President Bush: Is He a Liar?

Why, a course not . . . butter wouldn't melt in that boy's mouth . . .

One lie per post? Gonna be an extra long thread.

Not so far. Can you start?

"We must uncover every detail and learn every lesson of September the 11th." Bush said this in November 2002, as he appointed Henry Kissinger to be chairman of an independent 9/11 commission that Bush had orignially opposed. (Kissinger lasted two weeks in the job.) But Bush has not encouraged the uncovering of every detail. His administration did not turn over information to the congressional 9/11 inquiry about intelligence warnings the White House reviewed before 9/11. The administration also refused to say whether certain pre-9/11 intelligence warnings'including a July 2001 report noting that Osama bin Laden was poised to launch a "spectacular" attack "designed to inflict mass casualties against U.S. facilities or interests"'were shared with Bush and what he did in response, if he had received them. Moreover, the administration claimed that Bush's awareness of these warnings (not the warnings themselves) was classified information'an argument unprecedented in the modern history of national security secrets. Bush also refused to let the congressional inquiry release the portion of its final report that concerned connections between the 9/11 hijackers and Saudi citizens or officials. By resorting to such secrecy'which happened to keep hidden information that might be embarrassing or inconvenient for the Bush administration--Bush made it impossible for investigators to "uncover every detail" and for the nation to "learn every lesson."

I'm pretty sure Bush lied when he said "I have a dream."

"I am a uniter, not a divider"

quod erat demonstrandum

This one is one of my personal favorites:

He said this at a presentation months after approving the bypassing of the special courts.





Here's another:
"I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war." --CNN, 01.27.02

He's never been to war.

So, Brandon . . . you're kinda quiet over there . . . nothing to say?

He'll be here, telling one and all that there's still no shred of evidence being offered.

Shrotly thereafter, he'll contend that no one has answered his thesis, and that everyone has indulged in personal attacks instead.

George Bush is like the boy who cried wolf. His statements repeatedly have had little contact with reality. Brandon can call them misinterpretation, misreporting, honest change of mind (AKA flip-flopping), faulty intelligence, political malice by his opponents, or whatever he wants to call them. But they happen again and again. 60% of the public thinks the administration lies, because the administration's statements so often prove to be false that it strains credulity to believe it could happen by chance. Once public faith in honesty is lost, it is essentially never regained. Bush has lost the public's faith. Face it, Brandon, he lost it for good cause, and he's in trouble.

Start with his lie before he was even elected, that he would support the Kyoto Accord.

One of these statements is a lie:

But thanks to the President's resolve and clear-sighted determination to do right by the people of Iraq, that no longer matters.

Yoohoo . . . Brandon . . . where'd ya go, Buddy?

Yep! This is going to be a long thread:

Fortunately, President Bush's clear-sighted vision and his resolution will lead us from darkness into the sunny uplands of victory.

President Bush: Is He A Liar?

Only if your definition of "liar" is a man with a clear vision for success and unflagging determination to bring democracy to a downtrodden people!

Well, maybe Bush wasn't lying entirely. Maybe he's a "girly-boy." We should ask our country's foremost authority on girly boys whether Bush is truly a girl. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, would you please step forward and address this important issue of presidential credibility. . . .