Kipling on Bush* "disassembling"

[trof]

When asked at a recent press conference about Amnesty International's report criticizing America's treatment of detainees, President Bush called the claims "absurd." According to the White House transcript, he also said:

"It seemed like to me they based some of their decisions on the word of -- and the allegations -- by people who were held in detention, people who hate America, people that had been trained in some instances to disassemble -- that means not tell the truth."


From Kipling's The Naulahka
http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/naulahka.html

There is pleasure in the wet, wet clay
When the artist's hand is potting it.
There is pleasure in the wet, wet lay --
When the poet's pad is blotting it.
There is pleasure in the shine
Of your picture on the line
At the Royal Acade-my;
But the pleasure felt in these
Is as chalk to Cheddar cheese
When it comes to a well-made Lie--

To a quite unwreckable Lie,
To a most impeccable Lie!
To a water-tight, fire-proof, angle-iron,
Sunk-hinge, time-lock, steel-faced Lie!
Not a private handsome Lie,
But a pair-and-brougham Lie,
Not a little-place-at-Tooting,
But a country-house-with-shooting
And a ring-fence-deer-park Lie.

Even way back then, Kipling knew the effectiveness of The Big Lie.

[atommom]

1. Wonderful poem. He was ahead of his time!

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. Let's not forget, he was living under his own imperialist system.

Empires and lies go hand in hand.

[jayfish]

3. Yeah, Except for The Fact That "Disassemble" means...

to take something apart. I think the word * was searching for was dissemble. Gawd this guy is the dumbest President ever and there is nothing homey or down-to-earth about it.

Jay

[trof]

4. Well, that's kinda one of the points.

He lies and doesn't even know the difference between disassemble and dissemble.