George Bush defends Iraq invasion at Pretoria news conference July 9, 2003 (base image AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

   

Is President Bush lying?
The truth is in the eye of the beholder, think for yourself

   
Nipawin - Monday - July 14, 2003 - by: Mario deSantis

"Lies don't make truth, and might doesn't make right -- even if a president says they do"

Jim Hightower

forged
document

The White House has just acknowledged that President Bush was wrong in mentioning in his last January State of the Union address that Saddam Hussein had sought to purchase a significant amount of uranium from the African country of Niger. In fact, the mentioning of this purchase of uranium by Saddam Hussein was based on a forged document. However, the Bush administration continue to affirm that this wrong doesn't impinge on the valid reasons to have invaded Iraq.
   

truth

So, it doesn't matter if President Bush doesn't tell the truth.
   

up to us

I never get tired to say that we live in a determined confusing world where our language is progressively changing for the worst, and with President Bush white is black, black is white, war is peace, peace is war, a truth is a lie, and a lie is the truth. How can we ever come up with a solution to distinguish the truth from a lie? We have no choice but to learn to think for ourselves!
   

sanity

Friday I read that there are such things as the "true lies" of President Bush, and sometime ago I discovered that what "Bush is saying isn't technically untrue". I really understand the difficulties it takes for all of us common people, with no expertise in professional lying, to keep our mental sanity.
   

rewrite
history

While in his African trip President Bush ducked questions about his misstatement in the State of the Union address and volunteered to say
"There's going to be, you know, a lot of attempts to try to rewrite history, and I can understand that. But I'm absolutely confident in the decision [to invade Iraq] I made."
Now I wonder who is rewriting history as President Bush, CEO of the United States of America and Master of Business Administration, restates the reasons to go to war in the same way as CEOs restate their earnings when a profit of billions of dollars turn out to be a loss due to the unanticipated developments of uncovered corruption and greed.
   

up to you

Is President Bush lying? The truth is in the eye of the beholder, think for yourself.
   
 

Mario deSantis

   

   
References:
  Pertinent articles published in Ensign
   
  Hightower, Jim Our Lying President May 30, 2003 Austin Chronicle http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2003-05-30/pols_hightower.html
   
  Capitol Hill Blue White House admits Bush wrong about Iraqi nukes (PDF) July 8, 2003
   
  Tomasky, Michael True Lies. Why the president's story on Iraq is starting to unravel July 9, 2003 The American Prospect
http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2003/07/tomasky-m-07-09.html
   
  Keefer, Bryan The strategically ambiguous George W. Bush June 12, 2003 Spinsanity, http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20030612.html
   
  Raum, Tom Bush Defends Use of Iraq Intelligence (PDF) July 9, 2003 Associated Press
   
  Cohen, Richard Why the CEO in Chief Needs an Audit (PDF) July 9, 2003 The Washington Post
 

 

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