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That Bush is a blatant liar should be no surprise to any of us now. Let's rewind to 1999 and the easy availability of the website for the Project for the New American Century (PNAC)(http://www.newamericancentury.org/). Reading their position paper on Iraq - the one advocating a projection of US power into Iraq - and noting the list of Bush cronies who had signed it (his brother Jeb, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, et al) one could only conclude that GW shared this kind of thinking. Just after I read the PNAC papers I knew we were seeing a special kind of evil when I saw GW on a Sunday talking head show say, in his best evangelical sincerity, "I don't believe in nation building." He's been lying to us every since I can remember.
The Bush organization is precise, well managed and effective. They have been pursuing the agenda put forth years ago by PNAC for a scary kind of US authoritarianism. Bush's lies are simply part of executing that agenda. Here's my question: Is our Congress part of this organization too? After all, they overwhelmingly supported this war. And I have to think that if we mere citizens could tell that Bush was lying just by watching him, then our infinitely better informed representatives should have known that as well.
Bush should be impeached - in my book lying about a war is a lot worse than lying about a blow job. But it will never happen because our Congress painted themselves into a corner by supporting this war. The PNAC agenda is in motion and I don't think it will be stopped without impeaching Bush and the other leaders of his organization.
So now what do we do? Keep making fun of him? Keep proving and re-proving his lies? I don't think any of that is productive when we've got a lot bigger problem on our hands.
