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The Nation
article | Posted September 25, 2003
The Other Lies of George Bush
by DAVID CORN
For the complete article -- very
detailed and well worth reading! - click on http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20031013&s=corn (The above link was found through a Google search on 3/18/04)
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George W. Bush is a liar. He has lied large and small, directly and by omission. His Iraq lies have loomed
largest. In the run-up to the invasion, Bush based his case for war on a variety of unfounded claims that extended far beyond
his controversial uranium-from-Niger assertion. ...
But Bush's truth-defying crusade for war did not mark a shift for him. Throughout
his campaign for the presidency and his years in the White House, Bush has mugged the truth in many other areas to advance
his agenda. Lying has been one of the essential tools of his presidency. ...
Presidential lying, in fact, threatens the country. To
render informed and wise choices about the crucial and complicated controversies of the day, people need truthful information.
The President is generally in a position to define and dominate a debate more than other political players. And a lie from
the White House--or a fib or a misrepresentation or a fudged number--can go a long way toward distorting the national discussion.
Bush campaigned for the presidency as the fellow who would bring honesty back to the White House. During
his first full day on the job, while swearing in his White House staff, he reminded his cadre, "On a mantelpiece in this great
house is inscribed the prayer of John Adams, that only the wise and honest may rule under this roof." But Adams's prayer would
once more go unanswered. There has been no restoration of integrity. Bush's promise was a lie. The future of the United States
remains in the hands of a dishonest man.
Copyright c2003 The Nation
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Christian Science Monitor
Parsing Official Lies
By Daniel Schorr
from the October 24, 2003
edition -
[The above link was found
on the Monitor's website through Google on 3/18/04]
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... An awful suspicion is growing that the US invaded Iraq on the wings of a lie.
The word "lie" should not be used loosely because it tends to undermine faith in government. The White House lied in 1957
when it called a stroke that President Eisenhower had suffered "a chill." Secretary of State Henry Kissinger lied almost routinely
on matters like the claim of being neutral in the war between India and Pakistan when the Nixon administration was actually
"tilting towards Pakistan." Carter White House spokesman Jody Powell lied in 1980 when he flatly denied any plan to rescue
the hostages in the Tehran embassy.
These are what you call "tactical lies," meant to protect a pending military operation.
And of course, President Clinton lied when he said, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
But that was not like lying about a war fought on a premise that may have been a lie. ...
• Daniel Schorr is a senior news analyst at National Public Radio.
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