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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (411295)	6/3/2003 3:55:21 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

HIGHTOWER: Our Lying President ____________________________________ By Jim Hightower AlterNet May 26, 2003 alternet.org What a Wonderland World it is in Washington! Wrong can be right, down can be up, a lie can be truth – all because the president says it's so. Our present president seems to love to lie. Not because George W likes doing wrong, but because lies simplify his life, turning his confusion into clarity. I think he even believes his lies when he speaks them, and when he gets caught lying, hey – that's in the past, it's just a technicality, and besides... it depends on how you define "truth." How about the big truth of WMDs? Where are those tons of Weapons of Mass Destruction that George W so absolutely insisted Saddam Hussein had targeted at the U.S., posing the imminent threat that was his moral excuse for invading Iraq? It's a scream to watch the Bushites now try to squirm out of the inconvenient reality that they've found no masses of WMDs in Iraq. Lately they've tried to claim every slingshot, trailor, empty casing, and barbeque pit they come across as "proof" of Saddam's WMD program. But when launching his Iraq Attack, George didn't talk about such small stuff – he spoke specifically about a "mushroom cloud" that Saddam would ignite in America. The Bushites also flatly asserted that Saddam had 500 tons of mustard gas, 25,000 liters of anthrax, 30,000 rockets to deliver chemical weapons, dozens of scud missiles, 18 biological warfare factories, all sorts of long-range missiles and other WMDs – that now can't be found. First they claimed that Saddam hid them, then that he took them with him (how, in his backback?). But now, the Bushites say it doesn't matter – we kicked Saddam's butt and that's all anyone needs to know. Doesn't matter? The president blatantly lied to We The People and it's OK? What moral message are the Bushites sending to America's children and the people of the world? Lies don't make truth, and might doesn't make right – even if a president says they do.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (411295)	6/3/2003 6:27:31 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Actually, the first piece you cited gets it right: The son of this proud couple is none other that William Kristol, the crown prince of the neoconservative clique and editor of the Rupert Murdoch-owned Weekly Standard. In 1997, he founded the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a front group which cemented the powerful alliance between right-wing Republicans like Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld, Christian and Catholic Right leaders like Gary Bauer and William Bennett, and the neocons behind a platform of global U.S. military dominance. The other material is clear as well, and gets it right in the last paragraph........You may as well say there were no differences between conservatives and Cold War liberals, since both supported NATO.........