Daily Howler - June 29, 2005

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2005

ONE OUT OF THREE AIN’T HALF BAD: We chuckled as the Post’s Glenn Kessler began his fact-check of Bush’s speech:

KESSLER (6/29/05): In his speech last night, President Bush ignored some uncomfortable facts about the U.S. enterprise in Iraq and overstated the extent of overseas support. But he correctly identified the gains made by the nascent Iraqi government in the past year in the face of a fierce insurgency.

According to Kessler, Bush “ignored” and “overstated”—but some things he said were correct!