The Cheerleader-In-Chief

You know all those times when Bush told us things were going great in Iraq? Turns out he didn't really mean it.

"How worried were you?" Raddatz asked.

"I was worried. Look, I'm worried any time it looks like we're going to fail in Iraq," Bush said.

During that time in 2006, when many were saying Iraq was in a full-blown civil war, Bush kept his rhetoric upbeat saying in speeches that, "We're winning" and "We have a plan for victory."

Raddatz asked the president about that and the president insisted he did it to keep up troop morale.

"That's as much to try and bolster the spirits of the people in the field as well -- you can't have the commander-in-chief say to a bunch of kids who are sacrificing that either it's not worth it or you're losing. What does that do for morale?" Bush said.

Apparently the president's job isn't to tell the American people or the American military the truth, it's to tell them a comforting (and self-aggrandizing) lie.  You can't tell soldiers that they're dying for no good reason -- especially if you expect them to keep on dying indefinitely.

Shake those pom-poms, George.