When they married in 1948 my parents like most of their generation, were New Deal Democrats. They were part of what would later be called “The Greatest Generation”, coming of age during the Great Depression and...
Read MoreIt appears we are rapidly approaching the watershed moment for the Bush Administration. Not only are numerous top officials about to face serious questions about their actions, but the cornerstone on which Bush has built his Presidency will be tested and judged: his ability to judge character. From almost the start, Bush has run a “trust me” kind of Presidency. He has often led the American people to believe that he has an almost innate ability to discern the motivations and character of people simply by meeting them. He has pronounced foreign leaders “good men”, he has “looked into the hearts” of numerous appointees, and has generally asked the American people to trust him about his decisions. His nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court is the most recent example of this pattern. But now a reckoning is about to occur. The American people are about to face a simple question that will determine Bush’s fate and legacy.
Do you believe that those members of the Bush administration who were responsible for the making decisions about war and peace considered the documents dealing with Iraq’s attempts to acquire uranium in Niger to be genuine?
An examination of the documents shows that there is no “good” answer to that question for Bush.
Read MoreThe Iraqi people have voted. Despite turnout rates in some Sunni regions as high as 90% their attempts to block the adoption of the new constitution have failed. President Bush congratulated the Iraqi people and praised the expected results. “This is a very positive day for the Iraqis and, as well, for world peace. Democracies are peaceful countries” he said. But we know better.
Do you know why? Because in a strange way we’ve been there before. Democrats that is.
Let’s play a little psychological parlour game of regression if you don’t mind. (I promise we won’t rehash that time your older brother made you eat the booger) We won’t go back far, only to a little less then a year ago. To the first Wednesday in November 2004.
Read MoreI was going through my files looking for a link I had related to the Plame case when I came across a copy of Bush’s famous October 7, 2002 speech in Cincinnati just prior to the Congressional vote on Iraq. It was in this speech that Bush laid out his case for regime change and the need to use military force in Iraq. Something compelled me to re-read it…there was something about seeing these words again that sent a shiver down my spine.
To read these words three years later is mind numbing. It’s impossible to come to any other conclusion than that our President is either the biggest liar to ever walk the face of the earth, or he is of unbelievably limited mental capacity. Either way he should be removed from office immediately. After re-reading this speech I believe it would be impossible for anyone with a modicum of cognitive ability to come to any other conclusion. Almost every claim he made was false, and has been proven so over the course of time. And they are not just false, many of the claims in retrospect are downright absurd. Whether he knew they were false at the time is irrelevant. If he did ….he’s a liar,… if he didn’t, it proves that his incompetence is monumental and unforgivable.
So why don’t we take a little trip down memory lane and make a short stop in the bizarro world that is George W Bush.
(I’ve bolded and numbered the lies for easy reference)
Read MoreA couple of us have been putting together a website for information about the war in Iraq. Our main focus has been to create a one-stop site for news, investigative reporting and most importantly the facts about the lies and...
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