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• Thursday, December 4, 2008 07:57 AM

  @verycold

  verycold: "Keep in mind that our new Sec of State, Hillary Clinton, lied with passion about being attacked in Bosnia knowing full well that others would be able to tell a different story. She lied. She meant to and she did and yet now she will be expected to always tell the truth with regards to foreign policy negotiations. She never said she actually embellished the story to make her look good, but instead just deflected her guilt knowing the press would shortly give it up."

  Even if you're right about Hillary Clinton lying, I fail to see what the embellishment of an individual experience has to do with Bush lying to start war.

  I also fail to see what the point is in even bringing up Hillary in the context of this comments section. Bush has to own his failure. You're doing the same thing Bush is -- trying to find someone, anyone, else to blame.

  "Bush didn't fail.....a whole bunch of people failed!"

  You conveniently forget that Bush was elected to be the leader, or in his words, "the decider."

  If a bunch of low-level idiots believe the WMD lies they're told, that doesn't get the liar off the hook. It just makes him even less of a good leader. Instead of lying because he could get away with it, Bush could have tried to make a good decision. But we all know he did what his gaggle of corrupt advisers told him was best. The truth is that Bush has always been insanely disengaged from the details of his own decision-making. He just wanted to kick ass, and he trusted that he could follow in his father's footsteps. The difference was that his father had brains enough to get in, do the damage necessary, and then get out.

  verycold: "You can hammer Bush all you want - he deserves it, but I will guarantee you that the lies, omissions, refusal to own mistakes will continue into this administration because the media and the people of this country accept despicable behavior when it comes to our elected officials."

  Your guarantee is empty. There are very stark differences between Bush and Obama. Just because the populace is under-informed and gullible doesn't guarantee automatic corruption and manipulation from the top. No, really.

  —Xrandadu Hutman Read Xrandadu Hutman's other letters
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