Cummings, re: "The notion that the American people were lied to is a [specious] one......However, there is one last theme underlying your posts, which I need to address prior to moving on. That's the one which assumes a level of ignorance by the American electorate.....So, despite your fuzzy foreign policy notions, the American people are solidly behind the effort to complete our mission in Iraq.
Sure, no lies and no ignorance....But do you think a majority of Americans continue to believe that Saddam Hussein was implicated in the 9/11 attacks?...Do you think a large percentage of Americans continue to believe that we found wmds in Iraq?...Do you think a number of us still believe that Saddam Hussein and Bin Laden were allies?
You're aware, are you not, that those beliefs were fostered and nurtured by deliberately misleading statements on the part of Cheney, Bush, Rice, congressional Republicans and many of their Libby-Rove type underlings? You're also aware, are you not, that those beliefs were held by an astounding percentage of the voters who "elected" Bush/Cheney?
Now you can call that lying or something else and you can term that ignorance or something else, but you ought to at least acknowledge that at the time of the 2004 presidential election there were some very misinformed voters. And, oddly enough, those most misinformed voted for...you guessed it, your candidate. But of course there was no effort to use the voice of the U.S. government to create such ignorance and win an election...sure there wasn't.
So my suggestion is that you stop reading and listening to sources which foster such ignorance and broaden your understanding. If you do that you may come to understand that the curtain of misleading information which was intentionally used to obscure the facts is now fraying. You may then come to understand that the American people are no longer "solidly behind the effort to complete our mission in Iraq."
The American majority is now wondering why we ever got into the mess in Iraq and what we can do to get out quickly.
Learn to live with it because that's the way it is. Ed |
