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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: DOUG H who wrote (553005)3/17/2004 3:43:29 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
What is a 'lie', and what is an 'honest mistake'?

...Americans believe the president misled us on the issue of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in Iraq. Fifty-nine percent of Americans believe the Bush administration exaggerated intelligence to build support for the war against Iraq.

But this is far from the only instance in which the president has misled us:

• He told us the rebuilding of Iraq would be financed by Iraqi oil money. Instead, it is U.S. taxpayers who are spending tens of billions of dollars on the reconstruction.

• He told us his budget would not result in long-term deficits. He misled us. In fact we have a half-a-trillion-dollar deficit stretching as far as the eye can see.

• The administration’s job-growth projections have been drastically wrong every year. Every year, the president signs his name to those wildly misleading estimates.

• President Bush misled us about the cost of his prescription drug bill. The White House knew the cost was $130 billion higher than it told Congress and the American people.

• Indeed, a senior Medicare official was threatened with reprisals if he warned Congress that the White House was misleading us. Republican members of Congress have done violence to their own credibility by repeating the administration’s false assertions.

• Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) charged just the other day that the White House was regularly providing misleading information on the highway bill.

While none of these instances except the WMD’s are topics of dinner table conversation, they have had a cumulative impact.
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