C-Span 3 will air the Betrayus/Crockfullofshit, aka Bush/Cheney report today at 12:30. You can watch it here.

Here’s some info from around the web on the conditions in Iraq. I’m guessing you won’t hear any of this in their report.

2/3 of Iraqis say surge has made things worse. (but hey, they just live this nightmare every day….what do they know.)

The food rationing system in Iraq is a mess. “There are many reasons why the monthly food ration system is not working very well,” Muhammad Ala-a Jabber, director of the west Baghdad office for delivering food rations, said. “There is a shortage of food products, the available products are of bad quality and sometimes are expired and there is a delay in delivery to the distribution offices.”

Alcoholism is on the rise and Iraq has one of the worst treatment and follow-up regimes in the Middle East.

Iraqis asked if the surge has worked. Answer, NO.

There’s dissent among U.S. officials over troop surge.

Reporters claim surge has fallen short.

One man’s story……he sells drugs to survive.

From McClatchy:

The international aid group Oxfam reported in July that only 30 percent of Iraqis have access to clean water, compared with 50 percent in 2003 - and tens of thousands of Iraqis are fleeing their homes each month in search of safety.

Iraqi security forces remain heavily infiltrated by militias, and political leaders continue to intervene in their activities.

Civilian deaths haven’t decreased in any significant way across the country, according to statistics from the Iraqi Interior Ministry, and numbers gathered by McClatchy Newspapers show no consistent downward trend even in Baghdad, despite military assertions to the contrary. The military has provided no hard numbers to back the claim.

The progress in al Anbar has little to do with the 4,000 U.S. troops who were sent to Anbar as part of the surge of 30,000 additional troops to Iraq. Instead, it began more than four months earlier, with the formation last September of the Anbar Salvation Council.

Speaking of the number of Iraqi deaths since the surge, an official in the ministry who spoke anonymously because he wasn’t authorized to release numbers said those numbers were heavily manipulated. The official said 1,980 Iraqis had been killed in July and that violent deaths soared in August, to 2,890. (I knew that August number was way off)

I could go on and on and on…..but I’ll stop here. We all know about the doctor’s fleeing the country or being kidnapped and killed, we all know about the millions of Iraqis who have fled the country. We all know about the Iraqi’s who are still in country and have nowhere to flee. We all know about Baghdad becoming walled off into seperate little neighborhood “prisons.” We all know the reported number of deaths is played with so not to portray the true picture. We all know the success in al Anbar had nothing to do with the surge. We all know the two people talking today are tools and the words coming out of their mouths are the words of GW.