Bartlett Denies 'Stay the Course' Strategy Exists

"It's never been a stay the course strategy,"
- WH mouthpiece Dan Bartlett in a TV interview today

Q Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. President, April is turning into the deadliest month in Iraq since the fall of Baghdad, and some people are comparing Iraq to Vietnam and talking about a quagmire. Polls show that support for your policy is declining and that fewer than half Americans now support it. What does that say to you and how do you answer the Vietnam comparison?

THE PRESIDENT: I think the analogy is false. I also happen to think that analogy sends the wrong message to our troops, and sends the wrong message to the enemy. Look, this is hard work. It's hard to advance freedom in a country that has been strangled by tyranny. And, yet, we must stay the course, because the end result is in our nation's interest.
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And my message today to those in Iraq is: We'll stay the course; we'll complete the job. My message to our troops is: We will stay the course and complete the job and you'll have what you need.

- Bush, April 2004

And, of course, that's only one of the zillion times that Bush has pushed his 'stay the course' strategery.

Can we come to any other conclusion but that the members of this administration are so obviously incapable of telling the truth that they lie as easily as they breath? Absolutely unbelievable.