Big lie on Iraq comes full circle

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http://www.suntimes.com/output/greeley/cst-edt-greel19.html

Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda chief (director of communications, in the current parlance), once said that if you are going to lie, you should tell a big lie. That may be good advice, but the question remains: What happens when people begin to doubt the big lie? Herr Goebbels never lived to find out. Some members of the Bush administration may be in the process of discovering that, given time, the big lie turns on itself.

The president has insisted that Iraq is the central front in the war on terrorism, a continuation of the administration's effort to link Iraq to the attack on the World Trade Center. While almost three-quarters of the public believe that Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the attack, the polls after the president's recent speech show that less than half believe that Iraq is the ''central front'' of the war on terrorism. Moreover, the majority believe that the war has increased the risk of terrorism. A shift is occurring in the middle, which is neither clearly pro-Bush nor clearly anti-Bush. The big lie is coming apart.

There is not and never has been any evidence that Iraq was involved in the 9/11 attack. None. The implication of such involvement was an attempt to deceive, a successful attempt at the big lie. snip

Moreover, the corollary mantra, which says that Americans must make sacrifices to win the war on terror, is also in trouble. Who makes the sacrifices? The rich Americans celebrating their tax ''refunds''? The Republican leadership who have few if any sons and daughters in harm's way? Giant corporations like Dick Cheney's Halliburton or Bechtel? No, the sacrifices will be made mostly by the sons and daughters of the poor and the working class who must fight the war. Jessica Lynch joined the army so she could get money for a college education. Her roommate Lori Piestewa, who was killed in action, joined because she was a Native American single mother who needed the money to raise her two children.

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1. The real reasons for the invasion of Iraq.

We at DU have a pretty good idea about the real reasons for the invasion. Even if the Chimp's story was true, it would not logically call for an invasion. Of course, he has used fear as a tool to motivate the sheeple of this sad country to want to kill Muslims. A colleaque of mine, a college professor, before the invasion said in a public meeting, "I hope Bush goes in there and kills them all." Why do Americans hate Arabs? Yesterday on C-Span the Syrian ambassador to the US took a phone call from an irate American who said he hates all Arabs and doesn't believe a word they say. This is just like the 1950 fear of godless commies. Hollywood movies are partly to blame since they have made Arabs the bad guys for a long time. The media, naturally, is largely to blame for not challenging the insipid rhetoric. But Chimp and crew are mostly to blame, of course, for being warmongering, bloodthirsty psychopaths. The sheeple are beginning to wake up, but we'll always have idiot human beings.