Bush excels at creating fiction; calls Reid "a liar"

Thursday, November 17, 2005
President Bush excels at creating fiction
By MARIANNE MEANS
SYNDICATED COLUMNIST

WASHINGTON -- ...There is a long list of discrepancies between what we now know and the justifications offered by Bush and company for a war they had already decided to wage. This is finally seeping out to the voters, who are responding by calling Bush's bluff -- he's down to a record-low 37 percent approval. His attempt to fight back by smearing critics as unpatriotic is in itself unpatriotic. We still have free speech. The push for war came from him, not Congress. His critics were hoodwinked but they didn't give the invasion orders.

To further debase his counterattack, he threw in another pitch for a constitutional amendment to ban desecration of the flag. This is an embarrassing attempt to hold on to right-wing conservatives, whom the polls say are the only supporters he has left. Wrapping himself in the flag is an offensive, crude gimmick that signals political desperation. If Congress is fooled by that meaningless distraction, its members are dumber than we think. And we think they are pretty dumb.

Bush complained that Democrats who voted -- on the basis of his assurances -- to authorize the use of force in Iraq are now "speaking politics." Something he never does, of course. He called the critics "irresponsible." Bush is so busy rewriting the story of how the United States blundered into a war we cannot win he's up to at least three volumes of fiction, with more to come. But Bush is not Winston Churchill, who was candid about his interest in preserving his own reputation.

How can anyone believe Bush? His spokeswoman, Nicole Wallace, called Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid "a liar" for saying that the administration had no strategy for victory in Iraq. Pretty strong stuff. The trouble is, on the subject of Iraq we know the biggest liar occupies the White House.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/248557_means17.html

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"We have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th attacks."
- George W. Bush, September 17, 2003

"How many American casualties is Saddam worth? The answer is not very damned many."
- Dick Cheney, August 1992

I just searched these:

* Feb. 7, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, to U.S. troops in Aviano, Italy: "It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."

* March 4, Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a breakfast with reporters: "What you'd like to do is have it be a short, short conflict. . . . Iraq is much weaker than they were back in the '90s," when its forces were routed from Kuwait.

* March 16, Vice President Cheney, on NBC's Meet the Press: "I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . (in) weeks rather than months."


Flowers, anyone? :nopity:

As if he cared. He lied, then he kicked in to feeding his/W corporate globalists paid for by the lives of American troops.

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I'd like to know what this post was... If someone here remembers what it was, would you mind to send me a private message that could describe what it was about, approximately?

Thank you ('cause, sometimes I like to spread "the nature of the beast" aroud here, if it was related to "the beast" or one of his enablers...)! :popcorn:

It's the PNAC strategy and, in PNACer minds, it would take several years to finally control all the oil spigots in the Middle East. Iraq was just a PNAC baby-step.

http://www.newamericancentury.org/

The PNAC had lots of plans for the United States, for the world. Amazingly, we're broke, and we haven't even gotten started. Iraq was just the first bus stop, and we haven't even finished that little project.

Just goes to show you how deluded these men really are.

and the jittery, shakey, blinky thing is just an aftereffect from his commute.

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He knows both he and Cheney have been caught red handed in the crime of the century. Lying this nation into war is an impeachable offense and the Dems are correct in pushing the truth.

Keep on pushing! The great unraveling is well under way!

:kick:

The inspections were doing exactly what Democrats in Congress intended, what Bush said in the fall of 2002, that the inspections and the authorization were to keep the peace. “I am sending suggested language for a resolution. I want -- I've asked for Congress' support to enable the administration to keep the peace…If you want to keep the peace, you've got to have the authorization to use force. But it's -- this will be -- this is a chance for Congress to indicate support. It's a chance for Congress to say, we support the administration's ability to keep the peace. That's what this is all about.”

Except for Bush, it wasn’t about keeping the peace at all. That was the first lie.

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