{"id":1613,"date":"2005-01-06T14:56:17","date_gmt":"2005-01-06T21:56:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-01-06T14:56:17","modified_gmt":"2005-01-06T21:56:17","slug":"bush-no-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/06\/bush-no-bad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush: No bad news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/coldfury.com\/reason\/index.php?p=82\" target=\"_blank\">Arthur Silber<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywarnews.blogspot.com\/2005_01_01_dailywarnews_archive.html#110501715581238321\" target=\"_blank\">Yankeedoodle, <\/a> we find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airamericaradio.com\/weblogs\/alfrankenshow\/index.php?\/franken\/bush_rejects_bad_news\/\" target=\"_blank\">this ominous report:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b><big>BUSH REJECTS BAD NEWS<\/big><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The <i>Nelson Report<\/i> 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:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 \u201cbad news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    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&#8230;building democracy. \u201cThat&#8217;s all he wants to hear about,\u201d we have been told. So \u201cin\u201d are the latest totals on school openings, and \u201cout\u201d 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 \u201cit will just get worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    Our sources are firm in that they conclude this \u201cgood news only\u201d 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Arthur Silber and Yankeedoodle, we find this ominous report: BUSH REJECTS BAD NEWS 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. 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