Lets have some fun: List Bush's Lies

I think it would be fun to list out as many of Bush's lies as we can. Here's my idea. Each person list one lie and (if possible a link or two). Hopefully, this thread will become a sort of one-stop repository of info on Bush and his gang of truth-challenged thugs.

I'll start!

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EPA misled public on 9/11 pollution
White House ordered false assurances on air quality, report says

Laurie Garrett, Newsday Saturday, August 23, 2003

New York -- In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, the White House instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to give the public misleading information, telling New Yorkers it was safe to breathe when reliable information on air quality was not available.

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Matthew Engel in Washington
Wednesday December 5, 2001
The Guardian

President George Bush added a new and bizarre twist last night to the folklore surrounding September 11 when he revealed his initial reaction to the first plane hitting the World Trade Centre. In answer to a question from an eight-year-old in Florida, he said his first thought was: "There's one terrible pilot."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,612355,00.html

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the exact opposite that he's been up to!

there's not enough bandwidth on this site for that.

:)

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The Bush administration's Top 40 Lies about war and terrorism


1) The administration was not bent on war with Iraq from 9/11 onward.

Throughout the year leading up to war, the White House publicly maintained that the U.S. took weapons inspections seriously, that diplomacy would get its chance, that Saddam had the opportunity to prevent a U.S. invasion. The most pungent and concise evidence to the contrary comes from the president's own mouth. According to Time's March 31 road-to-war story, Bush popped in on national security adviser Condi Rice one day in March 2002, interrupting a meeting on UN sanctions against Iraq. Getting a whiff of the subject matter, W peremptorily waved his hand and told her, "Fuck Saddam. We're taking him out." Clare Short, Tony Blair's former secretary for international development, recently lent further credence to the anecdote. She told the London Guardian that Bush and Blair made a secret pact a few months afterward, in the summer of 2002, to invade Iraq in either February or March of this year.

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I have a friend who's a W supporter - she's not at all a social conservative, but she's definitely a libertarian type who was raised to believe in the mythical "tax and spend libruls." She's young, so I figure I can take her under my wing and fix her. Anyway, I've decided to make it my mission to convince her NOT to vote for W in 04. Step 1: show her how W is not trustworthy and has violated conservative principles (I'm thinking specifically of something he did re free trade early in his admin in order to secure votes in some swing states, but the details elude me). Anyway, the point of this backstory is that I've been researching this and here are some sites I've found useful.

http://www.house.gov/appropriations_democrats/caughtonfilm.htm
http://www.house.gov/appropriations_democrats/stateoftheunionhtml.htm
-These pages are from the house appropriations committee. EXCELLENT list of things Bush said/promised compared to the reality of his budget proposal.

http://www.bushlies.net/pages/1/index.htm
-Great point/counterpoint page. Most of the stuff is on Iraq, but if you scroll down you can find lots on taxes, enron, civil rights, etc.

http://www.prospect.org/print/V14/5/bennett-d.html
-An article that goes through like the other sites above and talks about W promises vs. reality.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A11253-2002Jul1¬Found=true
-This is a smaller point, it's the "trifecta" lie.

Enjoy!