LIE OF THE WEEK: 12-15-2006

White House Spokesman Tony Snow on delaying the change in his Iraq policy until next year:

“You would expect and desire a commander in chief, in looking at a situation, to examine military concerns, security concerns, diplomatic concerns, internal political concerns within Iraq, regional ramifications, how you get people to work in concert with one another,” Mr. Snow said. “It is enormously complex.”

Mr. Snow said the president continues to get the best advice possible. “And so, as he considers the options, he’s not going to get rushed on it,” Mr. Snow said. “He wants to make sure it’s done right.”

THE TRUTH: It's clear by the President's reactions to the recent assessments of the Iraq Study Group, members of Congress, the leadership of the US Military, and some foreign leaders that he is not happy with any of them because they don't tell him to do what he is already planning to do. Rather than stalling and trying to discredit all of these sources, it's time for our President to stop the needless deaths and injuries of our brave soldiers and innocent Iraqis and to accept the failure of his overall strategy and tactics. He needs to stop taking the advice of those who have already proven to have failed and to turn to the highly useful Iraq Study Group's advice and accept it as a whole. This bipartisan group has generated some of the best ideas coming out of Washington in a long time and the President needs them to salvage the mess he seems so insistent upon maintaining while hoping for an impossible outcome with his current policies.