Murder by land, lying by sea

Last night as George W. Bush preened and strutted and bragged that we can accomplish our military objectives without harming civilians, I was looking at photos of civilians lying dead in the streets of Al-Fallujah, gunned down by automatic weapons fire because a kid threw his shoe.

An eyewitness account by a reporter from London's Mirror describes the scene: "It started when a young boy hurled a sandal at a US jeep - it ended with two Iraqis dead and 16 seriously injured."

Bush's taxpayer-funded, self-congratulatory bloviation is so full of demonstrable lies that it takes an incredible feat of doublethink for anyone who knows the facts to swallow it. I hope the media don't let him get away with it again, as they have ignored his duplicity up to now.