Don't look at me. I'm just the preznit.

It's highly instructive -- and would be amusing if the consequences weren't so gaspingly awful -- to watch the Bush administration fudge, lie, cloud, and attack its way through the news day's spin cycle.

They lie about everything. From The Road to Surfdom:

the road to surfdom: Here's another amazing twist in the case of the disappearing Iraq explosives: "On Sunday, administration officials said that the Iraq Survey Group, the C.I.A. taskforce that hunted for unconventional weapons, had been ordered to look into the disappearance of the explosives. On Tuesday night, CBS News reported that Charles A. Duelfer, the head of the taskforce, denied receiving such an order." Gee, who to believe?

UPDATE: The spinning by the administration reeks of desperation and it is worth following the story through the spin cycle: 'President Bush's aides told reporters that because the soldiers had found no trace of the missing explosives on April 10, they could have been removed before the invasion. They based their assertions on a report broadcast by NBC News on Monday night that showed video images of the 101st arriving at Al Qaqaa. >By yesterday afternoon Mr. Bush's aides had moderated their view, saying it was a "mystery" when the explosives disappeared and that Mr. Bush did not want to comment on the matter until the facts were known. On Sunday, administration officials said that the Iraq Survey Group, the C.I.A. taskforce that hunted for unconventional weapons, had been ordered to look into the disappearance of the explosives. On Tuesday night, CBS News reported that Charles A. Duelfer, the head of the taskforce, denied receiving such an order. At the Pentagon, a senior official, who asked not to be identified, acknowledged that the timing of the disappearance remained uncertain.... Colonel Anderson said he did not see any obvious signs of damage when he arrived on April 10, but that his focus was strictly on finding a secure place to collect his troops, who were driving and flying north from Karbala. "There was no sign of looting here," Colonel Anderson said. "Looting was going on in Baghdad, and we were rushing on to Baghdad. We were marshaling in." A few days earlier, some soldiers from the division thought they had discovered a cache of chemical weapons that turned out to be pesticides. Several of them came down with rashes, and they had to go through a decontamination procedure. Colonel Anderson said he wanted to avoid a repeat of those problems, and because he had already seen stockpiles of weapons in two dozen places, did not care to poke through the stores at Al Qaqaa.'...

Despite the administration saying that they knew the site to be emptied out before they got there, Col. Joseph Anderson... who the administration implies searched the site... didn't.

Meanwhile, after two days of silence over the matter, our Commander in Chief takes the high road.

Note to George: Calling you and your administration a bunch of incompetent, lying asses has nothing, nothing to do with the troops.