In 2004, a Bush administration official (believed to be Karl Rove) described his team’s approach to governing this way:

‘’We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. It was kept secret because it reveals facts that run counter to the false construction of reality created by the White House political office.

But sometimes real reality has a way of intruding:

The war in Iraq has made global terrorism worse by fanning Islamic radicalism and providing a training ground for lethal methods that are increasingly being exported to other countries, according to a sweeping assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies.

The classified document, which represents a consensus view of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, paints a considerably bleaker picture of the impact of the Iraq war than Bush administration or U.S. intelligence officials have acknowledged publicly, according to officials familiar with the assessment.

“They conclude that the Iraq war has made it worse,” said a government official familiar with the document who spoke on condition of anonymity because of its classified nature.

No one should be surprised that the war is breeding more terrorism. If we lived in real reality, there would be no need for this information to be classified. It was kept secret because it reveals facts that run counter to the false construction of reality created by the White House political office.

Makes me tired to think about it. It must be exhausting for them. No wonder they screw it up so often.