Bush Evaluates Himself and Discovers (Surprise!) That He's a Champ

There's nothing like a liar in denial doing a self-evaluation.

Bush asserts success in combating AIDS in Africa, preventing new terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and snatching a measure of victory in Iraq. And in a speech on the Middle East yesterday, the president sketched out a strikingly optimistic portrait of a region that has embroiled the United States in war and conflict for the past eight years.

"The Middle East in 2008 is a freer, more hopeful and more promising place than it was in 2001," he said at the Saban Forum in Washington.

None of those things are true, of course, and a couple of them are laughable. But let's give our soon-to-be-ex-Emperor credit for finally admitting he may have made just a few teensy, weensy mistakes hardly worth mentioning.

He has admitted to a few previously unacknowledged errors, telling one interviewer that he was "unprepared for war" when he entered office and that his "biggest regret" was the failure of intelligence leading up to the Iraq invasion.

Which are blatant lies so far beyond "disingenuous" that we're in FantasyBushLand again. Gad.

Next stop: History, which will be in catre of Karl Rove at the Bush Library and Propaganda Center.