If true, this really is a change. For so long literally anything which could get the people on the teevee talking about terra terra terra was framed as good news for Bush, even more than the general "this will be good news for Republicans" which is applied to most news stories. One would hope that years later, after commander codpiece singlehandedly won the Global War On Terror
TM, some evidence that maybe all was not well on the world wouldn't actually reflect well on his presidency.