Robert Parry - Bush's Long War with the Truth

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/010206.html

Bush's Long War with the Truth
By Robert Parry
January 2, 2006


George W. Bush’s dysfunctional relationship with the truth seems to be shaped by two complementary factors – a personal compulsion to say whatever makes him look good at that moment and a permissive environment that rarely holds him accountable for his lies.

How else to explain his endless attempts to rewrite history and reshape his own statements, a pattern on display again in his New Year’s Day comments to reporters in San Antonio, Texas? In that session, as Bush denied misleading the public, he twice again misled the public.

Bush launched into a defense of his honesty by denying that he lied when he told a crowd in Buffalo, N.Y., in 2004 that “by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires – a wiretap requires a court order.”

Two years earlier, Bush had approved rules that freed the National Security Agency to use warrantless wiretaps on communications originating in the United States without a court order. But Bush still told the Buffalo audience, “Nothing has changed, by the way. When we’re talking about chasing down terrorists, we’re talking about getting a court order before we do so.”

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1. Yes, and dimson is winning; to hell with the truth! nt

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2. parry is so clear when he writes,

"George W. Bush’s dysfunctional relationship with the truth seems to be shaped by two complementary factors – a personal compulsion to say whatever makes him look good at that moment and a permissive environment that rarely holds him accountable for his lies."

this seems to be bush learned behavior at home...probably repeated at home many times and carried over to his public/political life. it seems that, "saying whatever makes him look good at that moment" is something he may have learned from his mommy. lying to get out of trouble seems to be something he learned from his poppy.

"not being held accountable for his lies" seems to be part and parcel of both barbara and poppy bush's dynamics with george from time immemorial ... and in his public life by everyone around him.

maybe bush, like any garden variety shoplifter, just wants to get caught!.