Ah Scott, the similarity with these two clearly disparate situations ends with those who are lying for personal gain.
You see, in 1999, we had analysts lying so the houses could unload their inventory onto an unsuspecting public. We had CEO's lying to ramp share prices so they could earn even larger bonuses & sell their options at sky high prices, etc., etc. And out of greed those unethical, immoral liars successfully deceived a majority of the Joe Six Pack investors.
Today we have fanatical left wingers lying & slandering the Bush Administration, falsely claiming it is in the name of peace, diplomacy, security, etc., etc (this includes all the lies about the economy & other domestic issues too). In reality they are doing it for purely political reasons. And what they are doing is just as unethical & immoral as those who lied to the public during the stock market bubble.
They do this even when they know that Saddam has outmanuvered the UN for more than 12 years with his cheat & retreat games. They know that if given more time Saddam will not disarm, but it will give more time for them to stirr up the masses with more lies & deceit. Most of them know full well that Saddam still has all manner of WMD & WMD programs. They know that Saddam is a threat to the region & in time his WMD could give him global reach. They know Saddam has terrorist ties. They know Saddam has a 30 year record of the most vile human rights violations.
And knowing all of this, they still resort to outrageous lies, blatant distortions baseless allegations & fantasy land conspiracy theories. Why is why they resort to their unethical, immoral ways? I submit that is is about politics first & foremost. And the left wing has lost it's soul IMVCO.
Those lying now are not accomplishing what the liars from the 1999 stock market bubble accomplished. It seems the majority can see through those lies & deceit. Heck, the 2002 elections should have been a clear indicator that this bullshit doesn't fly.
You can defend it all you want. You can delude yourself into thinking I am the one who is wrong & that Stockman Scott & his peers (including Sen Kerry, ET AL) are all telling the absolute truth for all I care. The fact of the matter is that this obvious bullshit is not helping your party at all IMVHO. |