Mathews Calls out Bush on Number of Countries in Iraq

This President seems to be exaggerating more lately. I guess when the facts don't seem to be on your side lies have to take over. One of those lies is the suggestion that he is bringing home troops. Well, in turns out those coming out in the next few months were scheduled to go home anyway. Another non-truth includes the myth that we are part of a broad coalition fighting in Iraq. Chris Matthews was one of those challenging Bush's stats:

The fact we have 36 countries fighting on our side in Iraq must be news to the soldiers over there. I don’t know who these people are or how many divisions they have. All we read about in the papers are American GIs getting killed by IEDs and terrible accidents and all kinds of enemy action over there. … The idea we’re one of 36 countries fighting the war I think is ludicrous and why the President would throw that out there, I think it only opens him up to ridicule.