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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
When will the press at those press conferences at the White will have the guts
to tell the President, that he is lying. It is really about time to stop this
dangerous guy!
It seems it would be easy to get a statement from Hans Bliss regarding this lie. The "main stream press" that Bush demeans from time to time when he is desparate to deflect criticism is letting him get away with murder, both figuratively and literally, on this one.
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.
President Eisenhower warned this nation of our over dependency of the "military industrial complex" over fifty years ago but no one ever really took his warnings seriously. Note...this warning came from an individual steeped in military and poltical experience and wisdom. There is ample evidence the reasons behind the Watergate break-in/coverup was to find out if the Democrats had any knowledge of Howard Hughe's illegal cash donations for military contracts to the Nixon campaign (and Nixon personally) and to avoid any "October suprise" from occuring in the fall 1972 presidential election (in which the paranoid Nixon was leading in the polls thanks to a series of dirty tricks hoisted upon democratic candidates). Since Nixon was forced to resign the Republicans have developed and nurtured their think tanks in an all out effort to not only win back control of the levers of government power but to literally destroy any Democratic candidate in their way by all means possible. Part of that strategy (besides trying to wrap all Democrats as immoral in their personal lives and soft on everything from crime to national defense and equating it with a demeaning definition of liberal)is to constantly beat the drum that the press is and always has been slanting to the extreme liberal. Combined with todays corporate takeover of cable news shows and talk radio it is no wonder todays press works overtime to keep from being labled and demonized by the right as being "liberal" (after all who wants a Carl Rove calling your boss to complain about a secret about yellowcake deception being revealed). With newspaper circulations dropping and more people getting their news from television talk shows and radio it is no wonder this Orwellian administration can slip so much over on the American public especially when one considers the "fairness doctrine" was thown out over 15 years ago. Too much opinion speculation by our current news outlets (T.V. $ radio)are being accepted as fact and news agencies have found it more economical to parrot what they are hearing reported by others while cutting their own investigative departments. Our only hope is the few who do in-dept reporting, the internet, occasional leaks, and other nuggets of truth prevail in the short term to pull us through this darkest hour of quest to keep a free, unfettered, and informed press. Otherwise history will never be able to report when truth actually died.
Good work, Joe, thanks!
I cringe each time Bush repeats that lie, and cringe a second time that no one calls him on it. The phrase "Saddam denied the inspectors" is just one of several memes and slogans that Bush utters over and over, even though they are ambiguous, or just plain false.
The one that irritates me whenever Bush says it is, "I took an oath to protect the American people," or similarly, "I promised to defend the American people." This is a nice saying, and probably polls well, but he is clearly getting confused about his oath of office, which says "protect and defend the **Constitution** of the United States."
Oh, if only Bush would protect the Constitution, like his oath actually says!!
Joe I wish you'd look this one up, and call him on it, too! Thanks for your good work,
tjallen
A good article on Mr. Bush lies.....he can not open his mouth without telling one. Even when the truth would serve him better, he must lie!
When the American people start to laugh at a politician, they are in trouble.
First laugh, then rage America! This man and his cabal have almost destroyed our country!
Two artciles can be found on my site, on the two subjects covered in this article. Media and Lies on the weapon inspectors. "The Media: Fourth Estate or Fifth Column? and "Where Were the Weapons Inspectors"?
A person who tells a lie, is a liar. It is time that we start calling these people exactly what they are. Don't beat around the bush....Beat Bush over the head with all his lies.
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