Obviously, by now, you know I mean Bush. I really just don't trust him. And it looks like some of congress and his congressional aides don't believe what he's saying about Iraq either. Beyond the whole lie/mistake/misunderstanding that led us into Iraq ... Beyond the VERY premature "Mission Accomplished" speech ... He continues to spew forth Bushit about what's happening in Iraq today. In a recent article by Reuters:

He said nearly 100,000 "fully trained and equipped" Iraqi soldiers, police officers and other security personnel are already at work, and that would rise to 125,000 by the end of this year.

And he promised more than $9 billion will be spent on reconstruction contracts in Iraq over the next few months.

But many of these assertions have met with skepticism from key congressional aides and experts, and Pentagon documents, given to lawmakers and obtained by Reuters, paint a more complicated picture.

TROOP, POLICE TRAINING

The documents show that of the nearly 90,000 currently in the police force, only 8,169 have had the full eight-week academy training. Another 46,176 are listed as "untrained," and it will be July 2006 before the administration reaches its new goal of a 135,000-strong, fully trained police force.

Six Army battalions have had "initial training," while 57 National Guard battalions, 896 soldiers in each, are still being recruited or "awaiting equipment." Just eight Guard battalions have reached "initial (operating) capability," and the Pentagon acknowledged the Guard's performance has been "uneven."

Training has yet to begin for the 4,800-man civil intervention force, which will help counter a deadly insurgency. And none of the 18,000 border enforcement guards have received any centralized training to date, despite earlier claims they had, according to Democrats on the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee.

They estimated that 22,700 Iraqi personnel have received enough basic training to make them "minimally effective at their tasks," in contrast to the 100,000 figure cited by Bush.

The sad thing is that there are SO many Americans that hear Bush's words, and take them for truth. It's obvious by the polls which show Bush slightly ahead of Kerry for the election. Either they believe everything he says about the state of affairs in our country and abroad, or they don't care when he's wrong or lying. Either way, it's a very sad statement about our country. But Bush's inaccuracies don't stop there:

The status of election planning in Iraq is also in question. Of the $232 million in Iraqi funds set aside for the Iraqi electoral commission, it has received a mere $7 million, according to House Appropriations Committee staff.

While Bush said the commission has already hired personnel and begun setting election procedures, congressional aides said preparations in other areas were behind schedule.

According to a one-page election planning "time line," registration materials are supposed to be distributed in early October. The forms would be collected at centers where Iraqis pick up monthly food packages. Initial voter lists are supposed to go out by the end of October, which is during the holy month of Ramadan.

And this is another crucial flaw in Bush's planning (or lack thereof) in Iraq. He is entirely ignorant of the culture he has invaded. I've said it before, you can't introduce a political system based on Christianity into a Muslim country, and expect everyone to be happy about that. Now, he plans to conduct serious business during one of their religion's major holy times. His ignorance has killed thousands of people, and now it's breaking down his major plans to repair what he broke.

So far, the United Nations has been reluctant to send staff back into the battle zone. It only has 30 to 35 people now in Baghdad, no more than eight working on the elections.

"The framework for it (free and fair elections) hasn't even been set up. The voter registration lists aren't set. There have to be hundreds of polling places, hundreds of trained monitors and poll watchers. None of that has happened," Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State for President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, told ABC's "This Week."

With the violence expected to intensify in the run-up to the elections, congressional experts were also skeptical $9 billion could be spent on reconstruction projects within several months, as Bush asserted.

So the United Nations, congressional experts, and a former Secretary of State are spotting huge holes in the plans to rebuild the nation we invaded. But W. goes forward, spewing his Bushit, and millions of ignorant Americans go on buying it. It's scary. Really.

At this point, I'm just hoping the Kerry does a good job in the debates. Bush is a good debater. I know it's disturbing considering he hasn't exactly mastered the English language yet, but he's a good debater. Kerry needs to step up and solidify his persona. There are a LOT of undecided voters out there. And "undecided" this year means they don't want another four years of Bush, but aren't sure that Kerry is the answer. I understand that. Personally, I don't know if Kerry is the solution to our problems. I DO know that he's the best alternative to four more years of Bushit. I've taken that step. I just hope Kerry can get the undecided voters to do the same.