Happy Mission Accomplished Day!

Today is the fourth anniversary of the day that the President and the media declared the war in Iraq to be over and won. All this other pesky stuff happening there for the last four years? Just the aftershocks, pay it no mind.

This photo-op was definitely the pinnacle of the media's Iraq war/Bush love-fest-- most disturbingly Chris Matthews' obsession with George Bush's, umm, manliness. Four years and one quagmire (well two if you count Afghanistan, but apparently no one does), they have surely learned a lesson about buying into White House spin, right? Right??

Here was an AP story on the front page of Yahoo this morning...

AP: 'Bush seeks cooperation on U.S. war funds'

President Bush said Monday he wants to work with Democrats on compromise legislation to pay for the Iraq war but will carry through on his threat to veto any spending bill that sets a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal.

"I'm optimistic we can get something done in a positive way," Bush said in a Rose Garden news conference with leaders of the European Union....

Cooperation? Yea, right. By 'wants to work with Democrats', the actual text of the article clearly implies the what the President means is that he demands Congress give him exactly what he wants and then shut the fuck up. The AP knows that, but they're too polite to say it. They shouldn't be.

Whether or not Democrats cave on the withdrawal stipulation, this sure as hell ain't cooperation.