BUSH A.K.A NERO FIDDLES WHILE IRAQ BURNS

President Bush told a military audience in Dayton, Ohio on Thursday that "the surge" is working and things are improving everyday in Iraq.

Bush a.k.a Nero apparently didn't know that the Green Zone has been put on curfew and most of Baghdad is also on curfew until Sunday.

Bush also didn't seem to know that thousands of Mahdi Army demonstrators staged a protest in Basra, Iraq demanding the ouster of Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Malki.

Bush also didn't seem to know that the number of American KILLED in Iraq is 4,004 and not 4,000 as he told the Dayton audiences.

Bush also failed to mention that for four days in a row mortar rounds have been fired into the Green Zone in Baghdad and three American civilians have been killed.

Bush also didn't seem to know anything about a key Iraqi oil pipeline has been blown up.

Bush apparently doesn't know that 30 percent of all Iraq vets are returning with serious hearing loss.

Bush also never mentioned there are 30,000 wounded veterans from the Iraq war in military hospitals and a majority of them suffer from PTSD without any professional help available.

Bush skipped over the fact that Iraq war is costing the American taxpayer NINE BILLION DOLLARS A MONTH.

Bush failed to mention the senior brass at the Pentagon are calling for something to be done quickly about the troops who keep getting rotated back to Iraq and in some cases are on their fourth or fifth tour to the war zone.

Bush a.k.a Nero continues to fiddle while Iraq burns and he appears to be completely oblivious to the facts as foreign press organizations are reporting them every single day, but the mainstream press in the United States is following in the footsteps of FOX NEWS and providing Americans with only "happy war talk" news.

Commentary by Bill Corcoran, editor of CORKSPHERE