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Using The "L" Word-Altogether Now Lets Say "Liar"!!
Sun Jun 29 02:49:38 2003
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Using The "L" Word-Altogether Now Lets Say "Liar"!!!!!!!]
"I cannot tell a lie!!! George Washington:
"I will not tell the truth!! G.W. Bush:
This man G.W. Bush is a habitual liar!
He lied to us way back in 1999.
He lied to us about his military service!!
He lied to us about his being grounded for failing to complete an Annual
Physical which included drug screening!!!
He lied to us about his one year sabbatical. Military lingo, AWOL!!
His campaign promises were nothing but lies!!
I will protect S.S. and the S.S. trust fund!
I will balance the Budget!!
I will pay down the national debt!!
I will increase funding to states!!
I will expand our economy and add thousands of new jobs!!
I will use the Military to fight wars to protect America!!
I will not use the Military to rebuild Nations!!
Mr. Bush and his fellow psychopaths have really done it big when the
lied about Saddam's WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION!!
Sad part about this whopper is the terrible loss of life, thousands of
Innocent Iraqi men, women and children, hundreds of our own military
personnel, that count continues to rise daily, and the destruction of
a sovereign nations infrastructure.
For those of you who think in terms of dollars!! The big lie about
Iraq's WMB has cost the U.S. billions of dollars thus far.
Mr. Bush is cutting the heart out of many domestic programs to pay for
his big lie!!!
The American dream, freedom and justice for all peoples, is being
decimated by these Bush psychopaths. All Americans, Republican,
Democrat, Independent and the media should be screaming "IMPEACHMENT."
Anyone, knowing Bush lied about the Iraqi WMD, and still supports his
presidency is as guilty as he is.
The blood of thousands of Afghanis, Iraqis and our own sons and
daughters stain the hands of G.W. Bush and all those who support his
foreign policy agenda!!!!
Peace
Tom

In Bush We Trust?

John Moyers is Editor-in-Chief of TomPaine.com.


George W. Bush is a liar. There, I said it -- the "L" word. Someone in
Washington had to.
Thanks to AWOL WMD, people all across America have the "L" word on their
lips, but here in D.C. it's still a hard one to mouth. Few
Washington-based commentators and fewer politicians have done so.
On Sunday, June 22, The New York Times had a chance to be the first
big-league outfit to say it plainly. But the headline on
Washington-based reporter David E. Rosenbaum's story, "Bush May Have
Exaggerated, but Did He Lie?" was a tip that the story would pull up
short. Rosenbaum considered a narrow question -- whether Mr. Bush has
told any neat, tidy, obvious lies -- and concluded he has not (a couple
of fibs and distortions, maybe, but no lies).
Whether the president twisted intelligence on WMD "can probably be
answered conclusively only by historians when all the evidence and
consequences are known," Rosenbaum wrote. (So, our kids get to pay the
debt for our imperial aspirations and our tax breaks, and someday
they'll be the first to know how it all happened. Great.)
Distance seems to make criticism easier. The Times' Princeton-based
columnist Paul Krugman has written that the administration
"systematically and brazenly distorts the facts" and is "choosing and
exaggerating intelligence" and "misleading the public."
Close, but still no "L" word.
Boston-based William Rivers Pitt isn't daunted: The administration "lied
us into a war," writes the high-school teacher who moonlights as a
columnist for Truthout.org. "Trust a teacher on this. We can spot liars
who have not done their homework a mile away."
A full-page ad in The New York Times last week by MoveOn.org and Win
Without War, groups with members across the nation, put it plainly and
hoisted the president on his own pointed WMD -- words of mass
distortion. Under the headline "MISLEADER" the ad stacked up five of Mr.
Bush's pre-war whoppers and noted, "It would be a tragedy if young men
and women were sent to die for a lie." (Full disclosure: TomPaine.com
liked the ad so much, we paid to run it in the June 30 issue of The
Weekly Standard.)
Harley Sorensen, writing on SFGate.com, gets the prize for directness:
"Why mince words? These are the facts: 1) President George W. Bush is a
liar. 2) Secretary of State Colin Powell is a liar. 3) Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld is a liar. 4) National Security Advisor
Condoleezza Rice is a liar." No mincing there.
So the word is out there in different forms -- lie, lies, lying, liar.
When will Mr. Bush's putative opponents in government, the Democrats,
decide it's time to tell it like it is?
Democrats have accused the president of "a pattern of deception and
deceit" (Sen. Bob Graham), said he's not been "entirely truthful"
(Howard Dean), and led us to war based on "unfounded assertions" (Rep.
Dennis Kucinich). Strong stuff, but no "L" word.
Opposition worthy of the name would push the GOP-controlled House and
Senate hearings beyond the question of what the intelligence community
knew about WMD, where it seems stalled.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence
Committee, could invoke committee rules that would allow his minority
party to launch a full investigation. But he won't -- reportedly for
fear of being seen as partisan.
If this isn't the time for partisanship -- after all, we're talking
about manipulations that led the nation into war -- when is?
Rockefeller's timidity is allowing committee Republicans to cover what
looks more every day like a lie of literally global magnitude.
Perhaps Dems fear the day when WMD are found (and they will be found, by
hook or by crook). But they needn't worry -- even if misleading the
nation to war weren't an issue, Mr. Bush's record is full of lies.
The president says he supports our troops -- but he proposed cutting
veterans' benefits and sidestepped a law meant to protect the health of
soldiers headed for combat. His "leave no child behind" pledge is a
fraud -- he's vastly underfunded his own education plan, and he signed
the recent tax bill even after his GOP minions sneakily removed
provisions benefiting low-income families. Mr. Bush says he's a
"compassionate conservative," but only a hard-hearted radical would push
his Robin-Hood-in-reverse tax policies. He says he wants to expand
national service programs, but he's presiding over a huge cut in
AmeriCorps programs. Candidate Bush promised to be "a uniter, not a
divider," but his foreign policies have profoundly divided the
international community, isolated America and devalued her stock in the
eyes of world.
Mr. Bush's administration is built on lies, which means the granddaddy
of them all is his promise to restore "honor and integrity" to the Oval
Office.
Presidential Brain Karl Rove must be worried. Rove knows that any
president's popularity rests more on whether voters think he's a
believable and admirable leader than on the substance of issues. George
W. Bush has that going for him -- people might not like his policies (if
they understand them at all), but they like his swagger and certitude,
and they trust him to do what he says.
But that trust could crumble if questions linger about whether the White
House deceived us into war. Few of the president's allies could or would
defend that -- even GOP-TV (a.k.a. Fox News) would have trouble
explaining away that one.

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