Iraq "Not Satisfied" With Bush

Ha-ha-ha...Actually the headline on the Time's website is just the reverse.

Only now, in America in 2006, could the President of the United States stating that he's "not satisfied" with the most visible and colossal catastrophe in American foreign policy since Vietnam be considered front page news.

For a minute, it was even a breaking news banner across the Times site. One wonders who took the banner down...the ghost of Johnny Apple, muttering "it is just too embarrassing."

I think it provides a fabulous insight into how thoroughly the Bush communication team has misrepresented and consistently spun event in Iraq that the by simply saying "I'm not satisfied" is seen as some sort of news worthy evolution of policy. Or maybe they've given in, recognized that there is no policy, and will now just starting covering administration rhetoric alone.

Sure there is some editor somewhere at the Times and other media brave enough to give the President's empty rhetorical stumping the space and prominence it deserves.