Laura Bush wants the 'good news' from Iraq to be reported

By Juan Cole

Laura Bush wants the 'good news' from Iraq to be reported, especially about the "schools opening."

"Actually, Laura, the schools in Iraq were open every day until March 19, 2003. Iraqis at one point had 95 percent literacy, before the US/UN sanctions of the 1990s. They didn't need the Bush administration to open schools for them, they needed the Americans to stop strangling them on the pretext that Saddam hadn't destroyed his WMD, which the professionals knew he had."