Bush's Lies Reaching Tipping Point

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Bush's Lies Reaching Tipping Point
by Bill Gallagher | May 1 2007

— from Niagara Falls Reporter (posted with permission)

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it." -- Oscar Wilde.

DETROIT -- The march of truth is trampling the lies of President George W. Bush and exposing his fanatical insistence that people continue to die for his deceptions and delusions. Former CIA director George Tenet, Jessica Lynch, Pat Tillman's family, a brave Army officer, journalists who see the facts flat-on, and members of Congress who refuse to forget lies are crushing Bush and his disciples in deceit.

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Bush gave Tenet the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but even that bribe didn't work in keeping his silence. Bush never has to worry about Condoleezza Rice telling the truth, and she's willing to commit perjury to protect "my husband," as she once referred to him.

The secretary of state has been slapped with a subpoena to testify under oath about the lie she helped sell that Saddam tried to buy enriched uranium from Niger. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, has spent years trying to get straight answers about the Niger hoax. Rice has been stonewalling through those years, hoping to dodge the perjury she will resort to in protecting her man. Rice's memory will conveniently fail. She will filibuster, obfuscate and absurdly parse words. In the end, Waxman will expose her serial lying and the dangerous fraud she is.

Bill Moyers did a masterful job in exposing the toadies in the mainstream media who helped Bush and Co. sell the war and allowed the likes of Rice to repeatedly use the phase "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."

"Buying the War," shown last week on the PBS broadcast of "Bill Moyers Journal," should be required viewing for every reporter, and every history class and journalism class in the nation. Moyers presents a riveting case and aptly notes the media "has yet to come to terms with its role in enabling the Bush administration to go to war on false pretenses."

The media enablers continue to help manufacture consent for Bush's troop surge in Iraq. They ridiculously parrot his lines that any approach other than his means a "precipitous withdrawal" and that "the terrorists will follow us home."

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