Bush was just on TV, defending the necessity of the Iraq war in the face of massive antiwar protests taking place around the country.

He was saying that the future of the Middle East is one of freedom, that we went into Iraq and dismantled Saddam’s regime of terror, that this war has been worth the tremendous cost. He said we’ve heard exaggerated figures of the war’s cost, insulting the detailed work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.

But we’re not listening to his spinning, his lies, his PR stunt.

We know that he had to time his speech in order to ensure it got coverage instead of the hundreds of thousands of war resisters gathering around the world today.

And, may I ask, who the hell was clapping in the background as he presented his speech at the Pentagon?

After seeing the film “No End in Sight” this weekend as a part of our Iraq Action Camp, I know that even high-ranking officials in the State Department, the Department of Defense, and the Coalition Provisional Authority witnessed the large-scale mismanagement of this war, but their grievances were ignored by loyal Bush appointees in charge of the invasion and reconstruction.

Bush neglected to mention that Al-Qaeda did not exist in Iraq before the US-led invasion, that the surge did not succeed in achieving any of the political reconciliation benchmarks it set out to reach, and that his country is overwhelmingly against this war.

I'll see you in streets, guys.