President? Leave Out Bad News? NO WAY!

Speaking of the President's speeches...

Here's a good AP story of the 'No shit?' variety. They note that the ABC/Time poll he cited in his speech to prove all the 'progress' in Iraq when taken in full actually paints a more murkier vision of things.

The story: Bush Leaves Out the Bad News in Iraqi Poll

President Bush is making selective use of an opinion poll when he tells people that Iraqis are increasingly upbeat.

The same poll that indicated a majority of Iraqis believe their lives are going well also found a majority expressing opposition to the presence of U.S. forces, and less than half saying Iraq is better off now than before the war...

This should, of course, be no surprise to anyone who remembers the buildup to war in which the President cherry-picked all the (faulty) intelligence to justify the case for a war he'd already decided on, when in fact numerous sources and agencies had provided him information that casted large doubt upon the intel. You do remember, don't you?