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Monday, September 22, 2003


It’s all clear to me now
President Bush lied:

  • when he said that Saddam was developing weapons of mass destruction. We haven’t found WMDs in Iraq yet, so Bush lied. But when Bill Clinton and key figures of his administration said the same thing, they were not lying.

  • when he did not say that Saddam was complicit in the 9/11 attacks, and in fact has denied Saddam’s complicity in the attacks, because 70 percent of Americans believe Saddam was complicit in the attacks and that’s Bush’s fault even though he never said Saddam was complicit and in fact has denied it, but his denial is a lie too, because we all know he misled the American people to believe Saddam was involved in the 9/11 attacks even though we can’t point to a single statement Bush made that even hints that Saddam was involved, but it doesn’t matter because Bush is a liar to begin with and even if he didn’t lie about this, he wanted to and would have if he’d gotten the chance and probably wishes he did because if he’s going to be called a liar no matter what he says he might as well have actually told a lie for once.

    Clear?

    See also here.

    To the Left, a lie is any kind of statement that hurts their cause, truth is any kind of statement that helps their cause. "Facts" have no independent veracity. When Bush tells the truth about Iraq, the Left says he’s lying, because the truth hurts the Left’s cause, which is to get power no matter how, even if - especially if - they have to lie to get power, because in the Orwellian world of the Left, any statement that serves their purpose is definitionally true, and any that harms it is definitionally false.

    Update: Bill Hobbs is covering this issue better than any blogger I know, so read his stuff.

    Update: The phony issue raised by Ted Kennedy, that Bush was "bribing" foreign offricials to gainthe support for American ops in Iraq (see comments) is turning nto an embarrassment for Kennedy; Time mag wonders, "Backtrack Time For Kennedy? Accusations that the administration is spending part of its war budget on 'bribes' prove unfounded."

    by Donald Sensing, 9/22/2003 11:19:57 AM. Permalink |  





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