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A THOUSAND LIES ON POINT.
There are many differences between the first and second Bush administrations, but none more revealing than the fact that we've gone from Bush 41 "thousand points of light" to Bush 43's "thousand lies on point."
OK, Bush-the-Younger and company came up 65 short, but 935 rounds up close enough to 1,000 ... and surely some of the lies just never made it into the public record. I say we give them the benefit of the doubt on this score. They earned it.
--Tom Schaller
COMMENTS (5)
Yabbut none of the lies was about a blowjob so it really doesn't matter.
Posted by: cervantes | January 23, 2008 10:11 AM
They're not lies, they serve a higher truth.
Merely comporting with external reality is an outdated, bourgeois, definition of 'truth'.
The various Bush administration statements, because they advance the Party in its role as vanguard of the Glorious Revolution, possess revolutionary truth, which soars above the dialectally opposed 'truth' and 'falsity' of the dead past.
All correctly oriented cadres know that.
Posted by: Davis X. Machina | January 23, 2008 10:44 AM
Interesting....
The article failed to assign blame. They didn't call anyone a liar.
So, does Great Britian, France and Germany also share the "false statements" category when speaking about Iraq, Al-Queda and WMD?
Posted by: El Viajero | January 23, 2008 10:57 AM
Traveller --
This bit about how all the world's intelligence agencies got it wrong is the central Bushista excuse. But the truth is, the only reason the other agencies believed the WMD fiction was because they were relying on what the U.S. was telling them, not because they had any independent information. And, #2, none of them ever believed the nonsense about the "link" to al Qaeda.
The fact is, it was widely reported in the European press within two days of Colin Powell's infamous speech to the Security Council that every single non-trivial factual assertion in that speech was false. It was not, however, reported in the U.S., where the corporate media were falling all over themselves to kiss Powell's lying butt.
Posted by: cervantes | January 23, 2008 12:19 PM
"But the truth is, the only reason the other agencies believed the WMD fiction was because they were relying on what the U.S. was telling them, not because they had any independent information."
It's even worse than that; the other intelligence agencies for the most part didn't agree with the Bush administration, which is why none of them went to war with us and why Bush lost at the UN.
We got warnings over and over again from such entities as Russian intelligence, Italian intelligence, French intelligence, German intelligence, and so on, that much of what Bush was saying was complete bullshit.
Posted by: PaulB | January 23, 2008 3:31 PM