CNN is reporting on the White House effort to restore President Bush's sagging poll numbers, which are holding at levels only slightly above bird flu popularity. Their hit back plan aims...

to reverse President Bush's poor poll showings on the topics of Iraq and honesty and trustworthiness by repeatedly making the point that the pre-war intelligence was faulty, it was not manipulated and everyone was working off the same intelligence.

The good news is the plan does not require the spread of democracy or liberty to a Middle Eastern country.  But neither does the plan introduce honesty and trustworthiness into the White House. Instead, the country will come under extensive Republican kool-aid type memes to help us realize that we are all the victims of faulty national intelligence, the White House included.

Now is the time to pull out the latest in British imports, the Downing Street Memo.  The memo has yet to fail in pointing out where Bush facts and intelligence wrap around a policy.  The Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) 2004 report did find the pre-war intelligence faulty.  However, whether that intelligence was manipulated is more easily determined if the last allegation that everyone was working off the same intelligence is false.