NP Only Good News

[Ghetta Life]

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/index.php?id=P1607

The Nelson Report is a daily political tip sheet and analysis written for 
the past 20 years for the (US and Asian) corporate and government clients of 
Chris Nelson, a former Capitol Hill staffer and UPI reporter. (He was 
actually the first to break the looted explosives story before the election; 
Josh Marshall then posted it to his blog.) This Monday, he wrote:


There is rising concern amongst senior officials that President Bush does 
not grasp the increasingly grim reality of the security situation in Iraq 
because he refuses to listen to that type of information. Our sources say 
that attempts to brief Bush on various grim realities have been personally 
rebuffed by the President, who actually says that he does not want to hear 
“bad news.”

Rather, Bush makes clear that all he wants are progress reports, where they 
exist, and those facts which seem to support his declared mission in 
Iraq...building democracy. “That's all he wants to hear about,” we have been 
told. So “in” are the latest totals on school openings, and “out” are 
reports from senior US military commanders (and those intelligence experts 
still on the job) that they see an insurgency becoming increasingly 
effective, and their projection that “it will just get worse.”

Our sources are firm in that they conclude this “good news only” directive 
comes from Bush himself; that is, it is not a trap or cocoon thrown around 
the President by National Security Advisor Rice, Vice President Cheney, and 
DOD Secretary Rumsfeld. In any event, whether self-imposed, or due to 
manipulation by irresponsible subordinates, the information/intelligence 
vacuum at the highest levels of the White House increasingly frightens those 
officials interested in objective assessment, and not just selling a 
political message.

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