Bush admits `disquiet’ in nation | Chicago Tribune But the president insisted his Iraq strategy will work: “There’s a deep desire by the Iraqi people to live in a democracy,” he said. And he urged Americans to be patient as his administration looks for ways to help ease the pain at the gas pump. Thanks to us, they’re dying for the chance to live free and to suffer less pain at the source of our gas. Via Huffington Post’s Michael Shaw

Bush Says U.S. Spying Is Not Widespread – New York Times The article, in USA Today, said that the agency did not listen to the calls, but secretly obtained information on numbers dialed by “tens of millions of Americans” and used it for “data mining” — computer analysis of large amounts of information for clues or patterns to terrorist activity. Oh! Right! That’s all right then. This is just like an episode in NUMB3RS, isn’t it? This makes me feel much more trustiful about the NSA’s data-mining millions of American citizen’s phone numbers. So now I suppose the secretive and…

Now it’s coming out: the NSA’s stated goal is to create a database of every single call ever made within the US. They want the data so they can analyze call patterns, they say. But the Pretendent of the United States of America is on record as saying only cross-border calls were to be tracked: In defending the previously disclosed program, Bush insisted that the NSA was focused exclusively on international calls. “In other words,” Bush explained, “one end of the communication must be outside the United States.” Uh huh. That was a while back ago. This quote is a…