Better to be thought a fool than a liar?

By Libby

The NIE report on Iran continues to preoccupy the bloggers today. I've done my posts at Newshoggers where I unpacked some of the spin and at Detroit News where I point out that Bush doesn't understand the concept acheiving goals by rewarding for good behavior, not punishing more severely to 'prevent' future bad behavior. No wonder his kids are so screwed up.

This story is moving fast. By the time I posted those two, a new video surfaced of the press conference showing Bush claiming that no one told him about the contents of the report until yesterday. Is it me, or can you almost see his nose growing while he struggles to keep that former incessant smirk off his face?

And how sad is it that he has to cop to incompetency to avoid admiting he's a liar? I mean, isn't the Commander Guy supposed to be interested in what's going on so he can make -- you know -- informed decisions? To believe that stating he was told in August that there was new information that needed to be checked out and he didn't express the least bit of curiousity about what that information might be and just placidly waited until someone thought to clue him in months later, while in the interim he was stumping around making speeches about Iran, is a good thing.... well, it's just pathetic.