[George W. Bush]

The Germans released this to pile on the Murtha flap. It is an official attack, meant to undermine Bush. No country's intel services makes public statements like this without permission from the top.

It'll be used to support Murtha's talking points on the Sunday talk shows. And it will be droned the rest of the week from the usual MSM suspects.

[ReaganCountry]

This sounds like the exact same story that the Guardian ran with on April 2, 2004 http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1184172,00.html