Sunday, October 19
George W. Bush is a big fat liar!
or is he?
with apologies to Al Franken.
Shrub a liar?
I was listening to Neal Boortz Friday while I was taking The_Rose to the hospital. He was talking about the "big" Democratic lie. My question is, if the "administration" if not Shrub weren't spinning this whole Iraqi / imminent threat / 9/11 thread together, just how in the hell do 69% of the American population (according to polls) get the idea that Iraq and Hussein were involved with 9/11/2001? It's a left-wing ploy from the liberal media that dreamed this up? Does anybody believe that? For what purpose, especially when it plays into Shrub's hands? Why else did we have to hit Iraq when we did? If Hussein was not such an imminent threat, why was he treated like one?
I find it extremely amusing that this whole irony hasn't been lost on others. Gary Trudea in today's Doonesbury spells it out pretty well. Iraq and Hussein had nothing to do with the attack on 9/11. Zilch. Even the Whitehouse (now) admits that they had nothing to do with it. To the Neal Boortz and the Rush Limbaugh's, I have to say, yes, the Shrub lied, I don't care how carefully planned it was for plausible deniability. There is none. This war was not started over the stated terms, weapons of mass destruction or the security of the United States. This war was all about money, oil and power. The comparison of the $89 billion to the Marshall plan is also pathetically laughable. The Marshall plan was not about one single country.
Shrub not a liar?
Rush Limbaugh has a point when I heard his spiel about the "big" Democratic lie. For Shrub to have lied, he would have to know that what he was saying was untruthful. And that may be the actual truth. Shrub didn't know any better, and therefore, we can not label it a lie, just an unfortunate misunderstanding.
Makes sense to me, as I have always viewed Shrub as more of a puppet president than anything else. Who's pulling the strings? Possibly Cheney, Rumsfield, and other people close to him. Or, it could be forces that are very far from the limelight that are directing Shrub to their doing. I have real concerns about this president, and I hope very much that he is not re-elected. Or, should I say, elected in actuality, instead of the Supreme Court annointing him President.
With the scary stuff going on about Diebold and the (lack of) security with their voting systems, and guaranteeing that Ohio will fall to Shrub, it may take a miracle for it not to happen.
More rambling from me later... Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 10/19/2003 06:49:00 PM
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